Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 31 | Peter Catherwood finally snapped when the child referred to him by his second name . |
| 32 | Peter Catherwood finally snapped when the child referred to him by his second name . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | In some circumstances as the cases show , Mr. Lawson referred to them in his skeleton argument , prejudice will be presumed from substantial delay . |
| 35 | ‘ In later years , ’ Philip wrote , ‘ he always referred to me as his father . |
| 36 | He referred to me as his ‘ Princess ’ and I referred to him as ‘ the Prince ’ ! |
| 37 | They had stayed together ever since , and Nick referred to her as his ‘ partner ’ . |
| 38 | He referred to it in his mind as a temporary dramaturgical folly . |
| 39 | There he found fragments uniting the personal and anthropological , whether in the ‘ memory and desire ’ of the Thomsonian buried corpse about which he had read at Harvard , in the Frazerian Mayne Reid deserts of his childhood , in Kipling 's metempsychosis , Rostand , or Jacobean dramatists , or a passage recommended to him by his Harvard Sanskrit teacher , Charles Lanman , who had laid special emphasis on the advice which the Hindu ‘ Lord of Creatures ’ gives to men in thunder . |
| 40 | There remained a core of committed supporters who had accompanied Edward into exile or who rallied to him after his landing in Yorkshire in 1471 . |
| 41 | There remained a core of committed supporters who had accompanied Edward into exile or who rallied to him after his landing in Yorkshire in 1471 . |
| 42 | ( 3 ) An objection shall , for the purposes of paragraph ( ii ) of subsection ( 2 ) above , be intimated to the applicant ( a ) by delivering to him a copy of the notice of objection lodged with the licensing board under paragraph ( a ) of that subsection ; or ( ii ) by sending a copy of the said notice by registered post or by recorded delivery in a letter addressed to him at his proper address ; or ( c ) by leaving a copy of the said notice for him at his proper address ; and , for the purposes of paragraphs ( ii ) and ( c ) of this subsection , the proper address in the case of an applicant being an individual natural person shall be his place of abode as specified in his application or , in the case of such an applicant applying for the renewal of a licence , the premises in respect of which the application is made , and , in the case of an applicant other than an individual natural person , shall be the address specified in the application . |
| 43 | Everyone in Rosington seemed to be laughing at him behind his back . |
| 44 | Benson peered at him through his pipe smoke . |
| 45 | Fen stopped short and pulled out a folded map from his pocket and spread it out before her , stabbing at it with his finger . |
| 46 | Derek Anderson , for example , showed considerable promise in a number of sports and was encouraged to work at them by his teachers , but , when asked whether he ever thought of making sport his eventual career , he replied : |
| 47 | 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 … |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | There is also reference to reprimands and complaints addressed by him to his subordinates ; on one occasion we are told that the generals on an unsuccessful campaign justified their failure by explaining that although his piety was noted , he was not feared and this meant that his agents commanded no respect . |
| 50 | I should think of you for his finger . |
| 51 | She had heard of him from his grandfather . |
| 52 | But Izzie , watching the figure loping towards them with his strange , wolf-like walk , suddenly knew how the Devil will look on the day of his Redemption . |
| 53 | If my father ca n't provide a decent standard of living for me on his present salary , then he will just have to start looking for another job . |
| 54 | A velvet court dress made for him by his fellow tailors is to go on show at the Croydon Museum . |
| 55 | At this point the Bosnian refugee leaped on to the stage on a small wooden horse , designed and built for him by his mother . |
| 56 | Li Shai Tung sat back in his chair , looking about him at his fellow T'ang . |
| 57 | There was space then for her free-fall to be guided , even as Lucifer 's had been guided , across the vast vacuity , down to a home prepared for him by his enemy . |
| 58 | Joshua Morris looked down his calendar of events , carefully prepared for him by his secretary . |
| 59 | ‘ He got away from me and came for me with his fists . |
| 60 | She ran as hard as she could , and the wolf came after her on his long grey legs . |