Example sentences of "his [noun] [prep] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the war approached , her father , Colonel Joshua Murchison had sent her to live with his sister in California It had almost broken Yanto 's heart at the time . |
| 2 | By contrast , his attempts to cover-up his crime were cool and calculated . |
| 3 | His climbing achievements are many , but it is his attempts on Everest which have lodged him firmly in the public consciousness . |
| 4 | What reassurance can the Minister give the dairy farmers of Monmouthshire that during his discussions on GATT their interests will be protected ? |
| 5 | He realised that in his discussions with Ranulf he had not mentioned old Martha 's death . |
| 6 | No matter how long he waited or how often he looked up to see who the latest arrival was , he knew in his heart of hearts it would n't be his son . |
| 7 | Frankie often joined his classmates in taunting them because of their poor homes or absent fathers , yet in his heart of hearts he envied them all . |
| 8 | Paley knew that it needed a special explanation ; Darwin knew it , and I suspect that in his heart of hearts my philosopher companion knew it too . |
| 9 | ‘ Wait , calm yourself , sabiha tieghi , my beautiful one , ’ he teased softly , unbuttoning his shirt with fingers which shook almost as much as hers had done . |
| 10 | It emerged yesterday that he was made bankrupt two weeks ago today for failing to pay his solicitors for work they had done . |
| 11 | When he failed to muster enough backing for a secret ballot Pawar announced his support for Rao who was then unanimously elected as leader on June 20. nation |
| 12 | In his support for helmets he adduces the case of Roger Davis . |
| 13 | He will be searching for the Volvo and with his kind of luck he will no doubt find it . |
| 14 | Not at all his kind of picture I should have said . |
| 15 | I had n't any idea what he was talking about but I listened attentively to his description of lands I had never imagined , with their dark green forests , snowy slopes and frozen lakes . |
| 16 | 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 ’ ? |
| 17 | The existence at common law of the tort of enticement of a servant has already been noticed , but though to modern eyes it involved A persuading B to break his contract with C its historical origins lie more in status than in contract . |
| 18 | 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 ? ’ |
| 19 | She asked that if Clemens did not attend his trial in London he be dealt with as convicted in his absence . |
| 20 | Gates based his assessment on data which the CIA has collected on the Soviet nuclear power programme since the first Soviet reactor was commissioned in 1954 . |
| 21 | The Left-wing bias of the Cabinet had enabled Mr Major to ‘ railroad through ’ his proposals on Maastricht which nearly led to the Government 's defeat . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Tammuz opened his mouth at Roirhak who merely took a sip of coffee . |
| 24 | Thomas had decided that in his piece of writing he would set out his speculations on the history of the piece of wood . |
| 25 | Sentenced to be hung by the peer 's privilege of a silken rope , for his transportation to Tyburn he dressed in his wedding suit , on the grounds that his marriage was the only occasion in his life to have caused him as much distress as his execution . |
| 26 | From his study of geology he knew that the world was much older than Archbishop Ussher 's absurd calculation . |
| 27 | For the sake of this exercise , he would confine his research to sums which were lost due to insolvencies . |
| 28 | At the start of his research into savants there were only 50 known cases in the world . |
| 29 | Through his research in Norway he made contact with the former secret agent Bernhard Bergersen who was keen to ensure that the Norwegian facts were correct . |
| 30 | 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 . |