Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [adv] [verb] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | I only once went into his garden , a beautifully kept one , even in war-time , when he kindly picked a bunch of tulips for me and showed me some new potatoes he was growing in pots in the greenhouse . |
| 2 | Why was I not instantly informed of his true situation ? |
| 3 | Lady Morton had no doubt enjoined them not only to look after his every need , but also to report back to her . |
| 4 | ‘ But you only nominally come under his aegis . |
| 5 | And that darkness , that sadness she still sometimes glimpsed in his eyes , will be banished for ever . |
| 6 | She still virtually fell into his arms and they closed about her swiftly , holding her tightly to him . |
| 7 | His hair was thick and warm , and her fingers revelled in the feel of it , creeping around the back of his skull where she half-heartedly tugged to bring his head back so that she no longer ached for his kisses to continue . |
| 8 | Cheney declared himself " stunned , angry and frustrated " by his involvement in the scandal and , like many other offenders , blamed dubious administrative practices by the bank for not keeping a more accurate record of the state of his account and for not keeping him more closely informed of his financial position . |
| 9 | The experience which Anderson gained while working directly for the newly independent governments of Africa made him uniquely well placed for his second career , in the field of development co-operation . |
| 10 | He would ride the boy on his shoulders or shove him roughly aside according to his mood . |
| 11 | The Padre found that they even sometimes flew into his throat while he was reading or praying with a dying man . |
| 12 | After Leonora 's stitches were removed , painlessly , to her relief , Penry pronounced her well enough to help with his articles , since typing proved to be another of her accomplishments . |
| 13 | The segregation of servants from the family had already begun at Coleshill , the ancestor of the Palladian houses of the eighteenth century , where Roger Pratt , who believed that a house should be ‘ so contrived … that the ordinary servants may never publicly appear in passing to and from for their occasions there ’ , had given them separate rooms , adjacent to their masters , so that they no longer slept at his door or at the foot of his bed . |
| 14 | The influence of French literary tradition was thus limited , but not , as he rather loosely stated in his article , entirely absent . |
| 15 | The gay male bitch desublimates and desexualizes a type of femininity glamorized by movie stars , whom he thus lovingly assassinates with his style . |
| 16 | He was not a happy man , and the stern set of his jaw , and the way he hardly ever looked at his two operatives , made Ray Doyle realise that the fat was really in the fire this time . |
| 17 | He hardly ever spoke about his mother again . |
| 18 | It was all very well for him to have told himself that he no longer minded about his illegitimacy . |
| 19 | He never really talks about his work . |