Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [vb -s] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | His action reads more like a page from Austerlitz or Borodino than from the grey annals of the First World War . |
| 2 | And you will become aware of technical skills — noticing economy of effect and style , seeing and hearing how an actor interprets a script , and how his thinking comes across in a performance . |
| 3 | If the stress is high enough and he is basically insecure — his adult has not turned off his child 's ‘ all my fault ’ — his child takes over with a ‘ nothing to do with you ’ response . |
| 4 | What is known of his life comes mainly from a memorial sermon preached by his friend and successor as bishop , George Rust , and from his own books . |
| 5 | ( And his relief comes out in a laugh . |
| 6 | The miracle is that His will prevails generally across a million worlds . |
| 7 | His book comes out at a time when anyone who shares his concerns may be feeling particularly down-hearted . |
| 8 | Though Mustakimzade asserts that Fahreddin Acemi studied under al-Taftazani , this seems unlikely as the latter died in 792/1389–90 , and one suspects that his statement derives either from a misreading of the genealogy or from a faulty genealogy . |
| 9 | It 's hard to imagine anybody writing more artificially , but I hope you feel , as I do , there can hardly be a piece of poetry in which the distress of the poet and the feeling that he may be wasting his time comes through in a more anguished fashion . |
| 10 | His speech goes back into a relaxed drawl , eyebrows half-cocked this time , and a mischievous glint makes the instigator of this flash of temper wonder whether he meant it in the first place . |