Example sentences of "his [noun] [prep] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By contrast , his attempts to cover-up his crime were cool and calculated . |
| 2 | He realised that in his discussions with Ranulf he had not mentioned old Martha 's death . |
| 3 | It emerged yesterday that he was made bankrupt two weeks ago today for failing to pay his solicitors for work they had done . |
| 4 | He will be searching for the Volvo and with his kind of luck he will no doubt find it . |
| 5 | Not at all his kind of picture I should have said . |
| 6 | Finally , while he is indeed very careful to underline the distinctiveness and uniqueness of Jesus and of Christianity , do hidden thorns lurk in his description of Christianity itself as ‘ a religion ’ which can be classified along with other ‘ religions ’ ? |
| 7 | He recommends the phrase ‘ care of the body ’ to be used in discussion with clients and continues to surprise us by telling us that in his experience of funeral-arranging he has never yet had anything but a positive response to , ‘ Would you like us to look after mother in our usual way , so that you will be assured of having an everlasting memory of her sleeping peacefully and at rest ? ’ |
| 8 | On either side of the black ridge of his brow , the soot-black plaits were looped , Viking-style , under the leather band of the hla , confining his hair in case his head became bared in battle . |
| 9 | Thomas had decided that in his piece of writing he would set out his speculations on the history of the piece of wood . |
| 10 | From his study of geology he knew that the world was much older than Archbishop Ussher 's absurd calculation . |
| 11 | In the United Sterling case the basis for dismissing the motion was that there was no evidence that the defendant was given any special information which he ought to have regarded as a separate part of his stock of knowledge which an honest employee would have recognised as property of the employer . |
| 12 | A metre and a half of copper wire with wooden handgrips at each end went in his pocket plus a box of bullets for his Walther in case he should be able to reclaim it from the masthead . |
| 13 | In his search for gold he found many new islands including Cuba and Hispaniola . |
| 14 | Then , his manners in company nothing if not impeccable , Ven switched to English and introduced Lubor Ondrus . |
| 15 | Moran was neither rich nor poor but his hatred and fear of poverty was as fierce as his fear of illness which meant that he would never be poor but that he and all around him would live as if they were paupers . |
| 16 | His interest in the precedents is exhausted , for this purpose at least , once he is satisfied that according to his conception of law they establish only that mothers at the scene have a right to recover , and this is clear immediately and with no reflection about larger underlying principles whose nature is a matter of dispute . |
| 17 | He wo n't close his eyes in case you do something to him . |
| 18 | He 's out of his mind in case you 've had an accident or something , but he could n't come after you because he was due back at the hospital for a clinic . ’ |
| 19 | His Williams team-mate , Alain Prost , marked his return to Formula One yesterday after a year 's sabbatical by claiming provisional pole position . |
| 20 | so when the when the proof lands on his desk of his ad for authorization we 're taking the balance out |
| 21 | On one of his periods of leave he visited Hamilton Terrace and , at his parents ' instructions , terminated his association with Minton . |
| 22 | After George had left his basket at home he gave Willie a hand . |
| 23 | He plans to publish diaries about his years in office which will spark a storm in Westminster . |
| 24 | ‘ Ca n't you even stroke his picture for fear I shall see how much you miss him , or is all your love kept for yourself ? ’ |
| 25 | A willingness to stand up and promote his trade with gusto typifies Mr Smythe 's approach to his job as chairman his Association . |
| 26 | From his point of view he had asked to go to see the gorillas and he had been told ‘ Yes ’ . |
| 27 | Even if he is trying to attend to the perspectival appearance presented to his point of view he may get it wrong . |
| 28 | As ever , the hon. Gentleman takes a great interest in hon. Members this side of the House , but I suppose that from his point of view it is a receding problem . |
| 29 | I realise from his point of view his company would be a quarter of a million better off if they could prove it should never have been paid in the first place , but … it is my mother he was talking about dammit ! ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I 'll get back to you , ’ Powell promised , mindful of his booking on Ghofar which was to finish a satisfactory 11th . |