Example sentences of "[prep] his [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having got to within two of his fifty he slightly misjudged the next short one from Thommo , and had to jerk his head rapidly out of the line of the ball . |
| 2 | Conversely , when Woosnam was taken ill so badly during the Johnnie Walker tournament in Bangkok earlier this year that on completion of his round he had to be rushed to hospital suffering from dehydration , he did not leave until he had first dealt with the hovering group of reporters . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , in place of his ideal he substituted ‘ rough trade ’ , favoured by other homosexuals of his class partly because it is easily discarded . |
| 4 | Mr. Ratcliffe told me he could not say that an average person would not be woken by a heavy goods vehicle passing by his window and , to his credit , whilst making the very best of his brief he did not suggest that the present position is not disturbing . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , do n't worry about him , ’ he continued , ‘ he ca n't hear a word we 're saying , in a world of his own he is . ’ |
| 6 | He did what little packing of his own he had to do , then ordered up a small supper : a club sandwich , ice-cream , bourbon and coffee . |
| 7 | And now for some purpose of his own he shook her off , and with almost insulting lack of finesse . |
| 8 | It seemed that for reasons of his own he wanted to make quite sure that the woman knew how things stood , and really she could not have been left in any doubt , Maggie thought . |
| 9 | He wondered how much of his own he had left . |
| 10 | With his right arm he swam , and with his left he waved wildly , shouting as loudly as he could . |
| 11 | As an adolescent and well into his twenties he had affected to despise the whole fairy tale — the people , the properties , the false virtues , the false security it represented . |
| 12 | While he was still in his twenties he set up his own factory in Welwyn Garden City and became a millionaire . |
| 13 | In his twenties he had taken up with a girl called Freda and got her pregnant . |
| 14 | In his forties it grew worse and he decided to see a specialist When Alan mentioned that he had taken a lot of antibiotics just before the urticaria began , the specialist suggested that he try a diet with no sugar and very little starch . |
| 15 | But now he 's in his forties he seems to have slowed down a bit . ’ |
| 16 | In his eighties he was a recipient of his union 's rarely given citation for ‘ services to the acting profession ’ . |
| 17 | Even in his eighties he was a fine-looking man , the more so in any kind of formal dress . |
| 18 | In his fifties he was to return to the Liskeard area , the ‘ land of his fathers ’ , and make notes for a book on Cornwall ; alas , never to be completed . |
| 19 | In his left he balanced a glass of scalding hot tea . |
| 20 | Now that he was in his mid-seventies he signed his rare letters to her ‘ Daddy ’ or even ‘ Pops ’ . |
| 21 | In his 20s he became a director of N.M . |
| 22 | to his own committee , to his own he would actually say well I 've been to er lead them into having a revolution , to open their eyes and then to motivate them erm now he 's not saying that , he 's saying that |
| 23 | Via the dynamic of the perverse , Faustus violates Christianity in the name and image of Christ ; assimilating Christ to his opposite he discloses that opposite within Christ . |
| 24 | Two tables to his left I recognized the handsome young Guards major who had just become a father . |
| 25 | To his left he heard a low growl and a faint crunching noise . |
| 26 | Over to his left he caught a glimpse of a Georgian mansion huddled a quarter-mile off the main road . |
| 27 | Turning to his left he ran , making for T'ai Cho 's room and the labs beyond , hoping it was n't too late . |
| 28 | To his right wing the hills sloped gently down and were of little interest but on his left they formed a steep escarpment up whose side came a soaring wind . |
| 29 | If people see Charlie on his own they say ‘ Where 's Kate ? ' ’ , and vice versa . |
| 30 | he set up on his own you see and my brothers went there . |