Example sentences of "his [noun] but [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He offered his resignation but it was turned down by Mr Major . |
| 2 | He had admitted that she was n't in his heart but she was nevertheless in his life . |
| 3 | Morrissey is always taking off his shirt but he is also proudly and publicly chaste . |
| 4 | ‘ She said she does n't want his money but she hopes it wo n't be the ruination of Kate , ’ said Sarah . |
| 5 | ‘ Son of Thatcher ’ may have provided a holding position in the first days after his election but it has no life left in it . |
| 6 | Of course , the real reason is that 900 of his constituents work at Rothmans and he fears for his majority but he ca n't bring himself actually to say so . |
| 7 | We could sell his story but we could never make money from other people 's suffering … ’ |
| 8 | ‘ As far as giving advice is concerned , the debt lawyer is extremely useful in his field but I do n't really feel our other lawyer is in a position to help . |
| 9 | Top weight and soft ground proved his undoing but he ran an absolute cracker to finish third to Sibton Abbey . |
| 10 | He can get away with his accent but he could do a lot to improve his tone . |
| 11 | They did not like his presence but he found little difficulty in scaring them off , or evading them if they tried to mob him , and the food in these places was plentiful . |
| 12 | Antony has got a temporary cap on one of his teeth but he 's had it about twice really . |
| 13 | David Damiani said nothing for several seconds after finishing his narrative but he opened up a battered suitcase and produced from it his old pale brown British Palestine passport and opened the document on page six . |
| 14 | Once his head began to fall onto his chest but he jerked it up again . |
| 15 | She pushed her hands against his chest but he held her effortlessly , laughing down into her upturned face . |
| 16 | Fear spurted up into his mouth but he managed to hold the gaze , eye to eye . |
| 17 | There was blood on his mouth but he kept smiling because he had the machine-gun . |
| 18 | Graham still bore the mental scars of his tragedy but he had proved to be an excellent operative and Philpott had no intention of letting him go . |
| 19 | He knew that he could have carried the coffee into the comparative serenity of his study but he had n't the courage to get to his feet . |
| 20 | I says no I 'm his brother-in-law but I know all his details and I said , he was n't here ! |
| 21 | We push his legs but they buckle at the knees , so we have to hold them up above our heads as we push to make them stay straight , then as we shove and his trousers are rolled down by the rim of stone , his arms flop over the far side of the shaft rim and it suddenly gets easier to push him . |
| 22 | down into his arteries and we ca n't get anything down there so they 're blocked , but he said how the hell he survived that op I do n't know he said they could 've done more with his legs but it meant another hour and a quarter minutes in surgery , and he said he 'd had enough we could n't have kept him on the table a minute longer so he said all we can do is wait , so now mum said well he 's alright in intensive care , he 's responding well , getting over the operation well , but what we was worried about was him breathing on his own , had he , had he been you see , anyway he said this on er Thursday |
| 23 | yes you are His tail now when it 's down it 's still down between his legs but it 's li it 's limp is n't it ? |
| 24 | When he 'd finished at the sink I came out and wound myself lovingly around his legs but he shut me in the kitchen . |
| 25 | Maybe he had proved to himself that he had recovered his nerve but he had had to hold on very tight at that moment when she had broken . |
| 26 | Jean-Claude may have had artistic integrity on his side but he did not have a legal leg to stand on . |
| 27 | Henry 's mother hardly left his side but he improved and at 8pm on 31 March she went to have something to eat , leaving her son playing in the doorway of his room . |
| 28 | They were meant to be for his weight but I 'm not sure I believe that . |
| 29 | At one point there was real concern about his future but he is now back and playing better than when he was first picked by England . ’ |
| 30 | He did not tell his parents because he knew they would try to change his mind but he confided in a colleague at work . |