Example sentences of "[noun sg] his [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout his long marriage his homosexuality caused him great unhappiness , and if there was any one key to Laughton 's greatness as an actor then it was surely his sense of being a misfit , uneasy in his own skin and forever on the outside of the social , sexual , and familial demands of his upbringing and conditioning . |
| 2 | For a second his eyes met hers and then he came to her quickly , his body covering her own , pressing her down into the softness of the bed , his skin against hers an almost unbearable pleasure . |
| 3 | In return his subjects owed him the duty of honouring that peace . |
| 4 | It 's a question his mother says she ca n't answer . |
| 5 | And it seemed to her that for a moment his eyes ensnared her , as though he had reached out a hand and taken hold of her . |
| 6 | The moment his body covered hers she felt a great tide of revulsion and panic surge upwards until it threatened to choke her , and she threshed her head from side to side in blind , unreasoning panic , thrusting him away with frantic hands . |
| 7 | It 's the real thing : he had to mortgage his granny to buy it . |
| 8 | Charles 's territories could already have been described as an empire , in the sense that he ruled over a collection of different political units held together by the allegiance his subjects felt they owed him rather than through a sense of common institutions or common language which could serve as the foundation for a unifying national spirit . |
| 9 | Vietnam was the war his classmates presumed he had prayed to go to , in his near-daily Masses at Annapolis , in the uniform of the Marines . |
| 10 | Mr Hale told the court his ordeal left him ‘ ratty , unbearable and not caring about anybody ’ . |
| 11 | After that race his family remembers him coming home with badly bruised and torn feet and looking like a skeleton . |
| 12 | But after a while his father stopped him to say he was not singing what he had been taught . |
| 13 | , I remember right from when he was a baby as I went to see him the day his mum brought him home . |
| 14 | By the time that man gets to Riga he will know his way around the town and every detail of his life from the day his father gave him a light-brown teddy-bear , to the movie show he watched last night . |
| 15 | At his christening his mother gave him a second forename , ‘ Arthur ’ , which he did not like and never used . |
| 16 | On Friday night his grandmother heard him come in , because his key grated in the lock . |
| 17 | She only remembered it long afterwards , the night his father turned him out of Riverstown . |
| 18 | Despite being an ignoramus , the dealer who lasted even a matter of weeks would have a certain animal intelligence , as well as the true smooth operator 's knack of twisting information to support the argument his firm insisted he presented . |
| 19 | for the pearls in slime his grandfather swore he found . |
| 20 | On his victory his opponent congratulates him . |
| 21 | A grammatical sequence such as On his victory his opponent congratulates him can be reordered in a number of different ways without affecting its propositional content . |
| 22 | Mr Li is not an economist , but at least he recognises some of the imperfections of the policy his economists tell him to follow . |
| 23 | Hunter explained : ‘ I was tackled by a team-mate during a fun game and as I hit the ground his knee hit mine , the right knee that required surgery at the start of the season . ’ |
| 24 | Jesus himself has things to say , for example his disciples asked him how many times should I forgive somebody else . |
| 25 | Philip finished his tea , refusing the ice cream his Mum offered him . |
| 26 | possess any secret official code word , or password , or sketch , plan , model , article , note , document or information which relates to or is used in a prohibited place or anything in such a place , or which has been made or obtained in contravention of this Act , or which has been entrusted in confidence to him by any person holding office under Her Majesty or which he has obtained or to which he has had access owing to his position as a person who is or has been employed under a person who holds or has held such an office or contract — [ and who ] ( a ) communicates the code word , pass word , sketch , plan , model , article , note , document , or information to any person other than a person to whom he is authorised to communicate it , or a person to whom it is in the interest of the State his duty to communicate it , or ( aa ) uses the information in his possession for the benefit of any foreign power or in any other manner prejudicial to the safety or interests of the State , or ( b ) retains the sketch , plan , model , article , note , or document in his possession or control when he has no right to retain it or when it is contrary to his duty to retain it , or fails to comply with all directions issued by lawful authority with regard to the return or disposal thereof , or … |
| 27 | Despite the misery of her weariness his praise warmed her . |
| 28 | For the last twenty years of his life his bronchitis made him take holidays on the French Riviera ; Frith says of these later years that he ‘ fell back upon books and art , nature , love and poetry ’ . |
| 29 | But at the end of his life his memory abandoned him and he died without having written the book . |
| 30 | He needs therapy and some rehabilitation to enable him to cope with the constant uncertainty of his life and the violent frustration his condition causes him . |