Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] was [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Legion wished to be a disciple but Jesus told him to remain where he was in his own district and tell all the people what … the Lord in his mercy has done for you ( Mark 5:19 ) . |
| 2 | There was no trace of his usual cheekiness , either because he was seriously worried about his son or simply because he had no need to defend himself up here where he was in his element and they were out of theirs . |
| 3 | ‘ … burst upon the scene , and , do you know , he looked so angry that I was more frightened of him than I was of his grisly companion . |
| 4 | He swung her up so she was on his upper arm , patting his face quite hard and pulling at his beard . |
| 5 | Once she was inside his trousers , her slim fingers caressed his sleeping organ until it jumped in her hand as if it had been bitten . |
| 6 | Aristotle knows of a time in which the constitution of Massalia had been even more oligarchic than it was in his time ( Pol . |
| 7 | Many noticed he was happier in the company of the permanent secretaries than he was with his ministerial colleagues . |
| 8 | God knows , he could n't be any worse at that than he was at his last job … |
| 9 | Indeed Neal is much more biting in his criticism than he was in his tackles . |
| 10 | If I was on his staff , as I was during the election , you can have a lot of power — influence — because you can say , ‘ I think you should do this Prime Minister , I think you should do that . |
| 11 | A logical move if I was in his shoes — Belgium is too close to Britain . |
| 12 | Well , well , lambkin , if I was in his place he should not have his property in you long questionable . |
| 13 | ‘ If someone was in his way , Charlie , he 'd be capable of anything . ’ |
| 14 | So he adopted the simple expedient of not opening it until it was beyond his power to act on it . |
| 15 | He wore glasses until he was into his teens and then er , he took them off and he 's er , he does n't wear them at all , and his sight is absolutely perfect . |
| 16 | He did n't want to think about anything except this nonsense until he was with his mother . |
| 17 | But for the remainder of the Fifties the initiative was seized in the Soviet Union , and often the world , by this gifted peasant , a copy-book proletarian , a metal worker who did not read or write until he was in his twenties and who summed up in his character so many of the strengths and weaknesses of the Communist system . |
| 18 | In 1828 George Hurst became a director of the House of Industry and subsequently a member of the Board of Guardians , a position which he held until he was in his nineties . |
| 19 | Noguchi did not get his first retrospective exhibition until he was in his sixties . |
| 20 | Luckily , after a while , I noticed a framed photograph of a young man on the sideboard and diverted the flow by asking if it was of his son — ’ |
| 21 | He 'd send us all whisky at Christmas if it was worth his while , only these days it 's hardly worth the risk . ’ |
| 22 | Pogo never refused any request she made if it was in his power to satisfy her . |
| 23 | He knew full well that the only circumstances in which a regional planning manager would not be expected personally to present his Ten Year Business Plan to the President of the Corporation was if he was already earmarked for promotion and it was desired to give visibility to his successor , or if he was on his way out . |
| 24 | I 'm going to lie in bed in the darkness and the music and think I 'm with G.P. and he 's lying over there with his eyes shut and his pitted cheek and his Jew 's nose ; as if he was on his own tomb . |
| 25 | I picked a man who looked as if he was in his late thirties or early forties . |
| 26 | Mr Fairley said : ‘ If he was in his bedroom he would have had to run past a gauntlet of flame . |
| 27 | She took his mind off Mandy , and that was strange considering she was on his daughter 's case . |
| 28 | The rehabilitated star is once again in his orbit , making movies virtually back to back instead of not making movies because he was on his back . |
| 29 | He believed she did not love him because he was like his father but he could not blame her for this because he knew he was unlovable . |
| 30 | He seemed different , perhaps because he was in his own home , his castle ( and it was almost a castle ) . |