Example sentences of "his [noun] [unc] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For his winner 's speech he sang the opening lines of My Way . |
| 2 | He walks beyond fatigue , beyond the limits of endurance and the frontiers of self , and somewhere along this path he loses his balance , falls off the edge of his sanity , and out here beyond his mind 's rim he sees , for the first and only time in his life , a vision . |
| 3 | In his mind 's eye he saw them together in the brass-ended bed , his lovely Sweetheart with her silky hair and creamy-white skin , and beside her the grinning Tom Fish with one more cruel weapon to use against a little boy . |
| 4 | In his mind 's eye he relived their love-making of a few hours before and the picture of Michael lying underneath him as he penetrated him rose in his mind . |
| 5 | In his mind 's eye he saw it boring its way into the earth , down , down , until it reached his brother 's face . |
| 6 | In his mind 's eye he sees a girl who has brains ( although he knows that some very dim actresses can read with all the appearance of intelligence , and the converse ) who has a slight resistance to the Hollywoodification of Claudia 's life . |
| 7 | In his mind 's eye he saw a faceless man marching over the child 's body . |
| 8 | He had burned it himself on the fire he had made against the fruit-garden wall and it might be that no copies of it existed , yet in his mind 's eye it recreated itself , the child for ever stilled , its face a waxen mask , the old doctor haggard with sorrow and lack of sleep , the mirror no breath had misted held in his hand , the parents in each other 's arms . |
| 9 | As he peered through his mind 's eye it seemed rather that the deepest water changed into a different type of material which sank down and down forever , tossed by its own fierce storms , swayed by its own currents that were swifter than any ocean 's — until far off elsewhere there surfaced from this immaterium yet other seas of life , which were other worlds . |
| 10 | On his saint 's day she summons him into her inmost boudoir , dismisses her girls , permits him to braid her hair and for a moment to fondle her breasts . |
| 11 | Between 1896 and 1902 Wolf did explore the possibility of co-operation with the Zionist leader Theodore Herzl but then moved sharply away from Zionism , which in his Encyclopaedia Britannica article he described as ‘ vitiated by its erroneous premises … the idea that anti-semitism is unconquerable ’ . |
| 12 | With his accountant 's help he eventually moved his accounts to the Midland , which gave him the overdraft on reasonable terms , but he is critical of the way banks look at small businesses , believing that many only look at the business sector rather than at the person running a particular business . |
| 13 | An old gentleman from Stowmarket , his name 's Mr I 'm sure it was because er , you see , my father and I used to go up Stowmarket Road sometimes after church or chapel and er and go for a walk up there and used to meet this Mr who played the organ Stowmarket and very course but erm but I had a wonderful life really |
| 14 | From his letters and his wife 's memoirs we picture him in cheap cafés hunched up in his greatcoat over a cup of coffee , with Russian and European newspapers spread about him . |
| 15 | A speech by the prince about caring for the terminally ill sounded so close to his wife 's concerns she could have written it herself . |
| 16 | After the baby was born and he was no longer the sole focus of his wife 's attention he felt insecure and displaced . |
| 17 | After some months of working with him it gradually emerged that although he had indeed identified his wife 's body he had had a member of the hospital staff with him at all times . |
| 18 | Everyone around him had assumed that at the ti me of his wife 's death he must miss her very much and said what a wonderful person she was . |
| 19 | After his wife 's death he married a Miss Drayton who had gone to Jamaica as a single woman missionary teacher . |
| 20 | When Zoser dabbed a little on his wife 's sleeve she took the sleeve and held it up to her nose . |
| 21 | In Yorkshire when man goes into a decline during his wife 's pregnancy they giggle behind their hands and say he is " carrying " the baby , I never laugh at these remarks because I am convinced I " carried " my son . |
| 22 | In his woman 's voice he repeated two conversations between waiters and men ordering plates of soup . |
| 23 | Although devoted to his father 's memory he always resented his extravagance and improvidence . |
| 24 | He seems to have taught for a while , but already politics called him , and with his father 's support he took ship for France . |
| 25 | As the one who might one day step into his father 's shoes he was also the one who stood most in his father 's shadow . |
| 26 | Encouraged initially by his father in the belief that the acquisition and mastery of the culture dispensed in the state educational system was a necessary prerequisite to self-advancement , and spurred on by the conviction that to avoid his father 's fate he must acquire the one element that his father lacked , Nizan proceeded systematically and relatively uncritically between 1917 and 1924 to immerse himself in bourgeois culture . |
| 27 | How like his father 's eyes they are . |
| 28 | At his father 's funeral he is rumoured to have said ‘ There is now only the old woman 's death to pray for' ’ ( he stood to inherit property in the town worth £900 ) . |
| 29 | Destined for his father 's career he studied at Guy 's Hospital where , in 1850 , he became demonstrator in chemistry . |
| 30 | But in order not to repeat his father 's duplicity he uses self-consciousness and temporal manipulation to keep the artificiality of this procedure in view . |