Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is said that Adolf Sax tried to persuade Wagner to include them in his orchestral apparatus but Wagner perceived that they would not blend well with either woodwind or brass ( still less , strings ) and never used them . |
| 2 | Of course , I had my dreams , like all young girls , of a tall , dark and handsome man coming striding over the fell one day to claim me as his own . |
| 3 | As he led them into his large and sunny sitting-room , his scalp gleamed in the light . |
| 4 | Nor did the Flemings feel that he was really supporting them ; he had appeared to be using them for his own ends . |
| 5 | Oriental dragons were not bloodthirsty like the Worms in England , and a pretty story tells us that the beautiful colours of autumn leaves are a result of a nearby dragon yawning and tinging them with his warm breath , before settling down to his winter hibernation . |
| 6 | He stopped himself from looking at any of them and stuffed them into his waste-paper basket . |
| 7 | This meant that he never fought them on his own terms , always theirs , and it blinded him to the realisation that when all else failed , when all the appeals for ‘ fair play ’ fell on stony ground , that he could have utilised his mass following of workers to shake the ground beneath the Empire . |
| 8 | ‘ In the meantime , Malachi here has kindly offered to drive me in his own trap anywhere I wish to go . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Not to say meet , but Matthew Choak passed me in his old van . ’ |
| 10 | But Ngugi managed to lift me out of my armchair and place me inside his imaginary village of Ilmorog . |
| 11 | He greatly influenced modern methods of excavation : he deliberately studied Pitt-Rivers ' methods and modified them to his own ideas . |
| 12 | The barrister , too , may find that such facts are missing from his brief , and have to extract them from his instructing solicitor in conference . |
| 13 | Later , Carl scolded me in his own fashion : |
| 14 | During my last two years at Eton , and my years at Oxford , Guy Rogers invited me to his covert shoots . |
| 15 | He saw the wisdom of this ploy and invited me to his next fight , when he lost his title . |
| 16 | He also took government subsidies for agriculture , applying them to his catch-cropping enterprise . |
| 17 | He conceded that his knowledge of the language was slight ; that is why he referred me to his young assistant . ’ |
| 18 | To hasten this process , Bakewell rented out his bulls so that their performance was proven elsewhere before he used them in his own herd . |
| 19 | Aristotle , no doubt , must have included them in his lost work on the customs of the barbarians . |
| 20 | It will , I know , be a tough decision for you to make , Les , because it is common knowledge that Terry has you in his back pocket , but he is the weak link in the team this year . |
| 21 | Little Paul spends a short time at Mrs Pipchin 's ( on the recommendation of Miss Tox , a former child-boarder ) , where he is not quelled as the others are , but thoroughly discomfits her with his sharp questions and grave stare . |
| 22 | His estranged wife Danielle and their three children spurned him at his sick bed when he announced plans to wed the former Bond girl . |
| 23 | Something about him was beginning to needle her , challenging her to meet him on his own terms . |
| 24 | ( Jones , as everyone would have expected , welcomed his vanquished opponent on board with great courtesy , and invited him to his own wrecked cabin for a glass of wine . ) |
| 25 | Players who visited him during his final days in the Walton Centre gave him an Everton shirt which was later buried with him . |
| 26 | When Callahan and I visited him at his large house on Sunset Beach , it was like walking around a graveyard : every board was a headstone with memories buried beneath it . |
| 27 | After Mary de Rachewiltz , Ezra Pound 's daughter , visited him in his gloomy study in Carlyle Mansions she wrote , " I had met a great man , and Loneliness " and one friend has remarked that " I knew he was intensely — even wretchedly — lonely " . |
| 28 | Anthony Honoré , retiring Oxford Regius Professor of Civil Law , had just been canvassed by the appointments secretary when I visited him in his panelled rooms at All Souls . |
| 29 | I was so affected by his discovery that I pursued his future career with the Museum Service and later visited him in his cardboard box . |
| 30 | I 've pulled him out of it I pulled him out of it for the simple reason , he is the only one which is , I did n't want to segregate him on his own . |