Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [prep] his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lewes had spent only a short time with the unit , but had impressed everyone with his absolute dedication to his work . |
| 2 | Aristotle , no doubt , must have included them in his lost work on the customs of the barbarians . |
| 3 | Quite clearly , Paul Fisher thought she had reported him to his superior , but she knew full well that she had n't . |
| 4 | ‘ Nearly a fortnight ’ , he complained , was spent in Sydney organising his journey to the other side of the Liverpool Range — that remote and tantalising region that had eluded him on his first visit to Yarrundi because he had had to return to his wife in Hobart . |
| 5 | Wickham had been impressed with Shildon when he had interviewed him after his amended statement . |
| 6 | The blue should have reminded her of his flaming , instead of entrancing her by its own beauty , the beauty which had seemed to be utter and complete in itself . |
| 7 | It was at this place last year that Gabellah found the touch with God which has carried him to his present leadership . |
| 8 | Such a nature had carried him into his tortuous business of ruling , where he had found himself responsible for people who owned neither ships nor battle-gear , nor skill , nor health , nor ability . |
| 9 | He had rescued her in his own way , he had swept away the bitterness and the hurt , but he had added a hurt of his own too . |
| 10 | Pieda , a powerful economic group , has attacked him for his crippling levy on whisky and says the excise tax policy on the famous tipple is ‘ against the national interest and discriminates against one of the UK 's top five exporters ’ . |
| 11 | She looked disappointed , so Toby had obviously disarmed her with his usual charm , and had probably promised some expenses , too . |
| 12 | Ergotimos had looked to a metal model ( a slightly later example is the superb huge bronze from Vix , fig. 58 ) , but he has rethought it in his own medium . |
| 13 | There had been little enthusiasm for the renewal of war in Scotland in 1332 , and apart from his victory at Halidon Hill Edward had scarcely distinguished himself on his Scottish campaigns . |
| 14 | His change in lifestyle perhaps owed something to his second marriage in 1863 ( his first wife had died in 1860 ) to Mrs Job Lees ( née Sarah Mayall , unrelated ) , from the ranks of the local élite . |
| 15 | Looking back to her first encounter with Balbinder a year ago , when she had visited him at his previous school , she said that she had been shocked . |
| 16 | A great adventure , a fitting enterprise for one who had known herself from infancy to be set apart for some rare destiny , and one that she had thought herself to have pursued courageously , successfully , with a redeeming love that had rescued even the anguished , complex , hostile Aaron , and had saved him from his wilder flights . |
| 17 | We were told that a recurrent illness had made him in his earlier days an abrasive and difficult colleague but when we knew him , the right pill had been found and the former angrily flashing eye and rasping voice of which people spoke had mellowed to a genial twinkle and an infectious chuckle . |
| 18 | Anyway , she 's seen him in his true colours now , she sniffs , and she 's lost interest in him completely . |
| 19 | He then altered it to read forty thousand and five pounds and transferred it into his own bank account . |
| 20 | The murderer had done it with his bare hands . |
| 21 | Merrivale could have done it on his own when he was in there with her , and the gentleman who came in from outside did n't need a partner either . |
| 22 | That would have been something he was very familiar with , having done it in his early years and worked so long with horses since . |
| 23 | And he has done it in his usual champagne style , taking sunshine trips to Arizona , Bermuda and Italy . |
| 24 | Most of the Elizabethan and Jacobean amateurs who collected his music made copies of parts or all of it , and Byrd himself selected it for his first ( 1589 ) book of cantiones sacrae , along with pieces of the stature of ‘ Ne irascaris ’ , ‘ Tristitia et anxietas ’ , ‘ O quam gloriosum ’ and ‘ Vigilate ’ . |
| 25 | At last , as though he had answered it in his own mind , he said ‘ What is the unicorn ? ’ |
| 26 | Attendance at the ball indicated considerable standing in the adult world and he had a sudden savage desire to show his parents , who would be there , that he had made it on his own , without any help from them . |
| 27 | When Pat had told them of his new orders he said to his wife , ‘ You 'll have your lad home again , Julia , however it goes with , these letters he 's had . |
| 28 | ‘ France has her eyes on you , ’ he had told them in his first Order of the Day , and the troops had their eyes on Pétain ; even though for the best part of a week they were not actually to see the new commander in person . |
| 29 | He enclosed a number of copies of testimonials and requested one from his illustrious patron . |
| 30 | Li Shai Tung stood , leaning heavily upon the silver-headed cane he had come to use so often these days ; the cane with the dragon 's head Han Ch'in had bought him on his fiftieth birthday . |