Example sentences of "[prep] his [noun] [conj] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Black , of Durranhill Road , Carlisle , was stopped again by police after his release as he drove along a narrow country lane . |
| 2 | Mr Reynolds needed the nasogastric tube for 4 days after his operation because he developed a paralytic ileus and it was not until the fourth post-operative day that the bowel began to work . |
| 3 | He showed an exceptional and sustaining dedication to his art in the face of personal loneliness and critical indifference ; it was only after his death that he emerged as a vital influence on writers of the generation of Evelyn Waugh , W. H. Auden [ qq.v. ] , and Anthony Powell . |
| 4 | In the UK the death of Freddie Mercury , 45 , of the rock group Queen , was announced in late November shortly after his declaration that he did have AIDS ; he was the latest of a number of celebrated musicians and other artists to die from AIDS . |
| 5 | Bourne , who worked as a driver and minder to for Heidari , was said to have admitted after his arrest that he had thrown the liquid into Michelle 's face , but had thought it was ‘ soapy water ’ . |
| 6 | Despite his claim that he does not make things into ideas but only ideas into things , the feeling remains , as , in effect , Berkeley concedes , that ‘ all that is real and substantial … is banished out of the world ’ , and that everything has been made into ‘ so many chimeras and illusions on the fancy ’ . |
| 7 | If his head tends to drop forward towards his plate as he eats , it may help to put the plate on a raised block on the table to reduce the distance from plate to face . |
| 8 | He was turning back towards his car when he looked back with a casual afterthought . |
| 9 | The boy feels hostile towards his father as he believes he is a rival for his mother 's intentions . |
| 10 | Coming towards his house and he describes it in stages , bringing it to life all the time . |
| 11 | He looked at his eyes and his ears and his teeth and his droppings and the ends of his claws and he inquired what he had been eating . |
| 12 | Bishops Hall doing it nicely under Brad and it 's good to see him in the saddle today because he was offered the ride on Morley Street but he 'd already said yes and he 's a man of his word and he agreed to ride this horse . |
| 13 | The South African , injured in a fall two weeks ago , has made a successful return to action , but still feels considerable pain in the lower part of his back where he has pulled a muscle . |
| 14 | The man sitting opposite her looked shifty , but she could see from the set of his jaw that he 'd no intention of telling her his suspicions . |
| 15 | And William began to run from the approaching cart , which was piled high with the bodies of the plague victims , and as he ran the streets became the familiar streets of his childhood and he knew that all the time he was running from the terrible cart he was getting closer and closer to the dark house by the railway embankment with its shuttered windows and its locked door , and that this was more terrible to him than anything in his history books . |
| 16 | Writing about Stravinsky , Canudo gave a practical demonstration of his outlook when he claimed that : ‘ He partakes of our aesthetic , of Cubism , of synchronism , of the simultaneity of some and the nervous , matter of fact onyrhythm of others . ’ |
| 17 | He suffered from a bad stutter , and the delighted hilarity of his classmates as he stumbled through simple texts was agony . |
| 18 | He had felt the power of his position when he had taken a bottle to the room of any major and propositioned for information on the talk in the mess when he , the KGB 's ears , was not present . |
| 19 | And it is in the privacy of his home that he demonstrates the ultimate love for his partner . |
| 20 | If he were honest with himself , however , he would admit that he did not miss them ; it was the comfort of his home that he missed . |
| 21 | The second half of this can be seen to coincide with the opinion of Chatterton which is expressed by Ackroyd 's Wilde : ‘ a strange , slight boy who was so prodigal of his genius that he attached the names of others to it . ’ |
| 22 | After reading the signpost , the user moves off in the direction of his choice until he arrives at the next crossroads . |
| 23 | She would be seated in front of his desk before he allowed himself to be near her ; then he would lean against the same side of the desk as she . |
| 24 | He suffered over evidence that he had links with former communists and the secret police ; over criticism of his ambiguous prescriptions for economic recovery ; and over ridicule of his claims that he had had mystical experiences . |
| 25 | The beginning social research worker can make most certain the value of his contribution if he narrows his research to very specific problems . |
| 26 | But she could see it all the same , in the tremors that shook the broad plain of his chest as he struggled to contain his fury . |
| 27 | Part of his stock-in-trade when he wants to take over an organization . |
| 28 | But the " theatricality " of the play works beneath the purely formal level : Lord Claverton has always acted a role and it is only at the end of his life that he allows his true human self to emerge , although |
| 29 | It also gives the information that Rolle was " accustomed to show himself very familiar to recluses , and to those who needed spiritual consolation " and it must have been during this period of his life that he met his disciple Margaret de Kirkeby . |
| 30 | It was only in the last six or seven years of his life that he discovered that his talents lay elsewhere : in polemics , above all , and in what Waugh in his letter of thanks for Animal Farm had called ingenious and delightful allegory . |