Example sentences of "his [noun] [verb] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | As you know , his sister inherits this place . |
| 2 | Of his attempts to realize this experience over again in his post-Siberian fiction , the bald Epilogue to Crime and Punishment is an early and unpromising instance . |
| 3 | His attempts to rectify this met with little encouragement . |
| 4 | It makes more sense to enquire into his attempts to reform this woman , and then to glorify her and her child in a whole series of marvellous drawings , than to establish a dubious fatherhood he in any case assumed at the outset , emotionally and spiritually and with the utmost delight . |
| 5 | Marx in his notes changes this order and brings the discussion of property forward into the discussion of descent groups and family organization , while he keeps the discussion of the rise of the State till last . |
| 6 | Cecil 's most popular publication was his life of his friend the Rev.John Newton ( 1725–1807 ) ; in the preface he writes that his decision to undertake this work arose |
| 7 | TOMMY SMITH : ‘ So you 're saying his decision to have this operation and to actually sell it to the Sun came all within five seconds ? ’ |
| 8 | Within a few months of his execution a comment in the Notable British Trials volume which dealt with his case put this misgiving into perspective . |
| 9 | play , when his mum had this thing in the |
| 10 | However , the partner with whom I worked claimed to be a general practitioner , and the distribution of his cases supports this . |
| 11 | Berry struck with Soba Guest and Anusha , who took his winner tally this year to 106 . |
| 12 | He 's had his hair cut this morning , reckons on having it cut short , really short . |
| 13 | Wilcox arrested the transfer of a morsel of meat to his mouth to put this question . |
| 14 | His attempt to achieve this by incorporating an intrinsic moral quality into the concept of lex , however , is not entirely convincing . |
| 15 | His research confirmed this view . |
| 16 | His successors lacked this , and after his fall from power , confusion broke out as to what Germany 's role should be . |
| 17 | Coach Lane has returned from his native Australia to watch his side perform this afternoon . |
| 18 | Two speechless simian Servitors attended him , one to ingest his waste and cleanse him , the other to nourish him with its own enriched blood and shift his cart from window to window — from which he gazed out , praying for an exploration vessel of his Chapter to pass this way . |
| 19 | When he and his brothers left this world , I could not go with him , but he gave me the gift of never growing old . |
| 20 | His mind noted this fact among others , ticking efficiently on like a water-clock . |
| 21 | In his more pessimistic moments some rogue part of his mind knew this darkness to be inevitable , although he did not expect it to come in his time , maybe not even in his son 's . |
| 22 | The rational part of his mind knew this could not be the case , and that it was most likely he 'd been travelling in circles . |
| 23 | She had not expected his mind to contain this kind of landscape . |
| 24 | From as far back as late 1868 items in his notebooks show this happening . |
| 25 | His data support this . |
| 26 | Bates trailed 3–0 in the final set against Black , his doubles partner this week , and went to the front for the first time in the match when he broke for 6–5 and then served out for victory . |
| 27 | Nearly all his work follows this dictum , and that which does not is annotated accordingly . |
| 28 | One owner found that his cat did this only on the floor of a new extension he had built on to the side of his house . |
| 29 | He had undertaken during his campaign to take this step , but was also believed to be under intense pressure from senior military personnel to reconsider this commitment . |
| 30 | It is precisely in virtue of his capacity to grasp this possibility that man is " ontologically fundamental " . |