Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] his [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | As he led them into his large and sunny sitting-room , his scalp gleamed in the light . |
2 | He stopped himself from looking at any of them and stuffed them into his waste-paper basket . |
3 | This meant that he never fought them on his own terms , always theirs , and it blinded him to the realisation that when all else failed , when all the appeals for ‘ fair play ’ fell on stony ground , that he could have utilised his mass following of workers to shake the ground beneath the Empire . |
4 | ‘ Not to say meet , but Matthew Choak passed me in his old van . ’ |
5 | He greatly influenced modern methods of excavation : he deliberately studied Pitt-Rivers ' methods and modified them to his own ideas . |
6 | Later , Carl scolded me in his own fashion : |
7 | During my last two years at Eton , and my years at Oxford , Guy Rogers invited me to his covert shoots . |
8 | He saw the wisdom of this ploy and invited me to his next fight , when he lost his title . |
9 | He conceded that his knowledge of the language was slight ; that is why he referred me to his young assistant . ’ |
10 | To hasten this process , Bakewell rented out his bulls so that their performance was proven elsewhere before he used them in his own herd . |
11 | His estranged wife Danielle and their three children spurned him at his sick bed when he announced plans to wed the former Bond girl . |
12 | ( Jones , as everyone would have expected , welcomed his vanquished opponent on board with great courtesy , and invited him to his own wrecked cabin for a glass of wine . ) |
13 | Players who visited him during his final days in the Walton Centre gave him an Everton shirt which was later buried with him . |
14 | When Callahan and I visited him at his large house on Sunset Beach , it was like walking around a graveyard : every board was a headstone with memories buried beneath it . |
15 | 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 " . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | Would she ? she wondered as he drew her into his special world of sensuality . |
19 | Marco stroked him under his non-existent chin , murmuring consolingly to him . |
20 | Marco stroked him under his non-existent chin , murmuring consolingly to him . |
21 | The effort he had put into creating another character , a Daniel Miller , would have turned in upon him and transformed him into his own words . |
22 | Anton though , as if waiting for this opening , Parker 's panic , caught him for his best bite yet , a chunk : with all of his teeth , his werewolf mouth , from high inside of a beefy thigh . |
23 | Seb always felt vaguely uncomfortable when Melody caught him on his own . |
24 | He went back for the woman pedestrian he knocked down near a busy roundabout and helped her into his white Sierra car . |
25 | Lufbery became obsessed by the urge to avenge his friend , which evidently pursued him until his own death in May 1918 , and he was to be the first American to earn the title of ace . |
26 | It was the interest of his parents which sustained him in his early school career . |
27 | Jonathan prodded her with his average-sized weapon . |
28 | He was confronted , in fact , by a farm labourer , who helped him into his small cottage and offered him a cup of tea . |
29 | But his personality — assertive and brash yet essentially both cheerful and tough — gradually communicated itself to the public and helped him to his greatest triumph : his victory in the 1948 election . |
30 | Unable to accept again the superstitions he had discarded , nevertheless with time and misfortune he found himself turning back to the three deities who had guided his early life , and helped him through his harsh apprenticeship as a scribe : the reasonable Thoth , ibis-headed , god of the scribes ; Horus , son of Osiris ; and the protector of the hearth , Bes — the little god of his childhood . |