Example sentences of "[pers pn] [to-vb] [prep] his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would have liked them to go to his regimental museum and I still feel that would be one of the best homes for them . |
| 2 | But Henry II took into his own hands the county of Cornwall and all the Earl 's estates in England , Wales and Normandy and kept them to provide for his youngest son John , allowing only a small portion to go to Reginald 's daughters . |
| 3 | There was the Honble Freddie Moore , leaning forward eagerly , his turn to speak to her ( it could not be about that ; it must not be ) , ‘ is it true that George Edwardes is after you , and means you to star in his next … . |
| 4 | He glared at her over his beer , daring her to agree with his last assertion . |
| 5 | When the patient is having long-term treatment at home , it is often worthwhile for him to invest in his own treatment plinth , if he can afford it , and if there is space for it . |
| 6 | This shows that George is not only trying to protect Lennie , he is also trying to teach him to stand on his own feet , and learn things , although he knows Lennie will never really improve . |
| 7 | … For that purpose it makes no difference whether the illegality is raised in the plaintiff 's claim or by way of reply to a ground of defence … ( ii ) Where the grant of relief to the plaintiff would enable him to benefit from his criminal conduct : … ( iii ) Where , even though neither ( i ) nor ( ii ) is applicable to the plaintiff 's claim , the situation is nevertheless residually covered by the general principle summarised in ( i ) above . |
| 8 | Moreover , where a woman dares not register her non-consent because of a man 's violent or frightening behaviour , the law is permitting him to benefit from his own wrong if it grants him a defence on the basis of an honest but unreasonable belief in consent . |
| 9 | This need enables him to persist in his laborious task ( the author is indebted to Dafydd Edward Spink for permission to use this story ) : |
| 10 | Having chosen Ernulf , Anselm allowed him to work in his own way . |
| 11 | He is afraid too much study has caused him to regress to his former state of madness , and urges him to wait until he has regained stability . |
| 12 | Marjorie helps him on with his camelhair overcoat , a garment she persuaded him to buy against his better judgement , for it hangs well below his knees and , he thinks , accentuates his short stature , as well as making him look like a prosperous bookie . |
| 13 | He tilted her chin upwards , forcing her to look into his predatory hawklike features , his thumb rubbing against the fullness of her lower lip . |
| 14 | We would certainly like to him to come out of his own free will and that 's what we are trying to persuade him to do for his own good . |
| 15 | You forced him to race against his better judgement and wishes . |
| 16 | Enough light would spill inwards from the porch as the door closed slowly on its damper , enough at least for him to get to his own door and line up the key ; but when it came to it he hurried too much and was trying to shake out the Yale when the front door put him in darkness . |
| 17 | Mr Dane ( 49 ) of Mountsandel Road is seeking an injunction allowing immediate reinstatement to his post and provision for him to care for his private patients . |
| 18 | His agent in Shropshire West had tried to persuade him to stay with his local Party members in a small , temperance hotel , but he had refused . |
| 19 | No one got him to expand on his Irish policy , just as no one got Mr Kinnock to say whether he followed the Tory policy on Ireland ( whatever that is ) or the policy of the last Labour Conference which calls for a United Ireland . |
| 20 | It was difficult for him to move in his new boots . |
| 21 | Recognising that as movement caused him to return to his normal self , he would soon realise that it was not Elizabeth who had found him , Sarah took one last chance . |
| 22 | I want him to return to his old life , which I consider would be much better for him . |
| 23 | Although he sometimes wondered if the Doctor was dangerous , he needed him to return to his own time . |
| 24 | I shall nevertheless oblige him to dance for his own good . |
| 25 | Gascoigne took it , John Barnes flicked on at the near post and Platt arrived behind him to head in his 13th England goal . |
| 26 | A Paul Gascoigne corner in the 13th minute was flicked on at the near post by John Barnes and Platt arrived behind him to head in his 13th England goal . |
| 27 | Who else would persuade me to care for his revolting Manrico , a creature who consumes at least two sheep hearts a day . |
| 28 | Nor is it to sympathise with his asthmatic , Baptist bullied childhood , which forms the staple of so many of his surreal sing-song comic monologues of victimisation , paranoia and infantile revenge . |
| 29 | Is then an MP , who must keep the hours of a street-walker ; who is understood to be — if the public is to be believed — either impotent or corrupt ; who spends the best years of his life listening to Ministers , speeches , and to the complaints of his constituents ; is he to receive as his only reward after twenty years of service a signed photograph of Jim Prior ? |
| 30 | He had not expected me to ask about his 1936 visit to Nazi Germany . |