Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [adv] [verb] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were a number of walkers now , all taking their time and drinking in the view , but the chap at our heels had now resorted to breaking away from his party to try and close the gap so obviously gnawing at his soul . |
| 2 | He leaned against the hot metal of his car that the sun polished and with his mouth slightly open looked at his ripening field . |
| 3 | The Lord 's loving kindness indeed never cease for his compassions never fail . |
| 4 | Perhaps the book of lamentation is not the book you normally turn to , to find words of encouragement , but there are tremendous encouragements to be found in it , listen what the profits says there , in the third chapter , he says this I recall to my mind , and he 's talking about the time of his own affliction , the time when he is going through it , the time when nobody loves him , the time when everybody 's against him , when he 's suffering and he 's in pain the time when life is full of bitterness for him , he says this I recall to my mind , therefore I have hope , the lords loving kindness indeed never ceases for his compassion 's never fail and here Jesus is demonstrating that , he 's compassion 's never fail , he 's loving kindnesses they never cease , here in his dying hour Jesus is showing that in reaching out to this man but as we said the other week the , the deepest , the most important significance of what Jesus did then , of what Jesus said then , its not just of the historical account , but that he is able and willing to say and to do exactly the same today in your experience and in mine , what he did for that man on the cross he 's ready and willing to do for every one of us the incident may of happened nineteen hundred years ago , but there 's the old hymn , the verse reminds us , picks out that very story and it says the dying thief rejoiced to see that fountain in his day and there may I , though via us he wash all my sins away , and that verse from William Cowper 's hymn , it takes up that great historical event , that tremendous happening in that man 's life and he links it with a present and it applies it to you and to me and says this can be our experience as well . |
| 5 | The plaintiff will not be allowed to give evidence at trial of any special damage not explicitly claimed in his pleadings or particulars ( Ord 18 , r12 ) . |
| 6 | The Soviet leader has had a more modest , though not dissimilar effect on East Germany , where his presence last weekend became a focus for calls for change of the type so steadfastly refused by his hosts . |
| 7 | This position is complicated by the fact that society has no established customs surrounding either the step-parent role or , perhaps even more acutely , the role of the divorced parent no longer living with his or her children but visiting them from time to time . |
| 8 | Mayor dropped his plans for the new committee and agreed to keep the Executive Board more fully informed of his actions in future . |
| 9 | It was anger , she 'd thought suddenly , anger as sharp and cruel as the blade of a knife , as if he 'd held her responsible for the desire so clearly etched into his arrogant , handsome face … |
| 10 | He stomped away , his place almost immediately taken by his brother , who gave me a malicious imitation of a smile and said , ‘ Nolan does n't expletive like you , dear heart . ’ |
| 11 | Tom Sutcliffe 's wife not only acted as his Secretary and personal interpreter , but made her own contribution to the cause for which he worked as a teacher of sign language and an outstanding interpreter particularly in the educational field . |
| 12 | Modern communications make the diffusion of ideas in a largely literate population so rapid that Freud was undoubtedly a name more widely known in his own lifetime than was Newton 's a hundred years after his death . |
| 13 | He stood under the shower for a long time , trying to relax , feeling the alcohol of the night before still burning through his veins . |
| 14 | Callaghan not unreasonably claimed in his memoirs that the Tories won the Falklands War but that Labour had kept the peace . |
| 15 | With your dog once again lying on his back , gently trim the inside of each leg , then carefully around the tummy and penis areas . |
| 16 | When he was a child , an artist visited his school — he happened to be a musician — and left behind him an impression of a man very clearly committed to his chosen subject , and a feeling of passion for doing something you really want to do , that stayed with Paul for years until he finally decided to become a photographer . |
| 17 | He murmured , eventually , vaguely , his eyes resolutely on the landscape , her hand rather guiltily withdrawn from his shoulder . |
| 18 | Tomorrow she would work , she would finish the shoes belonging to Emily Grenfell in the morning and then in the afternoon she would sole the heavy boots that Cleg the Coal so badly needed for his round . |
| 19 | They are found in his ‘ flight of the Dragon ’ , a book otherwise unpleasantly marred by his recurrent respect for inferior , very inferior people . |
| 20 | We have , for example , an electronics officer so unbelievably advanced in his speciality that none of your much-vaunted high-technology whizzkids in Silicon Valley would even begin to know what he 's talking about . ’ |
| 21 | Used as tracking dogs and guide dogs for the blind , the Rottweiler 's versatility and willingness to please his master once again came to his rescue . |
| 22 | He vanished again behind the boat-house , and when I saw him again he was aiming fast for the cliff path , with the bag once again slung over his shoulder . |
| 23 | The effect was to make Richard more inclined to peace than to war : war , he was to tell Parliament in 1397 , caused great harm and unnecessary destruction to both kingdoms , a view almost certainly shared by his near contemporary , Charles VI , who had succeeded his father in 1380 , a year which also witnessed the death of du Guesclin . |
| 24 | Hurriedly she forced herself to pay attention , surreptitiously edging away from him so that her arm no longer brushed against his every time he moved . |