Example sentences of "[pron] [to-vb] his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later , he takes me to see his new Honda XBR 500 motorbike . |
| 2 | ‘ It just sums up my recent life that on the day my son announced his engagement and wanted me to meet his new in-laws I was in Strasbourg . |
| 3 | The fact that the rumour had probably been planted by Tosh himself did nothing to diminish his fearful aspect . |
| 4 | Guy topped Mortimer 's height by at least six inches , and the civilising garb of Savile Row suit and Jermyn Street silk shirt did nothing to hide his athletic physique . |
| 5 | Jesus had not left them orphans : he had come to them in the person of the Spirit , who was not only the special gift of the Messiah to the messianic people in order to enable them to know his continued presence with them , but was the first instalment of the Age to Come , the pledge that the last days which had dawned with Jesus of Nazareth would , one day , come to God 's perfect conclusion . |
| 6 | Last night Daniel 's father Jason made a dramatic plea for someone to save his dying son 's life . |
| 7 | Not only had I to get his damn' book back but regain his ring . |
| 8 | He went to Italy on his own and eventually made himself pick up a girl in Rome , mostly for the sake of having someone to speak his new Italian to , but she thought his intense shyness some sort of perversion and kicked him out . |
| 9 | It does not seem to me that there is any need for me to answer his silly question on the subject . |
| 10 | It is even harder to get somebody to renounce his conceptual background . |
| 11 | The author provides an outline ; the young reader uses the outline on which to graft his own refinements . |
| 12 | Once indoors the dog would collapse in front of the fire , there , perhaps , to dream of the day when he 'd swap his flea collar for a laurel wreath , and his water bowl for a magnum of champagne with which to shower his adoring fans ! |
| 13 | Nigel felt that was a good touch with which to end his loving letter . |
| 14 | Well , Peckham may have recommended him , but it fell to the new Freeman himself to pay his own 46s. 8d . |
| 15 | However , this was clearly not the moment in which to tell his dearest Laura that she looked magnificent when she was angry , and he hastened to set the record straight . |
| 16 | His purpose was not only to prevent his own partisans from uniting to oust him , but also to use the fact that there were differences between them to strengthen his own position . |
| 17 | But there were no other boats and no one on the towpath above them to hear his ambiguous remark . |
| 18 | But I did n't tell you to beat his bloody brains out did I ? ’ |
| 19 | Clearly , Franco would stop at nothing to retain his hegemonic position . |
| 20 | Closer acquaintance did nothing to dispel his good impression of his grandsons . |
| 21 | Then he asked me to do his regular work , but I did n't commit myself . |
| 22 | He was the only one to risk his small car on the lane . |
| 23 | So he simply made a convincing artificial one to hide his miniaturized booty , and the Vadinamia 's missed it — because when he left he was just the same as when he arrived . |
| 24 | There was no one to hear his pathetic funk ; it really did n't matter what he said . |
| 25 | Might he not be playing a far deeper game although not a new one , since it would not be the first time that the man who hatched the plot and encouraged others most ardently to join it , should be the very one to turn his fellow conspirators over to the magistrates . |
| 26 | Little by little , Lewis , with his passion for nicknames , adopted this one to describe his own circle of friends . |
| 27 | THOUGH not one to blow his own trumpet , 24-year-old Lee Rigg was delighted to be awarded one of the top brass band honours in Britain in December . |
| 28 | But a man may have no son , or he may have too many among whom to share his limited lands and principles had to be modified continually to meet particular circumstances . |
| 29 | From the point of view of the buyer , general exclusion clauses are obviously less popular , and , in general he sees little need for them to protect his own position . |
| 30 | It did nothing to impair his rising reputation . |