Example sentences of "his [noun] [noun] [noun prp] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his resignation letter Mann said he had resigned to protest against the recent extension of President 's rule in Punjab and the refusal of the government to allow a state legislature to be elected . |
| 2 | In his resignation letter Garrett reiterated his ignorance of what had occurred , but accepted " full responsibility " for the Navy 's response and for the " leadership failure " which had allowed " the egregious conduct at Tailhook to occur in the first place " . |
| 3 | And when the film 's director , Alfred Hitchcock , threw a party at his house , Clift became so drunk that his co-star Karl Malden carried him out in his arms . |
| 4 | Alexopoulos and his co-worker Panayotis Varotsos developed their work on point defects in crystals in this cause . |
| 5 | And despite an accent that belies his Middlesbrough birthplace Fothergill says he feels a heavy responsibility to the area . |
| 6 | ‘ Bob accepted The Changeling because he wanted to get his teeth into some really good British heavyweight drama , ’ his agent Liz Souissi tells me . |
| 7 | After his defeat Mr Taylor said he had given 100 per cent commitment to the seat . |
| 8 | Half the proceeds from the Island of Eigg could go to his ex-wife Margaret Williams following their divorce . |
| 9 | TENNIS champion Boris Becker has revealed that his girlfriend Barbara Feltus rescued him from a ‘ life crisis ’ caused by becoming a teenage millionaire overnight . |
| 10 | His girlfriend Susan Kent says she 's disgusted , how can people do this to each other ? |
| 11 | In his reply Dr. Yeats expressed his gratitude and assured Whitbread that he would take the earliest opportunity of using the oil ; a month later however , the doctor sent his servant with an apology — he had not yet had a chance to use it . |
| 12 | This suggestion was certainly not accepted , and in his reply Frederick Barbarossa made it clear that the empire was independent of the papacy , no matter how closely tied the two entities were through political and religious motives and history . |
| 13 | WEST HAM midfielder Martin Allen was yesterday handed a four-match ban and a £1,000 fine by the Football Association — less than 24 hours after his team-mate Julian Dicks received his 40th booking in five years and admitted he had considered quitting the game . |
| 14 | The winner is still in the 2,000 Guineas but will not run and his trainer Alex Scott says we shall see him next over at least 10 furlongs . |
| 15 | Aldaniti had broken down with leg trouble , and his trainer Josh Gifford thought his career was over . |
| 16 | Upon his return Abbot Suger employed him as an ambassador to the court of Matilda and her son , Henry . |
| 17 | Along with his £10,000 jackpot David won something special for his wife Ivy — a gold and diamond eternity ring worth £149 . |
| 18 | In September his friend Edmond Laporte offered him a greyhound . |
| 19 | His friend Patrick Newell told me rather more about his drinking exploits . |
| 20 | ‘ Amidst an immense concourse of spectators … ’ the veteran aeronaut and his friend John Burcham took their places in an open carriage suspended beneath the ‘ aerostat ’ ( balloon ) . |
| 21 | His friend Mr Goodman claimed it was written just for him ! ) |
| 22 | Jeremy Irons and his wife Sinead Cusack want their son Sam to learn French , so they 've sent him to study in France . |
| 23 | After Mr Humphries punched one man and his Jack Russell Katie sank her teeth into the other the men ran off . |
| 24 | She invites Hercule Poirot and his assistant Captain Hasting to visit her home , End House and there the mystery begins . |
| 25 | His manager John Reid invited me to New York that year to introduce Elton on stage at Madison Square Garden . |
| 26 | ‘ I suppose His Holiness Pope Breakspear told you about the senator 's offer , eh , Thessalonians ? |
| 27 | Jimmy Tarbuck and his mate Kenny Lynch followed us around for one of the practice days and , unusually for Tom and I , it was a sunny day . |
| 28 | His disciple Van Helmont described it as radiating within and around a person like a luminous sphere . |
| 29 | His daughter Diane Perry said she was rung by her husband from work after he 'd heard it on the radio . |
| 30 | Peter Taylor , 64 , also received concurrent sentences totalling 12 years for soliciting a man to commit the murder , conspiring with his daughter Susan Smith to murder her husband Howard and for soliciting Mr Smith 's murder . |