Example sentences of "[det] [prep] his [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His book of verse , Lucida Intervalla ( 1679 ) , does little for his reputation as a poet . |
| 2 | His earlier complete reversal of his position had done little for his credibility and now as he went after a tax cut his touch was decidedly uncertain . |
| 3 | Although the portrait was finished Lipchitz felt loath to pay Modigliani so little for his work , so he invented reasons for extra sittings . |
| 4 | There was little for his comfort . |
| 5 | Harry had told her very little about his discussion with Sir Gregory : all she knew was that Tristram had been caught trespassing and that Jennifer had been caught going to meet him ; but although each had sworn that nothing untoward had happened , and their reserve and good behaviour seemed to confirm their innocence , Ann could not forget the scandal they had caused ten years before , nor could she believe that Tristram would have scaled the Roscarrock wall simply to sit with his cousin and talk . |
| 6 | He he must be taught that and he 's taught that through his training . |
| 7 | ‘ Do you know he pays five marks each for his cigars and if they go out he throws them away ? ’ |
| 8 | You going to pick up on everybody who tells you that about his neighbour ? |
| 9 | It would have been very unusual for him to have known a fact like that about his son 's life and movements . |
| 10 | My father always used to do that for his crocuses because the birds loved the yellow ones , do n't they ? |
| 11 | He was going to get this off his chest , and nothing was going to stop him . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Then said he , I am Saint Lazarus , and know that I was the leper to whom thou didst so much good and so great honour for the love of God ; and because thou didst this for his sake hath God now granted thee a great gift ; for whensoever that breath which thou hast felt shall come upon thee whatever thing thou desires to do , and shalt then begin , that shalt thou accomplish to thy heart 's desire , whether it be in battle or aught else , so thy honour shall go on increasing from day to day ; and thou shalt be feared both by Moors and Christians , and thy enemies shall never prevail against thee , and thou shalt die an honourable death in thine own house , and in thy renown , for God hath blessed thee ; — therefore go thou on , and evermore persevere in doing good ; and with that he disappeared . |
| 14 | What was this about his daughter ? |
| 15 | He would certainly be pleased to read all this about his Brigade . |
| 16 | In other words he can give this as his address . |
| 17 | He can give this as his address . |
| 18 | Marco took this as his cue . |
| 19 | The Victoria Unit is concerned to reintegrate pupils whilst the head of the Delphi Centre rarely sees this as his aim . |
| 20 | I took this as his Imprimateur , his permission if you like for me to go away and write aqbout what Toad really got up to next rather than being annoyingly good as he is at the end of Wind in the Willows |
| 21 | Very few about his acting until his adolescence . |
| 22 | Right come on Chris let's go , in fact run upstairs and put that on your bed quickly , come on , double away better put that woman 's gloves somewhere safe did you take that change that was lying there , well Matt I 'll need some for his dinner , oh , no alright Laura |
| 23 | It appeared that the officer had been admiring the fish swimming about in the water of the Orne when a Royal Marine Commando asked him if he would like some for his supper . |
| 24 | It 's when I , when I went to Poland it 's not two or three years , it was nineteen seventy three and I was , I was just coming in into the church and the one Witness was with me and we were going in er big town like Cracow , you know , we were going one way and there was a couple coming erm to meet us like you know in , in , in , on the road , and he was just wearing erm jeans and no shirt , but erm a big , big wooden cross on his chest just reaching really across his chest a wooden cross and then erm a safety pin in his nose and three safety pins attached to one another through his ears and this Witness with me walking down , she says just look at this couple and the girl was , wore the same dress she , she had the top on , you know , but again all sort of queer looking and she , this Witness with me , with me so , she said just look at the two that 's er coming aga to meet us and I said yes and I looked and I said look at the cross and she says yes , it used to be , they used to hang the criminals on the crosses and now the crosses hang on the criminals is n't that lovely , and now the cross is er all the criminals instead of the cross , oh yes |
| 25 | Jesus proved this during his temptation by the devil in the desert at the outset of his ministry . |
| 26 | We assume that he would have been informed of this during his briefing at Eighth Army , and obviously it was no less important for Macmillan to brief Keightley than for him to brief Harding . |
| 27 | I did not know this during his lifetime , and used to think him wanting in originality because his mind was absorbed in the mathematical world . ’ |
| 28 | Jaq had learned all this during his training in the headquarters of the Inquisition , that labyrinth many contorted thousands of kilometres in extent which cut through the bed-rock deep beneath the massive concealing ice-cap of Earth 's south polar continent . |
| 29 | ‘ If Lachlan Cattanach ever learns it was you cut half through his bow-tip he 'll have the hide off you for brogans . |
| 30 | In the Bible we rarely possess two or more parallel documents where we can see how one writer used another as his source . |