Example sentences of "[prep] his [noun] [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that some people may not realise fully too is that in order to make a decision you have to be full informed , and teachers are very busy people and a teacher really is spending nearly every moment of his day either teaching or preparing to teach , and it 's impossible , therefore , to establish in a school or a community college the faculty committee structure that one might have in a university , where people do probably spend some time informing themselves before debate . |
| 2 | In fact he was one of the intellectual élite ; none of his contemporaries ever thought that Wordsworth was ill-educated . |
| 3 | ‘ A few minutes after I had told him I was n't going on , a gang of his thugs suddenly appeared and pointed machine-guns at us and ordered us to get up on stage . |
| 4 | The hairs on the back of his neck suddenly prickled and stood on end . |
| 5 | The anthropological fieldworker who eventually returns to the social setting of his homeland usually finds that it has become quite a different place . |
| 6 | Alwin Schockemohle used to say that the palms of his hands always sweated when he was near a good horse , and when Arthur was about his hands were permanently wet . ’ |
| 7 | Amnesty International considers Jampa Ngodrup to be a prisoner of conscience , detained and sentenced solely for the peaceful exercise of his right freely to receive and impart information . |
| 8 | Despite his phenomenal energy the sheer size of his dominions inevitably meant that it could be months or even years before he was free to deal with a distant crisis or give his officials the support they needed against a major local potentate . |
| 9 | The prudent gardener takes as much care with his produce once picked as when growing , and saves seed in order to obtain plants for free |
| 10 | Until more interesting work was available he felt he had no option but to keep the men in his charge fully occupied and if it meant using eight men to undertake a task which could be accomplished in a fraction of the time by a machine , well — the men were n't going anywhere . |
| 11 | Hope in his draft bluntly stated that it ‘ can not recommend the appointment of Messrs. Coe and Hofland , although they had obtained first prize ’ . |
| 12 | Lieutenant-General Hunter-Weston ( whose pre-battle proclamation to his troops pessimistically stated that heavy losses were to be expected ) commanded British 20th Division , which landed at Cape Helles , and Major-General Sir William Birdwood the Anzac forces . |
| 13 | If she had thought she was showing him a stop-light , however , he must have seen it as a green one , for his arm suddenly tightened and there was a definite amorous gleam in his eye as he edged closer to her and breathed seductively , ‘ I like you so much , Fabia . ’ |