Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [adj] [noun pl] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | The small farmer can combine the seasonal work offered by agribusiness and urban enterprises with his family farm and must do this to survive . |
| 2 | The player knew he was still combating dressing-room uncertainty and terracing doubts over his capabilities as well , when he made the mistake against Sparta Prague at Ibrox in the European Cup which meant his club 's elimination , and another trip up the marble stairway to see Smith . |
| 3 | There is a story of a king who dwelt in the dark and musty cellars of his magnificent palace . |
| 4 | Adam is intelligent , pious , loving and polite but only shows heroic qualities in sharing Eve 's fate and human ones in his uxoriousness . |
| 5 | Peter Moores impresses more with bat and gloves every time I clap eyes on him ; Martin Speight is beginning to weld patience and big numbers to his undoubted ability and bottomless well of self-belief ; and if a fractured ankle has set the seal on Adrian Jones 's dispiriting season there has been consolation in the imposing shape of Ed Giddins . |
| 6 | Mr Reynolds was collected by the ward staff nurse who was told about his operation and progress and given instructions for his continuing care . |
| 7 | Erm we were on patrol , just a normal patrol in er in Belfast and unfortunately I lost my sight and two very good friends of mine were killed , and another was er blinded in one eye and severe injuries to his leg . |
| 8 | The present Earl of Moray displays a collection of vintage and other automobiles in his Doune Motor Museum . |
| 9 | He comes into close contact with both a teacher and other children of his own age and many of his future feelings about himself will result from what happens to him at this time . |
| 10 | Wearing a new sports jacket and grey flannels under his open raincoat . |
| 11 | Mettingham seems to have been assigned special responsibility for hearing quo warranto and related pleas on his eyre circuit , but this was certainly not the only business that he heard . |
| 12 | ’ What he 's got is enough alcohol and other poisons in his system to put his brain on a slow train to Pudsey forever . |
| 13 | The MI5 man kicked the grass and dead leaves with his brogues . |
| 14 | Weissman carried on courageously with a complex but fascinating lecture on RNA splicing , ignoring the loud hubbub and intermittent squawks from his own microphone , and pausing often to wait out an eruption of roars and whistles from next door . |
| 15 | Tribute was paid to his admirable approach and remarkable achievements during his short time in office . |
| 16 | Trapped by drought , he was eventually bested by Mot , who ripped the weakened god to pieces with a sharp knife and scattered pieces of his body ‘ with a winnowing fan ’ before scorching and grinding the remains to a powder . |
| 17 | The varying periods of copyright have caused difficulties : Paul Klee for instance , who died in 1940 , is in copyright in France and Germany and therefore monographs on the artist and other reproductions of his works require a royalty to be paid on the books circulated in those countries . |
| 18 | He added chicory and other herbs to his seed mixtures , which , through their deep roots , provided communication for water , air , plant root growth , minerals , and nutrients between the living topsoil and the lower strata . |
| 19 | In view of doubts that have been raised in the House and elsewhere , may I ask for clarification on whether the Privileges Committee is free to consider the role of the Secretary of State for Health and senior officials in his Department and , most important , the role of the parliamentary private secretary to the Secretary of State , the hon. Member for Esher ( Mr. Taylor ) ? |
| 20 | In his work of this period , Robbe-Grillet increasingly abandoned the cohesion and narrative hierarchies of his earlier fiction : the ontological status of the text is problematized . |
| 21 | Larkin died in Dublin 30 January 1947 and was buried , appropriately , in Glasnevin , along with many others who had espoused the nationalist and social causes of his epoch . |
| 22 | Beneath the large golden dome and towering minarets of his shrine in the dusty plain outside Teheran , Ayatollah Khomeini still dominates the political life of Iran three years after his death . |
| 23 | Jag at bay Sweden 's Per Eklund ran out of time yesterday after gearbox and electrical problems in his Landseer . |
| 24 | In April 1282 he fought in the Welsh war with one knight and one serjeant and in the following year made over his English and Welsh lands to his son , Pierre de Joinville . |
| 25 | Being handsome , he had enjoyed only good fortune and fine adventures in his life , not the least of which included slaying the CHIMERA and defeating the AMAZONS . |
| 26 | now hopes to spend more time on his hobby of gardening and growing plants in his greenhouse , and left us with these final few words … |
| 27 | Sports like bowls and snooker are excellent practice for standing balance , if the patient has recovered good balance and selective movements in his leg . |
| 28 | He had given a speech earlier in the year on the subject of ‘ Constitution Reform in Trinidad and Tobago ’ , at the end of which he appealed for mass action and now he was testing the dedication and organisational abilities of his P.E.G . |
| 29 | He became impressed with the superiority of the French and Belgian kite-balloons over his own spherical type , reported accordingly to the Admiralty , and was promptly recalled to initiate kite-balloon training at Roehampton in March 1915 . |
| 30 | The reconstruction of the possible sequence of events in his life which can be inferred from the Office and personal remarks in his writings , is at best a complicated matter of academic conjecture which is of no direct help to the reader in engaging with his English works . |