Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] his [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He dropped Mr Hambro where he was , in the edge of the water , and planted a foot between his shoulders to drive him in deeper before he made off . ’ |
| 2 | Rescuing beleaguered maidens had a certain passing reward , but most of the time he 'd finished up by setting them up in some city somewhere with a handsome dowry , because after a while even the most agreeable ex-maiden became possessive and had scant sympathy for his efforts to rescue her sister sufferers . |
| 3 | However a fellow gekko breeder wanted a male for his females to breed from . |
| 4 | Describing the DC as " a rotten apple with a healthy core " , he proposed chiefly to build on the existing cross-party support for his proposals to reform electoral law by referendum . |
| 5 | We have told the United Nations Secretary-General of our support for his efforts to resolve the problems in East Timor . |
| 6 | In late September L. K. Advani , the president of the Hindu-revivalist Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) , had begun a Rath Yatra , or religious pilgrimage , through India to mobilize Hindu support for his efforts to build a temple at Ayodhya on the site of the disused Babri Masjid mosque . |
| 7 | By the end of the 1920s , as the vogue for his books diminished , Machen encountered renewed financial hardship . |
| 8 | The bulk of his lands had been given to Gilbert de Clare and , under the terms of the Dictum of Kenilworth , had to be repurchased by Fitzjohn at five times their annual value . |
| 9 | The bulk of his lands descended to his eldest son , another Robert , but it was his second son , Sir Thomas Holland , first Earl of Kent [ q.v. ] , who refounded the family 's fortunes , winning fame in the French war , marrying Joan of Kent , granddaughter of Edward I , and acquiring the earldom of Kent in right of his wife . |
| 10 | The bulk of his clients comprise severely disturbed psychotic patients from nearby villages and towns . |
| 11 | But the bulk of his beers come from Belgium , where some of Rex 's happiest moments have been passed in breweries , sometimes following in the footsteps of Michael Jackson , who has graced the Cook 's Delight annual beer tasting . |
| 12 | This time the defeat of his hopes did n't crush him for more than a few days . |
| 13 | Sviridenko 's colleagues claim that his death was the result of his attempts to investigate a lucrative clandestine operation involving works of art from the so-called Zagorsk Archive , a collection of art treasures held as war booty stored in the Pivnaya Bashnya ( Brewer 's Tower ) of the Holy Trinity Monastery in Sergiyevyy Posad ( formerly Zagorsk ) . |
| 14 | We photograph special set-ups , his motor cycle , his dog , we use actors to make a movie of his relatives sitting in the rooms where he grew up . |
| 15 | Wood was flying completely blind , but there were occasions when the various instruments contradicted one another , such were the violent changes of attitude , while the seat of his pants told him something entirely different . |
| 16 | Her voice sounded strained as the irony of his words hit her full force . |
| 17 | Flashes of colour exploded in her head behind tightly shut eyelids as the expert stroke of his fingers moved boldly lower to seek and investigate , with utmost sensitivity , the small nub of femininity between the soft golden curls , and then hungrily on down into the moist , secret tightness below … |
| 18 | It is possible to conceive of at least two different interpretations of this role , one in which Hymen 's idealization of the pastoral world is undermined only by subsequent events , the other in which the ridiculousness of his words becomes apparent immediately . |
| 19 | The story may in fact be read as an allegory in which the detective 's attempt to solve a series of crimes by the use of logic represents man 's efforts to decipher the meaning of the universe , but he himself ends up as the final victim , undone by his misplaced confidence in his intellect and baffled by a confusing world that makes a mockery of his pretensions to explain it . |
| 20 | She welcomed the welding of hot flesh with a harsh gasp , rent by searing pleasure as the powerful rhythm of his thrusts rocked her . |
| 21 | In such circumstances , the refusal of Rees 's request constituted in the view of the Commission a violation of his rights guaranteed by Article 8 . |
| 22 | For example , in a case — Sex slur drove man to lash out at bully who mocked him : Killer stepson 's years of torment — where a bullying stepfather was killed by the stepson he had tormented for years , one of the taunts mentioned was the mocking of his desires to get on at college , calling him a ‘ funny boy ’ . |
| 23 | But even as she made to turn away , his arms slid around her and she closed her eyes to everything but the sheer beauty of his kiss , the exquisite torture of his lips moving over her own , the hard strength of his body pressed against hers . |
| 24 | But she was n't made of brass , or ice either , although she tried to close her mind to what he was doing , to the gentle , unbearable pleasure of his lips moving slowly over hers , not cruel as they had been earlier , but coaxing , first lightly and then more demanding . |
| 25 | Held , dismissing the appeal , ( 1 ) that the applications to the district judge and the application for judicial review of his decisions had all been made by the applicant in a criminal cause because they related to the manner in which the district court trials should proceed , and so his appeal was not from a judgment of the High Court judge in a civil cause or matter within section 13(2) ( a ) of the Ordinance ; and that , therefore , since no other provision had conferred jurisdiction on the Court of Appeal to entertain the appeal , that court had correctly declined to hear it ( post , pp. 256G , 260E–F , G–H ) . |
| 26 | Someone from the publicity department of his publishers had set it up . |
| 27 | She 'd taken him from the town and the friends that he knew and she 'd brought him to this great , dusty mausoleum of a place where he did n't even like to run around because the echo of his footsteps sounded too much like someone faceless who was following too close . |
| 28 | The weight of his fangs hanging the mouth open , |
| 29 | In sheer sound Pinnock gains consistently from greater fullness , brightness and immediacy , and the weight of his forces goes with extra rhythmic resilience , lifting the music more . |
| 30 | Willie Crosbie , who has been at Castlebrae High School for 15 years , was presented with the Woman magazine award yesterday , in recognition of his efforts to turn around the school 's unenviable reputation . |