Example sentences of "his [noun] [adv] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told Victor his story then asked Victor to make a female monster but Victor , after agreeing to make the woman , did n't keep his promise . |
| 2 | Neither he nor his associates really took alarm when Scottish forces began to assemble on Abbey Craig , a hill beside the Forth near Stirling . |
| 3 | His glance briefly included Melissa , but settled , beaming , on Iris . |
| 4 | Using the tides to his advantage , he had beaten to windward across St Austell Bay as far as Deadman Point , and to his crew of six who manned the sheets and tended the lines , it had seemed that he had some magic way with him : every time they lost the fish , he would put about and find the shoal again , so that his lads hardly had time to swallow a hunk of bread or a gill of ale from one end of the day to the other . |
| 5 | He looked worried , almost weary , and his eyes instantly found Maggie . |
| 6 | All the while his eyes never left Ronni 's face . |
| 7 | His eyes never left Lamarr Dean , but his right hand closed on the Spencer and it was down at his side as he walked over the few steps to the bar . |
| 8 | The terms of reference for his review explicitly allowed Mr Large to call for a new act . |
| 9 | His reply so angered Mrs Ellerton , who has an interest in local history , that she wrote to the publishers in Shropshire . |
| 10 | Like many players of that era , Jack 's footballing career was badly restricted by the war , but he was available to help us to our regional championship of the 3rd Division South in the first half of 1945–46 while , upon the resumption of League Football in 1946–47 , he shone as a half-back of real quality in a none too great Palace team and his performances quickly drew attention from several 1st Division sides . |
| 11 | His thinking also took account of limited human rationality on the question of responsibility for offences ; unlike Beccaria he allowed for mitigating circumstances such as duress , infancy and insanity to reduce or even remove an individual 's liability to punishment . |
| 12 | and a collection for his benefit soon raised $15,000 . |
| 13 | His marriage therefore meant Judith 's enforced retirement . |
| 14 | Marx did not himself create a systematic theory of the global system , though his work certainly guided Lenin and others in their attempts to construct a theory of imperialism . |
| 15 | His parents already doubted Angel 's religious belief , so they were almost relieved to hear this of his future wife . |
| 16 | His parents subsequently became master and matron of Poplar union workhouse . |
| 17 | He doffed his chasuble , stole and cope , hastily hung them in the cupboard , gave a wide-eyed Crim a penny for his help then bustled Sir John back into the church . |
| 18 | In making his decisions about gifts or patronage , a king had to bear in mind that his nobles too had clients , and obligations of their own . |
| 19 | His poems so impressed Thomas Gee , the owner and editor of the influential weekly Baner ac Amserau Cymru ( Banner and Times of Wales ) that he invited him to join his staff as a trainee journalist . |
| 20 | In my desperation I had been making plans to try and sneak the putter from Harley 's bag to have a surreptitious look at it — a truly dicey plan because Harley rarely let the putter out of his sight and , when he did , his caddie obviously had instructions to guard it with his life . |
| 21 | ‘ Really … ? ’ he drawled , raising a dark eyebrow as his fingertips idly drew patterns on her soft , yielding flesh . |
| 22 | He would not , himself , have remarked upon it , but his wife undoubtedly lacked backbone . |
| 23 | Many congratulations to LLOYD COLE who became a father for the first time when his wife recently gave birth to a baby boy Billy , in New York . |
| 24 | With four minutes to go Wivenhoe almost snatched a late consolation when Westwood tried to clear a back pass but his kick only found Collins , whose shot hit the post . |
| 25 | His father thus turned Tavy also into a stream . |
| 26 | His father then asked William what he should say to his school-fellows , to which the boy replied , ‘ Tell them to prepare to meet their God ; and tell them I said so ’ ’ |
| 27 | His father always favoured George , he thought angrily as they plodded up the lane . |
| 28 | [ His Lordship then distinguished Foakes v. Beer as applying between debtor and creditor . ] |
| 29 | Smokey could churn out the dance stuff at will , but his voice truly took flight on shimmering smoochers like this . |
| 30 | Alexander Atkins and his companion eventually told Derek that he had to go to Dundalk to shoot Martin Meehan , an alleged highranking member of the Provisional IRA . |