Example sentences of "[noun pl] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | He avoided the bullying tactics his son was to employ ; yet the results of his modest pursuits were in their own way as remarkable as those of Philip Augustus ' domineering interventions . |
| 2 | Billy Bragg has the unusual gift of making other people 's songs his own by the simple expedient of singing them . |
| 3 | David as a child peoples his neighbourhood with its scenes and characters , including Gamaliel Pickle , Peregrine 's father , Commodore Trunnion , and Tom Pipes ; its story is the first of those he recounts to Steerforth at Salem House , DC 4 , 7 . |
| 4 | Salesman Joey sweet-talks his trickiest customer |
| 5 | ‘ Just imagine him standing by the side of you , with his hands crossed before him in a Miss Mollyish style , his intended bow half a courtsey , his fat arms and legs assisting , as in duty bound ; his side glances at you every ten seconds , while he softly , sweetly and insinuatingly informs you — that he has made the arts his peculiar study for the last eight years , and that he flatters himself , by his unremitting study he has greatly contributed to their improvement ; that he came to Ambleside for that purpose ( 't is a great big lie — he came solely to get a living for himself and family , but he is too proud to acknowledge this ) and hopes that the time has been employed with equal advantage to the arts and to himself . ’ |
| 6 | He led them at a smart pace along the path where the railway had been and though they grumbled about the branches scratching their legs his sister and his brothers followed him . |
| 7 | A triple pile of plumes his crest adorned , |
| 8 | The slight , disparaging inflexion on the last word annoyed Mr Pigdon , but he gruffly assured the gentleman that he should have the best spare bedroom and all the comforts his poor house might afford . |
| 9 | That was a novel , a novel in which Dostoievsky 's sole aim was to put before his readers his thoughts on the theme . |
| 10 | But when Trevor tried to contact the pop star 's offices his appeals were in vain . |
| 11 | To some temperaments his state of nature might seem exciting and full of challenge . |
| 12 | The charges were eventually dropped after an investigation , but had he stayed with the Scots Guards his career would inevitably have been wrecked . |
| 13 | As he explains , ‘ where the resulting self-definition , for personal or collective reasons , becomes too difficult , a sense of role confusion results : the young person counterpoints rather than synthesises his sexual , ethnic , occupational and typological alternatives and is often driven to decide definitely and totally for one side or the other . ’ |
| 14 | He still has n't had it through , cos we were yes , yes , big improvement , it was just that we were arranging visiting and things like that and er whether there 's any need to do certain things , so er , but he 's still on a , he 's come off all his painkillers his morphine 's out completely , that 's fantastic is n't it ? |
| 15 | That Fforde accepts some key Thatcherite assumptions is evident , but in many respects his work , like Thatcherism itself , is reminiscent of an earlier intellectual tradition , in that the more one reads his work the more one thinks of A. V. Dicey . |
| 16 | Coleridge had not yet evolved his own system , and in many respects his development had run parallel to Wordsworth 's . |
| 17 | In some respects his ethics is a representative in the ‘ modern ’ world of the same type of approach as was taken by Plato and Aristotle . |
| 18 | The years that followed were in many respects his heyday . |
| 19 | In some respects his work echoes that of Dunleavy and Castells . |
| 20 | Although Fortunatus was an Italian , and although there is nothing comparable to his books of poetry in the sixth-century west , in many respects his writings can be placed in the same tradition as those of Sidonius and Avitus . |
| 21 | McMurdo never made the grade but like many Scots his early interest in the game ignited a flame of passion for football that has never been extinguished . |
| 22 | Gangs his ain way in the world . |
| 23 | But within its strait parameters his religion seems to have been genuine enough . |
| 24 | The images his words had triggered were running riot in her brain , and it took all her strength to blot them out . |
| 25 | The work continued under another architect , but the death of Marino , combined with the vast expense of the building together with the losses his surviving family also suffered at the hands of the new Spanish governors , meant that work stopped altogether for many years . |
| 26 | For one moment Isambard was caught off-guard , but he had lived in and trained and trusted that hard old body of his for sixty years , and in emergencies his very muscles thought for him . |
| 27 | I am no great linguist but I still ca n't see how both Menes are represented , nor can I understand at all , how Daniel could have drawn from these three apparently simple words his full translation : ‘ God hath numbered thy kingdom and finished it . |
| 28 | ‘ Good luck ’ were the words his lips formed . |
| 29 | Nadirpur had explained in simple , uncomplicated words his confused feelings and emotions . |
| 30 | If , in addition , what he says and how he says it , in other words his style , provide further clues , all the better . |