Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] his [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nearing the Sandaig River , which rushes down from the mountains and passes beneath the road to enter the Sound , gated forest roads lead down to the beach where Gavin Maxwell had a cottage he called Camusfearna and wrote his world best-seller about his life there with the sea otters he admitted to his home as companions . |
| 2 | Masklin ran this sentence through his head again , in case it made any sense when you listened to it a second time . |
| 3 | Champ 's target WORLD heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield forecasts that the challenger for his title early next year will be Britain 's Lennox Lewis , whom Holyfield is tipping to beat Razor Ruddock in their eliminator in October |
| 4 | Yoel Levi belatedly receives our ‘ CD of the Month ’ award for his Atlanta SO Shostakovich 10 on Telarc ( left to right : Levi , Conifer 's Ricky Wenn and our own Steve Bobling ) . |
| 5 | James ran his fingers through his hair distractedly . |
| 6 | But they 'd had a thorough look through his life just to be sure and hit the jackpot entirely by chance . |
| 7 | She vigorously massaged the area to distribute the drug through his body more quickly . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , the manner of his presentations and his attitude to criticism tended to alienate support for his case further , though his views were balanced and based on careful research . |
| 9 | Louis renewed contact with Raymond V , by now his brother-in-law , and met almost all the bishops of the Narbonne province ; their subsequent requests for his assistance strikingly increased his authority . |
| 10 | Still munching cheese , Paul made a dive for his coat only to be halted by his mother 's withering glare . |
| 11 | Before many more weeks had passed , his demobilisation came through and he was able to shake the dust of the RAF off his boots forever . |
| 12 | If Nick Serota can raise the money for his plans then I would support them , provided the bulk of the historic British collection was on display . |
| 13 | right John has written a story about his home right it 's a good descriptive story on how people live |
| 14 | I have a few words for his ears alone . " |
| 15 | The J R Ackerley Prize for autobiography , worth £2,000 , has been won by Barry Humphries for his memoirs More , Please ( Viking , £16.99 ) . |
| 16 | Stuart 's coach at Penn State is Barry Gorman well known to Irish League fans during his spell here with Linfield and other clubs . |
| 17 | The family had not paid much attention to the terms of the eccentric patriarch 's last wishes , as the stipulation that all his possessions should be held in readiness for his return merely put the houses and their produce at the usual disposal of his family , while removing the problem of his personal presence and authority . |
| 18 | If Michael Joyce had not become a naturalised citizen of the United States during his residence there , then his son would have inherited British nationality from his father . |
| 19 | right , so , he is there as er Jean er has read to us , seated at the , at the father 's right hand , he 's there on the throne , but Paul also says , talks about erm in the last verse there which is his body the fullness of , the fullness of him through Jesus who feels all in all , by the holy spirit although the glorified resurrected body of Jesus is on the throne , by the holy spirit he is everywhere , that 's why he 's with you and he 's with me and he 's with a folk in Timbuktu and in Honolulu , he is every where by the holy spirit , so now thinking of his exhortation again , as the God man , Jesus now fully and always makes use of the divine powers and attributes that are his , all power belongs to him and it 's because that he says to his disciples you 're to go into all the world and I am with you because all power is mine , all power , all authority is given onto me , therefore says Jesus , because of that you can go because you 're going in my strength and in my authority . |
| 20 | Being so close to Simon , Yanto had spent a great deal of his childhood here at the garage . |
| 21 | His financial transactions extended throughout the eastern counties , and although the bulk of his fortune almost certainly came from moneylending , his six houses in King 's Lynn and the quay attached to his own stone house in Norwich suggest that he also had interests in trade . |
| 22 | She could feel the force of his personality even though she was n't looking at him . |
| 23 | She had never felt the force of his personality more strongly . |
| 24 | In that same instant , the Angel Two launched himself out of his chair , the speed of his reaction almost taking Grant by surprise in turn . |
| 25 | Uncle Hilbert took the loss of his wife very hard and the only company he seemed to want was Lewis 's . |
| 26 | He was more in command of his emotions now , and he turned back into the room . |
| 27 | It was written in some exasperation by Frederick Midgeod as a result of his experiences presumably with a Model T Ford during his time in what was the Gold Coast and is now Ghana . |
| 28 | The result of his planning so far is what he calls ‘ the R&D Initiative for the NHS ’ — something that he recognises must be visible and simple so that he can present it ‘ succinctly ’ to boardrooms and to nonspecialist health professionals , such as managers . |
| 29 | Negotiating a turn to accomplish this , his eyes momentarily met the eyes of his captor again in the rear-view mirror . |
| 30 | She and Carlo were staying a night , possibly two nights , because Carlo had n't felt up to snuff all the summer ( here young Carlo groaned wearily and leant against a wall in confirmation of his feeling considerably below snuff ) . |