Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] his [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the Council of Arminium forty-five years later , there were four British bishops , one of whom apparently paid his own way — which would seem to indicate some degree of prosperity . |
| 2 | Mm , cos mum had Reverend come round , you see cos dad were n't , none of us were religious least of all dad , he could n't do none of it , so we said to , we did n't , we did n't know what vicar to choose cos none of us go to church so me mum said dad used to go to the church where me sister got married to the little Derby and Jones twice a week and Reverend is always there so mum said we 'll have him , dad got on well with him , he liked him , he knew dad , anyway he come round to see mum and I were n't there cos I had to go and sign on , I bloody wished I had been , anyway she said , she told him all about dad and she said I want you tell everybody how brave he was in the war and what a good father he were and a good provider and how he lived for his grandchildren and so on and so on , she said I do n't want no hymns I just want his own organ music all through the service and nothing else and just some , do a couple of prayers , she , so he said right the Lords Prayer will be fine that 'll be nice , well he never said nothing , he said I did n't know John but he said I 've been told he was a good man , he worked in a hospital , which he did , but I mean you 're only like an engineer we were n't really emphasising on that and that was all he said , he played a bit of the organ music before we went in , a bit as we come out and there was about eight bloody prayers and the songs and everything read out and made us sing a hymn ever so disappointed , hardly said anything , hardly play , played his music , no , I was well disappointed about that |
| 3 | Charles , thinking that Saxony was now safely secured , accepted this offer , which effectively pushed his own frontier beyond the Pyrenees . |
| 4 | Lt Col Stewart 's DSO was awarded for his ‘ inspired command ’ of the Cheshires during their hazardous tour , a position which often placed his own life in danger . |
| 5 | Lt Col Stewart 's DSO was awarded for his inspired command of the Cheshires during their hazardous tour a position which often placed his own life in danger . |
| 6 | And he rarely complained during his recuperation from the first back operation , to repair a number of fractures , which looked like being successful when he returned for Middlesex at the start of 1991 and took four for 60 against Somerset with a performance which particularly impressed his own wicket-keeper Paul Farbrace . |
| 7 | A pedagogical grammar , on the other hand , is used to teach an adult ( who already reads his own language ) to speak a foreign language . |
| 8 | He has the air of someone who always gets his own way . |
| 9 | You can not include a Boss unless you also include his own Mob for him to fight with . |
| 10 | I could not help but remember myself , another pretty fair-haired boy , who also wanted his own way at that age , and how I wound Uncle Bill 's heart round my little finger and was perhaps responsible for the tragedy caused by a savagely jealous dog . |
| 11 | After the judgment the man , who now runs his own company in Wales , said ‘ The allegations were absolute nonsense . ’ |
| 12 | Andrew is a direct , no-nonsense man — a former Army officer who now runs his own shoe importing business . |
| 13 | And handsome David Wood , who now runs his own hairdressing salon in Melbourne , was lucky enough to date her . |
| 14 | A surveyor who fully understands his own role and appreciates the roles of both client and contractor as defined in the contract can have a great influence in ensuring that a project runs smoothly . |
| 15 | No , they would simply tell him again to mind his own business and send him another note composed of gibberish . |
| 16 | Handing her one of the mugs , his eyes on her apprehensive face , he slowly sipped his own coffee . |
| 17 | The advantages of an exchange rather than a sale , says Mr Nunn ( who set up the business after he successfully swapped his own home ) , are : no chain of buyers and sellers to fall through , stamp duty is payable only on any difference in price between the two properties , and agents ' fees are less . |
| 18 | In fact , he was to learn of it the very next day , and he duly performed his own half of the bargain with a strangely honourable integrity . |
| 19 | He effectively cast his own vote against the Islamic trend by calling on his subjects not to vote for extremist religious ideologies — a move which could prove counter-productive . |
| 20 | He still wanted his own way . |
| 21 | He still held his own automatic in his left hand , and he was raising it towards the door as he backed off . |
| 22 | He seemed quite unperturbed by her behaviour , by being walloped across the face , and she watched in amazement as he calmly took his own glass and sat in the chair opposite . |
| 23 | She remembered those days when they had played together as children , too , he always getting his own way . |
| 24 | He hardly knew his own mind , they said candidly among their own intimates . |
| 25 | As an apprentice director he quickly defined his own idiom but it took the initiative and the backing of MGM 's Irving Thalberg to sponsor his big prestige films . |
| 26 | He said : ‘ He once had his own phone line but was disconnected by BT after running up huge bills . |
| 27 | He usually took his own washing to the laundry . |
| 28 | ‘ No , he usually brings his own lunch and eats it here . ’ |
| 29 | Minton 's zestful response not only captures in vivid terms the quality of these artists ' work , but it also reveals his own anxiety about what contemporary art should do and be . |
| 30 | While a close personal friend and follower , he also enjoyed his own power base in the midlands and an independent career in the service of the king and his son Edward . |