Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [adv] [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | CASE STUDY 5.1 — MRS Y. For example , Mrs Y. was a nervous anxious woman , whose husband had a cerebral haemorrhage , resulting in a stroke which particularly affected his arm and his speech . |
| 2 | At best it was a snobbery which wholly overlooked his timing , eye and exactitude of judgment and imagery . |
| 3 | What matters is the record of action which actually followed his visit to Klagenfurt . |
| 4 | Baron von Munchausen was an eighteenth-century Hanoverian soldier who greatly exaggerated his prowess in war — and his battle-scars . |
| 5 | At the other end a beardless Zeus in near-profile brandishes a thunderbolt against a kneeling figure who again turns his bearded face towards us , and in the angle beyond must have lain another corpse . |
| 6 | ‘ It could be very useful to be able to negotiate a discount for cash if you are buying luxury items like a fur coat or an expensive piece of jewellery , ’ was the reaction from Patrick Hastings , a City employee who clearly has his mind on women . |
| 7 | After a few years in atomic energy research he then discovered his vocation as teacher and enthusiast as a lecturer in chemistry at Birkenhead Technical College , where he also voluntarily taught about theatre , literature and music in a humanities section . |
| 8 | At this stage he had been in contention behind McCallen and Dunlop and even after his restart he still clawed his way back into the leading group . |
| 9 | A strand of hair which normally covers his bald patch has fallen away to rest in seaweedy strings on his padded shoulder , drying as we speak . |
| 10 | MacDonald decided , naturally but disastrously , that the obvious objective was to import into the living rooms of the wireless-owning population the soaring platform oratory which so moved his immediate audiences . |
| 11 | The woman was well built too , and the man had a very large stomach and was wearing a baggy shirt which just covered his belly . |
| 12 | It was an experience which heavily influenced his subsequent life . |
| 13 | But most noticeable of all — it was something apart from his physical appearance — he had a presence which immediately dominated his surroundings . |
| 14 | For someone who so obviously thrives on holding court , Shaun is neither ranting nor railing , the bragging and bullshit which characteristically pepper his interviews are conspicuous by their absence . |
| 15 | It was his ability to achieve that power and well-being which alone justified his despotism . |
| 16 | It would be inappropriate , however , to avoid the general subject of birth control , since it was this very question which ostensibly destroyed his ambition to lead the Conservative Party , and indeed , to be prime minister . |
| 17 | Charles ( like Alfred ) was a youngest son , the boy who unexpectedly surpassed his elder brothers . |
| 18 | AN UNKNOWN BOY WHO BRAVELY GAVE HIS LIFE FOR ANOTHER . |
| 19 | Similarly another teacher felt that she should give firm scolding to an extremely active young boy who continually left his place during story time . |
| 20 | What , we may ask Harris , happens to the child who repeatedly fails his annual examination ? |
| 21 | The dawn of the philosophical Enlightenment had almost no effect upon the average European who still tilled his feudal strip and grazed his animals on the common land . |
| 22 | And , although Bratfisch in MacMillan 's Mayerling is a dancing role , he , too , is an onlooker who only shows his real self during his final entrance and last gesture as he throws his flower into Mary Vetsera 's grave . |
| 23 | The Supreme Court charged Cerda himself with ‘ lack of discipline ’ , suspended him on half pay for two months , and replaced him by another judge who dutifully closed his case . |
| 24 | Holding the crouched , double-axe-hand attack position , Angel One consciously slowed his breathing . |
| 25 | With his accountant 's help he eventually moved his accounts to the Midland , which gave him the overdraft on reasonable terms , but he is critical of the way banks look at small businesses , believing that many only look at the business sector rather than at the person running a particular business . |
| 26 | But last night he insisted he had no grudge against Taylor , even though in his column he openly discussed his innermost anguish at being one of only three England players not to kick a ball during finals . |
| 27 | In the States , says Leigh , they go wild for the lady he affectionately calls his Twiggs . |
| 28 | When Howell picks him up at dawn on a deserted Texan highway he immediately makes his intentions plain by scaring the boy witless . |
| 29 | In a classic piece of political misjudgment he even told his party conference in a speech that the poll tax would win the Tories the next election . |
| 30 | His sister Elizabeth remembered that as a child he half closed his eyes at meal times as he sat with his family . |