Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [pers pn] [verb] [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lawrence feels like going back and saying to her ‘ It 's all right , do n't take any notice of that mental lunatic ’ ( p. 304 ) , thereby offering a new inflection of the erotic triangle : intervening between Swift and Celia , Lawrence displaces his own anal neurosis on to Swift while offering his healthy ideal self to Celia — or rather he seeks to become his ideal self in her eyes . |
| 2 | He also had difficulty remembering his lines , and eventually I had to write his lines on boards , on bottles , on door frames — anything he had to pass by or pick up . |
| 3 | And slowly he had extended his grip . |
| 4 | The Shah said that he loved Soraya but the demands of monarchy meant that he must have an heir and so he had to sacrifice his love . |
| 5 | ‘ And so I 've got his precious kids all for my very own , have n't I ? |
| 6 | Let dear old Miguelito charm a new generation of English roses — Shelley had outgrown him , although she would always keep a special place in her inner being for that lovely evening when she and only she had had his sweet and undivided attention … |
| 7 | The aggrieved Main , in short , sought either an appointment as tidesman in a particular port , which would carry a regular salary , or failing that even a restoration to his former post of watchman , and naturally he attempted to secure his livelihood through his political friends , the Cunninghams . |
| 8 | Another series of lunges took him out of the central current and somehow he managed to regain his feet . |
| 9 | Kirtana was regarded as the poorest man in the village — but he was fiercely proud and once he had lost his land still refused to work on someone else 's . |
| 10 | Yes , but I did it for him fo , I I 've already done it for him once , I picked up exactly what he wanted , I delivered it to him and now he 's changed his mind and but I 'm not in the business to supply things , I 'm not a supp shop ! |
| 11 | Last week the receivers moved in and now he expects to lose his home as well as his business . |
| 12 | The 15 homes in the first phase are all sold and occupied and now he has turned his attention to phase two , which will comprise 14 homes . |
| 13 | ‘ Richardson had a chance of qualifying in the world championships but he failed and now he has won his place the officials think that their choice was justified , but it was not . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ And now you have given his thoughts a different direction anyway , so that solves everything . ’ |
| 15 | Here he has learnt the craft of the historian after training first as a geologist , and here he has written his doctoral dissertation on which The Road to Jaramillo is based . |
| 16 | Lady Maude had given him a few pennies and tomorrow he planned to see his friend in Crabbe Street . |
| 17 | And then he had turned his head and seen that Grainne was watching him , and a sudden , surprised joy unfolded within his heart , for there was such desire in her eyes that lights exploded inside his head , and he wanted to stand still and savour the moment . |
| 18 | Joe had climbed up over the side of the nearest and lowered himself in , rubbish sliding unsteadily beneath him , and then he 'd found his balance and hunkered down and started to sift . |
| 19 | He waited until he could hear the water pot being pulled across the floor of the hut and then he entered to find his mother leaning against the mud wall and screaming for the doctor . |
| 20 | He 's done all the work at the scene — all anyone can do — and then he has to cool his heels with the rest of us , waiting for God 's gift to forensic pathology to come screaming up with a police escort and break the news to us that what we all thought was a corpse is — surprise , surprise indeed a corpse , and that we can safely move the body . " |
| 21 | And then he turned to thank his rescuers . |
| 22 | I did that , and then I went to sponge his jacket . |
| 23 | It was two beats before I realised that this was meant to be a very funny joke and then I struggled to match his guffaws , adding my own rather reedy piping to his basso mirth . |
| 24 | ‘ Sometimes he just gets bored in a fight and then I have to slap his face and tell him to get on with it . |
| 25 | Mr Barre 's brutality has made him plenty of enemies , and recently he has lost his knack for balancing the clans . |
| 26 | Fame is a less brilliant commodity in England , but nevertheless he had to keep his address secret , to protect himself not only from letters and telephone calls but also from undesirable visitors who might arrive at Carlyle Mansions . |
| 27 | He did that because they had not only annoying his neighbours , sorry , their neighbours , because he had once been one of our neighbours , but also they had damaged his house , and they had already cost him probably about two hundred pounds in repair bills until the house itself , broken doors , window erm the wall , and bit of the roof and so on , and there was every reason to believe that this would just carry on . |
| 28 | He had always disliked me , although he pretended to like me , but now he began to suspect his wife of visiting me privately , and he became jealous . |
| 29 | But now he has to pin his faith on the emerging talent and pray they continue to make progress . |
| 30 | Any other author and I might overlook the fact but now he has augmented his idleness with bad taste . |