Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh adv] [pron] [vb past] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | O'Connor consumed by emotion , burst into tears in front of thousands of delirious supporters when he consolidated his marvellous recovery against Freddie Couples with a No. 2 iron to five feet at the last . |
| 2 | In 1752 he prepared a catalogue of the contents of his Mill Hill garden and later had this bound with the seventh edition of the Dictionary where he made his own marginal notes on items of interest , including remarkable first flowerings in Britain . |
| 3 | All the while , Julian Bailey had been maintaining a strong , gritty pursuit with the Nissan , and he was only 7secs behind Baldi 's second-placed Mercedes when he made his fuel stop early on lap 31 . |
| 4 | He now embarked on a new recording contract for Capitol , and proved wrong all the critics who 'd said he was just emulating Crosby when he developed his own new determined style which culminated in 1955 with his album Songs For Swinging Lovers , one of the first best-selling LPs . |
| 5 | Royle has named five Goodison old boys in the 16-man squad to face the club where he started his career . |
| 6 | To loud applause Karlinsky shook hands with the President before ascending the steps where he put his face against the blue and white silk curtain with the gold braid which hung before the doors of the Ark . |
| 7 | Hieronym Dudowski , that rare creature , a Kaszubian poet , doubtless caused much scratching of heads when he coined his slogan ‘ No Kaszubia without Poland — No Poland without Kaszubia ’ , but slowly the Kaszubians did come to see their own survival as lying in the resurrection of an independent Poland rather than in the straightjacket of Prussian-German citizenship . |
| 8 | Indeed , he had , in fact , smashed one of their violins when he lost his temper for the same reason in the previous year . |
| 9 | Brian Loughborough , 53 , of Elwood Road , Hartlepool , is expected to return home today following a 2,000-mile rescue mission from Spain where he dislocated his replacement hip . |
| 10 | Timothy Harris , 33 , had been working in Ilfracombe , Devon when he met his girlfriend Faye Whitehead . |
| 11 | He first caused outrage last February when he put his arm around the Queen 's waist during a Royal visit . |
| 12 | Adrian Gozzard , ex-Plessey , spoke for many executives responsible for recruitment in Britain 's largest companies when he argued his preference for broad-based search firms , rather than those specialising by functional discipline . |
| 13 | Timothy Dalton proved the most daring of the four Bonds — insisting he did his own stunts when he made his debut in The Living Daylights , which gets its television premiere on Saturday ( ITV , 6.30pm ) . |
| 14 | Benin climbed out and crossed to the guardhouse where he showed his ID card to the nearest of three armed sentries . |
| 15 | He had turned captured Russian officers and allowed them to ‘ escape ’ and make their way back to Russia where they became his agents . |
| 16 | PLUMBER Peter Rowe , 53 , has bought the Wheal Basset Inn at Carnkie , Cornwall — the pub where he had his first drink 38 years ago . |
| 17 | Police believe the bomb may have been planted under the Nissan Datsun outside a pub where he met his girlfriend , Jenny Hill , a Catholic . |
| 18 | He was so fed up that he put another penny to the one earned for a whole day 's labour and went to the pub where he drowned his sorrows in a pint . |
| 19 | Jack first hit the headlines last July when he took his boat the Helga Maria to the Arctic Circle even though the Department of Transport had not declared the vessel seaworthy . |
| 20 | He had even threaded a length of wire flex though the tags in his waist-band to stop his trousers from slipping down over his hips whenever he put his hands into his pockets . |
| 21 | So far , driver Sam Webster was pleased with his young mate 's performance and had noted with approval how he used his firing shovel to spread the coal systematically round the firebox and his ability to fire up through the firehole door trap without having to open the door . |
| 22 | The handsome youngster was a flirt and a rebel-rouser at school but mostly he was a clown who craved affection — anything to help him forget the loveless days when he watched his drunkard father beat up his mother . |
| 23 | When her father retired she and her sisters begged him to rake a bungalow up the coast , but he insisted on remaining in Odborough , choosing this house from where he can see , half a mile away , the roof and chimney of the shop where he made his money . |
| 24 | His father owned several mills , not just in North Carolina , and Stanley Pons worked in one of these in Louisiana where he met his present wife , Sheila , and then he became manager of a restaurant that the family owned in Palm Beach Florida . |
| 25 | She took a calming breath and turned , and was put off her stroke for a moment when she saw his glance flicking over her slim and erect carriage , taking in the elegant and attractive navy-trimmed white outfit she wore . |
| 26 | One director used him in Waiting for Godot , and he felt at home in a straight play at last , but unfortunately a critic wrote four hundred words about the Christly nature of the moment when he took his hat off . |
| 27 | The moment when he knew his mother finally acknowledged that she needed him , was then , when she lowered her eyes , and gave a small resigned sigh of agreement . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , if it was intended as a distraction , then that must have been the moment when he poisoned his wife . |
| 29 | He had not wished to leave the Commons when he inherited his title in 1895 and thereafter he became an unceasing advocate of the House of Lords , defending its powers , resisting the sale of peerages , and demanding its reconstruction so that its powers could be restored . |
| 30 | In 1915 the New South Wales Swimming Association invited Duke Kahanamoku to the Domain Baths in Sydney where he beat his own world record for the 100 yards with a time of 53.8 seconds . |