Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Old Amos botched me when he made me from his seed . |
| 32 | Now the name was not a famous one , the cloth merchant having lived his life in the comparative obscurity common to most of us , and my patient had never before visited that part of the country — and yet the details he unearthed coincided perfectly with the facts he had given me during his regression . |
| 33 | ‘ In the meantime , Malachi here has kindly offered to drive me in his own trap anywhere I wish to go . ’ |
| 34 | He could not afford to antagonize Anselm , but — with motives very similar to those which led Anselm to maintain the rights of his see as he had received them from his predecessors — he had no intention of abandoning any rights enjoyed by his father and brother . |
| 35 | He scanned them with his cyclops eye . |
| 36 | Binding me with his confidences , he said that the wonderfully athletic , Aryan rear view of Steffi Graf made him understand how the camp inmates could believe they were indeed Untermenschen in relation to the SS . |
| 37 | Nilsen picked up young men in London before bringing them to his home . |
| 38 | His fingers linked with hers , drawing them to his lips where he turned them to kiss her open palm . |
| 39 | The Ostrogothic king Theodoric cultivated contacts with them , drawing them into his web of marriage alliances , and trying to use them as a check on Clovis in 507 . |
| 40 | Mika Hakkinen did a superb job for the under-financed Lotus team , the young Finn impressing everyone with his mature and confident approach after stepping up from Formula 3 . |
| 41 | ‘ Not to say meet , but Matthew Choak passed me in his old van . ’ |
| 42 | Miller admitted : ‘ Barry has done a magnificent job and in the interests of the team we would want someone of his calibre back in charge as soon as possible . ’ |
| 43 | Miller admitted : ‘ Barry has done a magnificent job and in the interests of the team we would want someone of his calibre back in charge as soon as possible . ’ |
| 44 | Finally , he decided that The Housemartins were contributing nothing to his life . |
| 45 | Cranston and Athelstan squatted down before the coffer and began to go through Sir Ralph 's personal papers , but they found nothing about his years in Outremer . |
| 46 | Could you direct me to his rooms ? ’ she asked . |
| 47 | He used to write his poems on silk and send them to his wife far down the river . |
| 48 | But Ngugi managed to lift me out of my armchair and place me inside his imaginary village of Ilmorog . |
| 49 | ‘ Now the rally 's been banned , ’ says Scargill , who looks nothing like his more-famous uncle , ‘ I expect it will attract a lot of people . ’ |
| 50 | Salah also invited them to his house , to his guestroom , to eat meat at id al-kabir and other feasts . |
| 51 | Neil concluded that perhaps there was a problem with duty and , as customs did n't contradict this , Neil invited them to his work to sort things out . |
| 52 | Smiling , the Archimandrite invited them to his cell , which proved to be one of the tiny dwellings built hard against the outer wall of the church . |
| 53 | Coun Frank Platt invited them into his parlour for a civic reception after their ‘ against all odds ’ Wembley appearance this month . |
| 54 | He greatly influenced modern methods of excavation : he deliberately studied Pitt-Rivers ' methods and modified them to his own ideas . |
| 55 | As he took up his school books again and moved them into his bedroom , he wondered if his father had told his mother about his leaving school . |
| 56 | The barrister , too , may find that such facts are missing from his brief , and have to extract them from his instructing solicitor in conference . |
| 57 | Whitlock peeled off several notes from the roll and the man snatched them from his fingers and stuffed them into his pocket . |
| 58 | If there was one thing sure about it , it was that Isambard had abated nothing of his purpose , and if he had halted his experiment in terrorisation short of the act , it was not from any impulse of pity , but the result of a calculated probability that these methods would not get him what he wanted . |
| 59 | Later , Carl scolded me in his own fashion : |
| 60 | She said er , Derek has them in his garden . |