Example sentences of "he [verb] [noun pl] in his " in BNC.
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| 1 | His behaviour , the things he 'd said , trying with her new knowledge of him to find flaws in his reasoning , and then wondered drearily why she bothered . |
| 2 | A story was circulating around school that Frankie 's mother had been very ill and one of his aunts was responsible for him having nits in his head and a dirty body , torn pumps , bitten nails and no dinner money . |
| 3 | Brough , who has won as many awards as he rode winners in his national hunt career , writes so delightfully because he cares , because he sees sport as a writer and also as a fan . |
| 4 | On the cover of his ‘ Gunfighter Ballads ’ album , he donned cowboy gear ; for his ‘ Bitter Tears ( Songs Of The American Indian ) ’ LP he got feathers in his hair ; and for ‘ America ’ , he whipped out the flag . |
| 5 | Accordingly , he read arts in his first year ; commerce ( which included accounting , commercial law , political science and a couple of doses of mathematics ) in his second ; arts ( though strangely retaining political science ) for his third and fourth years , to which was added zoology . |
| 6 | He wo n't mind if he has shavings in his tail ! |
| 7 | Some musicians who should have known better suggested that Elgar 's readings were influenced by 78rpm recording techniques ; others showed points of detail where he ignored markings in his own scores . |
| 8 | As it was , the arrogance that he showed others in his business was mirrored by the doubts that he felt about himself . |
| 9 | He whispering endearments in his lover 's ear , the joy of lying in each other 's arms … the ecstasy afterwards , the contentment of just being together . |
| 10 | Benny and Eve used to tell each other in fits of laughter that he spent hours in his little room above the shop pressing all his ambitions into the suit with a damp cloth . |
| 11 | Christopher says he surprised intruders in his flat and fought them off . |
| 12 | Brian had reported general malaise for five days before he developed paraesthesiae in his right arm and weakness in his legs . |
| 13 | Even so , it remains true that the performance of the individual is a function of the way he developed skills in his earlier more formative years and the way in which his capacities and skills are still changing in the work environment . |
| 14 | Of the Latin church music of Jacques Mauduit ( 1557–1627 ) , a Catholic , little survives except the end of his Requiem for Ronsard ( 1586 ) , an early and probably uncharacteristic work in the peculiar style of musique mesurée à l'antique which will be discussed in the next chapter ( p. 284 ) ; we know that he employed instruments in his annual Holy Week concerts at the Abbaye Saint-Antoine and the St. Cecilia celebrations in Notre Dame . |
| 15 | Cauthen 's prolific American contemporary , Cash Asmussen , will miss four booked rides at Ascot as he pulled muscles in his neck when falling from his mount who crossed his legs at the start of the last race at Maisons-Laffitte yesterday . |
| 16 | It is of interest in this connection to note that Lord Scarman , who was not in favour of similar provisions in his report on the Red Lion Square disturbances in 1978 , expressed a different view following the Brixton disorders in 1981 , when he included recommendations in his report that the Public Order Act of 1936 should be amended to include ‘ a requirement of advance notice of a procession to the police ’ . |
| 17 | He took mountains in his stride . |
| 18 | Justin moved on to Rome where he offered lectures in his own school on the Christian philosophy . |
| 19 | He never got one back with a check-mark , but he kept copies in his office until , in October 1986 , he started to destroy documents to cover his tracks . |
| 20 | Drachenfels moved among them , laughing as he squeezed heads in his hands and shattered them like rotted fruits . |
| 21 | She noticed that he walked as though he had pebbles in his shoes . |
| 22 | He had others in his grizzled russet tonsure , dropped from the higher branches as the wind stirred them . |
| 23 | I knew him when he had holes in his socks as a post-graduate . |
| 24 | He had tears in his eyes . |
| 25 | He had tears in his eyes . |
| 26 | A nursing supervisor said : ‘ He had tears in his eyes . |
| 27 | David Nicholson says he had tears in his eyes and was almost speechless when he won the gold cup |
| 28 | Instead , he had meals in his bedroom — or even on the stairs . |
| 29 | He had pictures in his office that he would show me of well-equipped armed bands that he said were taken down in the middle of Nicaragua . |
| 30 | He would go hysterics again , saying he had children in his house and what if the police came ? |