Example sentences of "his [noun] [vb past] [adv] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No doubt there were minions in plenty to see to the plane and Maggie noted that his sister had not come rushing to meet him in the car . |
| 2 | Yet , although making war was a fairly routine element in the life of an active nobleman , it was very rare indeed that one was killed ; partly because , in the face of danger , a noble could don his expensive and effective armour , his helmet and coat of mail ; and partly because his opponents did not try to kill him — if he should be so unfortunate as to be at their mercy they preferred to capture him and ransom him . |
| 3 | Nigel told how his branch had once decided to mount a recruitment campaign by publicizing their opposition to ‘ problem families ’ being housed in a middle-class area . |
| 4 | The Lord in his glory had actually come to dwell amongst his people . |
| 5 | His mouth hung slightly open to reveal one enormous tooth dangling in solitary splendour from his upper gum and which wobbled alarmingly whenever he spoke . |
| 6 | These last two assurances , his successors had inexplicably failed to provide . |
| 7 | Not infrequently he wished his penis did n't have to take the entire responsibility for the success or failure of the operation . |
| 8 | And although his eyes did n't seem to move the prickle of her skin sensed that he had n't missed a thing , from the mass of dark hair which was now half-up and half-down , to the crazy oranges-and-lemons earrings which she 'd clipped on because — well , just because it was Saturday and sunny , and because she had felt like it . |
| 9 | Ken did n't look up until he 'd finished the story he was reading and only then when his lips had finally stopped moving . |
| 10 | He was murdered in 1969 and his assassin did not hesitate to put the blame on the ‘ big men ’ . |
| 11 | Ungar and his group went on to endeavour to purify the component in the brain extract which , they claimed , carried the information about fear of the dark ’ . |
| 12 | Too young to be hired as a full-blown CI , he was signed up on the spot as a ‘ subsource ’ , a convenient arrangement whereby he was paid by a DEA CI , rather than by the agency itself , so that , in the interests of ‘ deniability ’ , his name did not have to appear on any official payroll records . |
| 13 | Heathcliff looked more like a gentleman than I had ever seen him , but his wife had not bothered to brush her hair or change her dress . |
| 14 | Certainly the picture of him during this period is of a man haunted by guilt and remorse ; it seems that he felt he had no right to happiness , and the death of his wife had only served to convince him that he had done some irreparable harm to another human being , for which he must undergo a period of punishment . |
| 15 | Because his wife did not want to move house he had turned down the job of guarding Ted Heath in the Close at Salisbury ; he had been given Margaret instead . |
| 16 | ‘ The question is , shall we splurge on the coffee and scrimp on the tea , or vice versa , ’ he was saying , in that thin , scratchy voice of his that his wife did not seem to notice . |
| 17 | The Museum of Modern Art in New York held a major retrospective of Alexia Nielson 's paintings , but his wife did not live to see it . |
| 18 | Ray Wilkins agreed to come to Tyneside last week but subsequently turned down a playercoach job because his wife did n't want to leave London . |
| 19 | His wife did n't want to watch him suffer , and she wanted him to die also , and she did n't want to see any suffering . |
| 20 | Dexter sat with the superintendent while she dialled the head of the Press Bureau , who told her his phone had not stopped ringing all day : press and television news editors were demanding to know why Scotland Yard was keeping such a low profile on the Nicola Sharpe story . |
| 21 | Served by a chief minister of some ability , Cardinal Fleury ( 1726–43 ) , and a more able Controller-General , Orry ( 1730–45 ) , he remained personally popular until the middle of the century ; but the limitations of his character had already begun to show themselves . |
| 22 | Charles exploited it on a scale his predecessors had not needed to try . |
| 23 | Even his father did not appear to have aged greatly , although he was sixty or more years old . |
| 24 | His father did n't like talking about it much either and used to be slightly dismissive and jokey about it all . |
| 25 | One of the necklaces — a collar of Byzantine magnificence — had clearly been influenced by the classical revivalist designs of Fortunato Castellani , and his pupil Giuliano , whom his great-grandfather had once tried to woo into working for him in London . |
| 26 | His theory did not attempt to explain how long waves are generated at the international level or the mechanisms by which national economies ' cyclical movements are linked . |
| 27 | It was only because his employer did not want to waste his time in court proceedings that Willy escaped probation and a possible jail sentence . |
| 28 | He said his company did not plan to raise its £790m hostile bid for RHM , effectively leaving the way clear for industrial conglomerate Tomkins , best known for Smith & Wesson guns . |
| 29 | his upbringing , his culture had all conduced to foster it . |
| 30 | He had told a worried Miss Mates that his patient had just died having her twelfth child . |