Example sentences of "[vb -s] his [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edward is anointed with holy oil : he has the power of healing , they say ; he loves his chaplains and worships daily , prostrate , where he can be seen . |
| 2 | I said I he goes like this , and he clicks his fingers and he goes erm I keep remembering holographs ho holograms are n't real , ha ha ! |
| 3 | He has his aches and pains , and his fucking itches . |
| 4 | The life of a successful solicitor is not so exacting as that of his opposite number at the Bar : the solicitor has his clerks and junior partners , assistant solicitors and legal executives to do some of his work for him . |
| 5 | The former Cardiff winger has his faults but so far he has adapted well to his new code and in a Bradford side playing more expansively these days is seeing plenty of the ball . |
| 6 | The England star , who missed Sunday 's game against Torino with flu , admits the Argentine has his faults but that his football ability excuses most of them . |
| 7 | The manager has his problems but we have ours as well . ’ |
| 8 | He has his uses but he 's not very good at brewing up |
| 9 | And as the market process unfolds , with one period of market ignorance followed by another in which ignorance has been somewhat reduced , each buyer or seller revises his bids and offers in the light of his newly acquired knowledge of the alternative opportunities which those to whom he may wish to sell , or from whom he may wish to buy , can expect to find available elsewhere in the market . |
| 10 | He writes his cards and clinks the ice in his glass . |
| 11 | If that same investor holds his equities or unit trusts directly , he would receive £75 both before and after the tax credit changes and would face no further charges . |
| 12 | The misanthropic gardener elevates his roses and relegates his relations and if challenged , as well he might be , would give us possibly good reasons for so doing . |
| 13 | A date carved into one of the door lintels bears his initials and the date 1698 , although this stone is probably a replacement for an earlier one . |
| 14 | Of course , the terrible irony of this is shown later , when Eddie betrays his cousins and the truth of his own words is applied as he ruins his life and finally loses it as a result of being disloyal . |
| 15 | But Reverend Sawyer says his collections and fees simply are n't raising enough money … to even pay for urgent repairs , the sixty regulars in his congretation will have to pay . |
| 16 | ROS raises himself on his elbows and shades his eyes as he stares into the auditorium . |
| 17 | You tell him exactly what 's gon na happen at the next meeting and providing what you present meets his needs and is within his budget , will he be proceeding ? |
| 18 | For example , in a tropical country shoes may still be made in the open air by a craftsman who uses his feet as well as his hands to hold and manipulate materials . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , he not only refuses his tithes but seems to have a source of wealth which enables him to distribute alms , to mend the church as well as have it painted and refurbished . ’ |
| 20 | The prelude to this was set by another psychoanalyst called Otto Rank one of Freud 's er early followers who had published a book called the Myth of the Birth of the Hero and in this book what Rank did was to trawl through world folklore and literature , from myths of heroes , and of course there are a lot of those books , and dozens and dozens of them and what he does in the book is he distils all these dozens and dozens of myths and he finds that there 's a common pattern emerges and it 's , it 's pretty stereotypical actually and the common pattern is the hero is born of royal or divine parents , the hero for some reason or other that loses his parents or is cast out by them or is er exposed in some way , erm the hero is often threatened by some outside force and then rescued by er humble people . |
| 21 | At which Lupescu collapses in fits of hysterical laughter , and crawls over to Ceauşescu and embraces his knees and kisses his feet , saying , ‘ Thank you , Comrade , for a joke like that , I could get ten dollars ! ’ |
| 22 | The man who earned global recognition through his book Cry Freedom describes his feelings as South Africa 's cricketers cam in from the cold |
| 23 | ABS describes his fears as " irrational " but Nuclear Electric is understood to be seriously concerned at the implications . |
| 24 | He describes his results as showing ’ limited ’ success ; with fewer than 50% of the mappings being correct . |
| 25 | That that metal man that spins his arms and throws lasers . |
| 26 | But then , like the lama , he discovers his disabilities and the constraints of life to be the very conditions for experiencing the validity of transfiguration — the two are concomitant . |
| 27 | Tony closes his eyes and gives the appearance of nonchalance . |
| 28 | He closes his eyes and opens them . |
| 29 | The young composer practises his scales while waiting for a big break . |
| 30 | Dickens chooses his characters and their names very carefully as is clearly shown with the character of Pip . |