Example sentences of "his [noun pl] [vb base] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even his opponents acknowledge his tenacity . |
| 2 | His supporters say his energy has enabled him to succeed to a large extent in holding the Palestinian movement together during a series of splits and crises . |
| 3 | He tried to be the former and his Notebooks show his struggle : the latter he knew he could never be but always revered . |
| 4 | His parents remember his fondness for writing , and in the groups that preceded The Wedding Present , he was clumsily relating the world in which he lived and trying to understand it through his own lyrics . |
| 5 | His forelegs support his horizontal body and the great back legs do the work . |
| 6 | His films reflect his background , a masculine world where one 's manhood and independence can only survive through violence . |
| 7 | But his reservations outweigh his praise : ‘ They may have done some good in creating interest in two people who 've made major innovations in twentieth-century music , but they 've also given a negative impression : that the people involved in this music have serious flaws in their personalities . |
| 8 | He is self-deprecating but ail his anecdotes feature his achievements . |
| 9 | His speculations show his understanding of the need for bold hypotheses and theories . |
| 10 | He is a quiet , unassuming man who prefers to let his athletes do his talking for him . |
| 11 | His friends carry his rigid , moaning body to one side and an older woman splashes him with water . |
| 12 | And the extracts in the Mail so far give a foretaste of that other favourite British hobby , class warfare — hot stuff now because Mr Major and his friends say his detractors are snobs . |
| 13 | The final sections of ‘ Van Gogh ’ are particularly masterly : as the painter painfully dies in the little village inn , his friends lament his passing for a moment and then get on with the business of the day — shopping , washing clothes , preparing for work . |
| 14 | This hit home for me in a 10-mile traffic gridlock around Birmingham last weekend , gazing at the rows of orange cones he swore to sweep away with Citizens ' Charters while listening to his critics savage his new improved Classless Honours List . |
| 15 | The father in a family can never be satisfied if his children clean his shoes and lay the table , but never talk to him , and never hug him . |
| 16 | His face and his hands indicate his incredulity . |
| 17 | We used to split them up and his men take his that way and th we used to bring ours this way , yeah . |
| 18 | Thus we might say that the sceptic implicitly claims to know his conclusion that knowledge is impossible , or that he claims that his premises justify his belief that justified belief is impossible . |
| 19 | Whatever he may think he is doing he can only be discovering , like our romantic traveller , but perhaps much less aware of what he is doing , that in the last resort his desires outweigh his fears . |