Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [verb] [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 | Making life hell so he resigned , and threatening to expose his negligence to ensure he made the minimum of fuss , was much more acceptable to MacQuillan . ’ |
| 3 | It is no secret that there was great division among Transvaal administrators in releasing Rice from his contract to enable him to join the Channel 9 TV commentary team for the World Cup that clashed with the latter stages of the South African season . |
| 4 | His willingness to rethink everything aroused the hostility of the left ; but he remained too leftwing for the right , and his shadow cabinet ratings sunk . |
| 5 | Each must decide as he pleases , according to whether his temperament urges him to prefer the prolific , radiant , almost jovial abundance of Rubens ; the mild dignity and eurhythmic order of Raphael ; the paradisal — one might almost say the afternoon colour of Veronese ; the austere and strained severity of David ; or the dramatic and almost literary rhetoric of Lebrun . |
| 6 | The Crown Princess of Jordan opened an exhibition of his work saying it captured the real colour of life . |
| 7 | A FEUDING doctor who was awarded a record £150,000 damages against his partner for slander has been forced to give up his battle to get her to pay the cash . |
| 8 | go sitting in his shop watching him mend the shoes . |
| 9 | Steve and his wife use it to keep the weight off and ensure their 3 young daughters get the balanced diet the experts say they need . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Mr Arsmtrong said : ‘ She said she thought he was going to start on her again so she went into the kitchen to get a knife and while her husband had his back turned she pushed the knife into his lower back . |
| 13 | On the second occasion the wife of his landlord caught him thumping the side of the machine with his fist . |
| 14 | For once his joking did nothing to ease the tension and no one laughed . |
| 15 | The violent scene ended with his father telling him to leave the house , ‘ so decidedly that I actually left the same day . ’ |
| 16 | His father encouraged him to read the historical books of the Bible . |
| 17 | The untimely death of his father did nothing to alter the youngest Charlton 's ambition . |
| 18 | These photographs — ‘ my life 's blood ’ — are pinned to his bench enabling him to check the size and configuration of the newly-carved elements . |
| 19 | Although this ardent Protestant was now protector ( and duke of Somerset ) , his government did nothing to help the Protestant Castalians . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | AMERICAN comedian Milton Berle , 84 , claims his doctor says he has the body of a 40-year-old and adds : ‘ Even at my age the sex act is terrific — especially the one in the winter . ’ |
| 22 | One writer had the initiative to check with Muslim organisations when his publisher asked him to remove the term ‘ pig-out ’ . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . ’ |
| 25 | It is only when all the options have been considered , all the ideas have been exchanged and the husband still considers his plan to be more appropriate that both he and his partner understand he has the responsibility to follow that plan prayerfully . |
| 26 | They carted him like a scarecrow , his heels scoring the gravel , but he was as stubborn as a pig in a cart , he would never squeal without a hard prod ; Donald Stewart the blacksmith had to grip his wrist to make him sign the paper . |