Example sentences of "[vb pp] his [noun] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the moment when it comes into his mind to ask himself what he 's doing in this place ; to see the meaninglessness of his business there , and the hollowness of his enjoyments ; to lose sight suddenly of what it is in the texture of life that has ever occupied his attention and led him forward . |
| 2 | Robert himself , afflicted by leprosy , spent the last two years of his life in Cardross castle beside the Clyde , dying before he could learn that the Pope had lifted his excommunication and acknowledged him and his successors as rulers of Scotland . |
| 3 | She had lifted his hand and kissed it . |
| 4 | ‘ He hath unpacked his carriage and made it run a mile or two up and down in River 's great room , making it carry the fire shovel , tongs and poker . |
| 5 | You 've caught his interest and got him involved by deeds more than words . |
| 6 | After all those years in Paris he found the bright sunshine and the sparkling translucence of the air disturbed his concentration and made it difficult for him to work . |
| 7 | If she 'd been more of a woman , he believed , she would have meekly accepted his word and left it at that . |
| 8 | In a sense then , the fate of Simmel 's work is at present parallel to that of Hegel 's , in as much as later authorities have appropriated his ideas and aligned them with a theory of rupture seen as specific to capitalism . |
| 9 | He had drawn his sword and held it , not yet in challenge aloft , but where the naked blade could just be seen by men on horse-back . |
| 10 | I now discounted homosexuality ; he had had his chances and ignored them . |
| 11 | The overall effect is that the morally indefensible opportunist appears as a very human figure , a man who would have liked to have had his cake and eaten it and who , forced to make choices , alternates between self-congratulation and a sense of self-betrayal . |
| 12 | Well he should n't have opened his gob and said it should he ? |
| 13 | And it was not until Mrs Thackray 's tall , craggy fair-haired son had shouldered his luggage and led him to the top of St Jude 's Street that he had realized his peril . |
| 14 | Before the American could go any farther , the bouncer had grabbed his wrist and forced him to let go of the girl . |
| 15 | Jim had stomped downstairs wiping the blood off his face with a handkerchief and later it had been Jo and Lisa who had packed his bags and told him never to come back to the house . |
| 16 | And when she woke she turned with such longing to where he had lain and called his name and thought she would do anything for him , anything at all he wanted , because she loved him , she loved him , she loved him . |
| 17 | She could have called his bluff and told him to drop dead , but there was just a chance he might ditch her : and then all that spade work would be for nothing . |
| 18 | Having had the good fortune to fall in with Gabriel outside Cat 's Coffee Shop as she was on her way home , he had seized his chance and asked her for an early supper . |
| 19 | Once he had found his clothes and put them on , Ellwood stood up to massage his arms and legs , rubbing and slapping to get the feeling back and loosen the knotted muscles . |
| 20 | It was the most feeling I saw in him , apart from when describing some bitter wrangle in the London ad agency which had caused his walk-out and propelled him here . |
| 21 | But doctors fixed his nose and sent him home . |
| 22 | He was about to join his companions on the balcony when someone whom he could not see touched his arm and told him he was needed somewhere else . |
| 23 | Is it my fault if the King has spoilt his son and made him a laughing stock in Europe ? |
| 24 | Only once had the customer checked his money and informed her she had short-changed him . |
| 25 | Fedorov and his men had knocked him down , broken his glasses and kicked him in the ribs . |
| 26 | The man took a couple of steps back as they headed for him ; but then they stopped , as if they 'd sensed his fury and found it to be a wall that they hesitated to scale . |
| 27 | She had n't taken his horse and left him when he 'd fallen into a stupor last night . |
| 28 | His extreme empathy coloured his behaviour and made him a heady , if unpredictable companion . |
| 29 | It had destroyed his promise and left him unable to sustain a relationship . |
| 30 | William Day stated that he had made towards the shadow , but Tidbury had barred his way and ushered him towards home . |