Example sentences of "his [noun pl] [vb past] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very quickly , however , his superiors recognized his talent for understanding and winning the goodwill of Africans , as when he successfully resolved a dispute with the rulers of Old Calabar , upon which the settlement was largely dependent for foodstuffs . |
| 2 | Manville was dead long before the heavy iron chains fastened around his ankles dragged his body to the bottom of the Potomac River . |
| 3 | The disease visited on his sons prompted his wife , Fredegund , to burn the new tax registers . |
| 4 | As A J Lubin movingly observes , ‘ His pictures became his companions , his mistresses , and his children . ’ |
| 5 | The problem was that Bismarck did not last and his successors lacked his statesmanship and sensitivity to master the huge country he had created . |
| 6 | He bit off whatever he was going to say and inhaled deeply , smoothing his face into a blank expression so that only the hot glitter in his eyes betrayed his anger . |
| 7 | But his eyes belied his words , and Folly felt a new happiness rise within her . |
| 8 | He was talking and smiling as though nothing in the world were different , yet the expression in his eyes belied his easy manner . |
| 9 | Many of his readers approved his sensitive and appreciative understanding of paintings , though without sharing his political views . |
| 10 | Hoomey wondered who he would go along with when the day came his parents arranged his getting married , for Sikhs arranged it for their sons , Hoomey knew . |
| 11 | Edouard de Chavigny 's eye for detail was well known ; no aspect , however small , connected with the running of his companies escaped his notice . |
| 12 | His feet followed his well-trodden path home . |
| 13 | His contributions included his work with Scripture Union , his long association with Cambridge University Mission , and his leading role with Andy Pierssene in setting up the Oxford Boys ' Club Trust . |
| 14 | The first baronet was MP for New Shoreham in 1708–13 and 1715–20 : on his death in 1720 , his executors sold his large shareholding in the South Sea Company , and his son was left around £600,000 . |
| 15 | His oarsmen held his great galley back off the beach , ready to leave again at a word as Eachuinn Odhar leaped thigh-deep to surge ashore , energetic and agile almost as in his youth , and much more dangerous . |
| 16 | Characteristically , de Gaulle sharpened the contrasts in retrospect : the actual text of his comments made his own preference ( for the third option ) much less transparent . |
| 17 | He lay in a sort of mental haze until a feeling of restriction just below his buttocks penetrated his still slumbering state . |
| 18 | Perhaps nothing would embarrass God more than if every one of His creatures took His Word literally and to heart . |
| 19 | His occasional demands for ‘ surplusage ’ respecting the extent to which his disbursements exceeded his receipts on particular accounts are eloquent illustrations of the scale of these activities : for example , £26,000 for operations in the Palatinate in 1624 , and £30,000 on another account in 1630 . |
| 20 | That year , Niki had his chances : he dominated the race in South Africa and the car went sick four laps from the end ; he had Monaco in his gift , the same defect did him in ; at the Nürburgring , his mechanics rolled his race tyres over debris . |
| 21 | Fortunately his friends repurchased his goods and chattels and presented them to his wife ; they also paid off what he owed . |
| 22 | However his teachers recognised his exceptional qualities and he was given junior teaching posts which enabled him to register at the University of Pennsylvania , where he obtained his Master 's degree and began to work towards a PhD , specialising in philosophy . |
| 23 | J. Brewer , Rolls Series , vol. xv , 1859 , p. 327 ) ; his critics ignored his fruitful study of arts , evident in his ‘ Sapientiale ’ , at the London Franciscan convent . |
| 24 | His critics accused his work of lacking in realism , but this did not lessen his popularity with those readers who enjoyed his enthusiasm for romance and adventure . |
| 25 | Perhaps his failures fuelled his own curiosity . |
| 26 | His eyelashes concealed his eyes in that secret , almost coy way he had and she was suddenly dreadfully frightened and angry with him at the same time . |
| 27 | He cried out then , in some species of unutterable agony , and she felt him move to cover her , while his hands signalled his purpose to her eager limbs . |
| 28 | His hands covered his face until he brought them into fists in front of him , in the way he often did , then he opened his arms along the length of me ; his palms warm , close , without touching , cruised first my shoulder , then the weight of my breast under my hair , my hip , my stomach . |
| 29 | Demand for his services exceeded his capacity to meet the many requests and in the second year of the scheme he acquired a car to provide greater mobility . |
| 30 | Chantler , their economic adviser , told the new Minister frankly that the Conservatives had over-estimated the reality of controls , and most of his colleagues shared his view that any new system of control could scarcely be worse than the one they were attempting to use . |