Example sentences of "[pron] was the [noun] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | — I remember , & never shall forget , my father 's face as he looked upon me while I lay in the servant 's arms — so calm , and the tears stealing down his face : for I was the child of his old age . |
| 2 | I was the sister on his corridor . ’ |
| 3 | The trooper had the dwarf by a gathered handful of material which was the shoulder of his tunic . |
| 4 | David Lodge 's screenplay of his novel Nice Work , which was the subject of his article in the last edition of The Birmingham Magazine , has received two awards since it was televised last autumn . |
| 5 | The little boy 's search had been successful , for now he brandished the scarlet sports car which was the prize of his collection . |
| 6 | Yet I did not know which to trust : the splintered yet separately concrete vision of myself each man offered me which was the product of his necessary fantasy ; or the amorphous , difficult to establish whole self which struggled to say that his vision of me and mine through his , had distorted it . |
| 7 | It was agreed that we should be married as soon as Leslie had completed his parachute training , which was the reason for his being sent home . |
| 8 | He disputed that Royan was at risk : he had given him the correct treatment and calm reassurance — which was the essence of his treatment . |
| 9 | Despite himself he had been touched by her fierce defence of him , and although he frequently entertained Mrs Darrell he only did so because she was the widow of his dead friend . |
| 10 | He liked to hint that his relationship with Gina was some sort of grande passion and that she was the love of his life . |
| 11 | Now she was the mother of his son . |
| 12 | He married her in 1242 or 1243 , and she was the mother of his eldest son and heir , Hugh . |
| 13 | It 's the old woman who was the nurse for his mother . |
| 14 | For the third , there was the pang in his body , physical , yet presumably more to do with the mind : a regret for the paltriness of his life ; grief about an existence that seemed in perpetual stalemate now because of a devouring sense of loss and betrayal , and yet a certainty of the possibility of something else . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , there was the question of his presents , to which much time and many column inches were devoted . |
| 16 | Then there was the self-analysis in his own words , whose richness of colour and metaphor reached that distinctive pitch fuelled by the Gael 's heritage of poetry and fatalism . |
| 17 | There was the crunch of his feet rapidly moving away over the snow and she felt her tense muscles relax . |
| 18 | The only injury he suffered was minor bruising but there was the risk of his developing cancer in consequence of his exposure to radioactive substances . |
| 19 | The most striking thing about him was the intensity of his eyes ; very dark brown , staring , with a simian penetration emphasized by the remarkably clear whites ; eyes that seemed not quite human . |
| 20 | He was still the great lover , and the woman beside him was the reason for his constant philandering . |
| 21 | All he saw in her was the absence of his daughter . |
| 22 | It was the base for his ‘ Highgrove set ’ , the gang of pals which included Camilla Parker Bowles whose friendship with Charles over the years made Diana so jealous . |
| 23 | It was the idea of his father , who had first seen the university in 1932 . |
| 24 | I suppose it was the expression on his face that made me scream . ’ |
| 25 | How Eric copes with the numbers it can accommodate is a mystery , but it was the mysteries of his talent we were there to learn . |
| 26 | It was the birth of his own son that confronted him with questions . |
| 27 | And , just for a moment , in spite of the pain that brought her , it was the thought of his hurt that tore at her heart . |
| 28 | For Attlee it was the vindication of his policy . |
| 29 | When his head jerked back to look up at Grant again , it was n't his teeth that were gleaming in the dark now , it was the whites of his eyes , wide with fear . |
| 30 | It was the parting from his wife , unquestionably , which had etched the lines of disillusion on his handsome face . |