Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried several times to talk to his sister Laetitia on the telephone , but she continued to be elusive . |
| 2 | Rubberneck , on his part — he saw his sister gloat over the suitcase , the bits of coloured paper — well , he preferred that she gloated ; it was a rest , his knees on the hard floor , that they knelt in endless prayer . |
| 3 | Mr Shevardnadze , worn out by the struggle for reform , used his resignation speech to the Congress to give warning that a new dictatorship was in preparation . |
| 4 | As chairman of the central committee , Sharon opened the meeting by reading the text of his resignation letter to the Prime Minister , Itzhak Shamir , and the other 3,000 assembled delegates . |
| 5 | Mr Cheney refused to pay his income tax on the ground that part of it would be used to build nuclear weapons for use in circumstances which would be in breach of the Geneva Convention Act 1957 , and that this illegal purpose rendered his tax demand invalid . |
| 6 | Later , when Caxton set up his printing press in the fifteenth century , the expert printers he employed were Dutch : so although the written language became more standardised , many of our odder spellings derive from the attempts of Dutchmen to symbolise English words . |
| 7 | Early in the eighteenth century , Charles Whittingham moved his printing press from the City of London into a house on Chiswick Mall — as that river front became known — called ‘ High House ’ , and The Chiswick Press was established . |
| 8 | In what spare time he had , Garrett put his electronics experience into the building of metal detectors for use in treasure hunting . |
| 9 | A MAN said a silent prayer of thanks yesterday on the third anniversary of his heart transplant for the anonymous donor who gave him his life . |
| 10 | All we saw of Macca was him being handed back his captn armband by the ref when it fell off . |
| 11 | The wise student will at the outset of his course look at the examination papers for the past few years , and , whether compelled to or not , will write out the answers to some questions ( even though only in brief note form ) in order to gain practice in self-expression . |
| 12 | Fiedler went on to develop his contingency theory in A Theory of Leadership Effectiveness . |
| 13 | With agitated fingers , his father felt in his shirt pocket for a cigarette , but he had forgotten to bring them from the kitchen . |
| 14 | He pulled a photograph out of his shirt pocket inside the overall , and held it out to Anna . |
| 15 | After Mass and the chanting of the Divine Office , Athelstan thanked the priest but refused his kind offer of a meal and wandered back into Cheapside . |
| 16 | For instance , he wanted to invite his meditation group to the party . |
| 17 | She never heard the front door close , nor his foot fall on the stairs , nor even the bedroom door slowly opening behind her . |
| 18 | He even left his foot imprint in the middle of my head . ’ |
| 19 | Finally , one of them placed his foot flat on the box , right over Caroline 's face , and forced it down into the grave . |
| 20 | There arose within me without warning , and as if from a depth not of years but of centuries , the memory of that earlier morning at the Old House when my brother had brought his toy garden into the nursery . |
| 21 | When Ovid wrote his text book on the art of loving nearly 2,000 years ago , he advised women that ‘ no rude goat should find his way beneath your arms , and that your legs be not rough with bristling hairs . ’ |
| 22 | It concludes — you want a quote from a famous person — ‘ In his decision letter of the sixth of September , the Secretary of State for Energy accepted this recommendation , ’ that is , that the figures are quoted in kilogrammes per stations with appropriate error bands specified for the quantities per station |
| 23 | One morning , for instance , after monitoring radio traffic all night in the NARCOG listening post he had set up in his back bedroom , Coleman reluctantly opened his apartment door to a caller who introduced himself as David Mills , a British photographer for Newsweek . |
| 24 | He laughs , gazing out of his apartment window towards the dome of St Paul 's Cathedral , rising above the City of London 's grimy skyline . |
| 25 | Miyazawa had also called during his election campaign for the political rehabilitation and " purification " of Japanese politicians who had been implicated , like himself , in the financial scandals of recent years . |
| 26 | By the early 1920s , however , the NCOAP 's rhetoric on thrift had become , in a sense , a gift to the enemy : in November 1923 the Conservatives pledged that ‘ the encouragement of thrift and independence must be the underlying principle of all our social reforms ’ , whilst in his election address of the following year Baldwin declared that the aim of ‘ all-in ’ insurance was ‘ to get rid of inquisitorial inquiries and encourage thrift ’ . |
| 27 | He celebrated his election victory with a greasy knife and fork and a snooze : fried eggs , bacon , sausage and fried bread at 8am were followed by two hours in bed . |
| 28 | As part of his plea agreement with the government , Mr Jacobson is cooperating with the continuing investigation into defence industry corruption . |
| 29 | President Paul Biya took office on Nov. 3 for a third term , following a disputed victory in the Oct. 11 presidential elections [ see p. 39130 ] , declaring in his inauguration address to the National Assembly that he intended to undertake a major revision of the Constitution . |
| 30 | Philip Tufnell is welcomed back to Test cricket after his appendix operation by a Waqar Younis yorker that hit him on the foot |