Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [conj] [pers pn] was [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps he 'd come to tell her he 'd changed his mind about his decision that she was to be his ‘ girlfriend ’ until Travis was over her , she mused , and , since courtesy cost nothing , she invited him in . |
| 2 | Peter kept looking at his watch because he was on duty at midnight . |
| 3 | ‘ T'was in more than t'colour of his hair that he was like a fox , ’ the maid replied . |
| 4 | He spoke about his wife and his brother-in-law that he was in business with . ’ |
| 5 | Alexander Solzhenitsyn held much of his work in his mind while he was in a labour camp . |
| 6 | It would , however , be just as unfortunate for our understanding of Simmel to be confined to this aspect of his work as it was for his philosophy to be reduced to the simple model of freedom enshrined in a earlier tradition of American sociology . |
| 7 | A male dietitian would not have lost his job until he was aged 65 . |
| 8 | Dedicated work in the nets resulted in such an improvement in his batting that he was among the top five scorers in the Cup with 383 runs at 47.87 , including his maiden century against the Leewards , Curtly Ambrose et al . |
| 9 | Before the Brownings left Florence she had enquired of Mr Browning how things stood and had been told very ill , but that this must be kept from his wife until she was in the warm south and better able to stand the inevitable end of it all . |
| 10 | Whether it was the Trooping of the Colour , a state visit , or Remembrance Sunday , whatever the time or day of the week , the dates were in his diary and he was on parade without fail and without question . |
| 11 | Miss Stonehouse said she feared the worst when she saw her son flung from his pushchair after it was in collision with a car . |
| 12 | Miss Stonehouse told how she saw her son flung from his pushchair after it was in collision with a car . |
| 13 | Dougal had officially dismissed his conscience when he was in his teens . |
| 14 | Indeed Neal is much more biting in his criticism than he was in his tackles . |
| 15 | He near killed Patrick Glas two days past on the big birlinn at the far side of the bay , him and his dallta , for slipping and falling in front of his lordship when he was in a hurry . |
| 16 | Well his secretary when he was on |
| 17 | There was more interest to be taken in the prospect of damages due to the newspaper insertion — the first only , the second was in order — than to any lessening of a father 's due rights over his daughter until she was of age . |
| 18 | He died suddenly 5 October 1918 at Half Moon Street , London , but even then his delicate sense of humour did not desert him : he left instructions in his will that he was to be cremated — a most unusual request for a Roman Catholic — and his ashes taken to Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris and placed within Oscar Wilde 's tomb . |
| 19 | Sandison 's idling thoughts were suddenly overtaken by his realisation that he was in a place far , far from home , a place so different and not exactly hostile but alien , perhaps unknowable . |
| 20 | Yet she always came to his rescue when he was in difficulties . ’ |
| 21 | The following November another officer entered his studio while he was at work on the massive Crucifixion and said , ‘ Sir , I have an execution against you . ’ |
| 22 | So far as she could make out , Ven Gajdusek was more interested in enjoying his walk than he was in answering any of her questions . |
| 23 | He seemed to lose a little of his clumsiness when he was beside her . |
| 24 | She was sorry for this little man and his problem but she was in a tearing hurry . |
| 25 | She inflated his ego until he was at bursting point . |
| 26 | Carrie could n't see his face because she was behind him but she could see Nick 's . |