Example sentences of "[noun sg] [subord] his [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'll steer clear of the lengthy and costly three-month programmes , preferring the therapy of a short three-day course where his people can receive some stimulus on how to improve their business performance . |
| 2 | There was nothing in the least bit objectionable about him , but he looked as though he had a computer where his heart was , and rushed home at night to plug in to a socket and recharge the batteries . |
| 3 | Chopper Harris , on the other hand , was a dullard who had a big heart where his friends were concerned , and it was he who often stood cups of tea or a pint for his friends . |
| 4 | And somehow she could n't stop her gaze from straying to the triangle of naked chest where his shirt buttons were open . |
| 5 | He recently published a book on the labour camp where his weight fell from 13 stone to just five . |
| 6 | He recently published a book on the labour camp where his weight fell from 13 stone to just five . |
| 7 | Perhaps the guy has a heat sensor where his tonsure should be . |
| 8 | If Mr Major really wishes to ditch the more arrogant whims of his predecessor , now is the time for him to put his money where his mouth is . |
| 9 | Mervyn Wilson gives a good service to his cricket clients and it is hoped that he was able to put his money where his mouth is and lay this price to all that wanted it to reasonable limits . |
| 10 | Shilton is known to have had transatlantic talks with chairman Dan McCauley , on a business trip Stateside , and offered to put his money where his mouth is . |
| 11 | This feat could have earned him £6,000 from the bookies if he had put his money where his mouth was . |
| 12 | Jim Nicholson , the chairman of Down Royal , could also be said to have a grievance for he has sponsored three of the National Hunt races on the Saturday card and in fact has put his money where his mouth is . |
| 13 | Put heez monnaie where his mouth was . |
| 14 | But because of his deteriorating health , he is unable to keep any of these jobs long , and throughout much of the novel he is confined to his shack where his wife cares for him . |
| 15 | A TEESSIDE man has complained to police about conditions in a Middlesbrough police cell where his son is being kept . |
| 16 | On another occasion he declared that marriage was a partnership where his wife was not simply marrying the man but a way of life . |
| 17 | Schofield found them a rehearsal room at Middleton Cricket Club where his father was on the committee . |
| 18 | In The Facts , the tough guy with his shiksas , the supposedly ‘ self-hating ’ Diaspora Jew , can be ‘ tenderised ’ — a word Roth likes , for all the awkwardness it imparts to the operations to which it refers — into a sort of uxorious submission where his parents are concerned . |
| 19 | There was a lead weight where his heart should have been . |
| 20 | Given firm instructions the dismissed minister would probably have made a better reformer than his successor , S. S. Lanskoi , who in August 1855 " proclaimed the rights of the nobility to be inviolable " . |
| 21 | It 's like saying why is somebody a better pianist than his colleague , even though they both went to the same conservatory . |
| 22 | Is it still true that the hon. Gentleman is an anti-European although his party is now pro-Europe ? |
| 23 | Apart from Benjamin and I , he was the only one who had left the manor so his cloak and boots would have been covered in snow . |
| 24 | Isidor Rabi — the great American physicist who , even more because of his belief in the unifying power of scholarship than his belief in physics , did as much as anyone to encourage CERN 's birth — would have approved . |
| 25 | At present every tenant makes as much hay as supports his stock in winter ; and has not only potatoes , cabbages , and meal in abundance for his family , but also frequently sells corn and potatoes , and feeds his cattle up to a third more weight than his predecessors were wont to do . |
| 26 | Those engaged in this process would be well advised to remember the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson : ‘ If a man write a better book , preach a better sermon , or make a better mousetrap than his neighbour , though he build his house in the woods , the world will make a beaten path to his door . ’ |
| 27 | She kept telling Ivan that she had to leave , and he kept telling her that he was a great lover although his prick was only six inches long . |
| 28 | An Oxford rugby blue and a keen cyclist , he is a more outgoing figure than his predecessor as Cabinet Secretary , Lord Armstrong . |
| 29 | It was known that Implexion had been responsible for the dissolution of many sects in Gleberune , and that he would resort to violence if his injunctions were not obeyed . |
| 30 | February 1811 , the Prince Regent assumed the royal prerogative until his father died in January 1820 and the Prince Regent became King George IV . |