Example sentences of "[pron] and his [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a trace of a Dorset accent in the voice , which had sufficient gravity in its tone to let D'Arcy know that he took himself and his position with the utmost seriousness . |
| 2 | Dustin recalled that the director drove himself and his crew to the limits of endurance by keeping them up half the night , as he was never satisfied with the outcome of one take . |
| 3 | Cotton marketed himself and his talents in the same way . |
| 4 | It took Edwards 's warrant card , two library tickets , a pay-slip and a snapshot of himself and his fiancee on the beach at Scarborough to win him admittance . |
| 5 | In 1878 The Royal Agricultural Society reported in their journal : ‘ This farm , in fact , has all the requisites of a prize farm , and we had therefore very great pleasure in awarding First Prize ( in all England ) to Mr Long who will , we feel certain , consider it a recognition of the untiring industry shown by himself and his wife in the management of this pretty little farm … the arable land is cultivated like a garden , being wonderfully free from weeds . |
| 6 | Another thing he did was picture himself and his wife in the drawing room receiving dinner guests . |
| 7 | Coleridge 's first meeting with Tom Poole lasted less than a day , but in that short time Coleridge was expansive both on the subject of himself and his plans for the future . |
| 8 | Finally , in 1544 Stumpe consolidated his interest in the property by paying over £1,500 for a royal grant to himself and his heirs of the whole site of the abbey . |
| 9 | Mr Smith said the Premier had not just humiliated himself and his Government through the sterling crisis — he had humiliated Britain . |
| 10 | It was strange , but he imagined that at such times as this , when there was only himself and his mother in the house , the building had left its base and was afloat in the air . |
| 11 | At a press conference shortly before the presidential elections in 1965 , de Gaulle had defended himself and his regime against the accusation of " personal power " . |
| 12 | The only rigour in Hennigian cladistics is produced by the straitjacket of assumptions that Hennig has fastened on himself and his version of the subject , which effectively separates it from having anything to do with evolution . |
| 13 | And in his lengthy poem on virginity , the Consolatoria de castitatis laude , he revealed the commitment of himself and his family to the ascetic life . |
| 14 | Huy could not guess by what means Reni had saved himself and his family from the debacle that followed Akhenaten 's fall ; but he knew many good men whose ruin had been the price the scribe had paid to be sitting here now , and the thought tempered his sympathy . |
| 15 | A rich Christian would wisely put himself and his purse under the guidance of a prudent and austere spiritual director , pointing him along the path to perfection . |
| 16 | The policy of centralization and definition of royal rights adopted by the last Capetians exposed the incompatibility between the French insistence on the full rights of suzerainty and the English king 's desire for freedom of action for himself and his officials in the duchy . |
| 17 | He explained the difference in approach between himself and his colleagues in the following words : His approach , based on ‘ the facts of social geography , the requirements of functional effectiveness and the conditions of democratic viability in relation to one another ’ ( Senior 1969:5 ) led him to adopt a two-tier structure with 35 directly elected regional authorities and 148 district authorities . |
| 18 | With my father , who was trying to protect me and his cigarettes at the same time , I jumped into a nearby ditch which ran parallel to the road . |
| 19 | One man who had got himself clear in that way drove in his own carriage by the very commissioners to whom he had but lately surrendered , and splashed both them and his creditors with the dirt of his chariot wheels . |
| 20 | It had given great anxiety to him and his collagues on the bench . |
| 21 | It had given great anxiety to him and his collagues on the bench . |
| 22 | A taxi had dropped him and his luggage at the main railway station , he had walked in through the entrance with a porter in attendance ; and that was that . |
| 23 | Of course to people like Mr. Tully who benefit by the British presence in the occupied part of our country ( a country which was partitioned against the will of the vast majority of our population ) the current whereabouts of Barleycorn is an unpleasant reminder that the Republican movement will not be cowed by threats from the likes of him and his cohorts in the Unionist parties in the failed political entity of Northern Ireland . |
| 24 | Skip Iain saw him and his fathe to the title by 21–16 . |
| 25 | He spent November at Roxburgh , where he issued letters patent in which he recognized Edward III as lord superior of Scotland and declared that he had already done homage to Edward , in return for which Edward had agreed to maintain and protect him and his heirs in the kingdom . |
| 26 | I am walking back to my hotel after dinner with a Bucharest novelist and his family and being graciously escorted by him and his wife through the still evidently dangerous , silent streets . |
| 27 | The merchants and better sort sent deputations to the Governor , and the common folk mobbed him and his lieutenants in the streets . |
| 28 | Lepine had accompanied the cai who had lured him and his brother to the plantation eighteen months earlier , but despite the feeling of hatred the sight of him inspired Dong scarcely gave the recruiter a second glance . |
| 29 | It was only Operation Eagle that saved him and his men from the penal unit they were serving in . ’ |
| 30 | We wish Mr. Holden well in the coming months and assure him and his family of the continued support of IBOA . |