Example sentences of "his [noun] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She shared with her husband a love of travel , and learned from his expertise something of the finer qualities of wine and food wliich helped her , when his illness necessitated it , to enter journalism and become the breadwinner . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh — ’ he tutted with annoyance , and lifted his feet one after the other . |
| 3 | That 's what Keith 's talking about , when he sails his aeroplane he onto a boat |
| 4 | The guard was an inverted vee which forked away from his hands , and by rotating his wrists one within the other it was possible to convert the axis of the blade into a glittering circle . |
| 5 | The horse must be taught to lower his head which in turn will loosen his back and so help him understand how to engage his hocks . |
| 6 | John carved his puppets himself from wood , sewed the dresses for them , wrote verses to accompany the shows and ( with his aunt Kay as assistant ) manipulated the strings to give performances for his friends and relations . |
| 7 | Or was Otto 's summary dismissal of his friend 's insults something to do with his feeling himself of greater social and intellectual consequence than Jean-Claude ? |
| 8 | ‘ He was speaking to himself rather than to me at the time , but I recall Jeff muttering under his breath something about having to go to the mainland soon … ’ |
| 9 | But then he murmured half under his breath something to the effect that ‘ the boy had cost him much suffering ’ . |
| 10 | It was unclear to what extent he had told his daughter anything about his movements . |
| 11 | Dr S I MacMillan , in his book None of These Diseases , makes it plain that bitterness releases certain hormones that can cause disease , including arthritis , in almost any organ in the body . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'd have to look up his real name ; everybody calls him ‘ Baffetti ’ because of his moustache which in my opinion makes him look just as shifty as he is . |
| 13 | It astonished her how the passage of time had censored from his memory everything except the trimmings like crackers , turkeys and mince pies ; and he 'd imagined , in the place of the emotional strain and physical surfeit he 'd forgotten , a wholly fictitious jollity . |
| 14 | ‘ A man like you prefers his women one at a time , eh ? ’ |
| 15 | A cheery old Berber made half his house ours at Tagmout . |
| 16 | I once asked Kalchu how he was able to tell his cows one from the other , and how he was able to distinguish his own from other people 's . |