Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Almahawi died at his luxury , four-bedroom detached house in Bolton cared for by his family . |
| 2 | He had the expatriate knack of being lent things and getting himself looked after on his return to the native land , and as they talked it became apparent that we were to be entertained to lunch by the gallery owner . |
| 3 | It had come to my grandfather through his great-uncle William Farmborough , on the understanding that he would be looked after in his old age . |
| 4 | On his death Money left the place to his son Michel , who did not live there , but it was looked after by his step-daughter Blanche until her death in 1940 . |
| 5 | I know , er a gentlemen , like yourself , who 's looked after by his young son , by a younger son anyway , and he he 's given up his work to look after his father . |
| 6 | Dr Thomas Brereton lived at The Grange , Dr Samuel Rooth at Grange House , Samuel Lucas , iron founder , resided at the Hall , the Manor House was divided between a farmer/cattle dealer and a farmer/coal owner , and at The Rookery Mr W. H. Rangeley was looked after by his ‘ devoted begum ’ who was born in Tobago . |
| 7 | Yesterday the toddler was being looked after by his grandparents , May and Rolf Blything , at their home in Bebington . |
| 8 | In one instance , a local commercial waste-collection contractor overestimated the tonnage he was disposing of at his own landfill site by 30% . |
| 9 | And what do you say , do you say , ‘ I do n't agree with what that man says , it 's a bad book , I do n't like it or I wo n't read it ’ , or do you say , ‘ it 's probably useful for me to try to make the imaginative judgment to see things the way he sees them , to see the way the world looks like from his point of view , and I may reject that , but at least one ought to have some tolerance and some understanding ’ , and it seems that that 's where the study of literature meets life . |
| 10 | In his capacity as a recording artist , McLaren visited the offices of his new holding company , and was ushered in to meet the chairman of the board as he rose from behind his desk . |
| 11 | She picked up her handbag , and he rose from behind his desk to take a relieved and ceremonious farewell . |
| 12 | She moved from off his shoulder , swung her legs round , then crossed them under her . |
| 13 | Uncle Philip darted Finn Medusa glances from beneath his bushy brows . |
| 14 | And he used to come to with his black horse and dray and I used to go to help him on a er on a Saturday morning , used to get to about perhaps nine or half past and I 'd go the rounds with him and all I used to do was to er take the peoples things that they 'd bought up the entry you see because they were all entries then . |
| 15 | It was the first place he had come to in his own right , with something to give . |
| 16 | My question to Mr which he might like to comment on in his his summing up , is we 've heard about the forthcoming meeting which you 're going to arrange with the district council 's , how soon would you be able to make progress ? |
| 17 | Tom unbuttoned his overcoat , fished in the pocket of the dark suit which he scathingly referred to as his ‘ city uniform ’ for his identity card and flashed it at the uniformed security man . |
| 18 | Also in the list and discussed below are : Alex Comfort and Dr Martin Cole in the area of sex education , John Calder the publisher , John Trevelyan the erstwhile film censor , Roy Jenkins , Labour Home Secretary in the 1960s , as well as John Mortimer , the barrister , novelist and playwright , and what Mrs Whitehouse referred to as his ‘ travelling circus of expert witnesses ’ who were regularly in court to defend publications charged under the Obscene Publications Act . |
| 19 | Three generations later , the third John Pollexton inherited Mothecombe in 1700 and proceeded to build what he referred to in his will as ‘ the new house by me erected ’ . |
| 20 | Lear was a lonely , awkward boy , frightened by depression , the deaths of four of his sisters , and frequent attacks epilepsy , which he referred to in his ignorance as ‘ The Morbids ’ and ‘ The Terrible Demon ’ . |
| 21 | the day before , er Mr referred to in his evidence , you may remember to a company called |
| 22 | When he finally paused for breath , I said , ‘ Hold on a moment ’ and explained that , although obviously nobody wants to spend more than they have to on anything , in my case it was a matter of principle , because I wanted my husband 's funeral to be a personal affair in which he would be ministered to by his loved-ones , not strangers . |
| 23 | She saw the building that Adolph Brückner had looked at on his arrival that day , the pain in his head threatening like the thunder clouds that were drifting back over the mountain tops . |
| 24 | In or about June 1987 , Mr. Burt met the appellant , whom he said he had heard of from his doing accountancy work for others , and he understood from the appellant , having been shown a curriculum vitae and other documents , that he was an associate member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants , and a graduate or member of the Institute of Marketing . |
| 25 | Serious or not , whatever the business Bodo had to talk about with his brother , to Herr Nordern 's dismay he burst out laughing . |
| 26 | He found the paper he was looking for in his briefcase . |
| 27 | The visibility , lower than that of the drier climate of many parts of China , has caused the artist in Japan to be more concerned with the strength of outline than with the subtleties of depth sought for by his Chinese neighbour . |
| 28 | What he was not prepared for by his previous nursing experience was the lengths to which the staff in his ward had taken the system . |
| 29 | Chapman hopes Leeds do better than the Arsenal team he played for in his last European appearance 10 years ago . |
| 30 | He lacked social graces and had no small talk but this , to some extent , was compensated for by his unfailing memory . |