Example sentences of "his [noun] [vb past] [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 | Charlie started quietly to sing with the tape , and his sister joined him , both stretching for the top notes . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Nothing was said , but his Lieutenant knew he had been reprieved at the last minute . |
| 11 | His university refused him a not lofty post in the faculty of divinity . |
| 12 | His employers offered him additional wages and a partial refund of the extra travelling expenses . |
| 13 | As before , whenever his acquirements enabled him to pay , he would be called upon to do so . |
| 14 | As his dive steepened he felt the speed pick up again ; there was still life in the controls , somewhere . |
| 15 | His enthusiasm carried him to her . |
| 16 | He stood just within the room , looking steadily at the Princess , and went headlong where his genius pointed him . |
| 17 | His defenders saw it as efficiency , his detractors saw it as the uncaring side of Graeme Souness . |
| 18 | Laura 's problem was that she had not enough to do — no children , though she had n't said anything about this recently — and his heart smote him because he had undertaken to make her happy , and had n't . |
| 19 | Taheb poured wine , which Huy was bound by etiquette to accept , though his heart resisted it . |
| 20 | Yet this restatement of his views won him political support from Liberals who looked askance at this quasi-nationalization programme . |
| 21 | The cleverness of his fingers availed him |
| 22 | Only the rings on his fingers told them who he was . |
| 23 | No , not even when his fingers touched her , as they had already , several times , just prior to the kiss . |
| 24 | Her composure regained , she turned back to hand him the long tall glass of iced tea , managing with an effort not to flinch visibly when his fingers touched her . |
| 25 | His fingers touched hers and his heart gave a jolt , but she seemed perfectly in command of herself and had apparently felt nothing , so he told himself not to be a dope , and carried his coffee back to the chesterfield . |
| 26 | Grant 's hand darted for his torch , but even as his fingers touched it , the floor shook under him and he heard a tremendous rumbling crash in the corridor he had just left . |
| 27 | He made her feel incredibly feminine ; the merest touch of his fingers transported her to ecstasies she had never before experienced . |
| 28 | His fingers scorched her as they trailed through her hair , making her spine tingle . |
| 29 | And as his fingers clasped hers , a strange sensation had shot through her , as though with that handshake he had branded her forever . |
| 30 | His fingers urged her to continue . |