Example sentences of "his [noun] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She shared with her husband a love of travel , and learned from his expertise something of the finer qualities of wine and food wliich helped her , when his illness necessitated it , to enter journalism and become the breadwinner . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh — ’ he tutted with annoyance , and lifted his feet one after the other . |
| 3 | The guard was an inverted vee which forked away from his hands , and by rotating his wrists one within the other it was possible to convert the axis of the blade into a glittering circle . |
| 4 | But then he murmured half under his breath something to the effect that ‘ the boy had cost him much suffering ’ . |
| 5 | It astonished her how the passage of time had censored from his memory everything except the trimmings like crackers , turkeys and mince pies ; and he 'd imagined , in the place of the emotional strain and physical surfeit he 'd forgotten , a wholly fictitious jollity . |
| 6 | I once asked Kalchu how he was able to tell his cows one from the other , and how he was able to distinguish his own from other people 's . |