Example sentences of "[prep] his [noun] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of his childhood experience he had never learnt to swim and , being early evening , there was no one else in sight . |
| 2 | While on his own home ground he knows how to do things , or how to get them done , beyond the boundaries of his home ground he knows , at best , only that he should comply with the rules without necessarily understanding why or precisely what all of the relevant rules are : he may simply go through the motions . |
| 3 | It was a period of his life hat he would never talk about . |
| 4 | There is , nowadays , little reason for the tenant to seek to incorporate an option to renew in his lease unless by reason of his bargaining strength he can secure that the rent payable under the new lease will be lower than that which would be fixed by the court on an application for a new tenancy under the 1954 Act . |
| 5 | From the start of his rugby involvement he has been marked down as one of very high promise . |
| 6 | On an evening when he had broken the silence with one of his quietist cracks she would feel a sense of remorse and insufficiency descending on her , and hours later find herself in the larder , eating the remains of whatever was under the meat sieve and weeping that she should do something so self-defeating and stupid . |
| 7 | The manner of his election was dubious in the extreme ; Gallus had spent much time at the court of Theuderic , but at the time of Quintianus 's death he was in Clermont ; while the citizens were trying to decide on a new candidate the Holy Spirit descended on Gallus , according to his relative Gregory , and on the advice of his uncle Inpetratus he set off and presented himself to Theuderic , who authorized his consecration . |
| 8 | His English name was Samuel Ostrander and on the side of his trumpet case he had painted his initials , S.O . |
| 9 | He had , in fact , been preparing for an operation to remove his hernia , which had been scheduled for the beginning of January , but because of his winter illnesses it was postponed until the summer . |
| 10 | Because of his working hours he is not giving as much time as he ought perhaps to his family , although he 's always tried to ensure that weekends are devoted to his children . |
| 11 | Throughout most of his working life he had lived above the shop at 32 Ludgate Hill , although latterly he occupied a house nearby in the Crescent , New Bridge Street , Blackfriars . |
| 12 | For most of his working life he was a maintenance engineer at Courtaulds ‘ Main Works ’ , retiring in 1962 . |
| 13 | Then , out of his overcoat pocket he produced a safety razor-blade , with which he sharpened the pencil he always used for his often indecipherable , cramped little scribbles — a sign , a psychiatrist later told me , of someone wanting to attract as little attention as possible , as in the case of Robert Walser . |
| 14 | And er I was dragging behind a few paces and the headmaster was watching out of his study window you see ? |
| 15 | In one of his class exams he set a test in which he had jumbled the sentences in a passage of prose . |
| 16 | ( For most of his adult life he suffered in wrists and legs a condition diagnosed as ‘ gout ’ but which may have been rheumatoid arthritis . ) |
| 17 | For the rest of his duty period he walked around in a daze . |
| 18 | To our western eyes as he stood in his raggy , holed clothes in front of his mud hut he would appear very poor . |
| 19 | She liked the taste of his mouth , the feel of his tongue caressing hers , but she did not feel threatened by the thought that she might be expected to ‘ go all the way ’ like some poor teenager on a heavy date . |
| 20 | Her throat constricted in a soundless , wordless moan , and he bent and touched his mouth to hers , the tip of his tongue meeting hers lightly , teasingly , mirroring the silken play of his fingers . |
| 21 | As I have said , after the abandonment of his undertaking uniform he had gone through a dodgy bookie/snake-oil purveyor period . |
| 22 | Robyn nodded stiffly and moved forwards , aware of his arm brushing hers as he fell into step beside her . |
| 23 | Although his features were almost hidden by the collar of his goosedown parka he nodded and did something with his eyebrows that made the company smile . |
| 24 | He talks proudly of his stage career he 's chosen to follow , but despite consistently first-class reviews and a stream of successful roles , his family is obviously the most important thing in his life . |
| 25 | At the edge of his flashlight beam he could see the dampened flowers , flattened now by the steady fall of rain . |
| 26 | As well as settling with 11 creditors from the collapse of his fashion company he must also cough up nearly £80,000 costs . |
| 27 | An accident when he was a boy resulted in the loss of his right hand , and throughout his adult life he wore a hook , hence the reference in The Old Benchers of the Inner Temple by Charles Lamb [ q.v . ] : |
| 28 | Having rebelled against his childhood religion he describes himself as a ‘ prolapsed ’ Catholic . |
| 29 | With his freight company working hand-in-hand with his shipping line he was able to undercut his competitors by offering their clientele the kind of package deals no company director could resist . |
| 30 | With his daughter Antionette he performed in music halls all over the country . |