Example sentences of "of his [noun] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The French title of the first volume of his History sums up his preoccupation : La Volonté de savoir , ‘ The will to know ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ Did it ever occur to you that everything in this world has had to be designed ? ’ asks Sir Terence Conran , pausing for the significance of his question to sink in . |
| 3 | She blinked twice , rapidly , then a third time more slowly as the significance of his question sank in . |
| 4 | He was able to see no more because a draught caused by the opening of his door blew out the candle she was holding . |
| 5 | An adventurer who has had a chunk of his person ripped off by a Skeleton takes 3 Wounds from the blow , in addition to normal damage . |
| 6 | The client who was not convinced and pacified by what his dealer said would not only refuse to trade further with him , but would not sleep easy at night , tormented by the thoughts of his investments tossing up and down like a rowing boat in a stormy sea . |
| 7 | Although he was operating under another name , rumours of his past caught up with him , and he escaped to America in the early 1880s . |
| 8 | and I says then we 'll have to come in the back and all them dishes standing there and , and that 's one thing John hates , if any of his ones come up |
| 9 | There 's just one more bit of proof and that 'll be in the locked drawer of his desk , because I remember you saying he was like your father in that way : he always kept part of his desk locked up . ’ |
| 10 | He spent the rest of his life living out that experience . |
| 11 | Jess the collie was a laid-back sort of hound who spent most of his life stretched out on a fireside rug in his large Surrey home . |
| 12 | So what has brought the best known boxer on the unofficial circuit , the best known bouncer in town , the man who has inspired film scripts and tall tales in the snooker halls , once one of the six people in Britain said to be able to bench-press 500 pounds , what has brought him to the dock in front of Judge Richard Lowry and to the possibility of spending the rest of his life locked up with robbers and rapists ? |
| 13 | Any narrative of his life develops along several parallel routes . |
| 14 | Another source of income was concert parties : my father was part of a double act with his brother , Charlie ; Charlie was the gent in white tie and tails , my father played the village idiot in a ginger wig with most of his teeth blacked out . |
| 15 | The receiver will be obliged at the end of his receivership to hand over to the company any documents belonging to the company but not those brought into existence for the discharge of his own professional duties or his duties to the chargee . |
| 16 | The passionate sentimentality of his rhetoric reached out to ordinary unpolitical people , while his personal charisma provided a necessary substitute for political or ideological coherence in the new movement . |
| 17 | ‘ As long as he 's not fixing for another of his boys to play around with this alternative route through the mountains , ’ I said . |
| 18 | Brother Denis came out from the guesthall , Brother Paul from the schoolroom , with two of his boys peering out from behind his skirts , two novices and two grooms from the stable-yard , and half a dozen brothers from various scattered occupations , all appeared on the scene almost before the porter was out of his lodge in haste to greet Prior Robert , the sheriff and the guests . |
| 19 | Sales of his containers took off after some direct sellers had demonstrated them . |
| 20 | The scared face of his landlady peered out of her upstairs room . |
| 21 | With the coat-collar of his Burberry turned up , he reminded her of a private eye in a film — she was under surveillance , everything about him accentuated his detailed analysis of her appearance , and she felt a shiver at what it might portend . |
| 22 | When I returned to the laibon 's village with the paperwork , he was looking out towards Ol Doinyo Lengai waiting for the sound and the dust and the cries of his cattle coming back . |
| 23 | But then it would need to be for a man of his size to stretch out in comfort . |
| 24 | In other incidents a man had the tops of his fingers sliced off , another broke a wrist and a third suffered a heart attack . |
| 25 | She was beginning to respond to the tenderness of his fingers playing up and down her spine . |
| 26 | He told the Conservative western area conference in Weston-super-Mare of his plans to root out crime . |
| 27 | On June 27 Israel Galeano , the " contra " military chief known as Commander Franklyn , and 100 of his soldiers handed in their weapons to UN forces in a formal act marking the end of 11 years of civil war . |
| 28 | It 's cut rather oddly about the shoulders , so that the collar of his shirt sticks out above it . |
| 29 | In spite of his vows to stay out of trouble he always managed to find it . |
| 30 | However , a few of his friends came by . |