Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heath wants to use the promise of riches from the blood products to maintain his large-scale funding of research in British universities and to expand into mass production of the products of that research ( the job which Genentech wants to do for factor VIII ) . |
| 2 | He was an activist , with bluff red cheeks under his stunted pig eyes to prove his love of the outdoor life . |
| 3 | Chief executive Sipko Huismans gives his view from the top in this interview with Courtauld News . |
| 4 | TEA ROPATI grabbed his first drop goal in three seasons to sneak St Helens into this morning 's second-round draw of the Regal Trophy . |
| 5 | His wrists up to his elbows were closely covered with coral bangles , so were his ankles … his breast was completely hidden from view by the coral beads encircling his neck . |
| 6 | Occasionally the builder may raise minor maintenance problems to justify his failure to pay for work executed or to release retention . |
| 7 | And no middle peasant would have then had the investment resources to improve his own |
| 8 | The husband of one of the club members had his camera handy to record the occasion of the Mayor 's visit . |
| 9 | Charlie watched in horror as Makepeace fell across the barbed barrier and another burst of enemy bullets peppered his motionless body . |
| 10 | Romanian opposition leaders criticized his visit as " inopportune " but he maintained : " I feel there is a definite return to democracy in Romania and nothing I have seen or heard here can contradict this feeling . " |
| 11 | An errant neurotic , failing to keep up the maintenance payments to support his own creation . |
| 12 | The meeting came on the same day the latest casualty of the rent increases left his pub . |
| 13 | The ambulance men checked his clothes . ’ |
| 14 | THE man exposed by the Daily Mirror for selling monkeys that end up in research laboratories quit his job at a top safari park yesterday . |
| 15 | He was taking large quantities of vitamin pills to keep his strength up — with the unexpected side-effect of giving him hairs on his chest — and he was socializing again , accepting invitations in the belief that it was necessary to circulate after his period in the wilderness . |
| 16 | In the grim winter of 1963 , snow drifts blocked his way to the station and , as often happened in that Siberian season , the train 's heating system had broken down . |
| 17 | Bracing himself , he began to walk up the wall , his hands using the knots which were tied at two foot intervals to aid his grip . |
| 18 | Even though Prean senior has chosen to sit out from executive committee meetings discussing his son 's request , there is a favourable attitude towards reform . |
| 19 | Under the old system A takes proceedings in the Common Law Courts to establish his rights ; B has no legal defence ; he must go to the Court of Chancery to get , among other things , an injunction to forbid A to go on . |
| 20 | Hatch proved his recovery from a spinal operation by taking seven for 56 including a hat-trick which polished off the Normanby Hall tail-enders leaving his club Darlington just 135 for victory . |
| 21 | Since Gadfly readers know his fondness for public transport perhaps there will be a substantial saving when it happens . |
| 22 | In total , there are thirty sheets in a variety of media , with large portrait heads remaining his predominant theme . |
| 23 | CHANCELLOR Norman Lamont expects Britain 's five million public sector workers to follow his own lead in keeping pay rises down . |
| 24 | I recall some years ago that a young postgraduate student who was designing a schedule containing a lot of attitude questions had his schedule internally tested at this stage by a number of people and practically every question he had put was a double one . |
| 25 | The jury has been told that both prosecution and defence will be calling expert witnesses to establish his state of mind at the time of the killing . |
| 26 | Daniel Oates has invented a repertoire of three-dimensional cartoon characters to populate his work . |
| 27 | His parents and doctors caring for him in hospital faced lengthy court battles before winning the go-ahead from Law Lords to have his feeding tube disconnected earlier this year . |
| 28 | Sometimes , for those who do n't quail , there is a happy finale — as there was for the hunchback of Belorussia ( or was it Kovno Gubernia , or the far side of the Pale ? ) whose demon companions danced his hump off , and sent him home with his shoulders straight and strong . |
| 29 | Hopes of the Economy Minister , Domingo Cavallo , for quick progress in talks begun in January over the Argentina 's foreign debt received a setback in mid-February when creditor banks rejected his requests for a 40 per cent cut in the country 's US$31,000 million commercial bank debt , under the terms of the 1989 Brady debt reduction plan [ see pp. 36541-42 ] . |
| 30 | In each case Hilts exercises his considerable journalistic skill to fill in different parts of the picture of a personality in a flowing , attractive , if rather thin , prose style . |