Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] in his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Jackson drives me in his car sometimes for a special treat . |
| 2 | She said er , Derek has them in his garden . |
| 3 | He follows me down and holds me in his arms . |
| 4 | This is most noticeable in conversations where each participant ‘ picks up ’ elements from the contribution of the preceding speaker and incorporates them in his contribution , as in the following fragment : |
| 5 | It will , I know , be a tough decision for you to make , Les , because it is common knowledge that Terry has you in his back pocket , but he is the weak link in the team this year . |
| 6 | He has worked hard on it , and perhaps he is at his most content when he has something in his game on which to work . |
| 7 | Yet still Jacob has him in his grip , and the mysterious assailant begs him to let him go ‘ for the day is breaking ’ . |
| 8 | For the purposes of this form of liability a person is a ‘ keeper ’ of the animal if ‘ ( a ) he owns the animal or has it in his possession ; or ( b ) he is the head of a household of which a member under the age of 16 owns the animal or has it in his possession ; and if at any time an animal ceases to be owned by or to be in the possession of a person , any person who immediately before that time was a keeper thereof … continues to be a keeper of the animal until another person becomes a keeper thereof … ’ |
| 9 | For the purposes of this form of liability a person is a ‘ keeper ’ of the animal if ‘ ( a ) he owns the animal or has it in his possession ; or ( b ) he is the head of a household of which a member under the age of 16 owns the animal or has it in his possession ; and if at any time an animal ceases to be owned by or to be in the possession of a person , any person who immediately before that time was a keeper thereof … continues to be a keeper of the animal until another person becomes a keeper thereof … ’ |
| 10 | He has it in his grip , but I control the way it points . |
| 11 | Another digs the cream from the centre of a pink fancy and smears it in his hair . |
| 12 | In a joint statement they said Mr Bush ‘ holds it in his power to deny the right of choice to the poorest , most vulnerable American women ’ . |
| 13 | He holds it in his mouth , he picks out a match and he strikes it on the box . |
| 14 | And then , as Morrison Halcrow describes it in his new biography of Lord Joseph , Sir Keith ( as he then was ) made that celebrated 1974 speech which created such a storm . |
| 15 | He replaces it in his mini-laboratory . |
| 16 | The person who never takes risks never achieves anything in his view . |
| 17 | His wife Ellen wrote to us with this smashing picture and told us that because Russell works so much she only ever sees him in his overall or a track suit . |
| 18 | He lodges it in his account with a LETS banker . |
| 19 | For a moment before it separates itself from its surroundings I catch a glimpse of its round eyes , beautiful but stupid , taking in the sight of a forty-three-year-old writer wearing shorts and a faded polo shirt , his face somewhat craggier than he sees it in his mind 's eye , his waist a little more solid and his eyes bright with the thoughts he is generating . |
| 20 | This is of course the famous ‘ Principle of falsifiability ’ ( or as Imre Lakatos terms it in his immortal words ‘ sophisticated methodological falsificationism ’ ) . |
| 21 | Two versions of the tune appear in the collections of Captain Francis O'Neill of the Chicago Police , a contemporary of Honeyman , and Alastair Hardie includes it in his Caledonian Companion , where he acknowledges its publication in Kohler 's Violin Repository of 1885 . |
| 22 | Darius grabs a wedge , ices it with half an inch of butter , crams it in his mouth and washes it down with a can of Coke . |
| 23 | The seriousness with which such a man takes those duties , and the manner in which he arranges them in his mind as regards their priorities depends entirely on how , from early childhood , he has been taught and influenced by his home life , schools and religious training , if any . |
| 24 | That even as he gets them in his grip |
| 25 | He takes me in his arms and holds me . |
| 26 | How does it happen that each of us hears them in his own native language ? |
| 27 | He saves all his coppers and keeps them in his tin . |
| 28 | For a horse who usually takes everything in his stride Milton has an inexplicable and very strong aversion to syringes . |
| 29 | I thought and think that war is an evil abominable thing which gets man no further and only lowers him in his search after truth . |
| 30 | If he 's going to get anything he gets it in his ears . |