Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [vb past] [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only later did it emerge that the Germans had supported his candidature for the post of High Commissioner in Danzig , and that he had since 1920 been on very friendly terms with Baron Ernst von Wiesäker , the head of the political section of the German Foreign Office . |
| 2 | She was relieved to see that her son 's tour of the palaces had left his eyes shining and he greeted her with something approaching his normal smile . |
| 3 | One of the kids started winding his scarf around his head , mummifying himself . |
| 4 | If any of the beaters did incur his wrath , they were sent home . |
| 5 | The Zoroastrians still reckon dates by the years of the last Zoroastrian king of Iran , Yazdgard III of the Sassanian dynasty ( who was assassinated in AD 651 after the Arabs had overrun his kingdom ) , thus prolonging his imaginary reign through the centuries . |
| 6 | Steele , in charge of Music , had joined the staff in 1946 , and over the years had instilled his own love of music into hundreds of pupils by means which , if slightly idiosyncratic , were enormously successful , and had nurtured talents as diverse as members of symphony orchestras and pop groups , and soloists . |
| 7 | But the training that had been such a part of his life , the long hours of studying the Twelve Books of Honour for entry into the Fiana at the age of eleven ; the days and the weeks spent schooling his mind so that all situations could be calmly appraised , came to his aid and , at length , exhausted and drained , Fergus began to look about him and assess this strange , out-of-the-world fortress . |
| 8 | As long as the planes came to drop his explosives he did n't give a damn for the rest of the war effort . |
| 9 | The spring and early summer of 1169 Henry spent in the south , taking and demolishing many of the castles from which the rebels had defied his authority . |
| 10 | Seated on the chair or cathedra of St Peter , the pope now received the kiss of peace — the ceremony of proskynesis , where , starting with the youngest , the cardinals advanced to kiss his feet . |
| 11 | Frankie picked up the empty kettle and went to refill it but I noticed that none of the onlookers tried to wring his neck while he had the kettle in his hands . |
| 12 | But in his euphoria , Haig had become convinced that he could defeat Germany with the BEF alone before the Americans arrived to steal his glory . |
| 13 | When , later , he heard Larry 's voice on Lee 's telephone the tears seemed to flood his throat . |
| 14 | He said the men had threatened his life , and even as he drove the victim to the beauty spot where the gang waited , one had been hiding in the boot of his car with a shotgun . |
| 15 | One of the men moved to block his path . |
| 16 | When the bandages began to make his fingers claw the local hospital made special gloves for him which reach up to his shoulders . |
| 17 | In a case in May 1988 , a youth called Alladice confessed to armed robbery after the police had denied his request for a solicitor . |
| 18 | Amy popped her head round the door to tell Kathleen that they had found some ID on the track and the police had brought his parents in . |
| 19 | The police had found his body the previous afternoon , just before lunch . |
| 20 | They set off , but the Friar did not understand at first whom they were following ; it was as though he believed that the children had taken his sack . |
| 21 | If it can not be shown that the person uttering the remarks intended to induce his victim to believe that he was about to engage in violence himself , or intended to provoke the object of his remarks into using unlawful violence , what will be termed here the objective conditions come into operation . |
| 22 | He stood up , waiting until the others had followed his lead . |
| 23 | The interviews helped to bolster his position and on 19 December he won a comfortable though hardly crushing victory ( fifty-five to forty-five per cent ) . |
| 24 | From his home in Maltby in Yorkshire , he told journalists that the accusations had devastated his children . |