Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [noun pl] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | In France his books were best-sellers ; among French cookery writers his place is one very much apart . |
| 2 | At dawn on the morning of his twelfth birthday — in the official court annals his thirteenth , for they accorded with ancient Han tradition in calling the day of the child 's birth its first ‘ birth day ’ — Li Yuan was woken by his father and , when he was dressed in the proper clothes , led down to the stables of the Tongjiang estate . |
| 3 | The Belted bull colour-marks his progeny and traces of the belt persist into the second generation : it is a broad white band between the shoulders and hocks , and including the udder in cows . |
| 4 | If a manager had indifferent or poor leadership qualities his subordinates would still do their job , but they would do it ineffectually or perhaps in a confused manner . |
| 5 | Coleridge had fallen asleep reading Purchas His Pilgrim where these words appear : |
| 6 | Burne-Jones was obsessed with the symbolism of love , and hearts are a recurring theme ni his work . |
| 7 | In Goldfinger , when the plan to nuke Fort Knox goes awry , the glitter-loving head of Auric Industries machine-guns his own men . |
| 8 | IXI founder and chairman , Ray Anderson , who owns just less than half of all IXI shares coverts his holding to a ‘ significant ’ stake in SCO and takes a vice president post at the company , reporting directly to recently appointed SCO boss , Lars Turndal . |