Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh adv] his [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain were left to rue a string of squandered chances in the second period , when Polish goalminder Tomasz Jaworski produced a reminder of how his soccer counterpart had dashed England 's World Cup qualifying hopes 20 years ago with a series of inspired saves . |
| 2 | It contrasts the blood-thirsty dynasty of Michael Corleone as he builds up his gambling empire from a base in Nevada in the '50s with the story of how his father Vito ( Robert De Niro , playing Brando 's original role ) left Sicily to become the protector of poor Italians in a New York neighbourhood at the start of the century . |
| 3 | Over the radio we hear him snorting around , and we get too much scratching from when his jacket material rubs against the mike , but in less than half a minute he emerges onto the main road . |
| 4 | Abbot Radulfus looked down to where his index finger rested , and reported without emotion : ‘ I am in the Gospel of Saint Matthew , the twentieth chapter . |
| 5 | He pointed back down the road to where his travelling companion was still approaching , having adopted a method of riding that involved falling out of the saddle every few seconds . |
| 6 | While she felt he should be honest with his colleagues , she could understand a reluctance to have stories about how his ne'er-do-well father had walked out before his birth and he had subsequently been neglected by his mother appear in the Press . |