Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] [pron] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michael Parkinson , who presented the programme and added some credence to it by his presence , said afterwards : ‘ It just shows what a capacity television has for delusion . ’ |
| 2 | Her movements then are equally purposeful but they are constricted and withdrawn , so that her father 's contemptuous rejection of her pleas and his throwing her to the floor seem the proper outcome of what in his eyes is sheer disobedience . |
| 3 | Either , therefore , Oswiu did become king in 642 , as Bede says , or Bede was able to date the council of Whitby to 664 by reference to the eclipse and plague of that year and he calculated Oswiu 's regnal year at this point for himself on his own assumption of a succession for Oswiu in 642 . |
| 4 | He had never used her first name before , she realised , and the lilting sound of it on his lips sent a knife-sharp thrust of awareness through her , taking away any power to reply to his last words . |
| 5 | Bernard Fergusson , who was in charge of one of Wingate 's columns , pays this tribute to them in his epic account , Beyond the Chindwin : |
| 6 | Surely Russell Bryant must have some sign on him of his past life , then ? |
| 7 | Then he lifted his hat from the tea-chest , rubbed some dirt off it with his sleeve , placed it on his head and stood up . |
| 8 | And keep old Dobbin in his in his furrow . |
| 9 | At that moment there was therefore an involuntary alienation by him of his property . |
| 10 | Through faith Christ 's presence — which does not depend on the individual 's faith in order to be the Lord 's real gift of himself to his Church — becomes no longer just a presence for the believer , but also a presence with him . |
| 11 | In developing the critique of political economy as a critique of ideology , Marx retained some aspects of the dialectic of Hegelian critique , but did not offer a philosophical foundation for it within his own materialist system . |
| 12 | He just happened to have a pint of Guinness with a perfect head on it in his pocket . |
| 13 | Rufus was sitting on the blue-tiled rim of it with his feet dangling in the water . |
| 14 | Just as his theoretical awareness of the importance of sense-experience as a basis for science went along with an increasing interest in practical , experimental investigation of the world , so his theoretical advocacy of Epicurean atomism went along with his actual use of it in his own work ; for example , in an account he gave of various optical phenomena produced by the sun . |
| 15 | In spite of his size , and like many big strikers , Dave was a sensitive fellow and pre-match tension was a real problem for him in his earlier days , but he overcame that worry successfully and went on to make a substantial and positive contribution to Palace 's return to the big-time , before moving to Derby County in a £400,000 deal in the spring of 1980 . |
| 16 | With this one issue so heavy on his mind , might he not have muttered some confused reference to it in his dreams ? |
| 17 | Ruth asked him with trepidation , half anticipating a sudden dismissal of herself from his home . |
| 18 | If somebody slipped a little cache of something into his plonk , they were probably irritated out of their tiny minds . ’ |
| 19 | What a first-class job my right hon. Friend the Chancellor did by cutting a large number of them in his Budget yesterday . |
| 20 | Genghis Khan , the Mongol war lord , is said to have brought seed of the white poppy with him on his advance on Europe during the thirteenth century . |
| 21 | There is a fine monumental effigy of him with his first wife in the church in Charlton , where he was buried 25 July 1598 . |
| 22 | Although I have a soft spot for him after his super-game Hennessy win , he does not appeal greatly as 7-2 favourite . |
| 23 | He had picked up the pieces after the war and it must have come as a total shock to someone with his background to find players in his side who rocked the boat . |
| 24 | Arthur Kobold cut himself a generous wedge and thrust the better part of it into his mouth . |
| 25 | Although the attack by a young Jew on the German Legation Secretary in Paris , Ernst vom Rath , had taken place just the day before his usual address to the Party ‘ old guard ’ in Munich on 8 November 1935 , Hitler avoided all mention of it in his speech . |
| 26 | One might add , however , that there is generally very little weather in most of Dickens 's country cottages either , although one finds a good deal of it in his towns . |
| 27 | I 've persuaded him to let us film an exclusive interview with him in his secret retreat ! ’ it would be a colossal boost for me . |
| 28 | I am also grateful for the continuing support of the other Board members , particularly Michael Lunn who has been of great assistance to me in his capacity of Deputy Chairman . |
| 29 | Des O'Grady must have made some audacious remark to her in his broad Irish accent for she gave him a wide grin , showing her impeccable set of incisors . |
| 30 | Gerard has a long dissertation on it in his Herbal of 1597 , and shows four coloured illustrations of different sorts , which do not seem to be known nowadays . |