Example sentences of "his [noun] [prep] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We are not playing kick and rush , ’ he insisted when driving out to a friend 's hotel in the Derwent Valley below Consett , pausing now and then to savour the uncluttered Durham landscape , his heart for ever in the North-east of England . |
| 2 | He read metallurgy at Swansea University and received his PhD from there before joining the production group of the UKAEA which became BNFL in 1971 . |
| 3 | Tolkien saw the problem of evil in books as in realities , and he told his story at least in part to dramatise that problem ; he did not however claim to know the answer to it . |
| 4 | were were saying that he was only God from his baptism to Not on the cross , before the cross . |
| 5 | She would shut him up , trample him down , stop up his mouth for ever with hot red mud . |
| 6 | At some time Bracy Clark had lent £500 to Bond , and his widow , unable to discharge the debt , gave the skeleton to Clark and it remained in his study until shortly before his death . |
| 7 | When the boy drew his horse in triumphantly beside him , he felt more pride , more sense of achievement than he had felt in four years of high-powered business dealings . |
| 8 | go in Anthy 's bedroom he 's got all his cars in there with his garage |
| 9 | He has two or three ear infections a month and sometimes pus pours from his ears for up to two days in a row . |
| 10 | He had worked at his books in here as a boy , shared port with Sir John as a stripling in his callow youth , sitting across from him before the fire in this male stronghold , deep in the leather chair . |
| 11 | Mandela was to be assassinated by a sniper on his return from abroad in mid-July . |
| 12 | A softly-spoken , intense man , he receives hundreds of visitors who come to his home from all over India to view his work . |
| 13 | She was packing his stuff and I was bringing him upstairs to his room like away from her like . |
| 14 | To utilize this to the full , Brusilov resolved to launch all four of his armies at once over a wide front , rather than concentrating them as dictated by contemporary military thinking . |
| 15 | It was only when Hurley called Coleman direct at the end of March 1988 , telling him to get his ass over there in a week or he would find somebody else , that Donleavy agreed to release him . |
| 16 | The king 's chivalric reputation attracted men to his service from all over Europe in the 1340s , and it greatly strengthened the bonds between him and the English nobility . |
| 17 | The French art world is already handicapped by the droit de suite of 3% which also exists in seven other European countries but not in Britain , payable to an artist and his relatives for up to fifty years after his death . |
| 18 | He was a dear , lively little man with the bluest of blue eyes who had himself became a fanatical Anglophile , devoting his life until well into his eighties to the furtherance of Anglo-German relations ; and I was proud to be asked to give one of the brief tributes to him at his memorial service at the German Embassy . |
| 19 | He had his own rooms in a separate part of the quinta , where he entertained his friends until late at night ; at meals he sometimes made a show of conversation with her , but otherwise they were as strangers . |
| 20 | A commission in bankruptcy would cost him £100 and be subject to considerable delay ; but the consent of a certain proportion of his creditors was sufficient for his discharge for ever from his debts . |
| 21 | And she took his hand in both of hers and squeezed . |
| 22 | He had timed his arrival for shortly after midday in the hope that lunchtime would find the staff free of commitments . |
| 23 | Craig made his way at once to the study , the desk was locked as he had expected . |
| 24 | He had climbed through her window in the sweet nights , nights that would torment his memory for ever with the perfume of darkness and intrigue . |
| 25 | But Francis , who has already led Wednesday into the Coca-Cola Cup final and a showdown with Arsenal , refuses to divulge his line-up until just before the kick-off . |
| 26 | Crosby also has injury worries to add to his team selection problems , and he will not name his line-up until just before the start . |
| 27 | DARLINGTON manager Ray Hankin has agreed to put his boots on again for a testimonial game at Shildon later this month . |
| 28 | and Greg Downs will be pulling his boots on again on Sunday when United face Bath City at Twerton Park in the second round of the cup … |
| 29 | I have been told that a landowner can allow caravans to park on his land for up to 28 days per year without having to obtain planning consent . |
| 30 | She said , he got his stereo on his stereo on upstairs on and off . |