Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [verb] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I said to his boss , like Ken 's boss , Tony I said how are you getting on with your counting ? |
| 2 | so I walked in his house or her house or their house , you know , and I 've said to them blah blah blah blah blah but this is what it 's all about |
| 3 | A Northern Constabulary spokesman said Mr Nicholls had only himself to blame for his ordeal . |
| 4 | Athelstan ignored the lustful glances directed at Benedicta , trying to curb the sparks of jealously which flared in his heart . |
| 5 | If Harry were ever to know how she felt , he would never again be able to show the same natural affection , albeit of a brotherly nature , which was all she had of his heart . |
| 6 | So she fell upon his grey hairy neck , weeping bright tears . |
| 7 | So she concentrated on his last remark . |
| 8 | Gloomily he confided to his diary , ‘ Too great a task , undertaken with inadequate reserves . ’ |
| 9 | Suddenly it slipped from his hand and rolled down the bank into the water . |
| 10 | The man still stared at the water , then suddenly he dropped to his haunches , squatting like the children did sometimes at play when the ground was too wet to sit . |
| 11 | Suddenly he jumped to his feet , staring at the wall opposite the door . |
| 12 | Suddenly he jumped to his feet and began to run up and down the garden , shrieking , turning cartwheels , hopping on one leg . |
| 13 | Then suddenly he diverged from his text : |
| 14 | Suddenly he rose from his chair , gave a quick look round the office , then went across to the window , where he stood looking down into the courtyard . |
| 15 | apparently he paid for his |
| 16 | ‘ Perhaps he takes after his father . |
| 17 | Perhaps he drank with his friends . |
| 18 | A grin of flashing white teeth was all he got for his trouble . |
| 19 | So he stuck with his job at the Zoo . |
| 20 | So he reached for his number one club-stick |
| 21 | And so he thinks of his labour as a commodity , like tea or iron . |
| 22 | So he went to his wagon alone on his wedding night , and drove unaided up on to the moor , whipping his horses across the wilderness of black , tossing , wet grass . |
| 23 | He passed ‘ the pleasantest part of his youth ’ as a student at Edinburgh University — or so he declared in his will — and it was as a result of his generous bequest that the Faculty of Music was founded . |
| 24 | And so he slipped on his anorak and scurried outside , bottle in hand to join in the festivities . |
| 25 | So he looks to his Lord and Master first of all . |
| 26 | As he pretended to do so he hissed in his son 's ear , " God grant that I may not die until I have had my revenge on you . " |
| 27 | And so it continues throughout his ministry . |
| 28 | The body in its stiff ungainliness , beginning already , or so it seemed to his over-sensitive nose , to emit the first sour-sweet stink of decay , yet had an inalienable dignity because it once had been a man . |
| 29 | At four o'clock he cycled to his piano lesson with Mr Gordon . |
| 30 | At eight o'clock he got in his car and went to the office . |