Example sentences of "his [noun pl] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His employers offered him additional wages and a partial refund of the extra travelling expenses . |
| 2 | Yet this restatement of his views won him political support from Liberals who looked askance at this quasi-nationalization programme . |
| 3 | His friends called him an easy-going chap ; his enemies called him weak . |
| 4 | His enemies refused him Christian burial at first , but he was later interred in his grandfather 's kirk at Birsay . |
| 5 | With the hem of his gallibaya caught between his teeth to keep it dry , the boatman waded into the river , pushed the bow out , then climbed aboard and swung the tiller over . |
| 6 | Peter himself achieved a balanced budget , but his successors found it necessary to supplement their income by resorting to ever larger foreign loans . |
| 7 | As the months of his NEA tenure lengthened into years , he sometimes reversed his positions , and even his supporters found it difficult to know just which problematic grants he would end up supporting , and which he would finally reject . |
| 8 | ‘ Now do it , ’ he said throatily as his eyes held hers captive . |
| 9 | It was being driven by a German wearing little black pads over his ears to keep them warm . |
| 10 | His fellow-curates found him liable to vast silences , during which he twisted a bit of cotton with the fingers of both hands . |
| 11 | His efforts to get it right , to tell the truth , are both painful and deeply moving . |
| 12 | The painful state of his feelings rendered him incapable of personally addressing them . |
| 13 | ‘ The gentleman before you complained that his lenses gave him double vision and headaches . |
| 14 | ‘ The gentleman before you complained his lenses gave him double vision and headaches . |
| 15 | ‘ His sisters spoil him rotten and so does his mother — but I do n't , ’ says Harry . |
| 16 | The extreme detachment with which Onetti views his characters makes it difficult for the reader to become involved in their fate . |
| 17 | Ember slithered more firmly on her body , his hands mashing hers helpless behind her head despite her attempts to free them from his grasp . |
| 18 | One new salesman at DPR Futures proved so ineffectual and lethargic that his colleagues found it comical to teach him wide techniques . |