Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] his [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One evening after dinner Wendell Harvey had demanded that Aubrey tell them about his childhood at The Grange , and how Harry had become involved with the family . |
| 2 | One of the speakers that evening was Gordon Gissing , so I had no hesitation when he told me about his visit to a picturesque narrow ( metre ) gauge system in East Germany , and offered to give us a talk on it . |
| 3 | Having been a hostage among the Huns himself , he had called in Hunnic troops to support the usurper Joannes in 425 ; he fled to them after his defeat at the hands of Boniface in 432 ; and he was probably behind their destruction of the Burgundian kingdom in the mid-430s . |
| 4 | In order to persuade them , Richard Baxter felt he had to tell them of his concerns about the army and the reasons why he felt he must go . |
| 5 | As an order depriving the owner of his rights in property must ( in accordance with a number of decisions ) be treated as part of the total punishment imposed on an offender , an order depriving only one of them of his rights in an object of significant value . |
| 6 | Tony thought a Wolfhound would be great — and Christopher reminded me of his longing for an Old English Sheepdog . |
| 7 | Now relaxed and talkative , he saw me back to the waiting taxi and told me of his ambitions as a Gaelic football player . |
| 8 | Alec Smith has told me of his studies on the bottom sediment of Lake Windermere in north-west England . |
| 9 | Victor snatched up a bottle and two glasses , and took them behind his curtain into the kitchen . |
| 10 | He 'll be hitting you with his Filofax in a wee minute . ’ |
| 11 | Maurice took you into his confidence from the start . ’ |
| 12 | As he regaled me with his adventures on the road , I began to feel more normal . |
| 13 | He addressed his students as ‘ Gentlemen ’ , and drew them into his subject by the use of ‘ we ’ and ‘ you ’ ( a contrast with McFadyean 's ‘ one ’ that fits in well with the relationships between these two different teachers and their classes . ) |
| 14 | Coun Frank Platt invited them into his parlour for a civic reception after their ‘ against all odds ’ Wembley appearance this month . |
| 15 | Some of the words he used I had never heard of — and I am not unfamiliar with words — but he savoured them , rolled them over his tongue and finally ejected them into his speech with a delight at their novelty , their colour and their music . |
| 16 | The Secretary of State for Energy , Mr Nigel Lawson , had not fooled them with his praise for the fast reactor two days earlier ; for his action , to delay the work all but indefinitely , spoke louder than his words . |
| 17 | In the mud , which the shelling had now turned to a consistency of sticky butter , troops stumbled and fell repeatedly ; cursing in low undertones , as if fearful of being overheard by the enemy who relentlessly pursued them with his shells at every step . |
| 18 | He was waiting for them with his barge by the first footbridge over the canal as they came down from the moor . |
| 19 | He invited me into his cubicle with a gesture . |
| 20 | A good-natured sandy-haired man , he welcomed me into his car with a smile , and then went on talking to the family sitting in the back , a young couple with a baby . |
| 21 | He held me in his arms for a long time , kissing me gently . |
| 22 | The bills came on the morning of the burial , and he suddenly drew them from his pocket during the service , opening them without knowing what he was doing . |
| 23 | If therefore the forgeries were in his hands , and he referred to them in his account to the pope without going further and quoting their contents and producing their texts , his conduct shows ( to say the least ) very muddled thinking on his part . |
| 24 | The washers were made by early afternoon and a site manager drove with them in his car to an RAF service depot in southern England . |
| 25 | It 's up to the owner to decide which way round to have the post and rails , although he must erect them on his side of the boundary . |
| 26 | He stands above me on his knuckles like a gorilla , and peers at me curiously . |
| 27 | Manager Charlton will monitor the progress and fitness of his three injured players before deciding whether to add them to his squad at a later date . |
| 28 | The hostility of United directors to his backers persuaded Mr Knighton that he could never hope to reconcile them to his ownership of the club . |
| 29 | If the accused person recounts his childhood experiences and relates them to his commission of the crime , is the entire discussion ‘ regarding such crime ’ ? |
| 30 | He seems to summon them to his face with a slow flick of the wrist . |