Example sentences of "of his [noun] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked at his eyes and his ears and his teeth and his droppings and the ends of his claws and he inquired what he had been eating . |
| 2 | Bishops Hall doing it nicely under Brad and it 's good to see him in the saddle today because he was offered the ride on Morley Street but he 'd already said yes and he 's a man of his word and he agreed to ride this horse . |
| 3 | Her hand gripped the small of his back until they lay spent next to each other on the bed . |
| 4 | The South African , injured in a fall two weeks ago , has made a successful return to action , but still feels considerable pain in the lower part of his back where he has pulled a muscle . |
| 5 | At this stage of his development the karateka seems to be able to sense the movements of his opponents before they occur , enabling him to react with blinding speed and absolute control . |
| 6 | Pick somewhere public and stay out of his reach if you 're worried about being forced . |
| 7 | It was n't until she was completely out of his sight that she allowed herself to break into a swift trot . |
| 8 | The man sitting opposite her looked shifty , but she could see from the set of his jaw that he 'd no intention of telling her his suspicions . |
| 9 | And now William was the last surviving friend of his childhood and they met as dissidents who have escaped the Gulag but left their roots behind and need each other to share the memories . |
| 10 | And William began to run from the approaching cart , which was piled high with the bodies of the plague victims , and as he ran the streets became the familiar streets of his childhood and he knew that all the time he was running from the terrible cart he was getting closer and closer to the dark house by the railway embankment with its shuttered windows and its locked door , and that this was more terrible to him than anything in his history books . |
| 11 | Writing about Stravinsky , Canudo gave a practical demonstration of his outlook when he claimed that : ‘ He partakes of our aesthetic , of Cubism , of synchronism , of the simultaneity of some and the nervous , matter of fact onyrhythm of others . ’ |
| 12 | He suffered from a bad stutter , and the delighted hilarity of his classmates as he stumbled through simple texts was agony . |
| 13 | There is a reference in a letter from one of his dependents that he eventually took a passage home from Corfu on a naval vessel in 1843 ; and that an 1851 census shows that he was living with his wife and two of his daughters at Longhorsley , his birthplace . |
| 14 | Ricard agreed and was searching for the key on the ring of his belt when we heard the sound of horses and men shouting . |
| 15 | Putting names to faces : You may wish to be able to look at someone and think instantly of his name because it makes social life so much easier ; or you may wish to improve your chances of impressing a business acquaintance ( and possibly making a deal as a result ) . |
| 16 | A creature like man , completely lacking the inbred altruism seen , for instance , in the worker bee , might well rebel against the altruistic demands of his society if it were readily apparent to him that his altruism was profoundly hypocritical and made up of components of inhibited egoism , self-directed sadism ( e. g. guilt ) and de-sexualized libido ( e.g. ‘ social feeling ’ ) . |
| 17 | He had felt the power of his position when he had taken a bottle to the room of any major and propositioned for information on the talk in the mess when he , the KGB 's ears , was not present . |
| 18 | If he were honest with himself , however , he would admit that he did not miss them ; it was the comfort of his home that he missed . |
| 19 | And it is in the privacy of his home that he demonstrates the ultimate love for his partner . |
| 20 | He alleged that inquiry officers had lied about seeing a flickering light in a bedroom window of his home when they applied for a search warrant . |
| 21 | A Roman Catholic persecuted under Elizabeth I , he designed the Triangular Lodge in his prison cell as a symbol of the Holy Trinity and built it in the grounds of his home when he was released . |
| 22 | The second half of this can be seen to coincide with the opinion of Chatterton which is expressed by Ackroyd 's Wilde : ‘ a strange , slight boy who was so prodigal of his genius that he attached the names of others to it . ’ |
| 23 | Then she caught her breath at the evidence of his arousal , but he stayed so still that , fascinated , she touched him , and felt the jerk of his response as she stroked and encircled his warm , hard flesh in an investigation that was both shy and bold . |
| 24 | After reading the signpost , the user moves off in the direction of his choice until he arrives at the next crossroads . |
| 25 | She would be seated in front of his desk before he allowed himself to be near her ; then he would lean against the same side of the desk as she . |
| 26 | He suffered over evidence that he had links with former communists and the secret police ; over criticism of his ambiguous prescriptions for economic recovery ; and over ridicule of his claims that he had had mystical experiences . |
| 27 | The beginning social research worker can make most certain the value of his contribution if he narrows his research to very specific problems . |
| 28 | But she could see it all the same , in the tremors that shook the broad plain of his chest as he struggled to contain his fury . |
| 29 | Part of his stock-in-trade when he wants to take over an organization . |
| 30 | Now , at this very moment , he is trying to pick up the pieces of his life after you have shattered it so cruelly — ’ |