Example sentences of "his [noun] [conj] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Moorcroft resigned in April 1794 , Coleman also proffered his resignation but was persuaded to continue in office . |
| 2 | Other news , Graham Taylor announced his resignation and was joined by Lawrie MacMenemy last night . |
| 3 | He was carrying his billhook and was dressed as he was on that last dreadful autumn afternoon , a singlet stained with his sweat , the shorts high cut , showing as he walked the bulge of the scrotum , the white legs , matted with black hair from the knees down . |
| 4 | Helen believed unshakeably in his genius and was determined to enable him to realize his potential as a writer — a poet , like Shelley , she believed at this rime — without sacrificing her own strong desire for freedom of independent action , untrammelled by the stuffy conventions of the elders she suspected of hypocrisy . |
| 5 | He , He went into hospital and they said erm that it 's the muscles of his heart that were affected they could n't do anything more for him ! |
| 6 | Or perhaps it was his fingers that were having that effect . |
| 7 | When he reappeared his hair was soaked , he had taken off his shirt and was carrying a large square of sticking plaster . |
| 8 | Without even realising what she was doing , she had undone the buttons of his shirt and was sliding her hand now against his naked chest . |
| 9 | He had put away his Churchill and was reading a new book . |
| 10 | The caller demanded £40,000 for his story and was promised the cash when the voice was identified as that of Diana . |
| 11 | Tony , over to my right , shouted something to me , released his hook and was gone . |
| 12 | THE Forum of Private Business asked for ten gifts from the Chancellor before his Budget and was given half of them . |
| 13 | When his head jerked back to look up at Grant again , it was n't his teeth that were gleaming in the dark now , it was the whites of his eyes , wide with fear . |
| 14 | But now he looks to have got the bit between his teeth and is buckling down to some series driving — and finally showing what enormous talent he has . |
| 15 | Mossgara was hampered at halfway but stayed on well when second to Wizzard Artist at Plumpton on his debut and is bound to have derived considerable benefit from that experience . |
| 16 | In these troubled times Jesus conducted his ministry and was put to death . |
| 17 | His arms held , though now she had wedged her hands in between her breasts and the hard wall of his chest and was pushing away from him with all her might . |
| 18 | It was a miraculous feeling — as though his soul had been crammed over-large inside his chest and was struggling to expand . |
| 19 | Her eyes were adjusting to the darkness , and now she could see that he had folded his arms over the enticing broadness of his chest and was watching her with a challenging glitter in his eyes . |
| 20 | He felt the first bullet tear into his chest and was thrown against the wall . |
| 21 | So , if you ever see anyone roaring along the street on a motorbike wearing a suit of armour with a carpet in his mouth and being pelted with armadillos , you 'll know what he 's been up to … |
| 22 | In any case , he recognized the success of Dej 's gambit and made it his own after 1964.4 In fact , when Khruschev was toppled by Brezhnev in the autumn of 1964 , three counts in the lengthy criticism of his methods that was levelled at Khruschev by the new Soviet leadership referred to his errors in his dealings with the Romanians . |
| 23 | Following the debates Bush appeared to step back from further character attacks on Clinton , a development which led to speculation that he had already privately accepted the inevitability of his defeat and was seeking to preserve a degree of presidential dignity . |
| 24 | Mr de Benedetti has protested his innocence and is to appeal , a process that could take two years to complete . |
| 25 | After all , he could have been thrown from his horse and been lying injured on the moors in the middle of a fierce storm . |
| 26 | Persuaded by advisers to leave the battlefield , he fell from his horse and was carried , injured , into a nearby mill . |
| 27 | He had sunk to his knees and was bowing his head . |
| 28 | Jimmy had dropped to his knees and was hugging his head , when the noise suddenly snapped out of existence . |
| 29 | Ted had given up all hope of enlarging his holding and was concentrating his efforts on farming his existing soil , making a reasonable living from his multiplicity of vegetable crops , when a letter arrived one day explaining to him that if he still wanted to buy the adjoining land , the owners were interested in discussing the matter . |
| 30 | A neighbour heard his screams but was driven back into her house when she tried to intervene . |