Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fair trial for fibre Geoff Hamilton scrutinises the newest cocofibre trials , and shells out on a cocoa shell mulch his lime-hating plants will love . |
| 2 | ( It is worthy of note at this stage that Harris never received his full complement of aircraft and in the final days of the Bomber Offensive his maximum strength of first line aircraft was only 1,625 of which 200 were Mosquitos , ) in one of my Staff College lectures . |
| 3 | On the small monitor screen his great external weapon was white-hot , seething , dripping molten metal on to the carapace below . |
| 4 | After last week 's World Cup setback in Norway , international committee chairman Peter Swales , the chairman of Manchester City , gave the England manager his unqualified support . |
| 5 | As a Mirfield monk his strong profile , cassocked figure and deep resonant voice had power among universities , schools and parishes . |
| 6 | He wanted to go and tell the Fletcher family his good fortune . |
| 7 | That enabled Senna to qualify in fifth place and on race day his tactical mastery helped him to victory for a record sixth time , Alain Prost had been penalised for jumping the start . |
| 8 | LEICESTER manager Brian Little , tipped to take over at Roker Park should struggling Sunderland sack Malcolm Crosby , saw his teenage striker Julian Joachim hand his beleaguered rival another huge setback , writes David Alexander . |
| 9 | Long has great hopes of Clark , who will be making the English Schools youth 1500 metres championship his main target this summer . |
| 10 | Of the next generation , a son was created Lord Glenconner , taking his title from the Ochiltree farm his great grandfather had left to start in business . |
| 11 | ‘ I saw a man dissipating so much affection for his country and his associates ’ , said Hakim , struggling to explain to a New York lawyer his bad case of ‘ love at first sight ’ , ‘ that the radiation of that love — it really immediately penetrated through my system . ’ |
| 12 | Ymor 's ravens were notoriously loyal to their master , to the extent that Withel 's one attempt to promote himself to the rank of greatest thief in Ankh-Morpork had cost their master 's right hand man his left eye . |
| 13 | He wrote and printed for the Scottish History Society his meticulous Itinerary of Prince Charles Edward Stuart ( 1897 ) and the substantial volume , Origins of the Forty-Five ( 1916 ) . |
| 14 | Lancaster 's objections to the regime , however , were concerned just as much with domestic affairs : he criticized the queen for her greed and acquisitiveness , singling out for special mention her appropriation of the lordship of Pontefract which had been held by Earl Thomas in right of his wife , He complained that the treasure left by Edward II had been ‘ wastede and born away withouten the wille of Kyng Edwarde his sone , in destruccioun of him and of his folk ’ , and proposed that Mortimer ‘ shouldd dwelle oppon his owen landes ’ . |
| 15 | Builder Ken , 48 , takes her to the park , lets Dawn water his precious plants and buys her 10 sweets a day . |
| 16 | Builder Ken , 48 , takes her to the park , lets Dawn water his precious plants and buys her 10 sweets a day . |
| 17 | They have been more willing than other historians to accept at face value his retrospective remark of 1824 : " The branch who broke the frames never contemplated any such thing as the combining . " |