Example sentences of "[subord] his [noun] [vb -s] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A person may say that he feels a pain in his foot , where his shoe pinches him . |
| 2 | GOALKEEPER Aidan Davison , so his grandma tells us , has just been named the Millwall supporters ' player of the year . |
| 3 | Cos his dad has him on a mon on a morning from nine till twelve so |
| 4 | If he looked bored and cold and ready to quit in Swansea the other night , he 'll carry on running into places his own brain ca n't conceive until his genius leaves him . |
| 5 | The cheetah can attain speeds of 97 kph for about 18 seconds , but soon slows down if his prey eludes him . |
| 6 | He is reluctant to preach , but if his lifestyle conveys anything , it is an emphatic witness to the importance of the things of the spirit ; a disclaimer of the acquisitive society . |
| 7 | We may find ourselves disagreeing with other people on the basis of sampling ; one man may claim that a shirt he bought from a well-known manufacturer wore out in no time at all , whereas his friend says he always buys this make because they wear so well . |
| 8 | Giovanni has a comic side-kick , his servant Leporello , whose grumbling aria — he is forced to wait outside while his master amuses himself indoors — opens the opera . |
| 9 | The Empire player uses the Empire army list , while his opponent uses his own list from the Warhammer Armies book for his army . |
| 10 | The High Elf player uses the High Elf army list , whilst his opponent uses his own list . |
| 11 | Each must decide as he pleases , according to whether his temperament urges him to prefer the prolific , radiant , almost jovial abundance of Rubens ; the mild dignity and eurhythmic order of Raphael ; the paradisal — one might almost say the afternoon colour of Veronese ; the austere and strained severity of David ; or the dramatic and almost literary rhetoric of Lebrun . |
| 12 | No doubt he will want to play but we will have to check on whether his injury restricts his movement . |
| 13 | A life examined after his friend kills himself . |
| 14 | Now suffering is a vast and many-sided fact of Crime and Punishment , as of all mature Dostoevsky — larger than the ‘ loose end ’ idea of The Drunks which produced Marmeladov the marmeladey wallower in abasement and humiliation , the man who seeks suffering and finds it ( and so finds satisfaction too ) at the bottom of his vodka jug , who screams ‘ I 'm loving this ! ’ when his wife pulls him across the room by his hair ; and larger than the ‘ out of the practical swim ’ idea of ‘ A Confession ’ from which emerges the murderer , the man with something to confess , who does n't seek suffering but learns , though only in the Epilogue , to accept it . |
| 15 | That evening , Philip , an ex-Merchant Taylors boy who has known Iain since prep school , is at home in his room when his mum calls him to the phone . |
| 16 | Stanley works in the factory canteen but then loses his job when his boss discovers he ca n't read — a revelation for which Iris is accidentally responsible . |
| 17 | But when his boss chases him for , you know information or whatever you know . |
| 18 | The question , who tells us ? , recalls the most important of Dostoevsky 's many changes in the course of writing Crime and Punishment , his switch from first-person narration — the murderer 's story — to what is formally third-person but proves so supple , so volatile , that the distinction between the inside and outside of Raskolnikov 's head disappears when his creator wants it to . |
| 19 | And does not the fact that God is love mean that when His creation suffers He suffers too ? |
| 20 | A mantra is given to a trainee meditator when his teacher initiates him into TM during an eastern ritual . |
| 21 | The child wo n't get out of bed when his mother calls him in the morning : so he misses the school bus , is late for school and is punished by his headteacher . |
| 22 | When his mother rigs him out in a pretty pink frock to wear to school ( ‘ What 's a frock ? ’ said my son . |
| 23 | Mr John Cleese , the icon , has revealed that when his mother dies he intends to ‘ have her stuffed and put in a glass case in his front hall . ’ |
| 24 | Mike Atherton , meanwhile , has been told he will be resuming his opening partnership with Graham Gooch — as long as his form warrants it . |
| 25 | He was bound , as his biographer puts it , ‘ for Careta , the Pacific , and immortality ’ . |
| 26 | I did n't like this town when I first came to it , and … and I must whisper this , I did n't care much for him either , for his deaf-aid makes him believe that everybody else is deaf . ’ |