Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sergeant felt uncomfortable , as if the millionaire was trying to possess them through his unwavering stare , attempting to inveigle them into doing his will . |
| 2 | The cherry berets dragged the bewildered old montagnard away with a brusqueness which inspired no confidence in me for his future prospects . |
| 3 | Each of them seeks to use me for his own ends . ’ |
| 4 | Even if he 'd already identified me as his deadly rival , at that point it did n't have much relevance . ’ |
| 5 | One of my more cynical film critic friends uses me as his personal ‘ shriekometer ’ to gauge how freaked out Joe Public is going to be by some of the grizzlier horror movies we have to sit through . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Two things may protect us : first , the Lord Cardinal treats me as his favourite nephew and that will afford us some protection ; secondly , our investigations safeguard us . |
| 8 | He had written telling them about his recent marriage to Rachel in Sydney , but he had n't given any address or any details of the wedding . |
| 9 | Our friend Nigel had anonymously contacted the company who had made the fuss about the takeover , telling them about his little campaign and inviting them to offer their financial support . ’ |
| 10 | Going to him , she wound her arms into his smoking-jacket and snaked them about his naked body . |
| 11 | Whilst both sets of traditions talk in personal terms of God , it seems that the Near Eastern religions , perhaps because of a stronger sense of historical progress , have developed further the idea of God as an historical agent — someone who has revealed His hand by associating with particular events and claiming them as His own . |
| 12 | When Hanns wrote an article for the London magazine Ballet Today about South African achievements , he described it as having ‘ all the qualities which a good valentine should possess … the girls flit , skip and drift hither and thither in pairs or threes , giggle coyly and point with gloved hands , while the sentimental , romantic Pierrot searches among them for his true love . |
| 13 | The husband had a right to dispose of them for his own benefit while he lived , and his wife had no power of disposition during that time , though , if she survived him , and they had not been disposed of , they would be hers again . |
| 14 | Between 1853 and 1870 CD gave upwards of 500 public readings from his own works , mostly after 1858 when he began to give them for his own profit . |
| 15 | I remember a case where an architect designer , without excuse bent over the shoulder of his employee , a brilliant 22-year-old designer , and put his name unashamedly to the novel ideas and design of the young man , claiming them for his own . |
| 16 | Nor did the Flemings feel that he was really supporting them ; he had appeared to be using them for his own ends . |
| 17 | Quite apart from Faber business , he had to settle down and write prefaces for three books as well ( one of them for his own selection of Pounds literary essays ) . |
| 18 | In this case , the student can write in pencil the words he is n't certain how to spell ; or underlines them for his own or the teacher 's later attention . |
| 19 | Possibly he 'd reached the stage of being one who would merely use them for his own ends — especially his sex life . |
| 20 | Surprise Offer was running without blinkers and Hannon said : ‘ He 'll definitely wear them for his next race , the Cornwallis Stakes at Ascot . ’ |
| 21 | Crowninshield stared at me through his obscuring lenses . |
| 22 | DIRECTOR Terence Young has been telling me about his new film project — a suspense movie , Metal Tree , starring close friend Brooke Shields . |
| 23 | JOHN Mortimer has been telling me about his first ever speaking role in Rumpole of the Bailey , his popular television series . |
| 24 | In the music room , which has its walls lined with framed gold records and death threats from fundamentalist religious groups , Ice-T tells me about his future plans . |
| 25 | Butch hit a decent shot down the first , and then turned round to ask me about his second shot . |
| 26 | As he lit a cigarette , ( he rolls his own from a tobacco mix in a tin ) he told me about his early life . |
| 27 | She heard his low voice as he spoke to them , greeted them after his long absence . |
| 28 | Cripps denied that the books had been improperly kept , saying that an accounts clerk had been appointed to look after them after his own health had broken down in 1917 . |
| 29 | Frantically Brown scrabbled for the phone that would connect his with his Special Agent in Kensington . |
| 30 | When Pat had told them of his new orders he said to his wife , ‘ You 'll have your lad home again , Julia , however it goes with , these letters he 's had . |