Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] in his " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had sent her , with Ned and the barmaids and Heaven knew how many others watching , to wait for him in his bed . |
| 2 | At the same time as the Nun 's Priest is made to try to claim for himself in his tale the equivalent of : he , or Chaucer , reassures those who are able to share in the joke that the opposite is the case . |
| 3 | Before kiln operator Steve Kelly died at 55 , he asked for help to be given to the team of Macmillan nurses who cared for him in his last months . |
| 4 | Now he laid about him in his denunciations of England 's political leaders and institutions . |
| 5 | But at the age of forty he was at last beginning to wonder whether the image he created for himself in his twenties could stay with him for ever . |
| 6 | He learned English in order to deliver the lectures expected of him in his new post . |
| 7 | His great-nephew described how when at home on Sundays the Bishop would have twelve poor men and women to dine with him in his hall , ‘ always endeavouring while he fed their bodies to comfort their spirits by some cheerful discourse , generally mixt with some useful instruction . |
| 8 | When Duval was arrested in London , high society queued to commiserate with him in his cell . |
| 9 | She saw more of England driving with him in his car , or walking through cities while he attended to business , then she ever had before . |
| 10 | For a moment — then the skylight in the beamed roof was flung up , and Frankenstein 's Adam came leaping down to stand before me in his wrath ! |
| 11 | In a way she was happy that Harry had chosen to come to her in his distress , yet it highlighted his attitude towards her . |
| 12 | If therefore the forgeries were in his hands , and he referred to them in his account to the pope without going further and quoting their contents and producing their texts , his conduct shows ( to say the least ) very muddled thinking on his part . |
| 13 | In some circumstances as the cases show , Mr. Lawson referred to them in his skeleton argument , prejudice will be presumed from substantial delay . |
| 14 | He referred to it in his mind as a temporary dramaturgical folly . |
| 15 | There is nothing inconsistent with the Income Tax Acts in recognising and respecting the distinction between property owned by a person as trustee and property owned by him in his own right … |
| 16 | He used to tell us with a sparkle of pride of enormous weights lifted by him in his youth , and of fights where he felled a man like a bullock . |
| 17 | ‘ He thinks of everything in his early days as claustrophobic and horrible . |
| 18 | He felt like it was asking him a question or searching for something in his mind . |
| 19 | He felt his strength powerfully , and a joy in flight far more real and powerful than the dreams and hopes had made of it in his cage at the Zoo . |
| 20 | ‘ And do you deny that for the two years prior to his death you 'd been living with him in his flat in London ? ’ |
| 21 | Taskopruzade , for example , names his teachers and the works he studied under them in his autobiography appended to the but even he does not give the medreses in which he studied . |
| 22 | The washers were made by early afternoon and a site manager drove with them in his car to an RAF service depot in southern England . |
| 23 | He 's been sat there all day like a stuffed dummy , then he suddenly comes to life , grabs the dinner and runs off with it trailing between his legs , tripping and stumbling over it in his anxiety to have it all to himself . |
| 24 | Owen had written to him in his own hand , a fine and scholarly hand . |
| 25 | My father slept with an indelible pencil and paper by his bed because gags often came to him in his sleep and he 'd wake up laughing . |
| 26 | He was aware of how professional he must appear to her in his preparations for what she saw as killing and which he had been trained to see as protection of the innocent . |
| 27 | It had been taken by a pilot who was shocked out of his atheism and into the Church by what was revealed to him in his darkroom . |
| 28 | Nor did he refer to it in his address to new SS recruits at midnight on 9 November , and not a word relating to the pogrom was contained in his confidential speech — not meant for public consumption — to leaders of the German press on the evening of 10 November , less than twenty-four hours after the burning of the synagogues and the destruction of Jewish property throughout the length and breadth of Germany . |
| 29 | ( d ) This is the same ground as that which entitles a sheriff to allow an appeal made to him in his administrative capacity . |
| 30 | The guide came over , shouting at us in his strange dialect . |