Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [noun] [conj] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he had to choose between me and Bellybutton , or between Bellybutton and his own mother , he would have chosen Bellybutton any day . |
| 2 | Not one word of thanks do I get from her or from Sunil or his wife … |
| 3 | In these circumstances it was inevitable that for Richard and his brothers and sisters their father was a distant figure , always in a hurry . |
| 4 | Other battles are still fought today in Strathnaver , but they are between man and beast , rather than between man and his fellow creatures . |
| 5 | Author after author denounced Bush , the likely ( except to Surkov and his agent ) President of the United States , who disapproved of abortion . |
| 6 | But this probably reflects negatively on penology and penologists rather than on Weber and his thought . |
| 7 | They are altogether different from Denis and me and from PYB and his mate . |
| 8 | Living so close to him , she understood ; she was beginning to see not the disfiguring scar and limp , but instead the essential Neil , who was so kind to herself — for all his teasing of her — and to Matey and his poor patients . |
| 9 | And he led the way to the jeep , waving to the people in the café , and pausing to chat to Maria as she served a tray full of beer , and to Abuelo as his granddaughter led him away by the hand . |
| 10 | When Bernhard Schmid 's son published his Tabulatur Buch ( Strasbourg , 1607 ) , the contents were overwhelmingly Italian and included the intonazioni ( preludes on the different modes ) of the two Gabrielis , toccatas by them and by Merulo and his pupil Girolamo Diruta ( 1661–after 1625 ) , and twelve ‘ Fugen ( oder wie es die Italianer nennen ) Canzoni alla Francese ’ by various Italians . |
| 11 | But for Leonard and his family there was special sadness at this point , for the traditional ‘ prayer of release ’ ( from responsibility for his son ) by the father was necessarily absent , a pang he could recall 40 years after the occasion . |
| 12 | Such a picture — derived essentially from the earlier atomist Democritus — may seem bleak to some , but to Epicurus and his followers it was productive of the calm ataraxia he valued . |
| 13 | I came this way — it 's as long as it 's short — because of Pratesi and his sausage factory . ’ |
| 14 | Whether because of availability or his superior eye , Wertheim 's are the better nineteenth-century pictures . |
| 15 | ‘ Umar Abu Shanab was allegedly tortured while in detention and his relatives fear that he continues to be tortured or ill-treated . |
| 16 | He left behind him a town in uproar and the foundations of his fame , for he had been recognised while in Whitehaven and his identity had been confirmed by the Irish deserter . |
| 17 | As we have seen however , the Messiah — for Constantine and the fourth-century Roman Church , as well as for Jesus and his contemporaries — was a very different figure : a stern martial leader and liberator , quite prepared to assert his right by force and , if necessary , to employ violence against his enemies . |