Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [verb] [verb] [prep] his " in BNC.

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1 Sir John , 72 , ordered British Telecom to remove the box from the village green at Rodbourne , near Malmesbury , Wilts , because he was miffed that drivers kept parking by his £250,000 manor house to use it .
2 But the bête noire second to Lloyd George was Churchill , whose war record seemed to prove all that Unionists had alleged about his excitability and his unfitness for office .
3 A handful of Muslim Generals had been assassinated by the radicals — he himself , a captain then , had narrowly escaped such a fate when a gang with knives and spears had broken into his home .
4 Just as he will not tolerate questions about his private life , so he will also go ballistic if bureacrats attempt to meddle in his creative decisions — something which Pierre Berge ( the chairman of Yves Saint Laurent ) found out when he became superintendent of Paris 's opera houses in 1988 and attempted to take Barenboim on over the conductor 's directorship of the new Opera-Bastille .
5 There was no sign of Gareth and fears began to grow for his safety .
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