Example sentences of "[adv] [det] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were accustomed to drop in on him between ten and eleven in the evening , when he could be an agreeable companion ; and he , who had spent so little of his life with women , surprised his colleagues by making friends with the celebrated actress Dorothy Tutin . |
| 2 | Although the portrait was finished Lipchitz felt loath to pay Modigliani so little for his work , so he invented reasons for extra sittings . |
| 3 | She would have seen me the week before ; and this time , have heard my arrival and tried to catch a glimpse of me — that explained the old man 's quick looks past me , and perhaps some of his nervous strangeness . |
| 4 | Perhaps some of his sexual attitudes were pungently those of his time and his class ; but who then in the nineteenth century shall escape whipping ? |
| 5 | Perhaps some of his churchmen allowed personal ambition and family loyalties to involve them in the political divisions of the reign , and so may have welcomed a change of dynasty in 1016 . |
| 6 | She had never heard the whole story , but apparently some of his ideas were considered a little too daring for the traditionalists in Tokyo , and he found the rug pulled from under him . |
| 7 | Here British cubemaster David Singmaster draws together some of his reflections on the cube phenomenon |
| 8 | Too bad for us that so few of his readers — or listeners — paid attention to his liberating words . |
| 9 | He 'd done all this for his parents , particularly for his father , whose dedication to his children had always impressed Peter and moved him deeply . |
| 10 | The Belgian team ADR are to sue Greg Lemond after the American left them for their French rivals Z. Lemond , the Tour de France winner and world champion , was lured to Z in September for a record £3.5million fee , having served only half of his two-year contract with the Belgian team . |
| 11 | The Belgian team ADR are to sue Greg Lemond after the American left them for their French rivals Z. Lemond , the Tour de France winner and world champion , was lured to Z in September for a record £3.5million fee , having served only half of his two-year contract with the Belgian team . |
| 12 | This was obviously another of his kinky fantasies . |
| 13 | It was also the turn of Kenneth Clarke today ; the Health Secretary did n't have quite so much up his sleeve , but he did announce plans to set up a nationwide programme of health targets . |
| 14 | Not so much at his partner 's tone , but at his apparent lack of understanding . |
| 15 | The king himself had strongly favoured the Auld Alliance with France , particularly as he had been able to use it so much to his advantage , and had certainly upheld the Catholic church . |
| 16 | That evening , in the hall , Mariot entertained them with songs , accompanied by the harp , to their enjoyment ; although Ramsay qualified his rapture by some regret that , there being insufficient room in their ingle-neuk for playing the harp , she had to perform outside it , and he was deprived of the nearness which he found so much to his taste . |
| 17 | Wickham recognized the type : willing enough to help but he must be allowed to go back to his friends with the news that his information was so valuable he had been allowed to talk to the man heading the inquiry , and if he could throw in a description of a place as exciting as a newspaper office so much to his credit . |
| 18 | It seemed to him that he had come so far in discovering so much about his problem but was unable to bring about any substantial change . |
| 19 | There he was , trying to blackmail me to leave the company or face a false charge of fraud , and I knew so much about his underhand behaviour . |
| 20 | IT 'S a little unfair to pillory Norman Lamont so much over his credit card bill . |
| 21 | I said that they must n't be sad because he had , after all , crammed so much into his short life , that his parties had given enormous pleasure to so many people , that Conor was the sort of person Jack Kerouac might have loved , he was one of the ones who are mad to live , desirous of everything at the same time , ‘ the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing , but burn , burn , burn , like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars ’ . |
| 22 | Well , I do n't know really whether they are or not , I mean he must earn damn good money , erm not so much off his that |
| 23 | The English language , to which Eliot had dedicated ( vainly , he worried ) so much of his life is here reduced merely to ‘ the dialect ’ of a ‘ tribe ’ . |
| 24 | Philip Tompson gave so much of his life to fostering Christian work with young people that it seems invidious to make special mention of one aspect of it . |
| 25 | Mrs Huntley sighed ; her brother whom she had loved , but knew to be self-indulgent to a fault , had done his niece real harm by leaving so much of his money away from the girl who had confidently believed herself to be his favourite thing on earth . |
| 26 | The most pungent criticism of the president may be that so much of his attention is on the Gulf , and so little of it elsewhere . |
| 27 | So much of his daily duty took him to the general neighbourhood of these places it was n't easy , but mercifully no bumping into the angry Charity occurred . |
| 28 | In the end , it is the technology of radio , the gramophone , television , and film that allows most of the barriers to be transcended , which is why Karajan , an élitist with a yearning to reach the widest possible international audience , invested so much of his time and his money in the quest for the high-quality dissemination of music to a world-wide audience . |
| 29 | He then expends so much of his emotional energy wallowing in the aura that when the gun goes for the start there 's nothing left of the real thing . |
| 30 | Although his work in Kidderminster took up so much of his time and energy , Richard Baxter 's vision extended beyond the confines of his own parish . |