Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Andy Reed 's lineout provision had created that chance and the Bath lock could prove a real dark horse for the Lions given his sterling deeds at restarts , a superb chopping of Mike Hall , a dive pass from a ruck and his arrival in the burn-out of Gavin Hastings ' break which required more last-gasp heroics , this time from Stuart Davies , to prevent a try . |
| 2 | He found ( see also Batson and Best ( 1981 ) ) that animals given his discrimination training procedure showed an enhanced preference for the safe flavour ( the conditioned inhibitor ) . |
| 3 | Journalists christened his daily briefings ‘ the Falt follies ’ , a self-conscious reference to the American briefings in Vietnam which came to be known as ‘ the five o'clock follies ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles painted his picture ? ’ |
| 5 | Panini formulated his rules of language in the Ashtadhyayi . |
| 6 | It is difficult to understand why the judges selected his design for second prize , as the assessors had rejected it by saying that it was ‘ Too expensive and involving too great a sacrifice of property ’ , and were supported by Brunel and Burn . |
| 7 | His head was bandaged and wires linked his body with machines . |
| 8 | In one case a Leeds man received a quarterly bill for more than three thousand pounds after British Gas engineers fitted his new meter back to front ! |
| 9 | In setting up his assignment at the University of Alabama , Donleavy had assumed that Coleman would return to Cyprus with Mary-Claude and Sarah in February 1988 , but analysing the personal histories of foreign scholars produced such interesting results that the DIA several times postponed his departure . |
| 10 | Some observers regarded his appointment as an interim one , pending the elevation of Lee 's son , the Trade and Industry Minister , Brig. -Gen. ( reserve ) Lee Hsien Loong . |
| 11 | The point , however , is that Toennies based his analysis not on the difference between peasant community and urbanised society , but between the old-fashioned town and the capitalist city , ‘ essentially a commercial town and , insofar as commerce dominates its productive labour , a factory town ’ . |
| 12 | Strange dreams disturbed his mind : weird animals chased him down long dark valleys , but gradually he came to know that they were only nightmares . |
| 13 | On National day the bookmakers assessed his chance at 100–7 , with Must the favourite and Sundew ( who was to win the race the following year ) second favourite . |
| 14 | He turned towards her , but the blankets entangled his legs and he fought his eyes open in irritation . |
| 15 | He was standing in a pool of blood and water and behind him a line of bloody footprints marked his painful progress from the showers . |
| 16 | While his Christian faith had prevented him from becoming Foreign Minister in Moslem-dominated Egypt , many Western diplomats regarded his marriage to an Egyptian Jew as a potential asset in promoting Arab-Israeli understanding . |
| 17 | This pursuit of around 700 life histories occupied his spare time for years : ‘ I spent 10 years in Nottingham library going through the old newspapers and noting every reference to cricket up to 1880 . |
| 18 | Perhaps he should have done , as interest rates determined his profitability . |
| 19 | After a night racked with pain , Bill 's wife Violet took him to their local hospital where horrified doctors treated his multiple injuries . |
| 20 | He was a skilled architect who would grow used to praise , but he must have been pleased to hear that the Goldsmiths regarded his school as " not excelled by any other building of a similar construction in solidity , taste , and execution . |
| 21 | Once more , the critics placed his work where it honestly belonged , in the basement of B-movies , as were his next two , Back Door to Hell and Flight to Fury , both directed by Monte Hellman . |
| 22 | Meanwhile he remained a guest of the Fists , whose Chirurgeons deemed his scapular and hip scars too throughly cauterized to allow them to cyborg him . |
| 23 | Three great volleys of shot at the interring of the body , and lastly an herald of arms proclaimed his titles . ’ |
| 24 | At school , the teachers assessed his quality by his colour and damned with faint encouragement , suggesting he aim low to avoid disappointment . |
| 25 | But doctors fixed his nose and sent him home . |
| 26 | They came and their tears salted his nail-holes |
| 27 | At first the police treated his death as suspicious , but a post mortem has now revealed he died from hypothermia . |
| 28 | At first police treated his case as a suspicious death but not murder . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Elected vice-provost in 1929 , he was a unanimous choice as provost in 1933 ; and such was the hold he established over the college that the fellows prolonged his tenure as provost for two years so that he retired in 1954 . |