Example sentences of "his [noun] [vb base] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of his views categorize him as a wet — a European enthusiast ; against capital punishment ; and in favour of sensible abortion laws . |
| 2 | Well er firstly , he can , even if it 's his money give it to his wife as his partner , and she could then invest the money , and because she 's not paying any tax , er she could get a ten percent return , so she could actually get a thousand pounds on that ten thousand and that would be payable gross . |
| 3 | These purges seem consistent with the aim ( which his opponents accuse him of ) of turning parliament into an updated version of the old central committee of the Communist Party , with himself as general secretary and Congress acting as a rubber stamp . |
| 4 | The casual cruelty of his words cut her like a knife . |
| 5 | What he says about the king 's own explanation for his forwardness in battle is one of a number of examples of d'Ayala 's perception of the Scottish kingdom : ‘ He ( the king ) said to me that his subjects serve him with their persons and goods , in just and unjust quarrels , exactly as he likes , and that therefore he does not think it right to begin any warlike undertaking without being himself the first in danger . ’ |
| 6 | She saw his glance rake her from the top of her shining chestnut hair over her make-up-free face , and down over her pretty cotton wrap to the tips of her toes . |
| 7 | Bob and I are progressing as a piano/clarsach duo , and of course some of the accompaniments to his songs tax me to the limit , or have to be vetoed altogether . |
| 8 | Obediently she returned the gesture , meeting his mesmeric gaze , feeling the power of his appraisal bathe her in a tingling aura before taking a deep , refreshing swallow . |
| 9 | This type of coven is usually on the borderline of satanism , and the ‘ sincere ’ members believe that the devil and his demons need them as agents to wreak havoc in the world . |
| 10 | But his parents want him to be taught with normal children . |
| 11 | Yorkshire Health Authority is seeking legal clarification on the treatment of a victim of the Hillsborough disaster who has been in a coma for three years , he will never recover and his parents want him to be allowed to die . |
| 12 | Yorkshire Health Authority is seeking legal clarification on the treatment of a victim of the Hillsborough disaster who has been in a coma for three years , he will never recover and his parents want him to be allowed to die . |
| 13 | Brutus then , a few lines later , claims no knowledge of her death when two of his officers tell him of it ( IV , iii , 141–92 ) . |
| 14 | He began ‘ running down ’ to Suffolk at weekends on his own , and that Christmas he had his wife accompany him for four days , taking all the Christmas food with them . |
| 15 | At the same time , the figure for ‘ operational balances at the Bank of England ’ falls by an equal amount as the recipients of his cheques pay them into their accounts at different banks and the cheques are presented for payment at the issuing bank . |
| 16 | Like Britain 's Royal Family , he valued every opportunity to cut through ritual and listen to his people tell it like it was . |
| 17 | His palms cradle me in a green cup |
| 18 | I love you like — ’ he was going to say ‘ like a sister ’ , but he suddenly changed his mind-'I love you to distraction , Rosie , but I can read your mind like a book , and I expect your mum can too . |
| 19 | But Blandford could travel to the court if his lawyers wish him to be present . |
| 20 | His interests bring him in contact with these things , since they constitute the furnishings of his play activities . |
| 21 | His friends hail him as the last great artist of the 20th century . |
| 22 | Paul Zahl in his book Deliver us from Evil gives a graphic illustration of a bush fire sweeping towards two duck hunters . |
| 23 | When top Bolshoi ballet dancer Yuri Vasyuchenko strides through the streets of Moscow , his compatriots treat him like a rock star . |
| 24 | But I 've just reached the door when his escorts do it for me in the corridor . |
| 25 | Ted laughs at her , putting on her warpaint he calls it , but he 's pleased enough when all his mates ogle her down the pub . |
| 26 | Joshua Cohen had long ago recognised that Jacob would never make a businessman and had quickly abandoned his dream of having his son join him in his scrap-iron store . |
| 27 | As Timberlake and his colleagues put it in this brief but incisive review , greens ‘ suggest that this thing called the environment is a sacred garden set aside from human activities . ’ |
| 28 | In their major work on local government finance , Foster and his colleagues describe it as the ‘ mystery of mysteries ’ ( Foster et al . |
| 29 | His roots brace mine against earthquakes |
| 30 | He and his family let it until Jeremiah Cray , a clothier of Ibsey in Hampshire , acquired it in 1702 . |