Example sentences of "[prep] his [adj] [noun] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | After his successful discharge he had to change jobs several times . |
| 2 | After his unfair sacking he retired here to Sedgebrook and ‘ lived a quiet and private life ’ . |
| 3 | The next time Seve played after his Open win he was at St Mellion and playing the worst he 'd played to shoot a 79 . |
| 4 | But despite his frantic efforts he was unable to pull her free . |
| 5 | In the recent past Stephen has been a rebel hero , and despite his good intentions he is pressurised into rejoining the terrorist cause . |
| 6 | Despite his limited education he was widely read , absorbing the ideas of the European Marxists in the medium of French , German and English as well as Dutch . |
| 7 | Despite his apparent interest he had given her no clue as to whether his future plans might include her . |
| 8 | Despite his European background he developed a detached , almost apolitical style of social research . |
| 9 | Despite his human limitations he managed to retrieve the underwater thorn which would give immortality , although it was stolen from him on his journey back to Uruk by a serpent . |
| 10 | Despite his earnest Protestantism he married , by licence , on 3 August 1630 a Catholic heiress , Alathea , daughter of John Panton of Bryncunallt , Denbighshire , widow of William Sandys , fourth Baron Sandys . |
| 11 | During one of his European tours he arrived at a prison in the Savoy where a full-scale riot was in progress and two warders had already been killed . |
| 12 | With one fierce and skilful kick of his aching foot he will mend a deep concavity in the refrigerator 's flank . |
| 13 | For four years of his early life he lived at the court of King Philip II , to whom he did feudal homage in 1214 . |
| 14 | Having overtaken Clive 's score , he declared knowing that if he lost his wicket in the remaining two of his 10 overs he would have 10 runs deducted . |
| 15 | Despite or maybe because of his frequent outbursts he was a good teacher and got results . |
| 16 | In the midst of his second year he was sent off to the University College of Wales at Aberystwyth , for a crash course in everything Welsh prior to his investiture as Prince of Wales in the summer of 1969 . |
| 17 | At the beginning of his second term he started to deal with the problem by introducing people loyal to the administration at strategic levels throughout the departments . |
| 18 | Towards the end of his long life he married for the second time . |
| 19 | His financial position was secure for the first time , and for the last twenty years of his long life he was able to devote himself to his work of creating a Serbian literary language and bringing to the notice of his countrymen and the world the riches of the Serbian oral tradition . |
| 20 | To the very end of his long life he continued to be consulted about these types of issues , and lived to be present at the Pan Anglican Congress of 1908 , at which so many of his ideals were acclaimed . |
| 21 | Then with the chunky knuckles of his right hand he sent his full tumbler of water surfing Western-style up the skiddy steel bar . |
| 22 | On the balls of his sodden feet he advanced along the corridor to his room . |
| 23 | ( During the lifetime of his first wife he had also had estate responsibilities at Banbury in Oxfordshire and Kirtling in Cambridgeshire . ) |
| 24 | By the end of his first year he 'll be light-haired , but it will change again so that in maturity he 'll be quite definitely dark . |
| 25 | There was little he could do to combat the hostility of the media , but after the frustrations of his first term he decided to face up to the bureaucracy and the legislature . |
| 26 | But because he was in the middle of his mental stress he suffered a disaster . |
| 27 | ‘ Officially he does , General , but for the purposes of his private life he has a small apartment , a flat as the English call it . |
| 28 | To the end of his political days he remained unreconciled to what I hope and believe every public person should become reconciled to : the unimportance of most opinions expressed by most people . |
| 29 | As a result of his lost schooling he could n't return to his previous class , and so was at least a year older than the other boys and girls in the class to which he was now assigned . |
| 30 | By 1789 he was employing five assistants in London , his brother Robert , a solicitor in Edinburgh , was attending to his Scottish business , and in spite of his Presbyterian background he was working on Sundays to keep up with the pressure of work . |