Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] [prep] his [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been in trouble for the most part of his life , the eldest of the poor working class family of seven children , he had always been the black sheep . |
| 2 | Unfazed , Norman somehow caught it , jammed it back on , and shouted up his resolve to do the rest of the route for the most part on his knees . |
| 3 | As a con man he knew that paradoxically part of his appeal was his unsavouriness , so unlike the smooth Washington types with silver spoons in their mouths . |
| 4 | 4.34 Where a plaintiff loses only part of his earnings , this part will always be " the top slice " for the purposes of taking tax into account ( Lyndale Fashion Manufacturers v Rich [ 1973 ] 1 All ER 33 at p37g-h ) . |
| 5 | There is a difficulty , however , if the seller is disposing of only part of his holding represented by a certificate or if he is disposing of all his holding but to several buyers . |
| 6 | Yet this is only part of his argument . |
| 7 | From the way her companion was looking at her it was easy to see that only part of his mind was concerned with art . |
| 8 | The bluffness of Lewis , which before he became a don was only part of his nature ( 'Heavy Lewis ' ) , was fast hardening into a persona . |
| 9 | The exemption will not apply to a mere agreement for the sale of specific assets or where the vendor is disposing of only part of his interest in the business . |
| 10 | Er he wo he do n't , he er , he all responsibility on his shoulders |
| 11 | Only hours before his resignation , another story surfaced of how he and his family enjoyed a THIRD free sunshine break . |
| 12 | On Feb. 18 , only hours before his television appearance , Roh attempted to bolster confidence in his government by making changes to the Cabinet and to the leadership of the DLP . |
| 13 | Hartlepool 's £60,000 striker Andy Saville went out to celebrate only hours after his debut in the 2–0 derby win over Darlington at the weekend . |
| 14 | We now turn to one woman 's battle with satanism — a mother 's fight for her son who was offered to Satan only hours after his birth . |
| 15 | Accordingly , with 15 or so investments on his books , he stresses : ‘ It 's not the sort of job you can switch off from . |
| 16 | For one griffoun there will be flynge to his nest a great hors , or two oxen yoked togidre … he hath talouns so grete upon his feet … so that men maken cuppes of hem to drynke of … |
| 17 | The political pilgrim should not stumble through backstreets and alleys with only glimpses of his goal , then suddenly at the last moment find all revealed ; rather he should approach it in awe , aware of its enormous size from a great distance . |
| 18 | He felt genuine awe at this superhuman man , at once so puissant , so self-possessed , so monomaniac in his demeanour . |
| 19 | True enough , we have only fragments of his history ; but it can not be by chance that while the Greek side of his tale is full of internal conflicts , the story of Italy is miraculously free of them . |
| 20 | Only lives for his work , and now he 's bound to miss breakfast . |
| 21 | It had taken him a long time to adjust himself to this , but now it no longer irritated him , and he felt only pity for his wife . |
| 22 | From what I have seen of Kelly , he has promise , but only 20% of his passes , clearances , crosses go to a Leeds player . |
| 23 | I suggested that perhaps I could help him fill in gaps in his memory . |
| 24 | He proceeds to show , therefore , that with only ideas at his disposal , he can nevertheless distinguish between reality and illusion . |
| 25 | But he was to spend the next dozen or so years of his life as a partial invalid . |
| 26 | The indications are , therefore , that Offa was engaged fairly intensively against the Welsh across the first twenty-five or so years of his reign and this may have prevented him from pursuing Mercian interests in eastern and south-eastern England too vigorously before the mid-780s . |
| 27 | Forty or so years after his escape he was engaged as a consultant on the film A Night to Remember , made at Pinewood . |
| 28 | Leonard was not so much brutalised by the experience , as anaesthetised : hence the recollection of only desire throughout his youth . |
| 29 | Within minutes of Cantona signing for United last week , sources at Leeds revealed that he had twice asked for a move , and stormed out of Elland Road only days before his £1.2 million transfer . |
| 30 | But only days after his statement , and on a regular basis ever since , the newspapers had been full of holiday bargains and talk of overcapacity in an industry in which profit margins are already wafer thin . |