Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] [noun prp] [conj] [vb past] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | He headbutted Mr K and broke his nose . |
| 2 | The Flemings who surrounded King Stephen and sustained his cause were not popular in England , and the peace settlements of 1153 provided that they be sent home . |
| 3 | A report on September 29 stated Graeme Souness deserted Liverpool FC and allowed his players to fly to Cyprus alone for a key European Cup match in order to accompany his girlfriend , Karen Levy , to her matrimonial court hearing . |
| 4 | Under his will , Grove House was left to his daughter and her husband , William Elliot , a Colonel in the Grenadier Guards , also an uncle of George Augustus Elliot , the defender of Gibraltar , who became Lord Heathfield and ended his life at Heathfield House , Turnham Green . |
| 5 | Brown Brothers Harriman analyst William Milton has followed Dan Mandresh and downgraded his rating on IBM Corp and lowered his first quarter and full-year 1993 earnings estimates : he cut his rating to sell from neutral and lowered his first quarter forecast to a loss of $0.72 per share from a loss of $0.45 , and his full-year estimate to a loss of $1.10 from a profit of $0.35 a share ; he said he made the changes because of sharper than previously expected declines in IBM 's mainframe business and more severe than expected pricing pressures ; he also said that a noticeable deterioration in employee productivity contributed to his revised outlook — productivity has fallen given declining employee morale as IBM struggles to restructure ; ‘ There 's very little a new chief executive can do initially that 's not already being done , ’ he added . |
| 6 | Industrial dissent may be simmering in the orchestra pit , but the musicians played well enough under their musical director , Robert Dean , who replaced Nicholas McGegan but retained his forthright ( and occasionally cavalier ) approach to tempo and dynamics . |
| 7 | A police spokesman said : ‘ The gunman was probably trying to strike Mr Mascaro and hit his wife instead . |