Example sentences of "his friend 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leslie was himself a painter , and thus comments in his own right on his friend 's art , as here on a painting of Hampstead Heath : |
| 2 | It is only possible to assert that work begun with a lifting of the heart is likely to go on for longer than work begun with a contracting of the stomach , that work done with a lifting of the heart will develop further than work done with a contracting of the stomach , but there is nothing to indicate that the small amount of work which is the result of a contracting of the stomach will not be better than the large amount of work done with a lifting of the heart , than the rich development which is the likely result of work undertaken with a lifting of the heart , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , poring over the pages covered in his friend 's tiny handwriting , wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve , glanced up at the sheet in his typewriter , always bearing in mind , he typed ( as Harsnet had written ) , that better and worse are relative terms , and that one man 's better is another man 's worse , one age 's better is another age 's worse , one civilization 's better is another civilization 's worse , better , worse , relative values , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , that in the long run it all comes to the same thing , long run , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , same thing . |
| 3 | Though it has to be said , he wrote , and Goldberg , his eye racing down the page covered in his friend 's tiny handwriting , paused to sip from the glass of fresh orange-juice at his side , wiped his forehead and went on typing , it has to be said that I have occasionally had the illusion that I knew what step to take first and even , occasionally , what step to take second , I will not talk about a third . |
| 4 | Projection of another dimension or dimensions as when the sun breaks through a cloud and washing-up powder , launderette , what else was Jacob 's ladder ? he wrote , and Goldberg , staring at his friend 's manuscript all those years later , typed that in and put a little question mark in the margin of his typescript . |
| 5 | Typical James , thought Cameron , as he handed back the flask and looked at his friend 's flushed face : we are plotting to save our lives and he turns it into a holiday . |
| 6 | In particular he remembers the very smart set of poetry classics , and noted his friend 's compulsive reading of them . |
| 7 | Romeo has none of his friend 's worldliness , and one of Timothy Welton 's best moments in the part is the animal way he leans and pushes at Richard Hague 's Benvolio in trying to do dying Tybalt further hurt ; another is his early gaucheness approaching Juliet . |
| 8 | We see the younger brother 's personality reflected in his friend 's portrait of this atheist mathematical economist : the stony heights and rare atmosphere in which his mind moved ; the easy efficiency of the intellectual machine which ground away beneath his broad smiling face , his bulky Johnsonian frame , and spontaneous gurgling laugh , and simplicity of feeling , and honesty of heart and mind and purpose ; and with it a common sense and practicality . |
| 9 | Valenzuela , holding on to the killer 's hand , dislodged his friend 's corpse . |
| 10 | I had always thought him to be egotistical and attention-seeking ; but apart from mentioning his invitation to the Dukakis Inaugural , he answered modestly , even humbly : praising his friend 's work and disparaging his own . |
| 11 | In exasperation Modi painted a portrait of Chaim Soutine on a door of the Zborowskis ' apartment in the Rue Joseph Bara , as a permanent reminder of his friend 's great talent , to Hanka 's fury . |
| 12 | Consider the case of a person whose reason for accepting his friend 's advice is that the friend will be hurt if he does not . |
| 13 | Gildas , smiling his crooked smile across the table and reading his friend 's thoughts , said , ‘ Do n't worry , she said very little , virtually nothing , as soon as she started to speak she decided not to . |
| 14 | Just as Coleridge in 1796 abandoned political life in dismay , so Wordsworth now turned from politics in search of another version of his friend 's ‘ deep Sabbath of meek self-content ’ . |
| 15 | He took it to his friend 's garage . |
| 16 | He answered in some degree to his friend 's description of him , but was more gaunt and Don Quixote-like . |
| 17 | Following his friend 's death , he took over as chairman , and , in 1970 , was elected as the Yorkshire representative to the RSPCA 's National Council . |
| 18 | Tiger Watson was wounded ; Donald Roy killing his friend 's attacker , for this was a personal battle of man against man in the shadows , even though at the same time there was the impersonal hammer from machine-guns and 20mm cannons firing from beyond the basin and its locks . |
| 19 | For example , a boy under 10 years , the age of criminal responsibility , took his friend 's bicycle home and gave it to his father . |
| 20 | He took a slight step forward and , taking his friend 's chin in his hand , lifted his face so that Ludovico was forced to look up into his eyes . |
| 21 | He was taken to various locations , until finally the police began interrogating him as if he was responsible for his friend 's disappearance . |
| 22 | The Beverly Hills 90210 star says he has n't touched booze since attending his friend 's funeral . |
| 23 | Craig Grenfell stared moodily through the window of his friend 's house in Chapel Street , his hands were thrust into his pockets , and his shoulders were slumped . |
| 24 | And until they were separated by the war , he followed his friend 's artistic production step by step with the intention of saving an exceptional body of masterpieces . |
| 25 | Faced with the ridiculous fakes which my father always found even in the best books , he thought that the publication of his collection would be the best defence and illustration of his friend 's genius . |
| 26 | Erlich drew the sheet back over his friend 's wretched face . |
| 27 | His friend 's wife sat on the sofa . |
| 28 | Montrose was hard pressed to draft a reply to Lord Elphinstone , and in fact the duke took refuge in a claim of ill-health to excuse his failure to solicit his friend 's attendance at the meeting of the commissioners of supply on 17th May , 1747 . |
| 29 | ‘ What man in the whole world ’ , C. S. Lewis asked , ‘ except a father or a potential father-in-law , cares whether any other man gets married ? ’ and he partly answered his own question by saying that the ‘ self-abnegation ’ and ‘ anxiety ’ of the Poet for his Friend 's good was ‘ more like a parent 's than a lover 's ’ . |
| 30 | He put his arm around his friend 's shoulder and grinned widely as they started off . |