Example sentences of "he [conj] his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tom turns his head in embarrassment and has it explained to him that his regular caddie has gone back to Orville Moody , and I 'm his new one , so he says , ‘ OK ’ , and walks on to the first tee . |
| 2 | As he pulled the car off the highway into the gas station forecourt , it occurred to him that his only chance now would be if the pump attendant noticed something amiss and called the police after they 'd gone . |
| 3 | They told him that his only remedy was to work as a government agent . |
| 4 | Some of the most eminent surgeons in London had assured him that his playing days were over . |
| 5 | I doubt if it ever dawned on him that his patient wife would tell him to get stuffed . |
| 6 | Jacob was no longer a trickster in the Joseph story , but himself the victim of the duplicity of his sons who convinced him that his favourite Joseph was dead . |
| 7 | When congratulating Paskevich on the end of the war with the Turks in 1829 , Nicholas told him that his next task was to be " the permanent pacification of the mountain peoples or the extermination of the recalcitrant " . |
| 8 | After a very successful tour of West Indies , he took his second team off to Australia , but on the eve of the first Test he received a cable telling him that his widowed mother had died . |
| 9 | We now have to alter the old consequences and make it quite clear to him that his bad behaviour will have results that are not only not rewarding , but also unpleasant enough to make him relinquish his tantrum . |
| 10 | It was altogether typical of him that his unshakeable beliefs should prevent him continuing to serve in the Government once the Anglo-Irish agreement was signed . |
| 11 | I would have to seek Neil out and tell him that his old acquaintance was now , if not necessarily dangerous , at the least some kind of villain , who needed careful watching . |
| 12 | It was characteristic of him that his last work , and his greatest apart from Justification and Reconciliation , was a three-volume History of Pietism ( 1880–6 ) , in which he applied his very considerable erudition to demonstrating that Pietism represented the improper infusion into German Protestantism of alien , Roman Catholic conceptions of the Christian life . |
| 13 | This heavy fine so impoverished him that his northern castles fell into decay , and in 1574 the decay was such that all buildings of the castle were demolished and valuable materials removed and used for the repair of Wressil Castle . |
| 14 | It was as if he had never raised the possibility that she might become so much more to him than his personal assistant . |
| 15 | Him and his verbal warnings ! |
| 16 | Indeed it would not be too much to say that neither woman ever really got over it ; a day before the wedding he had written to Mary Trevelyan , expressing the hope that she would remain on friendly terms both with him and his new wife , but the old intimacy had necessarily gone for ever . |
| 17 | Suddenly you could n't get away from him and his blooming career . |
| 18 | Max had heard from his office that I was seeking to speak to him and his friendly response was to telephone me himself . |
| 19 | Only the waiter arriving with their main course stopped her telling Nathan Bryce exactly what she thought of him and his female acquaintances . |
| 20 | He he was very excitable , excitable and he was angry erm he was shouting at me er that he 'd been spreadeagled naked er on the floor , guns had been pointed at him and his front door had been smashed down and his er his family , his wife and children had been frightened . |
| 21 | He treats this place like a dressing room , him and his groundhopping mates . |
| 22 | He asked people to pray for him and his fellow bishops as they make their decision and added : ‘ Whatever the Synod 's decision , it is not a comfortable moment to be in leadership . ’ |
| 23 | Welcome back : A five year old Bosnian airlifted to Britain from Sarajevo upstaged the Health Minister today , and publicly thanked hospital workers for treating him and his fellow evacuees . |
| 24 | In these circumstances in my judgment there is entirely adequate support for Paul of the sort that Mrs envisaged and indeed I am inclined to the view that one to one dedicated support for him out of classroom hours may not be desirable and might well tend at least to come between him and his fellow pupils so if one turns to Mrs schedule one on page forty seven , papers before me , I think that the appropriate arithmetic is to provide for twenty hours per week at seven pounds per hour for thirty seven school weeks , that is an enabler for the school period , I confess that I find it much easier to deal with Mrs schedules on page forty seven by treating schedule one as having to do with the , the school period , schedule two having to deal with the home periods and schedule three with parental care , as it is actually set out on page forty seven , and I confess that during the case I kept confusing myself about this point , schedule one deals not only with school but also , rather confusingly , with an enabler at home and I think it easier to confine that schedule to er school time . |
| 25 | Charles , then , was the second brother to be left a widower , after Thomas ; the domestic burden thus falling upon him and his remaining daughters must have been rather a daunting one , including the need to feed , control and educate young Ben , then only nine years old . |
| 26 | Harry Ford , who now lives in Santa Fe , New Mexico , met those who helped him and his 10-strong crew after their giant B17 crashed . |
| 27 | And now , my dear Sir , having said this much on behalf of this deserving Youth , I must beg to assure you that however zealous my wish to be the means of serving him and his poor Mother , I do not wish , on that account , to influence you — Quite the contrary — I know that in similar cases , your benevolent views have been disappointed , and , perhaps , you have consequently made arrangements for the Future which may render it ineligible to take any youth in the same way as proposed to his Brother — even if you have at present — or are likely in course of a year or two — to have a vacancy . |
| 28 | Leith erupted , and hated Naylor Massingham with all that was in her — him and his offensive questions ! |
| 29 | ‘ I know one husband who forces his wife to eat separately from him and his two daughters . |
| 30 | However , his putting has also troubled him and his first objective is to make the cut , which Ballesteros failed to do the year after both his victories . |