Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] [coord] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead he pulled her closer and his dark brown eyes bored down into her own fierce blue gaze . |
| 2 | I enjoyed reading the review by James Hall of Piero Manzoni , Catalogue Raisonné ( The Art Newspaper , No. 20 , July-September , p.16 ) , not just as publisher of the catalogue and of the first monograph on the artist ( Milan , 1967 ) , but also as a friend of Piero Manzoni , in his private and his public life together we did Tavole di accertamento ( 1958–60 ) , published in 1962 . |
| 3 | In the dark hours after breakfast it was some way of controlling the monstrous disjuncture between his private and his public life . |
| 4 | Phillip Mitchell stepped up to ram the spot kick home and then capped a fine individual performance with his second and his side 's third with a powerful strike from the edge of the area . |
| 5 | His dying and his death , torn daily |
| 6 | A Catholic accepted the doctrines taught by his bishop and his authority over the pattern of his moral and his cultic behaviour . |
| 7 | In the event , Philip VI fled the battlefield , with both his personal and his royal reputation tarnished . |
| 8 | As for my shower , only Marley looks like he might have talent , he seems capable of scoring goals with either his left or his right buttock . |
| 9 | And then those strong hands moved to the belt on his trousers , and then the buckle , and then with tantalising slowness to his snap and his zip . |
| 10 | I , I mean the , the conversation started off and when , when you started to ask him about his existing or his previous pensionable employment as a carpenter he really had n't got a clue as to what it was all about . |
| 11 | Il dottore , as Berlusconi 's people call him , put his billions and his business instinct into reorganising Milan . |
| 12 | The Maternity Hospital gynaecologist was a young doctor in his twenties and his work had brought him constantly up against this problem . |
| 13 | Old nursery stories like Mrs Goat And Her Seven Little Kids and Little Red Riding Hood are updated and sharpened and are read by Sir Michael Hordern at his most misanthropic , his growliest and his most comical . |
| 14 | In it he expressed his own and his dancers ' sheer enjoyment of ‘ just dancing to music which cries out to be danced ’ . |
| 15 | At a Fabian fringe meeting , Andrew Neil , editor of The Sunday Times and executive chairman of Rupert Murdoch 's Sky Television , made a speech , of course in his own and his boss 's interest , which had a sense and vigour that the conference platform could dearly do with . |
| 16 | He had no family of his own and his gratitude to the McGuires knew no bounds . |
| 17 | By means of regression it is possible to take such a man back to one of those occasions when his own and his partner 's mutual desires had culminated in a very happy and successful sexual encounter for them both . |
| 18 | I hat was foolish , for it meant the Frenchman would have to make his sabre cut across his own and his horse 's body . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , despite his vital if sometimes reluctantly assumed role in maintaining the norms of society , the psychiatrist is often in danger of under-valuing the weight of the social pressures bearing on his patient and of assuming ethnocentrically that his own and his society 's moral standards enjoy universal validity . |
| 20 | Henry III imitated French royal tombs in his own and his queen 's effigies , and the introduction of ‘ weepers ’ on to the side of tomb-chests followed a pattern established thirty years earlier in France . |
| 21 | Hoc 's fever began to return halfway through the task , and Dong ran frantically back and forth between their adjoining rows , working his own and his brother 's trees while Hoc rested . |
| 22 | He owes allegiance to Geoffrey now , but does as little to aid him and as little to harm Stephen as possible , protecting both his own and his brother 's interests there , while Robert does as much for him here . |
| 23 | Sir Francis Child was the banker to William and Mary and even had to arrange to provide jewellery , some of it his own and his wife 's , for the great double Coronation . |
| 24 | I had spent many happy hours with Frank , recording details not generally known to the public of his own and his father 's involvement with the BCR . |
| 25 | Nikolai Ryzhkov , the Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers ( Prime Minister ) , on March 14 threatened his own and his government 's resignation after his name was cited during exchanges in the Congress of People 's Deputies in connection with a recently discovered scandal centring on a plot illegally to export Soviet battle tanks to the West . |
| 26 | Louis then took the occasion of the summer assembly at Attigny " with the counsel of bishops and magnates " to perform public penance " for his own and his father 's misdeeds " . |
| 27 | A tradition says that the Emperor 's wife was ill with a disease that baffled the native doctors but the letter which was carried by the Ambassador suggests the true reason ; the Emperor 's sexual ability seems to have been causing him more concern than either his own or his wife 's health as he asked that the physician should bring ‘ some medicines that would provoke the venery ( encourage sexual indulgence ) ’ , in other words , he wanted an aphrodisiac . |
| 28 | It made him feel grown up sitting at the same table as real university students ; engineers and agricultural science students , law or medicine , they had all sat and studied around the Hegarty dining table while young Frank was working for his Intermediate and his Leaving Certificate . |
| 29 | Before the match Beck had said he hoped Ballesteros would be at his best and his wish was granted . |
| 30 | He was in his forties and his manner and speech clearly indicated that he belonged to a much higher social class than Atkins and his colleagues . |