Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pron] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | While this internal argument reached its height , his superiors argued about him without his knowledge . |
| 2 | ‘ He 's old enough to have respect for one who cared for him during his teenage years . |
| 3 | Before kiln operator Steve Kelly died at 55 , he asked for help to be given to the team of Macmillan nurses who cared for him in his last months . |
| 4 | But the moment the military dictatorship resorted to armed aggression against British subjects the radical student protester , who cared for nothing but his ideals and for justice , freedom and equality , unhesitatingly sided with the invaders and began to protest , not against them , but against his own government 's attempts to restore the freedom , democratic rights and civil liberty of those who had lost them ! |
| 5 | And look at her … turning soft with admiration for a man who cared for nothing but his ambition . |
| 6 | And Roger laid about him with his whip , and left the print of it on two of the rogues before they downed him and used the thong to bind him . |
| 7 | Now he laid about him in his denunciations of England 's political leaders and institutions . |
| 8 | One evening he asked for one with his coffee , which I gave him . |
| 9 | But at the age of forty he was at last beginning to wonder whether the image he created for himself in his twenties could stay with him for ever . |
| 10 | It must be remembered that , nine times out of ten , the third party solicitor will be relying on descriptions of locus , machinery , etc. provided to him by his client — and will not have had the opportunity of visiting the LOCUS himself . |
| 11 | Having been a hostage among the Huns himself , he had called in Hunnic troops to support the usurper Joannes in 425 ; he fled to them after his defeat at the hands of Boniface in 432 ; and he was probably behind their destruction of the Burgundian kingdom in the mid-430s . |
| 12 | Peter Catherwood finally snapped when the child referred to him by his second name . |
| 13 | Peter Catherwood finally snapped when the child referred to him by his second name . |
| 14 | If therefore the forgeries were in his hands , and he referred to them in his account to the pope without going further and quoting their contents and producing their texts , his conduct shows ( to say the least ) very muddled thinking on his part . |
| 15 | In some circumstances as the cases show , Mr. Lawson referred to them in his skeleton argument , prejudice will be presumed from substantial delay . |
| 16 | ‘ In later years , ’ Philip wrote , ‘ he always referred to me as his father . |
| 17 | He referred to me as his ‘ Princess ’ and I referred to him as ‘ the Prince ’ ! |
| 18 | They had stayed together ever since , and Nick referred to her as his ‘ partner ’ . |
| 19 | He referred to it in his mind as a temporary dramaturgical folly . |
| 20 | There remained a core of committed supporters who had accompanied Edward into exile or who rallied to him after his landing in Yorkshire in 1471 . |
| 21 | There remained a core of committed supporters who had accompanied Edward into exile or who rallied to him after his landing in Yorkshire in 1471 . |
| 22 | Benson peered at him through his pipe smoke . |
| 23 | ‘ He got away from me and came for me with his fists . |
| 24 | She ran as hard as she could , and the wolf came after her on his long grey legs . |
| 25 | He came after me with his arms wide , still dazzled and dazzling in his private powerful light ; those pale jeans already crumbling for want of their accustomed humidity . |
| 26 | Filled with love , she longed to run towards him , but controlled the impulse ; then , when he came towards her with his hand outstretched , her heart felt swollen with joy . |
| 27 | Now he came towards her with his hands outstretched . |
| 28 | But at this moment the other rabbit came towards them of his own accord . |
| 29 | Taskopruzade , for example , names his teachers and the works he studied under them in his autobiography appended to the but even he does not give the medreses in which he studied . |
| 30 | The washers were made by early afternoon and a site manager drove with them in his car to an RAF service depot in southern England . |