Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] in 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 | ‘ In the meantime , Malachi here has kindly offered to drive me in his own trap anywhere I wish to go . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Not to say meet , but Matthew Choak passed me in his old van . ’ |
| 4 | Later , Carl scolded me in his own fashion : |
| 5 | To hasten this process , Bakewell rented out his bulls so that their performance was proven elsewhere before he used them in his own herd . |
| 6 | Aristotle , no doubt , must have included them in his lost work on the customs of the barbarians . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 " . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Roger , overtaking her in his ramshackle car , pulled up and opened the door . |
| 12 | It was the interest of his parents which sustained him in his early school career . |
| 13 | He had rescued her in his own way , he had swept away the bitterness and the hurt , but he had added a hurt of his own too . |
| 14 | It gives Boles his " She helped him in his cruel games " and the Borough its " Speak out in the name of the Lord " , one of those superb unison ejaculations which will always send shivers down the spine of anyone who hates and fears mob agreement on any subject whatever . |
| 15 | I did not want to worry him in his last moments , so I did not tell him that Linton was also dying . |
| 16 | The clothier who wrote in 1760 that high wages made his workfolk " scarce , saucy and bad " was seeking to impress no one , for he entered it in his private diary . |
| 17 | Ergotimos had looked to a metal model ( a slightly later example is the superb huge bronze from Vix , fig. 58 ) , but he has rethought it in his own medium . |
| 18 | Maria laughed , a lovely liquid sound , but it required an effort of will to lift her hand and place it in his outstretched one , and resentment surged as his fingers closed round it briefly and were removed . |
| 19 | The 24-year-old Iro picked up the injury playing against Great Britain in the second Test in Auckland in July and aggravated it in his last match for Manly three weeks ago . |
| 20 | He picked up the injury playing against Great Britain in July and aggravated it in his last match for Manly . |
| 21 | He had watched his sisters slide into prostitution , through financial and practical necessity , and told me in his Spanish dialect that he had become used to sleeping on the floor at home while they fucked a random selection of Cuban , Puerto Rican and American sailors from the nearby US Naval base at Subic Bay in the Philippines . |
| 22 | ‘ God help you , it 's the most exciting thing which has happened there since the man was buried , ’ he told me in his comfortably-scuffed office in Dublin . |
| 23 | Feeling drugged , and wanton , she touched her fingers to his nape , his ears , tangled them in his thick hair , felt his soft sigh as his breath mingled with hers — and still he continued to kiss her . |
| 24 | She was shivering against him , and he helped her back to the fire and bundled her in his own bedroll ; but she kept her arms about him . |
| 25 | Cerberus is nonetheless fallible , for HERCULES managed to overpower him in his Twelfth Labour with his bare hands while Orpheus lulled him to sleep with soft music . |
| 26 | Nobody laughed , and Otto assured her in his best smoothie tones that said beast was scampering in the Elysian fields and piddling all over archangels ' sandals . |
| 27 | Himmler received him in his private sitting room in the south wing . |
| 28 | At least three hours later , between midnight and 2am , he drove her in his red Golf GTI car to a garage at an unidentified address three miles away in Addiscombe , where she was imprisoned alone overnight . |
| 29 | She imagined him in his racing days driving at incredible speed towards some treacherous bend with just that same ice-cold look of control on his face . |
| 30 | We were told that a recurrent illness had made him in his earlier days an abrasive and difficult colleague but when we knew him , the right pill had been found and the former angrily flashing eye and rasping voice of which people spoke had mellowed to a genial twinkle and an infectious chuckle . |