Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adj] his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the moment Lynch had been building for all his life . |
| 2 | Combining elements from his childhood reading with his reading about recent political thought and events , Eliot shows the man-child who has not evolved a cry , and so for whom ‘ the lost word is lost ’ , as trapped in a corner , paralysed for all his magnificence and that of his City . |
| 3 | rose to thank for all his work for the fellows . |
| 4 | He enjoys it all with equal enthusiasm , and when I visited him in a small hut on Denham airfield where he was instructing ab initio pilots in Cessna 172s I detected the same dedication , pride and affection he has for all his aviation exploits . |
| 5 | And he still looks after all his race entry forms . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Trent shouted with all his force that he was going about . |
| 8 | How was such malignant hatred brought to birth , when he had meant nothing but good , and tried with all his soul to work no evil against them ? |
| 9 | Jung seemed to have lost the emphasis on the body , and especially on the sexual instincts , which Freud retained in all his work . |
| 10 | The reek of ordure voided from all his clothing . |
| 11 | Sometimes he glows with great power , which rushes out and solves and clears everything : a power lent by the tutelary maker who presides over all his sleep . |
| 12 | Certainly the sequence is the most elaborately and intricately shaped of all his poetry . |
| 13 | made of all his sadness |
| 14 | And now the man who yearned with all his heart for all his life to be a woman and who is just months away from radical surgery wants to remain a man . |
| 15 | Clearly Fjortoft ( who has sucked at Swindon , not a single goal yet ! ) and maybe also Sorloth ( who as before mentioned was at a 14-day trial at Leeds and scored in all his test matches ) will be picked . |
| 16 | References to Sir Thomas Hoby are , perhaps deceptively , formal , though Margaret was strong-minded enough to resist until 1632 his request that she make over her Hackness and other properties to him and his heirs . |
| 17 | ‘ From what I 've seen of him , I 'd say he 's got rather a perverse sense of humour and enjoys winding people up , ’ said Melissa , remembering in particular his brush with Alain Gebrec the previous afternoon over the controversial book . |
| 18 | This criticism of materialism is seen in all his teaching . |
| 19 | I was Yeah I was listening to all his howling . |
| 20 | We 're paying for all his postage ! |
| 21 | He strove through all his waking hours to impose a smartness and snap on Camp 3 , Zone I , that he knew had never been present before , and that during the night hours when he was alone he doubted he would ever achieve . |
| 22 | This was ‘ Ace 's wave ’ , the one he 'd been waiting for all his life . |
| 23 | look after all his safety issues . |
| 24 | He made me work with all his might |
| 25 | Chris had already been given a severe ticking-off when he 'd admitted to the box-office that he 'd lost count of the number of tickets and cheques he 'd stuffed into all his suit pockets . |
| 26 | Grabbing his bike from the hedge where he 'd hidden it , Jack raced with all his might , his long , gangling legs pumping for all they were worth . |
| 27 | He managed to get one hand on the leash , pulling with all his strength , his other locked in Gomez 's shirt . |
| 28 | Similar considerations present themselves as regards ‘ rendering to each his due ’ . |
| 29 | And when they turned homeward , to tell their grandfather what they had seen and heard , the king of the vookodlaks scurried away to a muddy , murky , bushy part of the wood where he lived with all his tribe of ugly , dark , hairy , spiteful , brawling goblins . |
| 30 | And they tell the story you know about the Welshman from or erm or somewhere , emigrating to America and heard about all his life as being the great Welsh centre . |