Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] of his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By understanding something of his own behaviour as self-defeating ( an understanding that was achieved without loss of face since explicit comments were avoided ) , and respecting the feelings behind the pupil 's refusal to work , the teacher could stop re-enacting and reinforcing the pupil 's refusal to work , the could relax his pressure and abandon his preconceived ideas about Dave . |
| 2 | We turned round and have managed to encourage him of his own volition to rejoin the others to make sure that all six enter the Pentland Firth and have a free passage out into the Atlantic . ’ |
| 3 | The blue should have reminded her of his flaming , instead of entrancing her by its own beauty , the beauty which had seemed to be utter and complete in itself . |
| 4 | What most terrified Bernier was the notion that his long stay in India would rob him of his cultivated Parisian sensibilities . |
| 5 | Pat has lots of his old friends with him , as well as some new ones — and of course , Jess the Cat is there as well ! |
| 6 | At the meeting , the Prime Minister told me of his personal knowledge of the suffering of cancer victims and of their families and friends . |
| 7 | IN DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES , a black cop sat in his office above the Criminal Courts and told me of his seven years with the Hardcore Gang Unit of the District Attorney 's office : ‘ I have n't worked on anything but a murder since I started here . ’ |
| 8 | Laura wondered in a daze as he swiftly divested himself of his own clothing , and then , in the grip of a feverish , shuddering excitement , she responded as his lovemaking became more pressing and urgent . |
| 9 | ‘ Big deal ! ’ cried Pickerage , regaining something of his usual Senate page-boy look . |
| 10 | Writing something of his own , no doubt , carefully and silently , by hand , trying to keep his face absolutely expressionless . |
| 11 | And with that final attempt to recapture something of his former Manner , Edward Crumwallis shuffled out of the study . |
| 12 | Yet he had since seen Aycliffe and told him of his unaltered intention to come into possession of them by wedding her . |
| 13 | Finding a faint pulse , she divested him of his white coat , and tied him up with a length of cable . |
| 14 | She shared none of his growing absorption in politics but was attuned to him in the world of magic . |
| 15 | Praying even more fervently that , when he awoke , he would remember nothing of his fever-induced passion . |
| 16 | When Pat had told them of his new orders he said to his wife , ‘ You 'll have your lad home again , Julia , however it goes with , these letters he 's had . |
| 17 | Somebody shot the undertaker while he sat indoors in his shirt sleeves , stripped him of his remaining clothing and pushed him in the sea at the sewage outfall at or near high water . |
| 18 | He came directly to the parlour shared by Astorre , John and Tobie , followed by servants attempting to rid him of his wet cloak . |
| 19 | Dierdriu was still seated on the High Throne , watching him , and Fergus knew a quick anticipation , and thought : is she about to tell me the truth about my birth ? and was both intrigued and apprehensive , for he had never been told anything of his true parents . |
| 20 | Wycliffe 's manner betrayed nothing of his sharpened interest . |
| 21 | They faced each other , Harry standing with his hands on his hips , Sir Gregory forcing back his shoulders as if he were on parade and trying to reassure himself of his own rank and standing . |
| 22 | Later , in a letter to Max Born , he delivered himself of his celebrated remark that he did not believe that God ( whom he customarily referred to in comradely terms as " the Old One " ) played at dice . |
| 23 | He knows that it is his business to contribute something of his own to this store of experience ; and that he should play his part in moulding it and improving it to meet changing conditions . |
| 24 | Plus a warning not to let him start doing anything of his own . |
| 25 | Sir Thomas remonstrated with him , as was his duty , reminding him of his high calling and how he will be required , in accordance with royal custom , to make a match advantageous to the realm — that is to say with a foreign princess . ’ |
| 26 | He could have gone on , reminding her of his own incredible bargaining skill , and revealing his knowledge of certain holdings still owned by the company , though truth to tell they were neither large nor especially lucrative . |
| 27 | His brave words echoed around the world after the IRA 's bomb in Enniskillen robbed him of his beloved daughter . |
| 28 | He goes home , to be abused by his wife for not being at work , until he tells her of his heavenly gift . |
| 29 | In Emendatio Vitae he deals with prayer , meditation and reading in that order , but in the actual chapter on contemplation he spells out a sequence which agrees with what he tells us of his own experience and which does not contradict his account in The Form . |
| 30 | So in the third and last soliloquy Richard reminds us of his concealed plot , his ‘ deep intent ’ to kill Clarence — deep to the rest of the world , visible to us and tells us of his further plan to marry Lady Anne ( ‘ What though I kill 'd her husband and her father ? ’ ) . |