Example sentences of "his [noun] [vb past] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | I ca n't sleep at night for that baby crying , I ca n't breathe in the daytime for that stench of tallow coming out of their back door — and one of his customers brushed me into the dusty street the other day … |
| 32 | He 'd come straight to her after leaving the theatre , and his impatience thrilled her to the core . |
| 33 | He has had a passion for buses and coaches ever since childhood when his father took him to the Darlington bus depot where he still works as a driver . |
| 34 | A year later his father followed him to the grave . |
| 35 | She jumped as his voice reached her through the open hatch . |
| 36 | ‘ And , lady — ’ His voice stopped her at the door . |
| 37 | Woil stared around him and then suddenly with a push of his wings raised himself into the air , turned , and landed ten feet away on the back of a green bench . |
| 38 | His diffidence blinded him to the truth that the one book was already influential in modern thinking . |
| 39 | How right this intuitive decision proved to be and how well his intuition served him in the years ahead . |
| 40 | The research Jarvis embarked on for his book took him into the lower level concourse at Bond Street . |
| 41 | The farm 's now seven times bigger than it was when his grandfather ran it in the 1920's . |
| 42 | His hand cradled hers on the coverlet and he studied each wasted finger , rather than have his face read . |
| 43 | In those days he came in with a His coachman brought him in the trap and they got the twenty minutes past seven express train to Glasgow . |
| 44 | He hit one against Liverpool ( H 1–3 ) and another to secure a point at Manchester United ( 1–1 ) in 1969–70 , while in 1970–71 he stunned Leeds with a late equaliser ( H 1–1 ) and at Ipswich his penalty set us on the way to a 2–1 win . |
| 45 | His defenders saw it as efficiency , his detractors saw it as the uncaring side of Graeme Souness . |
| 46 | His way took him past the local police station . |
| 47 | Isambard 's hand on his shoulder brought him to the bench at the end of the room , where a film of stone-dust coated the floor , and several fragments of carvings and half-cut blocks of stone lay pushed together against the wall , as though discarded long ago . |
| 48 | His misery drove him to the theatre again , uselessly ; he had used up Dinah 's tickets , and was told at the box office that all seats were sold out . |
| 49 | Surgeons at Middlesbrough General sewed back on Aaron Solomon 's thumb after his dad carried it to the hospital , packed in ice . |
| 50 | Eventually , his wanderings led him to the ornate frontage of a steam-house . |
| 51 | Incredibly , fourteen months later , in 1981 , his ego goaded him to the Bahamas and another fight , the fat jellied on his middle , his hand-speed sighing and wheezing like a busted old fan ; tropic rot on the trade winds . |
| 52 | ‘ Look at the poor bugger 's face — ’ His arm hit me across the waist . |
| 53 | ‘ Get down , you fool ! ’ he grated in her ear as his arm drew her into the protection of his body , her face pressing against his neck . |
| 54 | A BABY boy had an astonishing escape when his mother dropped him from the balcony of a ninth-floor flat . |
| 55 | When he got home , his mother rushed him to the Royal Infirmary , wherein he was kept for two days . |
| 56 | When he was fifteen his mother told him about the hanging . |
| 57 | ‘ His mother told him on the morning of the killing that Joanne had phoned Dean the night before . |
| 58 | His mother met him at the back door . |
| 59 | Sometimes his mother chased him through the apartment , striking at him while he dodged and ducked , crying , ‘ Look out Mom , look out now ! |
| 60 | His speech struck me as the feeblest of the day . |