Example sentences of "his [noun] [vb past] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Officially he had recovered nicely from the shock of his experience , but his sister thought he needed more time : she was mothering him . |
| 2 | Nothing was said , but his Lieutenant knew he had been reprieved at the last minute . |
| 3 | As before , whenever his acquirements enabled him to pay , he would be called upon to do so . |
| 4 | As his dive steepened he felt the speed pick up again ; there was still life in the controls , somewhere . |
| 5 | His fingers urged her to continue . |
| 6 | His decision stated he had made assumptions about the lease which were held to be incorrect , and those errors resulted in the premises being valued on a fundamentally wrong basis . |
| 7 | But Christian soon made it clear that his plans had nothing to do with the fire at the manor , although he admitted that Tom being placed in charge of the manor farm did affect what he had in mind . |
| 8 | As his parting shot he tried to toe-poke |
| 9 | With help , he explored his feelings and to his horror found himself crying , not for his father , but for himself . |
| 10 | Tell him his Mum said he 'd better be good . |
| 11 | Derry from EMF put a frog down Morrissey 's shirt and Jim Bob off of Carter taped snooker on his Bernard Manning videos then Morrissey got dead upset and his mum asked us to leave . |
| 12 | His mum made him wear sensible shoes ( bit of an admission , this ) . |
| 13 | His Mum made him sit on one of the chairs that were all round the walls and look at the magazines . |
| 14 | His Mum helped him to mash and peas . |
| 15 | As ex-Lord Mayor of Manchester and former chairman of that City Corporation 's Housing Committee , his experience led him to demonstrate that : The return of a Labour Government in 1929 provided an opportunity for a different approach . |
| 16 | His chart showed he had no earth — no practical common sense . |
| 17 | Mr Evans looked at Carrie and his look made her tremble . |
| 18 | His look made me feel guilty , though I could n't think why it should . |
| 19 | His mouth made her cringe , his hands moulded her flesh . |
| 20 | The cutting scorn that hardened his eyes and thinned his mouth made her flinch . |
| 21 | The thin cotton of his pyjamas did nothing to cushion the discomfort of the wicker scraping his bony body . |
| 22 | For a moment she relaxed against him , then as his words penetrated she saw a mental picture of those same arms encircling Dawn . |
| 23 | His words left her reeling , but somehow she fought back shakily . |
| 24 | His words made one recall the excellent reports compiled by Ian Paisley 's Assembly Agriculture Committee and Sheila Magee about the industry in the mid 1980s . |
| 25 | His words made her feel an odd glow of warmth deep inside her , and her tears dried up . |
| 26 | The shock of his words had her narrowing her eyes as her heart began to beat uncomfortably fast in her chest . |
| 27 | Charles 's territories could already have been described as an empire , in the sense that he ruled over a collection of different political units held together by the allegiance his subjects felt they owed him rather than through a sense of common institutions or common language which could serve as the foundation for a unifying national spirit . |
| 28 | When his horse staled he kept some of the urine . |
| 29 | EGG producers yesterday demanded the resignation of Suffolk Coastal MP John Gummer as Agriculture Minister after his department admitted it did not pay farmers enough compensation for the slaughter of poultry flocks after the 1988 salmonella-in-eggs scare . |
| 30 | He was reluctant to begin and his hesitancy made her look questioningly at him . |