Example sentences of "[prep] his [adj] [pron] " 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 | Her lips opened eagerly beneath his , and her tongue darted out to trace the contours of his mouth , feeling the silk of his upper lip and the fullness of his lower one . |
| 4 | And if either of these things happened to her then Odette and Liam would be separated and taken away to the work-house , Odette with her heart in pieces and her nerves in tatters , Liam retreating so far into that anxious silence of his that nothing would ever bring him out again . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , in place of his ideal he substituted ‘ rough trade ’ , favoured by other homosexuals of his class partly because it is easily discarded . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Whilst on bail awaiting trial , he was served with statements of his co-accused which implicated him to a significant extent . |
| 8 | He followed Ptolemy 's constellations , adding a dozen of his own which are still accepted . |
| 9 | Mrs Noah was the traditional peg-shape , as if that was the perfect , the only shape for a Mrs Noah and the maker had adopted it with relief after unsuccessfully trying out a hundred new variants of his own which had not done . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And now for some purpose of his own he shook her off , and with almost insulting lack of finesse . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He wondered how much of his own he had left . |
| 15 | The most that Aurangzeb could expect was to make the local rulers obedient to his authority , or else to replace them with deputies of his own who would be reasonably faithful vassals . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm all right , ’ she mumbled , her hand still imprisoned beneath his strong one . |
| 17 | With his right arm he swam , and with his left he waved wildly , shouting as loudly as he could . |
| 18 | The boy grabbed her hand with his sweaty one . |
| 19 | Understandably nervous , and no doubt a little distracted and distraught both with his loved one 's untimely departure and that which he was planning for himself , he resorted without a thought to his habitual method of calming himself down , and lit a Marlboro . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The discussion that is recorded about Lothar 's age suggests that some were at first not too keen to elect a pope in his thirties who , on recent record , might last for half a century . |
| 22 | Tall and elegantly mustachioed , David Esterly is a softly spoken Californian in his mid-forties whose passion for Grinling Gibbons takes him by surprise even today . |
| 23 | While he was still in his twenties he set up his own factory in Welwyn Garden City and became a millionaire . |
| 24 | In his twenties he had taken up with a girl called Freda and got her pregnant . |
| 25 | In the eyes of a deckhand in his twenties who joined the " Sunderland Union " in the days of John Beresford and who was already a member of the Australian Seamen 's Union , it seemed little more than a " miscellaneous collection of beards and whiskers " including " old greybeards of sixty , seventy and eighty years of age , with little idea of how to conduct business " , who " reflected the pessimistic outlook of their leaders , supposing that everything was wrong and that nothing could be put right " . |
| 26 | Good stories are told and enjoyed ; some old people are indeed exceptional , such as the man in his 70s who went parachuting recently , or the trenchant recollections of a man of 108 shown on television . |
| 27 | Four other people were taken to hospital , including a man in his 60s who jumped from an upstairs window and a 56-year-old woman suffering from shock and the effects of smoke . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | But now he 's in his forties he seems to have slowed down a bit . ’ |
| 30 | In his eighties he was a recipient of his union 's rarely given citation for ‘ services to the acting profession ’ . |