Example sentences of "his [noun sg] was [vb pp] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ His agent was sent a script and it was turned down . |
| 2 | His vehicle was called a taxi , but Virginia had privately questioned whether a bright orange mini-van , lined with fake tiger fur and blaring non-stop earsplitting calypso music , could rightfully claim that title . |
| 3 | His clothes were later found by the side of a canal in which his body was discovered a week later ; no clear reason for his death could be discerned . |
| 4 | More than that : he had himself sprung from the upper working class and naturally despised as unclean the lower working class : his life was made a misery by their proximity , and he longed for them to be evicted or murder each other in one of their not infrequent rows . |
| 5 | Under his bed was rolled a piece of carpet with a fringed edge , and among its creases Frankie kept his treasures . |
| 6 | He was with them when he won the title again in 1955 and his hat-trick was completed a year later after joining the Ferrari . |
| 7 | Over his shoulder was hung a canvas bag which contained all his worldly possessions , and close to his left heel trotted a black and white collie . |
| 8 | Upon his death his widow was granted a pension of £30 a year for five years . |
| 9 | THE father of one of two men killed in a minibus crash told how he knew his son was involved the moment he heard a radio report . |