Example sentences of "his [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because the poison inside his sister hurt him more than her accusations ? |
| 2 | Officially he had recovered nicely from the shock of his experience , but his sister thought he needed more time : she was mothering him . |
| 3 | Then his sister told him gently that schools like his did n't have bells , a bell would lower the tone of the place and put off the parents of prospective pupils . |
| 4 | When he got back his sister told him . |
| 5 | Really all we 've got is what his sister told us when she came over . ’ |
| 6 | Nothing was said about his next move , except that he could hardly expect his sister to take him in now , and that he was unwilling , under any circumstances , to move to Purley . |
| 7 | It 's a street his sister admits he knew , had a girlfriend there . |
| 8 | The Office tells us that he arranged for his sister to meet him in a nearby wood and to bring with her two of her over-dresses , one white and one grey , and his father 's rainhood . |
| 9 | Charlie started quietly to sing with the tape , and his sister joined him , both stretching for the top notes . |
| 10 | He tells everybody his sister gave it to him for Christmas and he does n't really want one , but what with the job and all his meetings it comes in handy . |
| 11 | His contemporaries remember him as ‘ Dear Randy ’ , the epitome of the slick student politician . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Several of his contemporaries describe him as tender and gentle , modest , ‘ shy ’ even . |
| 15 | Nothing was said , but his Lieutenant knew he had been reprieved at the last minute . |
| 16 | His university refused him a not lofty post in the faculty of divinity . |
| 17 | His employers offered him additional wages and a partial refund of the extra travelling expenses . |
| 18 | As before , whenever his acquirements enabled him to pay , he would be called upon to do so . |
| 19 | He plunged on the bomber and raked it from tail to nose ; then let his dive carry him under it and pulled up in time to plant a burst in its belly before climbing into a half-roll which brought the next plane almost within range . |
| 20 | As his dive steepened he felt the speed pick up again ; there was still life in the controls , somewhere . |
| 21 | Eventually a Cun bowed and indicated for his brethren to follow him ; the others snarled at the Galks and walked away . |
| 22 | His enthusiasm carried him to her . |
| 23 | 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 … " |
| 24 | Suddenly , cheekily she spun round in front of him , mocking his attempts to turn her into an Anglo-Irish lady . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Maybe She 's laughing right now at even his attempts to disentangle it all . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Fen , it seemed , had foreseen such an eventuality , hence his attempts to evict her . |
| 30 | 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 . |