Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is said that Adolf Sax tried to persuade Wagner to include them in his orchestral apparatus but Wagner perceived that they would not blend well with either woodwind or brass ( still less , strings ) and never used them . |
| 2 | He offers them to his friends . |
| 3 | She found herself wondering idly whether , if she and Johnny were to make love now , here beneath the apple tree , Ben would be able to see them from his garden , or Mrs Draper from her bedroom window . |
| 4 | I was sitting in my office smoking one of James 's cigarettes — not the best thing , perhaps , for the queasiness I was still feeling , but I hoped it might calm my juddering nerves — when a poked page-boy knocked on my door and said the Old Man wanted to see me in his suite . |
| 5 | Unless he wishes to strip me of his confidence . ’ |
| 6 | If he had ( as we all have ) some purely private thoughts and feelings and relationships and experiences , you expected him to keep those to himself , and not embarrass your dinner-party with them , or even bring them into his poems . |
| 7 | He gave them some thought , then extracted two and stowed them in his hip pocket . |
| 8 | Since the war , every spell of Anfield success has been set or kept in motion by the signing of a top-class ‘ striker-cum-provider ’ a player who not only scored goals but also made them for his colleagues . |
| 9 | Mr Jackson drives me in his car sometimes for a special treat . |
| 10 | Of course , I had my dreams , like all young girls , of a tall , dark and handsome man coming striding over the fell one day to claim me as his own . |
| 11 | As he led them into his large and sunny sitting-room , his scalp gleamed in the light . |
| 12 | We did all right until we got to the last bit and I got my foot caught in Otley 's pocket when he tried to bend down , he fell and flung me over his head knocking my wig skew-whiff . |
| 13 | He asked me to his room . |
| 14 | Nor did the Flemings feel that he was really supporting them ; he had appeared to be using them for his own ends . |
| 15 | Oriental dragons were not bloodthirsty like the Worms in England , and a pretty story tells us that the beautiful colours of autumn leaves are a result of a nearby dragon yawning and tinging them with his warm breath , before settling down to his winter hibernation . |
| 16 | And these estimates you bring me of his numbers since they can but be estimates — have you shot low or high ? |
| 17 | Whereas Flynn was at the other end of the scale , for , despite his external charm , he really seemed to care little about anybody 's well-being — possibly because he cared nothing for his own . |
| 18 | He cared nothing for his wife and daughter and they must wipe him from their minds . |
| 19 | Originally we were planning to reward the first ten correct answers drawn out of the bag with a wonderful Sigma-Ray joystick , but unfortunately Markie ( feeble minded fool that he is ) mistook them for his laundry and took them home to be washed by his Mum . |
| 20 | He led me to his house and in a few minutes I had diagnosed the trouble — a flat battery . |
| 21 | He led me to his booth and typed a few keys on the control panel . |
| 22 | He had got as far as the packaging and labelling them at his premises prior to taking them to the ship . |
| 23 | Travis produced them from his pocket and dropped them into her palm , carefully avoiding touching her . |
| 24 | He stopped himself from looking at any of them and stuffed them into his waste-paper basket . |
| 25 | Henry yanked out the jack , groped for the papers and stuffed them into his pocket . |
| 26 | Whitlock peeled off several notes from the roll and the man snatched them from his fingers and stuffed them into his pocket . |
| 27 | Dougal stuffed them into his pocket . |
| 28 | Not bothering to put the designs back into the black plastic cylinder , Paul stuffed them under his arm . |
| 29 | This meant that he never fought them on his own terms , always theirs , and it blinded him to the realisation that when all else failed , when all the appeals for ‘ fair play ’ fell on stony ground , that he could have utilised his mass following of workers to shake the ground beneath the Empire . |
| 30 | The ideas might even have come from elsewhere-their tutors , or books , or perhaps a tape/slide presentation — but the student has to embrace them as his or her own if he or she is claiming them to be true . |