Example sentences of "the [noun] his [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pater told me his former guardians had frittered away the money his father left him , and Harry told me the amount of the salary Mr Harvey pays him . |
| 2 | The moment his body covered hers she felt a great tide of revulsion and panic surge upwards until it threatened to choke her , and she threshed her head from side to side in blind , unreasoning panic , thrusting him away with frantic hands . |
| 3 | Vietnam was the war his classmates presumed he had prayed to go to , in his near-daily Masses at Annapolis , in the uniform of the Marines . |
| 4 | Charles 's territories could already have been described as an empire , in the sense that he ruled over a collection of different political units held together by the allegiance his subjects felt they owed him rather than through a sense of common institutions or common language which could serve as the foundation for a unifying national spirit . |
| 5 | She only remembered it long afterwards , the night his father turned him out of Riverstown . |
| 6 | And obviously the novelist 's apocalypse is by no means identical with his received Christian one ; hence , in part , the divergence of his art from the things his notebooks show him wanting to say . |
| 7 | Mr Hale told the court his ordeal left him ‘ ratty , unbearable and not caring about anybody ’ . |
| 8 | , I remember right from when he was a baby as I went to see him the day his mum brought him home . |
| 9 | By the time that man gets to Riga he will know his way around the town and every detail of his life from the day his father gave him a light-brown teddy-bear , to the movie show he watched last night . |
| 10 | Hunter explained : ‘ I was tackled by a team-mate during a fun game and as I hit the ground his knee hit mine , the right knee that required surgery at the start of the season . ’ |
| 11 | Despite being an ignoramus , the dealer who lasted even a matter of weeks would have a certain animal intelligence , as well as the true smooth operator 's knack of twisting information to support the argument his firm insisted he presented . |
| 12 | Mr Li is not an economist , but at least he recognises some of the imperfections of the policy his economists tell him to follow . |
| 13 | When she passed him on the stairs his expression told her he scarcely knew she was there . |
| 14 | possess any secret official code word , or password , or sketch , plan , model , article , note , document or information which relates to or is used in a prohibited place or anything in such a place , or which has been made or obtained in contravention of this Act , or which has been entrusted in confidence to him by any person holding office under Her Majesty or which he has obtained or to which he has had access owing to his position as a person who is or has been employed under a person who holds or has held such an office or contract — [ and who ] ( a ) communicates the code word , pass word , sketch , plan , model , article , note , document , or information to any person other than a person to whom he is authorised to communicate it , or a person to whom it is in the interest of the State his duty to communicate it , or ( aa ) uses the information in his possession for the benefit of any foreign power or in any other manner prejudicial to the safety or interests of the State , or ( b ) retains the sketch , plan , model , article , note , or document in his possession or control when he has no right to retain it or when it is contrary to his duty to retain it , or fails to comply with all directions issued by lawful authority with regard to the return or disposal thereof , or … |
| 15 | He wiped his hand on the cloth his Dad gave him and went into the living-room . |
| 16 | Timmy was a natural games player and was quick to profit from the tips his father gave him . |
| 17 | Is he aware that that gentleman hoodwinked the nation for about eight years and that in the end his wife made it clear that the man was entirely bogus ? |
| 18 | Grudgingly , Brian was forced to say that he had always thought it odd , but if reticence about her past was the way his wife wanted it , then he had been prepared to accept the situation . |
| 19 | Allan McKay 's father , a gas engineer , Ian McKay , 40 , told Mrs Paton that at the time his son disappeared he had not known of the existence of the quarry . |