Example sentences of "'s [noun] [adv] [conj] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | With Rune 's jaw hard and his mouth set in a straight line it was easy to imagine just how terrifying their enemies had found the invaders . |
| 2 | They went for him then , Alexander and Donald McLaggan , the Duke 's two sons , dragged him from his father 's side so that his head bounced on the steps , lifted him bleeding , like foresters keeping a dying deer clear of the hounds , and started to carry him down to the river ‘ just to cool him off ’ but Cameron ran and gripped Donald 's shoulder and shouted , ‘ If you injure an officer it is treason on top of sedition , ’ so they carried him back and laid him carefully at his father 's feet . |
| 3 | Gustave lectured us all on poetry — though they were usually Bouilhet 's lectures rather than his own — but he did not understand it . |
| 4 | Such a Christology stresses Christ 's humanity rather than his divinity . |
| 5 | 5 The defender controls the attacker 's descent so that his opponent is placed directly in front of him . |
| 6 | Paul , whose remark had been the opening move in a carefully planned campaign to enhance Bodo 's image so that his plan to leave school and work with him would not meet resistance , meekly accepted the rebuke and the order , especially as the television he wanted to watch was a rock concert . |
| 7 | How formal this take-over was is an open question ; to a large extent the evidence derives from the funerary inscriptions of fifth- and sixth-century bishops , where the epithet defensor civitatis might refer to the dead man 's achievements rather than his office . |
| 8 | Following the pattern established by other catalogues of the museum , these illustrations are divided into seven chronological sections , each of which is preceded by a detailed biographical record of Matisse 's activity so that his places , projects and patrons can be identified with crisp clarity . |
| 9 | All this suggests that when he started work on Clairvaux Richard anticipated the Viscount 's hostility rather than his brother 's . |
| 10 | However , their arguments rest purely on Sartre 's intentions rather than his practice in the latter novel : Sartre in fact adopts a whole range of modernist devices throughout the three volumes , deriving precisely from the narrative experiments of Joyce , Dos Passos , Faulkner and others . |
| 11 | Berg also argued that the fact that G was fully informed and not misled by the report was irrelevant , since it was alleged that he was not acting in Berg 's interest so that his knowledge should not be attributed to the company . |