Example sentences of "his [noun] [vb -s] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now his plea involves him in sharing their sentence with them . |
| 2 | That evening , Philip , an ex-Merchant Taylors boy who has known Iain since prep school , is at home in his room when his mum calls him to the phone . |
| 3 | His blow sends me to my right , and I slide with it , fast , and dive away to the floor . |
| 4 | The question , who tells us ? , recalls the most important of Dostoevsky 's many changes in the course of writing Crime and Punishment , his switch from first-person narration — the murderer 's story — to what is formally third-person but proves so supple , so volatile , that the distinction between the inside and outside of Raskolnikov 's head disappears when his creator wants it to . |
| 5 | Jenny , now happily married , cried when she heard her torturer was dead and said : ‘ I 'm relieved I will never again feel my stomach churn when a man with his silhouette passes me in the street ’ . |
| 6 | But when his boss chases him for , you know information or whatever you know . |
| 7 | Perhaps his anxiety leads him to be excessively shy and almost apologise for his existence . |
| 8 | A mantra is given to a trainee meditator when his teacher initiates him into TM during an eastern ritual . |
| 9 | The writer could have selected a sequence such as His opponent congratulates him on his victory or He is congratulated on his victory by his opponent . |
| 10 | The man who now holds the chair in his name remembers him as a tutor . |
| 11 | When the cat is found hanged in the closet ( the first act of violence after nearly an hour 's build-up ) , his wife reproaches him with being a coward because he will not confront the men she thinks have killed the animal . |
| 12 | ‘ And as for the Bulldog , I hear that his wife takes him for walks at night to stop him making a mess . |
| 13 | When the real Travers returns his wife chides him for being so forgetful , from which Travers deduces what has happened . |
| 14 | And his wife has something like er three four four five , |
| 15 | Now suffering is a vast and many-sided fact of Crime and Punishment , as of all mature Dostoevsky — larger than the ‘ loose end ’ idea of The Drunks which produced Marmeladov the marmeladey wallower in abasement and humiliation , the man who seeks suffering and finds it ( and so finds satisfaction too ) at the bottom of his vodka jug , who screams ‘ I 'm loving this ! ’ when his wife pulls him across the room by his hair ; and larger than the ‘ out of the practical swim ’ idea of ‘ A Confession ’ from which emerges the murderer , the man with something to confess , who does n't seek suffering but learns , though only in the Epilogue , to accept it . |
| 16 | ‘ Gould has just issued a prospectus and as soon as I have one I will send it to you , announcing a work on English birds … his conceit leads him beyond common sense. , |
| 17 | ‘ His aunt cooks it with honey and garlic , and it 's not so bad . ’ |
| 18 | The cleanness of his musicianship marks him as the Apollo of the new singing school . |
| 19 | More generally , his theory provides us with a remarkable insight into the nature of the British constitution ; the entire thrust of Oakeshott 's work can be interpreted as laying down a view of the world in which the British constitution with its conventions , understandings , and practices which have evolved through a slow historical process actually makes sense . |
| 20 | In a way , his approach reminds me of Rob Armstrong 's , in that he views the guitar first and foremost as a sound-producer , rather than a beautiful piece of furniture which the maker hopes is going to sound good . |
| 21 | The Messiah has done for us what we could never do in putting us in the right with God ; and the gift of his Spirit releases us from the need to try to justify ourselves . |
| 22 | A FATHER who has every justification for being very proud of his daughter nominates her for this week 's bouquet . |
| 23 | But it is not his temper makes him unlike any poet I have ever known so much as his , well , as his coarseness in general . |
| 24 | His style lends itself to much deadpan humour : when describing the old custom of cutting the cake by breaking it over the bride 's head , he does it without as much as a wink . |
| 25 | His rejection leaves them to their own emptiness . |
| 26 | His Burmese is n't as good as Thubron 's Chinese , but he gets on terms with the locals without patronage , and his wit gets us through the potentially boring bits . |
| 27 | As the tax burden is fixed , an employee offered a company car opts for the most potent and gadget-laden model , at a given engine-capacity , that his status entitles him to . |
| 28 | His plight affects us like the unwilling martyrdom of a saint who wants to be like other men . |
| 29 | For Shumiatski the famous scene in Modern Times in which Chaplin accidentally finds himself leading a Socialist demonstration showed the comedian remaining ‘ true to himself ’ for ‘ he is lonely — his path has nothing in common with the path of the masses — it is the path of the external failure ’ . |
| 30 | His fascination leads him to an agency which administers mental implants , so that he can have the vicarious experience of interplanetary travel injected into his memory . |