Example sentences of "[det] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the portrait was finished Lipchitz felt loath to pay Modigliani so little for his work , so he invented reasons for extra sittings . |
| 2 | His book of verse , Lucida Intervalla ( 1679 ) , does little for his reputation as a poet . |
| 3 | His earlier complete reversal of his position had done little for his credibility and now as he went after a tax cut his touch was decidedly uncertain . |
| 4 | There was little for his comfort . |
| 5 | He 's a doctor , a Chinese guy , works out in the New Territories , saves lives on a daily basis and gets paid very little for his considerable sacrifices and hard work . |
| 6 | She could remember very little about his fatal collapse , no matter how many times she went over it in her mind . |
| 7 | As ever , he talked very little about his personal beliefs . |
| 8 | Harry had told her very little about his discussion with Sir Gregory : all she knew was that Tristram had been caught trespassing and that Jennifer had been caught going to meet him ; but although each had sworn that nothing untoward had happened , and their reserve and good behaviour seemed to confirm their innocence , Ann could not forget the scandal they had caused ten years before , nor could she believe that Tristram would have scaled the Roscarrock wall simply to sit with his cousin and talk . |
| 9 | He he must be taught that and he 's taught that through his training . |
| 10 | ‘ Lloyd 's has to decide whether , as Names die or become unable to pay , the risks can be assumed by the Society as a whole or whether the maxim of ‘ Each for his own part ’ is strictly applied . |
| 11 | ‘ Do you know he pays five marks each for his cigars and if they go out he throws them away ? ’ |
| 12 | It would have been very unusual for him to have known a fact like that about his son 's life and movements . |
| 13 | You going to pick up on everybody who tells you that about his neighbour ? |
| 14 | ‘ The milkman charges more than that for his homogenised muck , so take the bob , Dotty dear , and we 'll all be content . ’ |
| 15 | My father always used to do that for his crocuses because the birds loved the yellow ones , do n't they ? |
| 16 | Now the opposing argument to that is that if you create a special environment during the educational phase of a child 's life , then what happens after that for his I mean how far have you then separated them off from the sort of life that they will have to lead thereafter . |
| 17 | He was going to get this off his chest , and nothing was going to stop him . |
| 18 | Then said he , I am Saint Lazarus , and know that I was the leper to whom thou didst so much good and so great honour for the love of God ; and because thou didst this for his sake hath God now granted thee a great gift ; for whensoever that breath which thou hast felt shall come upon thee whatever thing thou desires to do , and shalt then begin , that shalt thou accomplish to thy heart 's desire , whether it be in battle or aught else , so thy honour shall go on increasing from day to day ; and thou shalt be feared both by Moors and Christians , and thy enemies shall never prevail against thee , and thou shalt die an honourable death in thine own house , and in thy renown , for God hath blessed thee ; — therefore go thou on , and evermore persevere in doing good ; and with that he disappeared . |
| 19 | He 'd done all this for his parents , particularly for his father , whose dedication to his children had always impressed Peter and moved him deeply . |
| 20 | It was no secret that the man-management methods of Bobby Simpson found favour with few during his two season in charge , and chief executive Mike Turner admits : ‘ Our new cricket manager jack Birkenshaw has devoted a lot of attention to creating a new spirit in the dressing-room . |
| 21 | He would certainly be pleased to read all this about his Brigade . |
| 22 | What was this about his daughter ? |
| 23 | In later , more celebrated , times he would always acknowledge this as his first theatrical experience . |
| 24 | Marco took this as his cue . |
| 25 | The Victoria Unit is concerned to reintegrate pupils whilst the head of the Delphi Centre rarely sees this as his aim . |
| 26 | I took this as his Imprimateur , his permission if you like for me to go away and write aqbout what Toad really got up to next rather than being annoyingly good as he is at the end of Wind in the Willows |
| 27 | In other words he can give this as his address . |
| 28 | He can give this as his address . |
| 29 | Very few about his acting until his adolescence . |
| 30 | Pearce nevertheless made a point of visiting every single British Aerospace factory at one time or another during his seven years as chairman , some of them more than once . |