Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [conj] [pron] [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | NEIL KINNOCK vainly sought to put a brave face on a night of setbacks for Labour as he increased his own majority in Islwyn to a record for the constituency . |
| 2 | The late Ian Fleming did not have a monopoly in tongue-in-cheek , humorous adventures about secret agents , but a novelist might commit the tort of passing-off if he changes his name to Ian Fleming or uses the name James Bond or the 007 code in his novel . |
| 3 | Jack went west for a holiday in the summer of 1954 while he contemplated his future . |
| 4 | , Lawrenceson Fitzroy ( 1881–1975 ) , scholar , was born at 235 Cowley Road , Oxford , 9 August 1881 , the youngest of the seven children of Harry Powell ( 1830–1886 ) , a trumpeter who was wounded in the charge of the Light Brigade of 1854 and who published his Recollections in 1876 , and his wife Anne Budd of Oxford . |
| 5 | and then he 's , he 's going out and they 're coming like that direction and he 's looked round and he 's seen the soldier , doing it , he 's gone and this is how I did it and then he put his , like this and he stuck his hands up and as his done that he 's got shot through the body from the side , what 's |
| 6 | The first local man who can be described as a manufacturer was Thomas Dunkley , who was born in 1802 and who began his working life as a shoemaker ; in 1851 William Dunkley was employing fifty men and twenty women and concentrating on a range of cheaper shoes . |
| 7 | In nineteen forty two The Lady proudly announced that the president of the Board of Trade had cut his large bath towels in half and he hoped his sacrifice would be repeated all over the country . |
| 8 | It was at B and D in 1932 that he directed his first film , the Mayor 's Nest starring Sydney Howard . |
| 9 | It was while touring the United States with Fred Karno [ q.v. ] in 1912 that he tried his luck on American vaudeville , principally in a duo with his common-law wife , Mae Dahlberg , who suggested his stage name , Laurel , although he did not adopt it legally until 1934 . |
| 10 | Looks like Arthur 's scoring in one and I think his brother scored another . |
| 11 | ‘ Hitler said that in 1939 and he had his way . |
| 12 | His international break-through came against France at Wigan in 1989 and he scored his first Test try in the return at Avig-non . |
| 13 | It was after his move to the Italian manufacturer in 1974 that he enjoyed his first Grand Prix victory , at Jarama , in the Ferrari 312 . |
| 14 | He played against the touring Western Samoa and Italy sides that same season and it was not until 1989 that he got his chance for a full tenure for the Five Nations games . |
| 15 | Man is unique among the apes in that he grows a long beard , and it is to this that he owes his superior intelligence |
| 16 | From the clifftop he watched the small figure of Detective Furness in his red anorak on the saddle below , twisting from one side to another as he strained his eyes against the bright sunlight to search for his charge . |
| 17 | And er , it was very amusing , but repeatable , half the things he wrote in it , and erm , it 's very , it was very good , but , he is quite good at that when he sets his mind to it , it usually takes him about three days to do it , but he does like to er , write messages in people 's cards . |
| 18 | And then of course , when she came into the village to buy the few things they need — it is astonishing how modest Mr Swinton 's needs seem to be , she hardly buys any comforts at all but I gather his man is an excellent gardener and they keep a pig for bacon — ’ |
| 19 | Outside , there had been occasional patches of light from the street-lamps , but in here , among the buildings , there was no light at all and he made his way uncertainly , groping through the darkness . |