Example sentences of "his [noun] [vb past] he [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His contemporaries reported him as a master of geological field-mapping techniques and his original maps of many parts of Scotland confirm his observational skills and his ability to locate himself in the wilderness with an accuracy that can not be improved upon with aerial photographs . |
| 2 | But Mr Browning had told police his route took him via the M4 , over the Severn Bridge , and not by the more direct route of the M50 . |
| 3 | His route took him past the City of Dreams . |
| 4 | Conflicts with his superiors deprived him of the prospect of promotion , and at the age of twenty-five he found himself on the retired list , reduced to half pay in 1812 . |
| 5 | His Mum took him by the shoulders and turned him to face her . |
| 6 | Even though he had a job to go to with Birmingham Repertory Company , his agent sent him to the Rank interview for the experience . |
| 7 | Inevitably , his steps led him in the end to the Corso , where the evening promenade was in progress . |
| 8 | That many of his clients saw him in the former category is suggested by the fact that they frequently passed to him details of their restless and unsuitable executives in the hope that he would redeploy them . |
| 9 | What was Jesus doing when his parents found him in the Temple at the end of their search for him ? |
| 10 | His friend kicked him in the ribs and asked him what he was doing down there . |
| 11 | A TIPSY husband ended up in hospital when his wife hit him over the head with their Christmas tree . |
| 12 | BARRY WILSON turned in a star performance as Stantondale increased their lead at the top of the second division last week - and afterwards his managers furnished him with the same compliment : ‘ He 's class . ’ |
| 13 | When Mapplethorpe asked for the objects to be returned , Bell and his staff presented him with a letter purported to be in Wagstaff 's hand , extending the loan period an additional five years . |
| 14 | His father sent him after an owd man somewhere to come hoom ; and he had an owd pony . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | A year later his father followed him to the grave . |
| 17 | His father intended him for an army career , but that and a project for farming in the colonies came to nothing ; and by 1885 he was living hand to mouth in Chelsea as an illustrator and journalist . |
| 18 | As his face came close to Edward 's , his breath hit him in a shocking wave . |
| 19 | His firm sent him for a month to another part of the country , and at first he telephoned home every night ; but three weeks later she got a letter saying that he had met another woman and was planning to marry her as soon as possible . |
| 20 | His grandsons remembered him as a very old man , fond of reading the Encyclopaedia Britannica and so failing in his memory that , when he dozed over one of the volumes , the boys would turn over several pages and he never noticed but read on from there when he woke up . |
| 21 | His diffidence blinded him to the truth that the one book was already influential in modern thinking . |
| 22 | How right this intuitive decision proved to be and how well his intuition served him in the years ahead . |
| 23 | The research Jarvis embarked on for his book took him into the lower level concourse at Bond Street . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | His way took him past the local police station . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Eventually , his wanderings led him to the ornate frontage of a steam-house . |
| 29 | That his clothes hugged him like a second skin , hiding nothing . |
| 30 | 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 . |