Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pers pn] [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | and they used to collect the rents from there er some of them and er up er he came home one day and he said erm , I 'm not going up there collecting again , as he er collected the bugs used to drop on his collecting pad I said , finish the job do n't go again , but anyway they persuaded the people to take the rents into the office you see instead of having to have a rent collector , but er it was horrible he , he worked for them twenty five years and then when he was sixty four he had his , a stroke , but he went back again after eight months and he completed his job for when , you know he stayed in the office , he was er him and erm started the rebate , well it was footwork the rebate system was worked out at the Town Hall , but they , the rent men had to carry it out you see and er he er work the system out and of course erm , when he was sixty five he finished , course he was lucky really , but then er he could get about fairly well , but after the years drew on you know his , his health deteriorated and er but he lived er he was sixty four and he was eighty five when he died but erm |
| 2 | The look that Aggie fixed on him silenced his tongue but left his face in a wide grin . |
| 3 | He turned and came after me waving his revolver , but I easily lost him in the crowd . |
| 4 | He came across it raiding his fruit garden , unwisely wounded it with buckshot , and was chased up a tree for his trouble . |
| 5 | The old entrance certainly had some memories … the great American Band leader Glenn Miller walked through it to play his last engagement before going missing in an aeroplane … |
| 6 | Then , realizing the cost and risk of setting up an American operation only for his own films , he backtracked and arranged for US to handle his company 's big-budget pictures . |
| 7 | Shelley , Shelley come round to me right , and she was , she was , she was stroking Dempsey and I walked in the room , this is Dempsey and he walked past me wagging his , you know when they put the tail down and |
| 8 | He reached through the hole and whispered to her to take his hand . |
| 9 | Anthony Bland 's obsession with weapons led to him filling his Darlington home with machine guns and pistols , Teesside Crown Court was told yesterday . |
| 10 | She saw the little procession of horsemen climbing the ramp towards Parfois , and crept up through the trees to see more closely , for it seemed to her that the middle figure of the five was bound , and one of those who rode beside him led his horse by the bridle . |
| 11 | ‘ The offer I made to him to buy his shares before all this unsavoury business began does not still stand . |
| 12 | Daphne Rye , the top casting director , looked after him following his demob and in 1948 ushered him into the West End in a literary play — from a book by Elizabeth Bowen — Castle Anna , which Daphne herself directed . |
| 13 | The weather forecast on Sunday was for rain , and she thought of him riding his bike back down the motorway in poor conditions and had to revive her anger to stop from worrying herself sick over him . |
| 14 | She went with him to see his family in Ireland , and travelled to the far west of that country . |
| 15 | She still saw John occasionally but felt that he deliberately kept a barrier between them , although the way he looked at her belied his stilted conversation . |
| 16 | They looked at him smiling his smile , one hand hanging limply by his side , the other grasping the carrier-bag . |
| 17 | Something about the way they spoke of her aroused his interest . |
| 18 | He shut the shed doors , puffing a little , and leaned against them to catch his breath . |
| 19 | Professional Footballers ' Association spokesman Brendan Batson said : ‘ Paul spoke to us following his injury , but because it involves two members of our association we have to adopt a neutral position . |
| 20 | All the time she was with him she longed for him to put his arm round her shoulder . |
| 21 | Coy waited for him to finish his deliberations . |
| 22 | One evening in November I waited for him to finish his day 's work . |
| 23 | Agrippa waited for him to regain his composure . |
| 24 | While her body , like a desert longing for rain to bring it to life , switched to hold and waited for him to fulfil his promise of delight . |
| 25 | There was nothing for it but to accept defeat , which he did with an ill grace , stamping off in disgust followed by the jeers of the crowd and several small boys who ran behind him mimicking his rolling gait . |
| 26 | When Germans appeared on the west dockside , Bob Burtenshaw — still humming ‘ There 'll always be an England … ’ ran at them firing his pistol , despite his wounds . |
| 27 | The Prime Minister said that it remained for him to wish his colleagues all good fortune in the difficult but hopeful situation which they had to face . |
| 28 | It only remained for him to make his departure from Bec as acceptable as possible to the monks and to himself , and to face the consequences . |