Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adv] [verb] his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No Peter wants about them finally closing his business down . |
| 2 | He saw Balfour and Lloyd George in such different lights that , the issue of the Admiralty apart , the idea of an alliance between them hardly entered his head . |
| 3 | On the other hand , none of them ever doubted his ability to give as good as he got when the street-fighting began . |
| 4 | There 's this bloke his well a chum of his actually got his statement and said this ca n't be blinking right ! |
| 5 | Right , but the way you 're describing the process it seems I get an image of someone gently putting his hand on the collar |
| 6 | Again Leith wanted to tell him he could forget all idea of her ultimately becoming his cousin by marriage , but again , she found she could not . |
| 7 | One of us automatically consults his watch : 4.40 to the second . |
| 8 | It was suggested that should enter a team for the 13 mile run , however as the day approached , half of the team members were unexpectedly unable to join in , including who unfortunately sprained his ankle two weeks before , climbing in the Cairngorms ! |
| 9 | To her surprise Broom-Parker had phoned shortly after she 'd returned home , pleading with her not to mention his name to the police . |
| 10 | She finally got involved for the oldest reason of all : ‘ I was n't getting as much attention as I wanted , so I kind of got into it just to get his attention , and to be around him more . ’ |
| 11 | Jimmy , would you please go to your cabin and bring Theodore here with whatever further results his cryptology has turned up . ’ |
| 12 | It is possible , too , that in striking the rock as he was told to do in Exodus 17 Moses this time has further infringed the divine command , though nothing was said explicitly about him not using his rod in that way . |
| 13 | Kavner is n't clear as crystal on what exactly changed his mind — though he claims it was n't the money — and claims not to know what persuaded Noorda to push it in November when it all started to happen . |
| 14 | My father glanced at it then returned his gaze to me . |
| 15 | In The Form the prose style shows Rolle at his best embodying his sense of " the expanding of love beyond desire " : The first sentence uses the inexpressibility topos — the rhetorical trick for gesturing towards the ineffable . |