Example sentences of "[adv] the [adj] [noun] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | That talent was presumably the main reason for his appointment , and that 's only right and proper because if there 's one thing England can learn from Bob Dwyer , it is that you sometimes have to be prepared to let a young side lose in the short-term to gain in the long-term . |
| 2 | Speed had done nothing else right the whole game with his overall game looking jaded . |
| 3 | Wheeler , however , did not always pass on the relevant information to his assistant . |
| 4 | The new Prime Minister was obliged , yesterday morning , to send a driver to find out the telephone number of one of his key ministers , before Mr Singh could pass on the good news of his appointment . |
| 5 | So this was not the equivalent of a father wanting to pass on the passionate love of his hobby to his children . |
| 6 | There are also biographical details from the author 's life , especially the accidental shooting of his own wife in 1951 , for which he spent 13 days in a Mexican jail . |
| 7 | His first love is landscape painting , especially the rural scenes around his home in Farnborough , Hampshire , where he lives with his wife and two daughters . |
| 8 | Blunset listened carefully , jotting down the odd note in his notebook and headed off down the corridor . |
| 9 | When she arched finally , feeling him convulse with a groan between joy and pain , she was swept by waves of pride at the gift that had been given and received , her fingers pulling at the thick dark hair , pushing possessively over the muscles of his back , sliding down the sweat-soaked hollows of his spine to the tight muscles slackening in the aftermath of love . |
| 10 | No.9 Johansson scrags his opposite number while his opposite number while Ahlgren , Sweden 's wild and woolly warrior , looks to cut down the Taiwanese options in his side 's 20–12 Sicily Trophy quarter-final defeat . |
| 11 | ‘ Perhaps Mrs Porter will do that , ’ Belinda murmured against his lips , letting her fingers trail up and down the sinewed shape of his back . |
| 12 | Squeaky Sutton , the landlord of the ‘ Windy Ridge ’ for the past thirty years , looked up as the noisy party clattered down the four steps into his cosy cellar bar . |
| 13 | She sluiced down the lower half of his body in the bath , rinsed the nappy and carried him back into the bedroom . |
| 14 | Guillamon leaned forward and pulled down the lower lid of his eye . |
| 15 | Rain ran down the harsh planes of his face and dripped from his chin on to the slick oilskin . |
| 16 | Why did she feel no embarrassment or fear at letting her fingers trace down the hair-roughened muscles of his chest to skim the flat planes of his stomach and then move on ? |
| 17 | However , this cyclostyled news-sheet was generally moderate in tone ; in fact , it was often used by Nyerere when trying to cool down the more militant of his followers . |
| 18 | Two men , both thought to be in their twenties , broke down the back door of his home in Bletchley . |
| 19 | Mr Mallory flipped down the top half of his newspaper : |
| 20 | Perhaps the best description of his composition has come from the New York Times ’ John Rockwell , who called it a mixture of mathematical clarity and mystical allure . |
| 21 | His Aggrey of Africa ( 1929 ) , a study of a leading African educator in the Gold Coast , is perhaps the best expression of his Christian , liberal , and multiracial ideals . |
| 22 | Romantic love is the nearest most people reach to the peak experience , for the lover loses himself in the beloved and while he is in the state of love , he forgets all his problems and is happy for perhaps the first time in his life . |
| 23 | Rob Wilson 's reputation as a rod builder is unequalled in Scotland and perhaps the greatest test of his skill came in 1958 . |
| 24 | Perhaps the poetic aspect of his playing is less apparent in these works — the slow movement of the Grieg , for example , could sound more reflective . |
| 25 | If so it is all the greater tribute to his qualities that he never took a step to force the issue or to encourage abdication . |
| 26 | Paul 's teaching must have come with all the more force to his original hearers . |
| 27 | And the same boy , nearly ten years later , with much the same expression on his face , awaiting his turn in the Senate House to receive his degree . |
| 28 | This is precisely what he had been attempting in " The Dry Salvages " , for example , and it is significant that he used much the same phrase in his demand that contemporary poetry should have such a strong relationship to current speech that " the listener or reader can say " that is how I should talk if I could talk poetry " . |
| 29 | Orwell was not alone in observing that England was two , three or four nations ; J. B. Priestley had already made much the same observation in his English Journey . |
| 30 | Lord Justice Taylor said pretty much the same thing in his report into the disaster , although he was concerned in the main with the safety aspect . |