Example sentences of "his [noun] [vb past] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As his dive steepened he felt the speed pick up again ; there was still life in the controls , somewhere . |
| 2 | The thin cotton of his pyjamas did nothing to cushion the discomfort of the wicker scraping his bony body . |
| 3 | His words made one recall the excellent reports compiled by Ian Paisley 's Assembly Agriculture Committee and Sheila Magee about the industry in the mid 1980s . |
| 4 | When he became known as the composer of marches and was about to take up his first bandmaster post , his wife suggested he use the letters on his case , S.O.U.S.A. as a professional name , and he took the names of his sons as his Christian names . |
| 5 | His awkwardness made her remember the last time they had met — that time he had come to her and cried upon her shoulder , four days after Han Ch'in 's death . |
| 6 | On the second occasion the wife of his landlord caught him thumping the side of the machine with his fist . |
| 7 | For once his joking did nothing to ease the tension and no one laughed . |
| 8 | His father encouraged him to read the historical books of the Bible . |
| 9 | The untimely death of his father did nothing to alter the youngest Charlton 's ambition . |
| 10 | Only as Darwin began to form his theories did he realise the error of his ways on board the Beagle . |
| 11 | Although this ardent Protestant was now protector ( and duke of Somerset ) , his government did nothing to help the Protestant Castalians . |
| 12 | God and his Reason commanded him to subdue the Earth , i.e. improve it for the benefit of Life , and therein lay out something upon it that was his own , his labour . |
| 13 | One writer had the initiative to check with Muslim organisations when his publisher asked him to remove the term ‘ pig-out ’ . |
| 14 | His visit did nothing to stem the exodus , however , and on Jan. 20 the Greek authorities declared that no Albanian would be allowed to enter Greece without a passport and visa . |
| 15 | When Ryoei Saito , 74 , president of Daishowa Paper Manufacturing Co , set the latest auction record ( $82.5 million for Van Gogh 's Portrait of Dr Gachet ) his representative said he regarded the painting as ‘ quite cheap , very reasonable . ’ |