Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun] that [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | He felt the hypodermic-gun pressed against his neck and tried to squirm away , struggling against the strong hand that held his shoulder , but it was too late . |
| 2 | But in fashioning his movement , Baden-Powell skilfully wove together any number of the political questions that preoccupied his contemporaries , and the movement 's spectacular growth drew on deep funds of social anxiety — anxieties which invariably settled around the excessive liberty allowed to young people and the attendant demoralisation which was , in turn , linked to a newly perceived upsurge in crime and violence among the young . |
| 3 | In the weeks that followed , the teleprinter messages from Barashevo were to become familiar reading to the official who now hobbled on the built-up shoe that supported his club foot towards his filing cabinets . |
| 4 | Walking beside her now , he prayed she would not notice the peculiar tic that jerked his face into a spasm of nervous twitches and always made her so terribly angry . |
| 5 | To the left , he could only at first see his own garden , his tennis court , the old wall that screened his vegetables — to eat what one has grown , actually to eat that ! — but then , across a low hedge and a fence that needed repair , he found he could see into the garden of the new Rectory , whose impersonal little back windows faced the same way as his own . |
| 6 | Crossman was a seriously-minded man and his diaries — although occasionally including some innocent gossip — were devoted to the serious topics that held his interest . |
| 7 | She surveyed his long-limbed body with an attempt at cool detachment , her gaze flickering over the dark denims that moulded his strong thighs , and the jade sweater that clung to his hard male chest . |
| 8 | In the opinion , however , of the contemporary poet , Walter von der Vogelweide , the civil war that engulfed his land was prolonged by the pope in order to weaken the empire . |
| 9 | During the six years that followed his restoration , Louis put together again the coalition of ecclesiastical and secular support that had sustained him in the 820s . |
| 10 | I can only point out the immoral lifestyle that accompanied his profession and the evidence of spiritual deceit . |
| 11 | The commission for a new tomb for the philosopher , to replace the simple stone that marks his grave on the Catalan coast , had been given to the Israeli artist Dani Karavan in 1989 by the Arbeitskreis Selbständiger Kulturinstitut and was to be financed to the tune of DM1 million by the German Foreign Ministry . |
| 12 | Last week Mr Takeshita admitted that , in addition to the 12,000 shares that came his way , Recruit slipped him ¥20m just before his bid for the prime ministership in 1987 . |
| 13 | The crucial ingredient that turned his clothes into something outstandingly elegant always came from the woman wearing them . |
| 14 | Ashcroft Noble was part-owner of the three weeklies that published his ‘ Paul Pelican ’ articles and accepted Thomas 's early essays ; and he was also connected with the Edinburgh firm of Blackwood that was to publish those essays in book form . |
| 15 | But even in her bemused state she heard , with fierce satisfaction , the harshness , the rapid breathing that belied his attempt to sound unmoved . |
| 16 | She could see it in the black expression that crossed his face and the tightened lips . |
| 17 | We must not leave the eighteenth century without mention of the great typefounder and printer of Birmingham , John Baskerville ( 1706–75 ) , who not only designed the famous type that bears his name but greatly improved the general standard of English printing and gave us , in 1763 , one of the most splendid editions of the Bible . |
| 18 | The light tone was belied by the steely resolution that held his face . |
| 19 | Of the luxury items that pargeted his slender form , none was as breathtaking as his hair , with its layers of pampered light . |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't pretend that you are to be cured , my lady , ’ smiled the doctor , from under the Physical bob-wig that marked his profession . |
| 21 | John feels it 's the double bed that worries his Dad , not the puppet . |
| 22 | In 1923 he married Margaret Kavanagh , upon whose assistance in his work he had increasingly relied during the growing blindness that afflicted his later years . |
| 23 | Lord Hanson , head of the industrial conglomerate that bears his name , earned £1.38m and Sir Paul Girolami , head of Glaxo , the rival drugs group , £1m . |
| 24 | Mickey Aronson replied , delighted at the ribald laughter that greeted his witticism . |
| 25 | The single perspective of an individual subject proves inadequate to the task of processing the sensory data that flood his consciousness . |
| 26 | But it is no longer these stars of the first magnitude that hold his fancy . |
| 27 | Seeking a name , John Fawcus opened a book and the first word that caught his eye was ‘ cryptic ’ So , as established institutions are apt to spring from casual beginnings , was born the club that has prospered peripatetically ever since . |
| 28 | An hour later she was keeping it , sharing the small lift with him , keeping her face averted from the complacent look that painted his prepossessing face with an irritating blandness . |
| 29 | However , there were no suitable ponies , and indeed the only horses that took his eye in the whole sale were two Arabian stallions . |
| 30 | The only smile that crossed his lips all afternoon was when he saw someone knocked out . |