Example sentences of "his [adj] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But his finest years found him in some competition with another actor who , like Brando , refused to conform . |
| 2 | He went upstairs to his shattered bedroom to fetch it for Harry . |
| 3 | Two years ago , when playing for NSW Country Origin against Sydney Origin , Roebuck badly damaged his right ankle sidelining him for over four months and ruining any immediate aspiration to claim a Test team berth . |
| 4 | ‘ Strum Guard ’ is a term used solely by Joe Strummer to describe the bandana taped around his right hand to protect it from his own vigorous guitar-flailing . |
| 5 | His contemptuous gaze swept her from head to foot , in swift appraisal . |
| 6 | ‘ His usual spin took him to a private beach at the Dragonara Hotel in St Julien with Denis and Frankie 's sister Betty . |
| 7 | His wrathful imagination led him to grotesque ideas … |
| 8 | His political inclinations got him into trouble again in 1940 , however . |
| 9 | Just as his political commitments exiled him from his own class , so my politics involve an awkward relationship with my own class . |
| 10 | The open road was all he knew ; he had spent forty of his fifty-five years tramping it in every kind of weather with only the fill of his pipe for company . |
| 11 | Ceauşescu 's distancing himself from his fellow countrymen , whether for reasons of security or hygiene , meant that his daily life involved him in regular contact with relatively few people . |
| 12 | So much of his daily duty took him to the general neighbourhood of these places it was n't easy , but mercifully no bumping into the angry Charity occurred . |
| 13 | Enchanted , she too watched the sweet-faced boy who was chattering excitedly while his fond father plied him with Carnival cakes . |
| 14 | The work was interesting and the pay was excellent , but an offer from one of his old lecturers tempted him to Bristol . |
| 15 | His child-like enjoyment of the new equipment and gadgetry he came to be able to afford in later life gave warmly affectionate amusement to his friends especially when they found him camping in his own front garden in the latest tent and sleeping bag , or were asked to take him , when he was stone-blind from glaucoma , to the locations of his favourite plants to photograph them with an auto-focus camera . |
| 16 | She felt a pang of gratitude , remembering his generous offer to provide them with a month-long Sardinian holiday , not only on their anniversary this year , but every single year to come . |
| 17 | His staunch Calvinism allied him to George Whitefield [ q.v. ] , whose pulpits in London and the west country he sometimes filled , and made him ‘ violent against John Wesley ’ [ q.v . ] . |
| 18 | So his Hebrew schooling thereby climaxed ; his public participation galvanising him to accelerated study . |
| 19 | That enabled Senna to qualify in fifth place and on race day his tactical mastery helped him to victory for a record sixth time , Alain Prost had been penalised for jumping the start . |
| 20 | Possessed by the movie camera with which his sadistic father tortured him in childhood ‘ Tome ’ skewers his girlfriend with a stiletto tripod leg while he films the grim business . |
| 21 | No , he was n't — one glance at his chilling expression convinced her of that . |
| 22 | In fact , his second wife outlived him by a quarter of a century . |
| 23 | His second success took him to 1,000 points as an All Black , his record including non-Test matches . |
| 24 | His second success took him to 1,000 points as an All Black , his record including non-Test matches . |
| 25 | Then his second epistle informed us of his leaving the home of the Goldbergs , and finding a really good job with General Motors of Detroit . |
| 26 | His second son succeeded him as a clothier , his eldest son , Sir James , having already moved into the ranks of the landed gentry . |
| 27 | Shannon knew she should be grateful to him for leaving his warm bed to rescue her from what could have been a perilous situation , but , clasped in his arms like this , she felt both rebellious and faintly ridiculous . |
| 28 | Roman , desiring her , his dark gaze drawing her into that hot , frightening vortex of her own senses … caves , black as night , ‘ caverns measureless to man ’ , and the story of the wicked Hasan … |
| 29 | His dark eyes met hers as if he felt her surreptitious appraisal , and she found herself at the receiving end of that long , sardonic smile . |
| 30 | His personal troubles sent him in search of analysts for both himself and his wife , sometimes with disastrous consequences . |