Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv] [verb] [prep] his " in BNC.

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1 He had been twice into Ruane 's office , and the first time the block had been polite , and the second time he had been told rather less politely to sit on his hands and wait , like everybody else had to .
2 ‘ My father has only just fully recovered from his grief .
3 This week , the ageing lothario was horrified when a cloth-capped pensioner pursued him down a street , wreathed in smiles and waving an autograph book , The Rolling Stone coldly ignored him , appalled at being associated with a gummy grandad and perhaps being all too forcibly reminded of his own advancing years .
4 The devil was all too efficiently looking after his own .
5 Although he was thus once more diverted from his book , he was nevertheless discussing the principles behind it in a variety of different contexts .
6 argues that er , Wilson suffered from strokes throughout his life , not even emotionally recorded due his psychological condition .
7 Access to tribunals for unfair dismissal of strikers is narrowed to victimization in the complainant 's own ‘ establishment ’ ; workers taking part in it elsewhere no longer count as his fellows .
8 It is true that God is not yet totally banished from his creation , but having made it and all that is in it , rather like a watchmaker constructs a timepiece , he is felt to be no longer necessary to explain the inner workings of the mechanism .
9 His wife was anxiously encouraging him to strengthen the acquaintance as they were influential people , but he was not yet sufficiently advanced in his profession to feel he ought to push for invitations .
10 His doctoral thesis took the form of an analysis of the effects of various degrees of economic differentiation in different societies , and was not very favourably received by his examiners .
11 And then he 's got he 's got a beard , except it 's not very long going behind his jawline like Captain Ahab .
12 Norwich also had their injury problems and were without leading scorer Fleck , whose broken ribs have still not fully healed despite his appearance in last Sunday 's FA Cup semi-final defeat by Sunderland .
13 A room of his paintings is a feature of the Tate Gallery 's ‘ New Displays 1993 ’ and there are two gallery exhibitions being organised by the two dealers now most closely associated with his art .
14 Bentham , who is now most commonly known for his work as a Utilitarian social reformer , first set out his design solution for relating a social organisation to its physical setting in 1791 .
15 The principle of identity is even more vividly expressed in his poem ‘ Nutting ’ .
16 It was too early yet to go to his lodgings and he had already made his visit to the hospital to see how Byford was getting on .
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