Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [conj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is his hope that with a return to what he calls principles law may yet recover its hortatory function . |
| 2 | It was very well presented and that whilst Billy Connolly freely admitted he was not in fact a culture vulture , it was his enthusiasm that in a sense having his own that make the programme apparently a complete and utter joy and in a sense that 's what sponsorship should do , it should do for art , music , ballet and opera what Cousteau and Bellamy have done for the environment and Attenborough |
| 3 | It means little for this child to perform with the greatest precision the most difficult pieces , with hands that can hardly stretch a sixth ; but what is really incredible is to see him improvise for an hour on end and in doing so give rein to the inspiration of his genius and to a mass of enchanting ideas … |
| 4 | Angry at his ineffectiveness and at the way Rohmer had made him a bystander in this nightmare , Cardiff followed them back through the savage whirlwinds towards the office block . |
| 5 | At Monaco , that is particularly vital and by then Niki knew in his heart that in the majority of cases he was probably going to start behind Alain . |
| 6 | He went to live with his mistress and with the child born of that association . |
| 7 | If none the less there is no question of déjà entendu but a sense of compelling actuality , it is because the unique partnership appears to inspire every one of these outstanding players to feel responsible not only for his part but for the reading as a whole . |
| 8 | The light from a standard lamp caught the hair bubbling up through the open neck of his shirt and on the backs of his arms . |
| 9 | Ferguson will delay his decision until after a light training session this morning . |
| 10 | She came round to his chair and put her big arms around his neck , aware of what her flesh would feel like on his skin and at the same time ashamed to be self-conscious . |
| 11 | She 'll have to go , he told himself , fearful for his sanity while at the mercy of Bessie 's constant chatter . |
| 12 | Polanski used the club as his base and as an access point to its abounding supply of beautiful women ; just as Hefner 's Playboy mansion in Los Angeles was a magnet for the bright young things of Hollywood , so Lownes established a social whirl that attracted the cream and the elite of off-beat London society , plus some very famous names , eventually to include Nicholson himself . |
| 13 | Raymond Cusick had hoped for six Daleks from his budget but in the end the money only ran to affording four . |
| 14 | Clive Phillips , the council estate dodger who had got on his bike and into the fast lane , had fired me . |
| 15 | I always used to pick him up when daddy went out in the morning on his bike or on the bus , pick him up and wave bye-bye , see you soon . |
| 16 | In contrast was his finding that amongst the prisoners of San Quentin jail , there were some who had achieved fulfilment . |
| 17 | Nor on the other hand , can a tenant renounce his contract because of a mere apprehension of risk or through mere dislike of the premises through the fact e.g. that a person has died upon the premises of smallpox … |
| 18 | The chief inspector listened to his breathing and for a moment found it difficult to separate it from her own rasping pant . |
| 19 | So I said I had to make a quick decision either I was going to go up me chain past his whatsit and into the roof , or else go thirty feet down and run right across the chamber into whichever er level they could go to . |
| 20 | However , this made him re-examine the foundations of his faith and as a result he became more convinced of their truth than ever . |
| 21 | Stirling jumped as the first man of his stick and in the darkness made a bad landing as he could not see the ground . |
| 22 | SIGNED AND ACKNOWLEDGED by the above-named MARIUS STEEN the Testator as and for his LAST WILL in the presence of us both present at the same time who at his request in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses : William Bartlemas Keanophile Kevin O'Rourke Macreadophile |
| 23 | The wind , seizing on the hole in the roof , tugged and groaned , and spewed wet straw down over his hair and into the water . |
| 24 | However , on March 31 , Tao Siju , China 's Public Security Minister , while denying the existence of a " blacklist " , did admit that information on Hong Kong residents was collected by agents from his ministry and by the New China News Agency , China 's de facto embassy in Hong Kong . |
| 25 | Another showed her the dark stains down his chest and across the dashboard and windscreen . |
| 26 | To Annie 's delight , he climbed up on to her knee , put his thumb in his mouth and with a sigh , snuggled down and fell asleep . |
| 27 | He opened his mouth as in a dream , shaping it around the first barbaric syllable . |
| 28 | He emptied his flagon and after a minute 's hesitation she took it over to the table to refill it . |
| 29 | He walked me slowly out to the garden gate — a kindly old man , more interested in his trees and his plans for the palace , his rowing and his cycling than in the ruder demands of his people for democracy and good government . |
| 30 | They had been sitting at home ( unheated , before Anna put in the plumbing and the armchairs ) with cousins and priests coming to black coffee now and then while the prince was out on his horse or at the club . |