Example sentences of "his [noun] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Henry might have known that in his case the operation would prove a little more complicated . |
| 32 | In his case the mark is made by scratching into his black , almost bitumenised , paint surface with the blunt wooden end of his brush . |
| 33 | William Hutton , apprenticed as a framework knitter , remembered great hunger , and in his case the mistress was his aunt . |
| 34 | Being a Governor gave him the right to know details of any child 's parentage , but in his case the necessity to study the books had never arisen . |
| 35 | Since then , Sakharov 's health has continued to be poor and his friends are scathing about the role of Soviet scientists — in his case the Academy of Sciences : ‘ A few words about the USSR Academy of Sciences and Sakharov 's scientific contacts . |
| 36 | That from his hart the beat no more shall thudde ? |
| 37 | Peter pulled up , but to his horror the glider chose to pull up as its method of collision avoidance . |
| 38 | We had received the full blast of his whimsicality the minute we arrived at the ancient wood-frame rectory , modernised in 1812 ( according to the brochure ) by the great-grandson of Sir Christopher Wren . |
| 39 | Though crippled , he managed to give any woman in his presence the conviction that she was delicate , helpless , and ultra-decorative , and could rely on him to shelter her from life 's cruel blows . |
| 40 | She was scarcely aware of the tapping at the door until it opened and Niall came into the room , his presence the catalyst for so many warring emotions within her that she stared at him with mutinous , tear-filled eyes . |
| 41 | and a little boy nipped on to see his mum the boy never got off so he was still on the bus |
| 42 | His hands sometimes stopped shaking long enough for him to light a fag or give his teeth the once-over with Pepsodent , but that was every other Scumday in a month with a zed in it . |
| 43 | In the 1840s the aim would have been not so much to save the debtor 's soul as to save his creditors the expense and boredom of having to sue him . |
| 44 | He tells us that as Jesus was praying before his baptism the Spirit came upon him . |
| 45 | Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. has set out in his reasons the condition of J. and his very limited future prospects . |
| 46 | Gregory and others saw in certain happenings which took place at this time the workings of divine providence : on one occasion the boat carrying one of his opponents sank ; on another a supporter was miraculously freed from prison ; and throughout his trial the princess Rigunth fasted on his behalf . |
| 47 | But you see , I just went to the education officer and I say , he , he ran it , he , it , it was , it was his responsibility the Guild 's were and I went to him about a Guild matter and I said oh , erm how I mentioned that I was working and he said well where are you working ? |
| 48 | ‘ My man could hear from his hilltop the cheering from the Orkney ships , my lord , as the twenty-five new ships sailed into view . |
| 49 | Under his ministry the Church grew but they could pay him very little . |
| 50 | These invitations made Henrietta feel that she would do anything , even return to the well , to avoid the company of the two youths one of whom bore across his chest the legend MY MOTHER WENT TO ISRAEL AND ONLY BROUGHT ME BACK THIS LOUSY T-SHIRT . |
| 51 | In his own time he had been a maverick , and for being a maverick his grateful sovereign had pinned on his chest the gallantry medal of the Military Cross . |
| 52 | From the moment he opened his mouth the pub was in uproar . |
| 53 | And he would sing to himself in his house or in his boat the song which his father had taught him many years ago . |
| 54 | More recently another historian , G. W. Trompf in his study The Idea of Historical Recurrence in Western Thought , has drawn attention to the prevalence of what he calls ‘ notions of re-enactment ’ in the Old Testament which formed an ideological basis for the great Israelite festivals . |
| 55 | Svetozar Koljević , in his study The Epic in the Making , has also drawn attention to the importance of the oral tradition in a peasant society , most of whose members had no access to the written word . |
| 56 | The relationship was taken a stage further in the following year , when the Prime Warden accepted for himself and his successors the office of Patron of the School . |
| 57 | But Bugatti was an innovator and it was his work at suspension development that gave his cars the edge over his rivals . |
| 58 | Apparently their last previous sighting was at his college the night before . |
| 59 | Dr. Prior noted that the number of cases , both medical and surgical , requiring special appliances was increasing and on his recommendation the Board agreed to the purchase of a water-bed ( or a water-mattress ) and two additional spring beds . |
| 60 | ‘ It was quick , ’ Pie said , glancing across at Estabrook and confirming in his glance the suspicion that he was the orphan-maker . |