Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] in his " in BNC.
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| 1 | 2,000 home-grown carnations in his garden , it is n't surprising that when he wants to please his wife , Mr John Tholen says it with flowers . |
| 2 | The story becomes an enactment of his fantasies , with predictable tragi-comic side-effects , such as the failure to apply for planning permission when establishing some new profitable activities in his garden , or committing driving offences , even some petty crimes . |
| 3 | Robert Holland senior held moderately extensive estates in his county and played an active part in its government , but his son 's career was to be altogether more exceptional . |
| 4 | However , in another statement issued on his behalf on May 11 he admitted that he was the father of the child , Peter Murphy , and that he had paid Murphy a lump sum in 1990 taken from the church 's reserve accounts in his former diocese of Galway . |
| 5 | He had two operations to repair torn ligaments in his left knee and was sidelined for 18 months during his spell with Italian club Pisa . |
| 6 | Responding to criticism from other political parties in his coalition government , Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti stressed that the two men , Mohammed Issa Abbas and Youssouf Ahmed Saad , had secured release about two years early as part of a general amnesty programme ; it was " fantasy " , he said , to suggest that their freeing only two weeks before the outbreak of hostilities in the Gulf was aimed at protecting Italy from terrorist attacks . |
| 7 | There were 5,000 different states in his model , corresponding to the number of words in the lexicon . |
| 8 | Sometimes he turned to talk to Grace , and the candlelight lit up the big brown eyes in his kind , old face . |
| 9 | He followed her and cupped her slim shoulders in his big , comforting hands . |
| 10 | But even the heavily biased reports from the Propaganda Offices were obliged to admit that criticism of Hitler and grave doubts in his alleged ‘ strategic genius ’ were mounting sharply , and that those still believing his words that 1945 would bring a ‘ historic turning-point ’ in Germany 's fortunes had a hard time against the doubters . |
| 11 | Keating announced a major reshuffle of the Cabinet on Dec. 27 , which included the appointment as Treasurer of John Dawkins , one of Keating 's most staunch supporters in his leadership struggle with Hawke . |
| 12 | He can weigh up non scientific considerations in his decision , such as the effect of staff morale and relations with SLAC , but Bienenstock is hoping for a scientific solution not a political or philosophical one . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , to ensure that the Germans did not rush reinforcements by rail to the threatened area , General Alexei Alexeievich Brusilov , commanding the South West Front , was ordered to make menacing probes in his area . |
| 14 | It is a remarkable fact that although Edward II received almost £240,000 in taxes from his clergy , for three quarters of that amount he was indebted to the papacy ; Edward managed to get his hands on 92 per cent of the papal tenths imposed on the English clergy in his reign . |
| 15 | Amongst many other ways in which Joseph Bédier set the pattern for subsequent scholarly study of the French fabliaux in his book of 1893 , he elevated the question of the social origins of this literary form . |
| 16 | The strongest of Amelia Dorf 's guests had already been processed and were settling into their new shapes , raw recruits in his army of phantoms . |
| 17 | Needing pain-killing injections in his injured big toe before the game , he brilliantly latched on to Alan Smith 's neat flick to slot home his fourth Cup final goal but required more treatment at half-time after suffering an ankle injury . |
| 18 | When Yu Teng-fa , 87 , the patriarch of the Taiwanese opposition , was found dead in mysterious circumstances in October 1989 , different theories implicated both the KMT old-guard and the anti-KMT separatists in his presumed murder . |
| 19 | At the same time Gardiner takes a curiously prudish line on the emotional mainsprings of Epstein 's art by denying or glossing over the disturbing sexual elements in his pre-1914 work , including ‘ Rock Drill ’ and in later pieces such as ‘ Jacob and the Angel ’ . |
| 20 | The exhibition aims to reveal the multiple character of Gris ' Cubist style at different periods in his career , from his earliest collages to works of the late 1920s. when he achieved a perfect balance between spiritual content and the dictates of structure . |
| 21 | The local fieldworker needs to give serious consideration to this if he attempts to explain the pre-medieval settlements in his area . |
| 22 | For the abbot of Fécamp , the question of the use of old altars in his new church was a question of immediate concern for the life of his monastery . |
| 23 | Mouse was lying half on and half off the mattress , his face buried in Wolf 's coat , making small whimpering noises in his throat . |
| 24 | In 1259 he incurred Henry 's wrath by attempting to subject the royal free chapels in his diocese to episcopal control , a dispute which rumbled on until Roger 's final capitulation in 1281 . |
| 25 | He suffered broken bones in his face and wrist and extensive bruising . |
| 26 | A DARLINGTON man was yesterday recovering in hospital after a Good Friday attack which left him with broken bones in his face . |
| 27 | Guido ripped free the dangling drunken door like a man putting out of its misery a fatally wounded animal , and looked down at the broken pieces in his hand . |
| 28 | Joe 's got two old bangers in his garage |
| 29 | As they emerged from their coop , Fardine pointed out the different varieties in his collection . |
| 30 | However , Aglen 's appointment as inspector-general coincided with the anti-Manchu revolution of 1911–12 which resulted in the breakdown of the administrative arrangements of the Chinese , and faced by these unprecedented difficulties , Aglen made arrangements for the safety and integrity of customs revenue by placing it in foreign banks in his own name . |