Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [prep] [pron] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sharing a glass of whisky with him in his Montpelier Square home , you were liable to be quizzed about theories of antibody formation , David Bohm 's work , or any one of 101 other topical issues that had caught his attention . |
| 2 | She left a cup of tea for him on his bedside table and went into the kitchen to prepare the evening meal . |
| 3 | He felt that he was acting , by proxy , for her and all victims of crime like her in his role as gaoler . |
| 4 | That poor rash fool de Breos , who had run his neck into Llewelyn 's noose a year ago at this same season , had left a fine bone of contention behind him with his wide lands and his four little daughters . |
| 5 | The accused maintained that he had gone to her home to ask if she had received a letter of apology from him for his earlier crime . |
| 6 | Yet , faced with the harsh fact that saving will benefit neither himself nor his family and frugality be of profit to none of his prospective beneficiaries , a rich man who has been generous in life will be encouraged to a prodigal standard of living . |
| 7 | John Hill had queried Miller 's description and had published his views in Eden , or a Complete Body of Gardening ( 1759 ) and Justice retaliated in his British Gardener 's Calendar ( 1759 ) : ‘ I thought it my indispensable duty to give Mr. Miller his due , both from a love of truth and from a sense of gratitude to him for his public labours , as well as private friendship . ’ |
| 8 | Accordingly I telephoned him quite early the next morning and received a cordial invitation to come and drink a cup of coffee with him in his home in Lord North Street . |
| 9 | He was heavily into sex with me during his affair , he felt so guilty . ’ |
| 10 | That after the conquest of Norway Swegen was put in charge of it under his mother 's tutelage reinforces this conclusion . |
| 11 | ‘ You are pretending , Sergeant Troy ! ’ said Bathsheba , laughing in spite of herself at his clever way of talking . |
| 12 | I can not get in touch with him at his office , or his home , or through his daughter . |
| 13 | The next minute , he was the teasing , confident extrovert who 'd calmly stripped off in front of her in his bedroom that night . |
| 14 | Someone leaned down in front of me with his cupped palms outstretched . |
| 15 | He was very angry , and he hit the chair in front of him with his hand . |
| 16 | In front of him on his desk were disposed various objects , an elegant and masterly still life to complement the strong head and the ambivalent natural growths . |
| 17 | Seated between Maria Teresa and Maria Iñes , with João in the row in front of them beside his close friend , Fernando , Sara did not understand what was to happen at first , and presumed that the ceremony was some symbolic re-enactment of a past event . |
| 18 | Angrily Holmes hit the rock in front of us with his open hand . |
| 19 | Then he covered the dead coolie with his mat and helped Dong fling clods of earth rapidly on top of it with his hands . |
| 20 | ‘ And so do I. Before he was born I decided he would come first and that , if it was at all possible , I 'd be at home with him throughout his early years . ’ |