Example sentences of "his [noun] he [vb -s] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To the delicate intricacies of his play he has added tactical steel and , after a difficult apprenticeship , he has gained substance without losing his natural spice . |
| 2 | The man is unconsciously seeking to take his mother as sexual object , but during the course of his upbringing he has learned to repress his wishes to make love to his mother , or to his sister . |
| 3 | By passing on his skills he has given other youngsters the incentive to go on to achieve greater things . |
| 4 | There it is , God in his mercy and his love , in his graciousness he has provided a gift , a free package gift for you and for me forgiveness , salvation but there is our responsibility of receiving it or taking hold of it , of experiencing it . |
| 5 | Capped for the All Blacks against France about six years ago , McPherson , 30 , actually brought the birth certificates of his Scottish grand-parents with him , but much to his regret he has gone un-noticed by the Scottish selectors . |
| 6 | To prove his point he has taken on the legal profession and , with no legal training whatsoever , tied judges in such knots they have overruled each other . |
| 7 | In his day he has taken on the big guns of industry , commercialised culture and of whole countries ( who can easily forget his devastating portrait of Mrs Thatcher and the fawning Saatchi brothers ? ) . |
| 8 | To his credit he has avoided giving us familiar images of Everest , Machhapuchhare and the like , and instead has chosen to be more creative in his choice of viewpoints , angles and lighting . |
| 9 | On this aspect of his collection he has said : ‘ Within this field , I try to obtain beautifully bound copies that belonged to a royal library , to a prince , or to a famous bibliophile . |
| 10 | ‘ All through his career he 's had the ability to lead and inspire and he 's really got through to our players and conveyed that . ’ |
| 11 | Throughout his career he has lurched from one extreme to another , noisy then quiet , a prolific goal scorer then a famine victim , a superstar then a substitute . |
| 12 | At some point or other in his career he has played a transvestite , a hunchback , a priest , a sado-masochist and an assortment of thugs . |
| 13 | In his career he has visited fourteen overseas countries . |
| 14 | Throughout his career he has captured the magic and the frustration of Scottish football , darting arrogantly down the wing in a surge of skill then retreating into a shell of indifference . |
| 15 | He wrote it down in his ledger which he used as a kind of diary-cum-commonplace book : and by the vigour of his writing he has brought the encounter vividly to life : |
| 16 | C. S. Lewis offered the most daring statement in the final volume of the ‘ Narnia ’ series , The Last Battle ( 1956 ) , in which we come across a young ( dead ) virtuous pagan , Emeth , who explains that all his life he has served Tash and scorned Aslan the Lion — earlier on it has been made clear that Tash is a bloody demon , Aslan , one might as well say , the ‘ Narnian ’ Christ . |
| 17 | For most of his life he has worked for Cummins Engine Co. , and met his wife there . |
| 18 | Since his operation he has become emotionally distant from his family and friends . |
| 19 | How can a man who believes that from foetus to Senior Citizen Railcard his existence has been nothing but a nuisance , that in his wake he has left nothing but pain and trouble , possibly love himself ? |
| 20 | He 's fortyish , a local GP , but according to his plate he 's got a fellowship . |
| 21 | But despite his qualities and his achievements he has looked like yesterday 's man for some time . |
| 22 | Caught him with a screwdriver in his hand he 's admitted he 's done it and he 's got let off . |
| 23 | She heard her father say , " Then , by the Holy Sacrament it is his promise he has broken , and can not expect my daughter to keep hers . " |
| 24 | In his time he has fought more than 50 of them , killing three outright with a combination of striking techniques . |
| 25 | In his time he has tried a lot of things : card-sharping , prison , wife-thrashing and perhaps wife-murder , child-violation , even good works . |
| 26 | He tells his mother he has cut himself to explain the blood on his jeans . |