Example sentences of "[noun prp] 's [noun pl] [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neil 's origins made his presence in the East End even stranger — and he had the impertinence to quiz her for her presence , when his own was just as odd . |
| 2 | Tiguary 's men recognised his value from the chased silver on his powder horn and on the barrel of his gun , and the gleaming gold gimp on his velvet breeches . |
| 3 | Sir Laurie Barratt of Barratt 's Homes set his architects to work at once and , after a few initial hiccups , the message has filtered through . |
| 4 | Close observers of Mr Bond 's affairs say his family controls considerable wealth . |
| 5 | Watching one of them wobble through a developpe in glazed desperation or another sickle his foot in an over-extended arabesque , you feel how cruelly Hall 's ambitions tax his company . |
| 6 | Then Maggie 's fingers touching his sleeve lightly stopped his departure as she said , ‘ Do n't take any notice of her , sit yourself down there . ’ |
| 7 | This he did , insisting that Mr Bangemann 's remarks reflected his own personal views . |
| 8 | As Zen approached his office , the inspector who had been trying to trace Ubaldo Valesio 's movements poked his head around the door of the next room . |
| 9 | Isabel 's eyes followed his progress downward . |
| 10 | One of Einstein 's aims following his development of SR was to find a set of equations to describe gravitation that would be consistent with SR , and his search was crowned with success in 1915 , just ten years later . |
| 11 | Mozart 's autographs reveal his use of clear strokes and clear dots . |
| 12 | Since then Lord Aldington has reached separate agreement with the other defendant and Count Tolstoy 's attempts to have his damages overturned have failed . |
| 13 | The brewery was asked by the Civil War Centre to sponsor two of the key events in the pageant — the entry of King Charles and his Scottish army into Worcester in 1651 and his escape from the city when Cromwell 's forces routed his troops . |
| 14 | Montagu Slater worked from Crabbe 's many detailed portraits of Aldeburgh 's denizens to fashion his libretto . |
| 15 | For a genre that often takes itself too seriously , it 's reassuring to know that Les 's jokes remain his greatest joy . |
| 16 | The problem is that Osborne 's attempts to underline his point by the ‘ subversive ’ use of Mozartian instruments ( horns tuned in semitonally clashing keys , Anton Stadler 's clarinets performing Stravinskian arabesques ) result in music which I found neither diverting nor in itself particularly thought-provoking . |
| 17 | Those who will not be God 's sons become his tools ’ ; and Ilúvatar to Melkor , ‘ no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me … he that attempteth this shall prove but mine instrument in the devising of things more wonderful , which he himself hath not imagined ’ ( my italics ) . |
| 18 | Mansell 's critics questioned his ability and his demeanour . |
| 19 | He depends on Fiona 's horses to clinch his amateur-champion status . |
| 20 | He paled , and flushed as richly again , and his composure was shaken for a moment ; but the small , testing smile in Isambard 's eyes straightened his shoulders and stiffened his back . |
| 21 | If Brindley 's detractors thought his stone aqueduct was a mad idea , it is as well they were not alive to see this amazing piece of engineering successfully accomplished . |
| 22 | But Alex 's eyes belied his words . |
| 23 | The man was to be given 3000 s. morlaas and the seneschal of Gascony was to constrain Arnaud-Raymond 's heirs to implement his wishes . |
| 24 | The first part of the poem deals with Sir Walter 's attempts to impose his mastery on the natural environment . |
| 25 | The policewoman who has been comforting James 's parents said his mother Denise was still ‘ shellshocked ’ by the loss . |
| 26 | His frustrated Spanish partners in Cofir , the Spanish subsidiary of Cerus , complain that Mr De Benedetti has been too distracted by Olivetti 's problems to employ his legendary dealmaking skills on their behalf . |
| 27 | More significantly , Anderson 's hesitancies undermine his attempts to assert himself in the situation . |
| 28 | Gurney 's poems celebrate his love of the Gloucestershire countryside with the same unsentimental vigour as they report on the realities of trench warfare and chart his gradual descent into madness . |