Example sentences of "his [noun prp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Senna 's team mate Gerhard Berger brought his McLaren in fifth |
| 2 | He was never a typical military dictator , nor was his Panama to be compared with Pinochet 's Chile . |
| 3 | Murgu is a Romanian tenor who has sung his Otello in many famous houses . |
| 4 | A man has been admitted to hospital after sitting in his Saab for five hours with the motor running and a hose connected to the exhaust . |
| 5 | Anna Patricia O'Neil was born at a quarter after two the next morning , so Denis did n't get his Patrick after all , nor even his Denis , but he got his much-loved and hard-worked Hana back and for that he was grateful . |
| 6 | While the Slovak presidency is a largely ceremonial post , the ballot was important for Mr Meciar and his HZDS after public disputes which prompted speculation that the party might break apart . |
| 7 | There was the estate agent 's clerk , Jack Cotton , whose property developments in Birmingham made him big enough , in partnership with Clore , to take over the Ritz and Selfridges , to put up the $100 million Pan-Am office building in New York and to threaten to present Piccadilly Circus with a hideous skyscraper of advertising signs , while he contemplated his Rembrandt at the Dorchester . |
| 8 | Even after having done the week 's shopping en route , I was back at Shellerton House as promised in good time for Tremayne to drive his Volvo to Newbury races . |
| 9 | He drove his Volvo to a beauty spot last month , drank most of a bottle of whisky and gassed himself with fumes from the car 's exhaust . |
| 10 | He would n't of come th wa on his Saturday before his birthday he would n't of come and seen me unless he thought he was getting something out of it . |
| 11 | The Maggot had played American football until he had come off his Harley-Davidson at eighty miles an hour and permanently damaged his left knee . |
| 12 | He could just see his Mercedes with Dillon seated in the back . |
| 13 | Petrie thought John a little embarrassed to see them , but they were taken to watch rehearsals and John took them in his Mercedes to Alsace-Lorraine to show them museums and other sights , and treat them to a memorable dinner . |
| 14 | It was around this time that he went to collect his Mercedes from a car showroom and found himself being gathered in for the Lord . |
| 15 | In 1982 , while under the influence of drugs and alcohol , he rolled his Mercedes in a 100 m.p.h. crash which he miraculously survived . |
| 16 | Of these the most conservative was Porta , who as late as 1578 could publish an old-fashioned cantus firmus Mass on the Josquin subject ‘ La sol fa re mi ’ and who corresponded with Carlo Borromeo ; on the other hand , his Magnificat for the Franciscan Chapter at Bologna was in 24 parts and we know that he frequently employed trombones , cornetts , violins , and portative organs as well as the large ones at San Antonio , Padua , where he spent the last six years of his life . |
| 17 | COLIN McRAE of Scotland recorded his second runaway victory of the year when he won the Carlisle-based Pirelli International by over four minutes in his Subaru at the weekend . |
| 18 | Colin McRae , of Scotland , continues his defence of the champion 's crown over four stages in Kielder Forest after winning the opening round in his Subaru in north Wales two weeks ago . |
| 19 | McWilliams was still having problems with the suspension on his Yamaha during the final practice session and said afterwards : ‘ I needed a higher starting position to have a chance tomorrow but I have learned a lot and I 'm going to prepare for my first World championship by having a good nights sleep . ’ |
| 20 | Crawford recalled of Lennon , ‘ He 'd come in and sit cross-legged on the bed with his guitar or we 'd take his Rolls to the beach . ’ |
| 21 | Cumming had a fascination with most forms of transport , driving his Rolls at high speed around the streets of London . |
| 22 | He recalls being patted on the head by one fashion editor who said , ‘ Does n't he talk cute ? ’ , and deliberately parking his Rolls in front of the Managing Director 's Humber so that he could n't pull out . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , Rabbit Software has recently been the source of a minor confusion in the US , following speculation as to which species of animal Ross Perot would choose for his Ross for Boss presidential campaign . |
| 24 | Only Joseph Banister in his England under the Jews appeared to suggest a total pathological malice towards them . |
| 25 | Unlike many of the towns through which he has bribed his way in his Peugeot from the coast , this one is n't ‘ full of blood ’ . |
| 26 | That interview revealed also that the hon. Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) does not know his NHS from his NUPE . |
| 27 | Moving on , John plugs his Vester into one the Crate 's natural rivals — the Peavey TKO 80 Scorpion-speakered combo , again with a power rating of 80 watts RMS . |
| 28 | Mortimer had emptied his Browning by now , and could n't risk the time to reload . |
| 29 | Mortimer almost ran headlong into a patrol of Germans as he traversed a long gallery , but the Germans were hampered by uncocked weapons , and Mortimer downed two of them with his Browning before ducking behind a turn in the wall , his men loosing a volley of rifle fire into the surviving guards . |
| 30 | ’ That ‘ familiar in fiction ’ is deadly , suggesting as it does that the author has stopped looking at life and has purloined his Andre from the picaresque , in which rogues are invariably charming and whose advances are never rejected . |