Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | May claim thee for his pains . |
| 2 | Yanto shook his fist at the face of the crane driver grinning down at them through his cab window . |
| 3 | Nigel Buxton , 41 , swerved snarply across the road when he lifted both his hands off the wheel and ran them through his hair , Didcot magistrates heard . |
| 4 | Bob sank into the scrunching springs of an old armchair , put a hand over his eyes , and watched them through his fingers . |
| 5 | The sergeant felt uncomfortable , as if the millionaire was trying to possess them through his unwavering stare , attempting to inveigle them into doing his will . |
| 6 | ‘ You did n't know that he acquired them through his wife who must have got them while she was housekeeper-companion to Mrs Armitage ? ’ |
| 7 | I used to watch them through his field glasses , and the baboons that processed along the cliff tops , the babies clinging to their mothers ' backs . |
| 8 | For her flaming tresses — burning like Isabel 's on her son 's sweet lips as he drew them through his fingers , drowned in them … |
| 9 | Massingham picked them up and rubbed them between his palms and thumbs and sniffed . |
| 10 | He wiped the scattered crumbs on his tray to a neat heap and then pinched them between his fingers and gobbled them . |
| 11 | He took her hands and crushed them between his . |
| 12 | Can not you see him as well as myself ; Is he not sitting behind me at the bed 's head , to seize upon me for his victim , as soon as I have breathed my last ? ’ |
| 13 | I had seen newspaper photos of him since his release from the psikhushka , but they had n't prepared me for his gauntness , pallor , baldness . |
| 14 | That Nature form 'd me for his Lordship 's Slave . |
| 15 | ‘ Blaming me for his wife 's death and refusing to speak to me for seventeen years is hardly ‘ quarrelling ’ , ’ she retorted . |
| 16 | You know he blames me for his mother 's death ? ’ |
| 17 | Each of them seeks to use me for his own ends . ’ |
| 18 | He drinks and gambles and chases women and comes back to me for his dinner . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ If I say one of my contacts tipped me off , I expect you 'll pester me for his name . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Heathcliff has sent me for his son , and I ca n't go back without him , ’ he said . |
| 21 | The cherry berets dragged the bewildered old montagnard away with a brusqueness which inspired no confidence in me for his future prospects . |
| 22 | I mean I w when I was dropping dead with exhaustion one evening I said to him look Tony , the there 's I 've cooked a chicken , there 's a big chicken cooling on the table and there there were red sauce , potatoes , gravy , I said , stick the lot on a plate a micro and , you know , film it over , microwave it oh well I sha n't bother to eat anything now of course he was paying me for his food |
| 23 | A Cameroonian schoolboy saluted me as his ‘ heavenly brother ’ . |
| 24 | He chose me as his master , which appealed to me enormously , as it 's one of my functions in life to be a teacher , so I was very happy at being this kind of pedagogue . |
| 25 | He simply could not fathom ‘ the ethical questions raised by me as his bishop ’ . |
| 26 | Jerry looked up to me as his hero ; the rapport and affinity between him and me transcended all things ; with us it was true brotherly love , which exists to this day , with no ulterior motives … no payments … no conditions . |
| 27 | Of course , I had my dreams , like all young girls , of a tall , dark and handsome man coming striding over the fell one day to claim me as his own . |
| 28 | The translation of the new book was in the hands of a very scholarly missionary , Charles Garrad , and before long he enlisted me as his assistant . |
| 29 | One of my more cynical film critic friends uses me as his personal ‘ shriekometer ’ to gauge how freaked out Joe Public is going to be by some of the grizzlier horror movies we have to sit through . |
| 30 | He brought me up as his own son , and was very proud of me as his son . |