Example sentences of "his [noun pl] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His contemporaries remember him as ‘ Dear Randy ’ , the epitome of the slick student politician . |
| 2 | Even now his contemporaries raise their eyes and murmur ‘ Ssshh ’ because there are still alive those whose feelings might be hurt and the extent of it all is better buried under the marriages and the more undeniable liaisons . |
| 3 | His contemporaries reported him as a master of geological field-mapping techniques and his original maps of many parts of Scotland confirm his observational skills and his ability to locate himself in the wilderness with an accuracy that can not be improved upon with aerial photographs . |
| 4 | His contemporaries described him as being ‘ oak-hard ’ , and in his photographs the bullet-head , the upswept moustaches and rather piglike eves remind one more of a typical Prussian Feldwebel , with all its connotations of brutal , unimaginative single-mindedness . |
| 5 | Several of his contemporaries describe him as tender and gentle , modest , ‘ shy ’ even . |
| 6 | Both he and his employers knew there was a risk of a stone falling on him and he had complained to them about this . |
| 7 | His employers offered him additional wages and a partial refund of the extra travelling expenses . |
| 8 | As before , whenever his acquirements enabled him to pay , he would be called upon to do so . |
| 9 | Eventually a Cun bowed and indicated for his brethren to follow him ; the others snarled at the Galks and walked away . |
| 10 | The only sounds he registered were the faint rumblings of hangar doors and the occasional roar of powerful engines as his fellow-pilots tested their jets . |
| 11 | We would like to turn these over immediately to Marshal Tito 's forces and would be grateful if Marshal Tito would agree to instruct his commanders to accept them … " |
| 12 | Suddenly , cheekily she spun round in front of him , mocking his attempts to turn her into an Anglo-Irish lady . |
| 13 | She saw his attempts to wish his own brand of authority on to the production as little more than temperamental interference , and , in turn , told him how he should play his scenes . |
| 14 | They know that he is playing a part ; they are amused by his attempts to amuse them ; and grow fond of him ; and thereby demonstrate their own tolerance to themselves ; and grow even fonder of him as the occasion of the demonstration . |
| 15 | Maybe She 's laughing right now at even his attempts to disentangle it all . |
| 16 | In my experience the most effective way to resist his attempts to snag you is to heave at him with as much side-strain as your tackle strength will allow . |
| 17 | He could see that Elizabeth was pleased by his attempts to describe it all and continued , ‘ You should see t'stables , coach-houses and t'yard . |
| 18 | The QC also considered ‘ his attempts to put his life in order and adopt a more responsible and sincere approach to his affairs ’ . |
| 19 | Fen , it seemed , had foreseen such an eventuality , hence his attempts to evict her . |
| 20 | He blamed himself for crediting her with a maturity she did not possess , and regretted that his attempts to assist her studies had been so tragically misinterpreted by her . |
| 21 | Jones had been cast for the minor but useful role of leading a small diversionary force of ships to the north of England and Scotland , but his attempts to make his ships ready for sea involved him in constant arguments with the French authorities , and his reputation as a tyrannical captain made it hard to find a crew . |
| 22 | His attempts to reform it were guided by the insights of close collaborators from within the educational system , in particular William Brockington , Chief Education Officer of Leicestershire , and Lady Simon , of the Manchester Education Committee . |
| 23 | According to West European diplomats in Managua , President Daniel Ortega is running out of time in his attempts to present himself to the Nicaraguan electorate on February 25 as the ‘ peace maker ’ who ended the contra war . |
| 24 | Partner Ferdinand has had his back to the wall in the last few months , a troublesome disc plaguing his attempts to establish himself last spring and resulting in him coming home early from America . |
| 25 | In a brief period of energetic expansion , Samuilo enlarged his empire , from its centre in the Prespa/Ohrid area , so that by the end of the century it extended from the Black Sea to the Adriatic and into Greece , even as far as the Peleponnesus , although the Aegean port of Salonika successfully resisted his attempts to occupy it . |
| 26 | Laughing , she dodged his attempts to catch her and ran to the door . |
| 27 | He comically dismisses his attempts to project himself into the narrative future and finds that the past is rendered elusive by the distortions of the means he uses to recapture it . |
| 28 | However , I soon tired of his attempts to help our neighbours . |
| 29 | In 1988 Gil Guilemette , of Montreal , was charged with ‘ criminal mischief and loitering ’ in his attempts to meet her . |
| 30 | More significantly , Anderson 's hesitancies undermine his attempts to assert himself in the situation . |