Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [vb past] [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also had difficulty remembering his lines , and eventually I had to write his lines on boards , on bottles , on door frames — anything he had to pass by or pick up . |
| 2 | I had never been able to do that , not with such unselfconscious pleasure , perhaps because deep down I had resented his existence which was preventing me doing all the marvellous things I had intended to do in the world . |
| 3 | So I had to use his frying pan . |
| 4 | I did n't see why he should get away with it so I decided to make his day for him . |
| 5 | Let dear old Miguelito charm a new generation of English roses — Shelley had outgrown him , although she would always keep a special place in her inner being for that lovely evening when she and only she had had his sweet and undivided attention … |
| 6 | Perhaps she 'd heard his panting , and the promises he 'd been making in the dark . |
| 7 | Perhaps she had acknowledged his wartime exploits , up there in his Spitfire inflicting those severe losses she had read about . |
| 8 | Suddenly he wanted to recover his responses to these , not the arrival of the chiff-chaff . |
| 9 | The aggrieved Main , in short , sought either an appointment as tidesman in a particular port , which would carry a regular salary , or failing that even a restoration to his former post of watchman , and naturally he attempted to secure his livelihood through his political friends , the Cunninghams . |
| 10 | Mr Helmsley did not say how long he planned to keep his buildings in mourning , but his wife is expected to be in jail for at least 19 months before she is eligible for parole . |
| 11 | If only he had made his move six years earlier , during the rehearsed reading of Martin Finkelstein 's verse play These Be Wasted Years , Brother ! |
| 12 | Hindsight is all very well , but if only he had sent his London package by regular mail … . |
| 13 | If only he had pushed his advantage home the night the Dorking brothers gave their party ( ‘ The Night of the Hundred Cans ' , as it was still known in Wimbledon ) . |
| 14 | If only he 'd finished his new masterpiece before he 'd submitted it to her critical eye . |
| 15 | ‘ He wanted to marry me — he told me I was all he needed to make his life perfect . |
| 16 | The Shah said that he loved Soraya but the demands of monarchy meant that he must have an heir and so he had to sacrifice his love . |
| 17 | So he had answered his own son , that time when Yuan had come to him with his dream — that awful nightmare he had had of the great mountain of bones filling the plain where the City had been . |
| 18 | So he had to wear his and he do n't like doing that because it gets stuck in the locker . |
| 19 | So he had prepared his words with care . |
| 20 | So he had to make his own product . ’ |
| 21 | Whilst doing so he managed to chomp his way through several broken biscuits . |
| 22 | In the cases of indirect wording , for example , the testator had not stated that he intended X to be a trustee for Y. None the less he had made his intention that there should be a legal relationship between them plain , and the jurists validated the disposition by construing it as a trust . |
| 23 | Before it was over I had devastated his family , disappointed him and further divided myself . |
| 24 | Somehow she had disturbed his hair , and it fell boyishly over his forehead . |
| 25 | Fame is a less brilliant commodity in England , but nevertheless he had to keep his address secret , to protect himself not only from letters and telephone calls but also from undesirable visitors who might arrive at Carlyle Mansions . |
| 26 | Nevertheless he managed to establish his authority over Gaul and its barbarian settlers , until he fell foul of Ricimer , who had him executed in 461 . |
| 27 | Very soon he had retraced his steps and was back at the wooden chalet . |
| 28 | Anyway he decided to complete his transactions once and for all . |
| 29 | Meanwhile he continued to produce his articles for the Evening News . |
| 30 | Meanwhile he had written his Alessandro Filipepi called Sandro Botticelli : Painter of Florence ( 1908 ) , a book he himself designed throughout , allowing neither chapter divisions nor index , and printing only 240 copies . |