Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neil Kinnock , who like Mr Foot is an MP for a south Wales constituency and came to the leadership from the left of the party , described his mentor yesterday as unique and irreplaceable : ‘ Michael is as fit and fiery as ever . |
| 2 | This may seem irrelevant to Hamlet taking revenge ; but this scene ( Act IV , Scene V ) shows the contrast between Hamlet , who thinks deeply about actions and their consequences ; and Laertes , the man of action , who does not think at all about the consequences of what he does , being driven by his heart rather than his head . |
| 3 | Just as Jennie had been on the sidelines while his first wife was alive , Mary became his mistress almost immediately he went through his second marriage ceremony . |
| 4 | In the second case , that where the wife agrees to become surety at the instance of her husband though she does not understand the effect of the document or the nature of the transaction , her failure to do so may be the result of the husband 's actually misleading her , but in any case it could hardly ever occur without some impropriety on his part even if that impropriety consisted only in his neglect to inform her of the exact nature of that to which she is willing blindly , ignorantly or mistakenly to assent . |
| 5 | It tells of a butcher returning home empty-handed from a market , and looking for lodgings in a village that lies on his route homewards as it is too late at night for him to reach home . |
| 6 | Their rows centred on his failure to be available when she needed his support rather than her ability to be physically present but absent in every other way . |
| 7 | Gina ran her bike over his foot viciously as she went out through the narrow hall . |
| 8 | Whitlock used his personal ID card to activate the lift and tapped his foot apprehensively as he waited for it to arrive . |
| 9 | Savile Row tailor R.J.W. Gieve suspects that it was an attitude born of the realization that the tailor would probably wait for his money rather than press for payment and jeopardize goodwill and the prospect of future orders . |
| 10 | As he calls every week — and is likely to be well known to the neighbours too — he will get his money even if the local authority and fuel boards do n't get theirs . |
| 11 | Hon. and learned Member for Warrington South , Mr. Mark Carlisle Q.C. , on 1 March 1985 that no life sentence prisoner will be detained for more than 17 years without a formal review of his case even where the period thought necessary to meet the requirements of retribution and deterrence exceeds 20 years . |
| 12 | Belinda listened on tenterhooks to one side of the discussion as Tom somehow managed to present his case forcefully while driving at the same time . |
| 13 | The Chief Secretary was undoubtedly unable to explain his case fully because of the obviously organised baiting . |
| 14 | The man who gives a boat party knows in his heart that his friends like his yacht more than they like him : he is lonely and restless in their company . |
| 15 | I , I think he 's drawing into his shell there as regards friends outside the family . |
| 16 | She had n't moved or made a sound , just opened her eyes in the red-tinged darkness and seen him there without surprise as if she had been aware of his presence ever since he arrived . |
| 17 | Karen read his look faster than he could recover it and smiled as she asked , ‘ What 's her name , Sam ? ’ |
| 18 | Kirov checked his watch carefully as he tuned the set to Voice of America . |
| 19 | He looked at his watch pointedly as they met . |
| 20 | Turbulence and violent death haunted his adolescence just as repression and hard tack had besieged his childhood . |
| 21 | So the remainder of the first consultation was spent showing Clive how to breathe from his diaphragm rather than from the upper part of his chest . |
| 22 | Stepping forward to the front of the jungle set , actor William Russell places himself so that the windflow from a small cooling fan falls on his face , ruffling his hair slightly as Ian Chesterton remarks on the slight breeze blowing over this exotic world . |
| 23 | ‘ My dad is very tall and he puts lots of gel on his hair sometimes because he thinks it looks nice . |
| 24 | Quot homines , tot sententiae : almost every worker in the field has his pet variation , which suits him ad his computer better than any other . |
| 25 | They fired through the windows of his bungalow home as he watched television . |
| 26 | Ian Lawrence runs his kitchen just as he would a hotel |
| 27 | You could see he 'd stuck invisible tape over his mouth so as not to cry . |
| 28 | He blinked and opened his mouth once before he managed , ‘ Spotted Dick , please . ’ |
| 29 | And each cough that forced its way past his throat brought with it more of the bright frothy blood , which dribbled from the corners of his mouth faster than his red-soaked handkerchief could mop it up . |
| 30 | Joyce did not take his defeat gracefully when his turn came to speak after the result was announced . |