Example sentences of "an [noun] [pron] [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | For an instant he savoured his temporary possession of the whip hand . |
| 2 | In 1760 he was employed , first as carpenter and then as clerk of works , at the building of Kedleston Hall , Derbyshire , under Robert Adam [ q.v. ] , an experience which constituted his architectural education . |
| 3 | The pain of returning circulation was violent , and for half an hour he bit his lips and clenched the muscles that still worked to keep himself from moaning . |
| 4 | and er , this is what I , this is what I wanted , to tie to the flagpole and left him there for about an hour he had his pasting as well . |
| 5 | Jared Tunstall would , he knew , ruin an employee who stole his daughter away from him . |
| 6 | Clearly an editor who knew his typography but one who never spotted that the publication was no longer being pasted together by hand — let alone produced at a mere 600 dots per inch . |
| 7 | Petra 's new hotel , built outside the Siq , is run by an Englishman who cut his catering teeth in the palaces of Saudi Arabia . |
| 8 | It tells the story of an engineer who loses his job because of the effects of being gassed during the First World War . |
| 9 | From The Moth , journal of the DH Moth Club , this member 's account of an accident which befell his pristine Tiger Moth last summer soon after it had undergone a complete rebuild at Maypole Farm in Kent and had accumulated only a handful of flying hours . |
| 10 | AN IRISHMAN who sold his family furniture for £600 was counting the cost today after Christie 's this week auctioned the same furniture for £230,000 . |
| 11 | King lost a leg during war service in Italy , an event which makes his thorough surveys of castles , notably those in Wales , even more remarkable . |
| 12 | But then there came an event which changed his life and made him a very unusual engineer indeed . |
| 13 | Neither was a dominant dog , but Ollie was an opportunist who used his appeal to maintain certain rights that Melanie , especially , had given him . |
| 14 | After taking an overdose he told his neighbour what he had done and she called an ambulance . |
| 15 | VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM The Art of Design : Edward Bawden , an artist who began his career studying calligraphy and went on to master the art of book illustration , printmaking , poster design , advertising . |
| 16 | Finally , Denis Lanzenberg is an artist who frames his own richly coloured paintings , then , instead of a title or caption , appends a small black-and-white photograph , which attracts the eye and complements the viewer 's appreciation of the composition . |
| 17 | None of these three films is uplifting or reassuring ; but then Jarman is an artist who uses his canvas to provoke and disturb . |
| 18 | Spurs defender Danny Thomas claimed damages against Gavin Maguire and his club QPR over an incident which ended his career and this was settled out of court . |
| 19 | An investor who gives his broker an order to sell when a stock falls to a certain figure is setting UP just such a system . |
| 20 | Pulled from the river with her nightdress apparently wound around her head , she provided Magritte with an image which haunted his art and inspired the long and diverse series of compositions in which the head is concealed by a veil or an apple , metamorphosed into a plank of wood , or shown only from the back view . |
| 21 | Euro-elections were pending and , it was rumoured , he was doing his best to make life miserable for an organization which challenged his claim to the green constituency . |
| 22 | With an effort he kept his voice level . |
| 23 | With an effort he redirected his thoughts to the problem of what films the Palladium should show in the near future . |
| 24 | An officer who spent his career patrolling a middle-class suburb would only in extreme circumstances be involved in a physical encounter . |
| 25 | A cry choked in her throat , and after an eternity he lifted his head , and stared down at her , his breath coming in harsh , roughened bursts . |
| 26 | Frankly , only an MEP who spends his life flying around the Community at the taxpayer 's expense , would think of conducting such a fatuous experiment . |
| 27 | Tom Jones found him getting deaf in 1932 , and thought this resulted in his missing remarks to an extent which affected his political judgment . |