Example sentences of "[prep] his [noun sg] i [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could fly all day long and all night long if he wanted , but I wanted him to get 100 hours at night and I felt that despite his enthusiasm I would like to he shot of him for a period . |
| 2 | ‘ In the light of his report I will decide what further action needs to be taken to ensure that such an incident does not happen again . |
| 3 | If I want that , there 's ten or twelve in his year I 'd fancy more . |
| 4 | Now in his voice I could hear , through the flattening cosmopolitan overlay , the unmistakable lilt of the islands . |
| 5 | In His name I can crush you — or increase you . |
| 6 | In his treatise I Will Pray with the Spirit he describes that Church 's Book of Common Prayer as ‘ a mere human invention , which God is so far from owning it that He expressly forbids it , in His most Holy and Blessed Word ’ . |
| 7 | In his house I should never be safe . ’ |
| 8 | I told Lord Dilhorne that I would ask my doctor whether in his opinion I could last the course if the task were laid upon me . |
| 9 | His brother , on the other hand — this did seem a little odd , now that I come to think of it — had apparently learnt his German locally ; from his voice I should have said he was Austrian . |
| 10 | Medium-sized ; from his gait I 'd say middle-aged . ’ |
| 11 | ’ Over his shoulder I could see the light above the lift doors flick on No. 4 . |
| 12 | Had I known I was trespassing on his domain I would never have entered the woods so lightly . |
| 13 | When I heard about his trial I could n't stop shaking . ’ |
| 14 | If I , being ignorant , ask a mathematician about his work I must expect , if I am to understand him , to be led into a realm of abstraction that I am unaccustomed to . |
| 15 | Here he is , and for his ability I can vouch . ’ |
| 16 | Well at the present moment it 's about , where he is it 's about half past five , twenty to six , so he is probably waiting for his supper I should think his evening meal . |
| 17 | I was also given some other information about him , but for his sake I 'll keep it quiet . |