Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only his beard continued to grow these days , for he had given up shaving ; a bad sign . |
| 2 | And I would maintain that for all his limited command of English and his limited general knowledge , he not only knew all there was to know about how to run a house , he did in his prime come to acquire that ‘ dignity in keeping with his position ’ , as the Hayes Society puts it . |
| 3 | What are the Ministry of Defence estimates of the costs of that and what attempts are his Department making to cover some of those costs ? |
| 4 | They continued under Carter , and his administration failed to produce any effective solutions . |
| 5 | Even before hunting began , his sons would have had cause to identify with him because each and every one of them was powerfully motivated by the drives of his id to wish to become such a primal father in his turn . |
| 6 | Boris Ford thought that Lord Robbins and his Committee had to accept some of the blame ‘ for the ease with which the grey eminences at the Department have been able to enlist radical ministers like Sir Edward Boyle and Mr Crosland in support of policies that are socially and academically reactionary ’ . |
| 7 | Fire raced through her blood , her slim arms winding themselves instinctively about his neck , the throbbing of his heartbeat seeming to echo that of her own . |
| 8 | She must be mated again , and the first mate has to guard her or risk his groundwork going to benefit another . |
| 9 | His wife seemed to recognise some signal and took up the conversational baton for the next lap . |
| 10 | The rest of them felt his wife tried to sever all connections . |
| 11 | … his back lengthens to fit any number ; men 's hands stick to his skin and [ when ] he is killed nothing remains but a pool of water . |
| 12 | From 1957 Macmillan and his cabinet tried to rectify this by drastic cuts to conventional forces as Britain 's nuclear armoury expanded . |
| 13 | As it was , in the weeks that followed Herr Bremann 's death , his lordship began to devote more and more hours to the matter of the crisis in Germany . |
| 14 | ‘ So there we are , ’ he went on , and his voice seemed to carry more than ever . |
| 15 | Meanwhile his birth comes to seem more and more impossible and Abraham on several occasions brings everything to the brink of disaster . |
| 16 | In Levin 's account of Debord , his subject appears to hold both positions at once . |
| 17 | Without warning , his hand lifted to cover both of hers . |
| 18 | It might be supposed that to injure him by getting deeply into his debt sufficed to satisfy any unfriendly feelings they might entertain towards him . |
| 19 | But after a while , the roads on his map began to criss-cross each other in a crazy fashion and it became clear that he had forgotten the geography of his land . |
| 20 | William III is really William IV ( and we 're not talking William of Orange , who was variously known as Sweet William and Stinking Billy on the opposing sides of the religious divide in Ulster ) : the Daily Telegraph City Diary notes that Microsoft Corp chairman William Gates III is really William Gates IV but his dad wanted to seem more of a regular guy to his army pals and so he promoted himself to William Gates Jr . |
| 21 | In the late nineteenth century his family helped to found this small town in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains and by the time that Stanley Pons was growing up it had a thriving textile industry , his father owning several mills and employing over 1000 workers . |
| 22 | Whenever it was Charlie 's turn to spend four days in the advance trenches his section seemed to occupy most of their time filling their billycans with pints of water , as they struggled to bail out the gallons that dropped daily from the heavens . |