Example sentences of "his [adj] [noun sg] [noun] [conj] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smith dismissed speculation he would recruit former Middlesbrough coach David Nish as his right hand man if he took over the hot seat . |
| 2 | He was stuffing a thick wad of notes into his inside jacket pocket as he did so and I wondered briefly why Stubbly wanted all those French francs ; but then , that was n't any of my business , was it ? |
| 3 | He also admits to having a streak of the trainspotter in him , and it took three days ploughing through his extensive record collection before he finally managed to produce a top ten . |
| 4 | Father Devlin boomed , taking off his tall silk hat as he strode into the wide , big , lamp-lit kitchen of the O'Malley farmhouse . |
| 5 | In the middle of the Great War , the Emperor Charles told his foreign minister Czernin that he wanted neither a military nor an economic agreement with his ally , Germany , because that might fit the Hohenzollern design to make of Austria a second Bavaria . |
| 6 | Just as Sadat lost his popular touch years before he was assassinated , so President Mubarak is now losing his . |
| 7 | He found it hard even to visit his old sidekick Bundini when he was dying . |
| 8 | A POLICEMAN was yesterday jailed for seven years for raping an 18-year-old woman in his marked patrol car while he was on duty and in uniform . |
| 9 | Sheng is undergoing a programme of physiotherapy and play therapy to stretch his tightened leg muscles and he is having regular sessions at a local swimming pool to help his development . |
| 10 | What are his average money holdings if he is paid : ( a ) weekly ; ( b ) monthly ? |
| 11 | ‘ If the woman objects she is being hysterical and making a scene ’ ( 58/636 ) , an accusation that is demonstrated when Larissa and Armel quarrel about his extramarital sex life and he tells her to ‘ stop this hysterical rewriting of history ’ ( 76/654 ) . |
| 12 | When he left Williams for Ferrari , I remember Frank Williams reminiscing at his annual press luncheon that he had fond memories of Alan Jones and Keke Rosberg , but that it would be some time before he had similar memories of Nigel . |
| 13 | ‘ Gabby 's famous for his slack-key guitar work because he was so good at it , but his steel playing was just as good . |
| 14 | The operator 's face was screwed up in concentration , one hand clamped to his left ear plug as he manipulated the dials of the set . |
| 15 | It was second nature to him now to note the time by the illuminated dial of his electric bedside clock before he had switched on his lamp , a second after he had felt for and silenced the raucous insistence of the telephone . |
| 16 | When critics accused Richard Nixon of ‘ indecent exposure ’ , they were n't revealing the origin of his nickname Tricky Dicky ; they were referring to his 1952 TV speech where he was broadcast cuddling his cocker spaniel ‘ Checkers ’ in an attempt to clear his name ( with dog lovers at least ) in the first cock-up regarding a slush fund . |
| 17 | he had this tea in his hot water bottle and he |
| 18 | CI winger Jim Cowden will today be ruing his first minute gaffe when he threw away a try by trying to run under the posts . |
| 19 | This was his first mainline trip and he was grateful to Sam for his advice and also for him taking him on this trip . |
| 20 | Throughout shooting , Crawford was on the set all the time , even when not needed , because it was his first film musical and he was eager to learn . |
| 21 | Pearson , who is in training for the Gisborough Moors Race later this month , was delighted with his performance in his first NYSD outing since he won the youths title in 1978 . |
| 22 | Rachmaninov completed his First Piano Concerto when he was 18 , and studying piano ( very successfully ) at the Moscow Conservatory . |
| 23 | He received his first report card when he was only four years old from a boarding school in the South of France which domestic insecurities had required our attending rather early in life . |
| 24 | Gascoigne 's header just four minutes from time — his first league goal since he joined Lazio this season — was a rare moment of inspiration in an otherwise dull display , they said . |
| 25 | DAGENHAM and Redbridge boss John Still will today relive the nightmare of his only League appearance when he pits his team against the club where his dreams were shattered 25 years ago . |
| 26 | Now , watching his grinning monkey face as he swung , arm over arm , the frantic twisting of his body , the silver of the delicate ribcage under the pale flesh where the jacket had parted from his jeans , she felt a surge of love so painful that it was like a thrust to the heart . |
| 27 | No one can ever be explicit about his own value system because he is inside it . |
| 28 | Mark is believed to have become the first blind presenter to host his own radio show when he took to the airwaves at BBC Radio Cleveland yesterday . |
| 29 | My gun jammed and William recognised me and came forward laughing and firing shot after shot at me while I waved and tried to duck and these yellow paint balls went splat , splat , thunking into my hired camouflage trousers and combat jacket and smacking into my visored helmet while I waved at him and tried to get the damn gun to work and he just walked forward slowly shooting me ; bastard had his own paint gun and he 'd probably had it souped up ; knowing William , that was almost inevitable . |
| 30 | He sounded friendly , his grim mood lifting as he concentrated on his driving and the island they were going to visit . |