Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [pron] [verb] his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each Tuesday he meets his unelected Cabinet , the Executive Council , and they approve — ‘ rubber stamp ’ is how critics describe it — legislation passed on by the Civil Service . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't care about the baby , ’ Philip said , and with those few words he doomed his unborn son . |
| 3 | More success followed against West Indies back at home , then came the series earlier this year which confirmed his rich talent . |
| 4 | This year he hopes his latest designs will take his charity total to £45,000 . |
| 5 | STAN FLASHMAN went crazy again yesterday — but this time he attacked his own Barnet players , branding them ‘ greedy bastards ’ . |
| 6 | And this brother who married his late brother 's wife he would also take over all that belonged to her , because , you know , all that , it was his dead brother 's , he would take it all over , it would become his the land , the business the property , the mortgage , the debts they would all become the brother who now marries the th th the widow . |
| 7 | I will ask him some time what prompted his winning play but it has been known for players to forget matters like that after a week 's hard work . |
| 8 | yeah , that , that bloke his got his fucking , there 's this bloke he 's got his sun glasses on and he thinks his er sun bathing , so he got this fucking what 's it , his trousers on still and he 's trying to get his trunks on and his trousers on still cos this blokes there , he 's fucking going from all this and that |
| 9 | He was born in Capel Curig in 1906 , and in that village he spent his whole life . |
| 10 | Now and then he was addressed in Anglic , either by the Khan or by one of his neighbours at the table , and in such cases he did his best to answer politely . |
| 11 | Like many such people he spent his tender years caddying . |
| 12 | At the end of such evenings he found his own bed alone , walking through blackened courts where once Saracen climbers had run with fire among the poisoned and the dying . |
| 13 | The jokes and the conversations end abruptly with ‘ But this is worshipful society ’ and at that point he shows his real toughness and ambition . |
| 14 | For many years he ran his own scaffolding company but the recession forced him out of business . |
| 15 | Evelyn 's material came from Rose , for ‘ He reason 'd so pertinently upon the Subject ( as indeed he does upon all things which concern his hortulan Profession ) ’ , as the preface says . |
| 16 | There is no lack of evidence here for his concern for the welfare of his cathedral church and of the monasteries and churches of his diocese ; but this occasionally confused register suggests , even so , a bishop with political and financial interests which extended beyond routine local and parochial concerns , for it includes many documents which show his close interest in international political developments . |
| 17 | ‘ Jaz ’ was one of those people who got his own way . |
| 18 | And without more ado he booked his one-way ticket . |
| 19 | But Mr Florio , a former boxer who earned his high school diploma in the navy , was undaunted by the opposition . |
| 20 | Speaking before business , civic and other groups Reagan was an impressive performer according to the former newspaperman who organized his early GE tours . |
| 21 | In the same year he made his first parachute jump from an airship . |
| 22 | On 27 September of the same year he published his first book , Galfredus Petrus , Opus sane de deorum dearumque gentilium genealogia ( STC 19816.5 ) , from his new premises near the conduit in Fleet Street , where his printing-house remained for the rest of his life . |
| 23 | His first marriage , in 1927 , to the operetta singer , Carlotta Vanconti , was unsuccessful and led to protracted divorce proceedings , which were not finalized until 1936 ; in that year he married his second wife , the English stage and film actress , Diana Napier , and settled in England . |
| 24 | To her disappointment Nahum only seemed to visit the old and sick , and after the first few days he no longer took her with him , having suffered embarrassment each time he introduced his new wife whose youth could n't be disguised . |
| 25 | Each time he nodded his fat grey head , the twin curved horns arched menacingly towards me like scimitars . |