Example sentences of "sometimes [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes , Dexter , I think you 're a real — what do you call Wootton sometimes behind his back ? ’ |
| 2 | Rory , sometimes against his better judgement , lapped it up . |
| 3 | Wolfgang , meanwhile , was having rather a good time in Vienna on his own , staying sometimes with his friends Leutgeb the horn-player and the Puchbergs , who kept him fed , and going out drinking with an old friend , Emmanuel Schikaneder , an actor , singer , writer and producer and the manager of the Theater auf der Wieden in the suburbs . |
| 4 | From 1863 onwards he devoted his spare time to opening the barrows with which the Yorkshire wolds were strewn , sometimes with his younger brother Robert . |
| 5 | At the dealer 's request ( and sometimes with his assistance ) he fills in a form . |
| 6 | He would sit there all day doing this , sleeping sometimes in his chair but never tuning off , trying to make all these pieces of television fit together in some way . |
| 7 | We have long talks together , Buffy and I. Sometimes in his ravings he talks of an all-knowing , super-intelligent pig . |
| 8 | He was not without fault , foolish in his commercial life , reactionary sometimes in his political belief , nevertheless he is entitled no more to the title of the Great Unknown , but now to that of the Great Scotsman . |
| 9 | He would also read to his wife at the end of the day — from Boswell 's Life of Johnson , from Coleridge 's Letters , from Rudyard Kipling 's Kim ( an especial favourite ) and sometimes from his own work . |
| 10 | He did that sometimes on his own up in Jubilee Wood but never so anyone could see him . |
| 11 | She had seen photographs of him in the papers , sometimes on his own , but more often escorting a beautiful woman to various functions . |
| 12 | Censures were pronounced by the pope , sometimes by his legates , who were despatched to bring the curial arm to the spot . |