Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , no parent that we questioned voiced any suspicions with regard to their own children and they all seemed quite happy for them to attend his youth club . |
| 2 | From the point of view of the buyer , general exclusion clauses are obviously less popular , and , in general he sees little need for them to protect his own position . |
| 3 | He stayed where he was because he did n't want to get close enough for them to smell his breath . |
| 4 | His purpose was not only to prevent his own partisans from uniting to oust him , but also to use the fact that there were differences between them to strengthen his own position . |
| 5 | It does not seem to me that there is any need for me to answer his silly question on the subject . |
| 6 | He turned and came after me waving his revolver , but I easily lost him in the crowd . |
| 7 | Daphne Rye , the top casting director , looked after him following his demob and in 1948 ushered him into the West End in a literary play — from a book by Elizabeth Bowen — Castle Anna , which Daphne herself directed . |
| 8 | A ticket inspector wakes from his slumber and Des shoots past me waving his tube pass . |
| 9 | Shelley , Shelley come round to me right , and she was , she was , she was stroking Dempsey and I walked in the room , this is Dempsey and he walked past me wagging his , you know when they put the tail down and |
| 10 | Her baby 's motionless observance of me observing his mother must have woken her . |
| 11 | But he was so scared of them getting his own father that he had given them no names at all , not even his own . |
| 12 | One of them gets his timing wrong . |
| 13 | This eclectic mixture soon wins him a following amongst the rest of the neighbourhood 's equally disturbed teenagers but when one of them takes his exhortations to action a little too far and kills himself , the authorities move in . |
| 14 | And there these twelve men and two boys , who , with nothing much but bare hands , the sailor man 's gift for improvisation , and their indomitable guts , had fought sea and fire for their ship and won , were cared for and each of them given his heart 's desire . |
| 15 | It took three of them to hoist his wife up . |
| 16 | He had noticed that none of them had his bow or Marian 's . |
| 17 | Each of them had his pet theories on what had caused the massive , popular Islamic uprising , and on how the situation should now develop . |
| 18 | The dusky features of both slaves assumed long-suffering expressions , and one of them pursed his lips . |
| 19 | Seeing the tall figure of T'ai Cho , the first of them raised his gun and fired . |
| 20 | One of them brought his ‘ favourite choirboy ’ |
| 21 | The rest of them felt his wife tried to sever all connections . |
| 22 | Whereas in his rise to power , Nicolae Ceauşescu had needed to make deals and alliances with other , equally ambitious , apparatchiks , once at the summit , he needed to dispose of them to preserve his position and to protect it from intrigue . |
| 23 | The years 1275–1350 are noted for the building of the Edwardian castles , mostly in Wales and Scotland , so-called because King Edward I erected many of them to establish his rule . |
| 24 | Fergus said , ‘ But would n't one of them offer his soul to free Calatin 's soul ? ’ |
| 25 | One of them spread his hands , palms upward , and shrugged . |
| 26 | Finally , one of them placed his foot flat on the box , right over Caroline 's face , and forced it down into the grave . |
| 27 | One of them shares his thoughts with his companions . |
| 28 | Only one of them has his phone number in Marbella . |
| 29 | Each of them exercised his right to vote as an individual , but as Whips they were all expected to avoid any open expression of preference . |
| 30 | President Lee too wants the ‘ old thieves ’ to retire , even though , on March 21st , some 96% of them endorsed his unopposed candidature . |