Example sentences of "[noun prp] [pron] [verb] his " in BNC.
Previous page Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 31 | Rodrigo strove mightily not to offend his Moorish subjects , especially in Valencia which became his base of operations over the succeeding months . |
| 32 | It was the trading contacts that he had established in Spain which enabled his firm , after his death , to exploit so efficiently the opportunities afforded in South America after its liberation from Spanish control . |
| 33 | He is the new Moses who leads his people from slavery to sin to the freedom of lives lived with God — Christ . |
| 34 | But both had to give way to Larne AC 's flying doctor Peter Howie who produced his best ever run by storming through in the closing stages to grab the runner up spot . |
| 35 | Meridian Broadcasting will make its comedy drama debut on January 5 with Full Stretch , a six-part series starring Kevin McNally as ex-Chelsea footballer Baz Levick who runs his own limo hire company from a garage in North London . |
| 36 | He looked hopefully at Zen who waggled his finger and walked off up the street . |
| 37 | ‘ Wow , I 'm glad you called , man , ’ said Hopper who thought his friend had telephoned to patch up a quarrel they 'd had before Fonda left for Canada . |
| 38 | Liverpool 's Ian Rush who scored his 200th league goal yesterday |
| 39 | But the relatives of those who died , like Andy Barnes who lost his 15-year-old daughter Paula , are still waiting for compensation . |
| 40 | It includes the significant silence of Cicero who knew his Posidonius . |
| 41 | She looked at Ratchette who nodded his head . |
| 42 | In December he became a cardinal ; and the following February he followed his old master de Gasparri as Secretary of State . |
| 43 | The next February he awakened his bride from her melancholy sleep and carried her over to the window , where , on looking out , she saw the landscape covered in white . |
| 44 | On 8 December he told his ministers that he had blundered by treating the election as a referendum and would not make the same mistake again . |
| 45 | On 4 December he took his leave of the observers from other Churches in a prayer service which scandalized a number of the bishops because it breached the old rules against communicatio in sacris . |
| 46 | In May he prepared his own aircraft for flight from the local farm . |
| 47 | In May he took his protest to the rooftop of Long Lartin prison in Worcesterhsire . |
| 48 | By January Waites was practising his putting , in April he walked his first 18 holes over his own club at Hollinwell and in May he played his first round , shooting a 78 . |
| 49 | On 23 May he read his poetry at the National Gallery in Washington , to an audience which included St John Perse , all the time " keeping behind horn-rimmed spectacles an almost unchanging expression " . |
| 50 | Secure in the backing of an army corps and a party in Madrid the king refused to recognize the authority of the Regency ; on 4 May he published his first decree declaring the work of the Cortes null and void and adopting a modification of the Persian programme . |
| 51 | Walter de Maria has always rummaged about in the realm of the mystical and this month at Gagosian ( downtown ) until 9 May he shows his ‘ 5–7–9 ’ series , betraying a continued interest in numbers and , according to the gallery , psychic phenomenona . |
| 52 | During three weeks ' leave in England he resigned his Trinity scholarship and made a conscious decision to return to Spain for the duration of the war . |
| 53 | Destined for a distinguished career in the Church of England he lost his hearing through illness within four years of his ordination . |
| 54 | Back at his home near Florence he completed his book on hydrostatics , in which it is interesting to see that he was nonplussed by the fact that a thin flake of ebony , though denser than water would nevertheless float . |
| 55 | In Cape Town he met his wife , Beatrix Powell , daughter of Robert William Hazell , medical practitioner in Cape Town . |
| 56 | ‘ But he 's unusually shy and when he first arrived from Millwall he felt his price tag was a burden . |
| 57 | He won the Two Thousand Guineas on Shotover for John Porter of Kingsclere in 1882 and on Shotover he won his only Derby , also in 1882 . |
| 58 | At Grassgill Beck he brak his neck , |
| 59 | When he came back to Russia he shed his aliases . |
| 60 | When he did n't like the bedroom furniture in his penthouse suite at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami he ordered his bodyguards to throw the offending furniture out , according to his former bodyguard Andy Celentano , who said , ‘ One time he took a dislike to the piano . |