Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun pl] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever it was Charlie 's turn to spend four days in the advance trenches his section seemed to occupy most of their time filling their billycans with pints of water , as they struggled to bail out the gallons that dropped daily from the heavens . |
| 2 | The professional transplants his or her skills to the parents but still retains control of the decision-making process . |
| 3 | COMMANDER George Ness , head of Scotland Yard 's Flying Squad and tactical firearms unit , retires next week and takes up a new post with Securicor — whose cash delivery vans have been the target of the armed robbers his detectives risk their lives hunting down . |
| 4 | The charges were eventually dropped after an investigation , but had he stayed with the Scots Guards his career would inevitably have been wrecked . |
| 5 | In the Baltic provinces , meanwhile — modern Estonia and Latvia — the tsar considered the German nobles his friends . |
| 6 | Once the nest is complete , the female once again approaches in the manner described , and the male curves his body around her . |
| 7 | Hank spoke no Ruthenian but he could understand the simple sentences his grandmother used — more easily , in fact , than her garbled attempts at English . |
| 8 | While the accuser asserts that deliberate malice is involved , the accused protests his innocence , politely but firmly disclaiming any malevolent intentions . |
| 9 | Occasionally in the early months his subordinates deliberately or accidentally transgressed these rules and promptly had their knuckles rapped . |
| 10 | Carter , accordingly , seemed to believe that if he studied the energy problem in sufficient detail and drew on the views of the appropriate experts his administration could develop an adequate policy . |
| 11 | Gen Zia opposed the agreement because it did not include transferring power from the communist rulers to the Muslim rebels his government had armed for a decade . |
| 12 | Wind is only one of the constant perils his clients face , and his made-to-measure hats can surmount most of the elements . |
| 13 | This may simply be a matter of explaining once again the implications of the diseases in terms of any personal relationships , giving advice about contraceptive clinics , or just lending a sympathetic ear while the patient unburdens his or her problems . |
| 14 | In that cold war atmosphere that was mingled with the chill dictatorship of Franco , I felt that the American ‘ innocents ’ of Henry James 's novels had become the sophisticated manipulators his Europeans had once appeared to be . |
| 15 | As with the hobbit-songs , behind all these there lies some story of a Sentence and a Great Escape , but an escape forever hindered by loving involvement with Middle-earth itself ; that is the root of the disagreement between Fangorn , Celeborn and Galadriel when the Ent half-voices his lament for the stocks and the stones . |
| 16 | Today 's quarry owner has to take account of the environmental issues his predecessor could safely ignore . |
| 17 | In the late evenings his mother would take him by the hand for walks , and would play the concertina to him when they got home . |
| 18 | The times that followed , they were almost as bad … and as he grew older , he became aware of the deep wounds his mother had suffered . |
| 19 | He was delighted to find himself not merely a Lord 24 years ago , but in possession of the regular expenses his status brings him . |
| 20 | He ought to have a feeling of reverence for the beautiful things his great-uncle had entrusted to him . |
| 21 | On Sundays Maxie Frizzell caught up with the various jobs his wife Donna required him to do . |
| 22 | His nerves screamed at the shocking transitions his body had endured . |
| 23 | With the amount of work that was to be dealt with during the coming months his chances of getting away from the hospital much before eight or nine any evening were very slight . |
| 24 | On the London stage , the great roles will be plucked like plums , in the Welsh valleys his fame will swell like the fortissimo of a chapel organ and his acts of generosity , recklessness , coarseness and excellent manners tossed on to the fiery legend like dry logs . |
| 25 | Since he did not exhibit at the big Salons his name may not have been as well known to the general public as those of Matisse and Derain , who in the previous years had emerged as the most important and controversial figures in the Fauve movement , but there were a large number of people who believed in his genius . |
| 26 | He wore spectacles and behind the thick lenses his eyes were cloudy and shifted continually from side to side so you were never sure where he was looking . |
| 27 | Drugs and hypnosis were all very well as tools for coping with the hormonal storms caused by the superhuman organs his body housed ; but what he must attain swiftly was a superhuman mind which could command the body to fight on irrespective of injury . |
| 28 | Unlike the other characters his thoughts are revealed to the reader . |
| 29 | Beneath the silken sheets his father lay there naked , the frailty of his body revealed . |
| 30 | The child imitated the sipping movements his sister had been schooled by Tommaso to make at the cafe , like a small bird at a fountain . |