Example sentences of "and his [noun] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only evidence for his existence was a phone-call from Nicola and his name scribbled in a book . |
| 2 | Suddenly he heard a clattering noise and his cockpit filled with smoke , the controls going dead — he had been shot down by Oblt . |
| 3 | Ballesteros enjoys those moments of high drama when his nerve is put to the test and his resilience examined to the very end . |
| 4 | Nicholson and his officers turned and moved away from the landing rail , out of sight of the other prisoners . |
| 5 | ‘ Bombed ? ’ said Johnny sharply , and his grip tightened on her hand . |
| 6 | And his grip tightened as he rose , bearing her aloft , and then , with infinite gentleness , lowering her , lowering , lowering , upon him . |
| 7 | Mr Murray set about to counteract any ill feeling towards government radio policies by arranging a nation-wide tour of all ‘ trouble spots ’ , and his schedule called for a visit to Moose Jaw during the second week of February , 1936 . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm quite sure Dora can do without the services of an emissary , ’ she said coolly and his laughter echoed across the empty garden . |
| 9 | The ideology of Hitler and his cronies derived from a long history of pseudo-philosophical state thuggery . |
| 10 | A man in a two-piece suit , and a thin cotton shirt and his tie knotted at the second button of the shirt . |
| 11 | There were few peasant proprietors ( perhaps six per cent. ) but tenant farmers enjoyed the best customary tenure outside Catalonia and the Basque Provinces ; if rents were higher , the tenant could not be evicted ; he was compensated for improvement and his rents settled by arbitration . |
| 12 | His consultations were conducted fortissimo and his guffaws echoed through the hall which was his waiting room , lined with an interested audience , and out into the street : ‘ BEEN TO ITALY ? |
| 13 | Bishop Laurence , who was consecrated in I 251 , was another Bishop who saw his Cathedral looted and abused and his monks killed when the city was besieged by Simon de Montfort , Earl of Leicester , in the year 1264 . |
| 14 | As well as teaching , Mr M and his wife run a farm on South Ronaldsay . |
| 15 | and his wife pictured with just some of his sporting trophies . |
| 16 | A new Professional , Bert Skoyles was engaged and his wife employed as Steward . |
| 17 | Like an out-take from Falcon Crest , Souness and his wife moved from villa to mansion and back again , but his incurable obsession with football ultimately led to divorce and to a painful separation which distanced Souness from his children . |
| 18 | Marshall and his wife moved into increasingly larger houses near Leeds , but regarded their summer residence , Hallsteads , on Ullswater , where they were intimate with Dorothy and William Wordsworth [ qq.v. ] and the local gentry , as their real home , Marshall becoming high sheriff of Cumberland in 1821 . |
| 19 | The Major who lodged with Peggy stayed in the house and he was killed and his wife blown through the window , but she 's all right . ’ |
| 20 | He went about the difficult pre-tour planning with the England management team without saying a word although he had confided in friends that he and his wife planned to quietly separate when the tour finished . |
| 21 | He and his wife retired to Countess Street , in Heaviley , not far from the buildings and fields he had looked after for a lifetime so conscientiously , with cheerful whistle and every-ready smile . |
| 22 | In the cold dawn , with the wind pushing them so that they could hardly face each other , the King and his wife met on the slope above the battered hall . |
| 23 | The wilder ones were rampant about black magic , the gruesome style of the mutilations , of kinky sex videos starring Polanski and his wife found at the house , and of the deep drug involvements of three of the victims . |
| 24 | Later , as his family came into the world , it was to be the dining-room and a new surgery was built at the side of the house , but when Mrs Curdle first knew him , the doctor and his wife dined in the sunny little room at the back of the house , conveniently near to the kitchen . |
| 25 | To compound things , the Steward and his wife left in April . |
| 26 | The moral revolution , which is very strikingly described in his autobiography , arose out of a visit that he and his wife paid to the Whitehead family , which were then undergoing a family tribulation of some kind , and Russell was deeply moved by their plight . |
| 27 | Eliot and his wife photographed in the early morning , following a celebration of the opening of The Elder Statesman , 26 September , 1958 . |
| 28 | The lad was at the disco one Friday evening , three or four weeks after Derek and his wife returned from Canada . |
| 29 | He was very friendly and told me he was a cripple , unable to work , but he and his wife managed on a small pension ; there was no bitterness in his voice . |
| 30 | After giving up all hope of ever being parents , the businessman and his wife learned of a young English girl living on Corfu who was putting her baby up for adoption . |