Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather nearer to his employer 's family seat were the marshes of the Wealdmoors , just north of Telford and Wellington in Shropshire , which Loch set about draining with a will . |
| 2 | He was an enthusiastic amateur of the best sort , perhaps a little hasty in his attributions . |
| 3 | I 'm most grateful for his help with the boat . ’ |
| 4 | The day of Artai 's enthronement was one which Alexei was to remember afterwards as one of the most confusing of his life . |
| 5 | He was rather sorry for his father . |
| 6 | The final decision may go to the one who is the most persistent in his attempts to persuade the customer that the product meets the buyer 's needs . |
| 7 | Drawing has always preceded painting ; Pisanello is at his most innovative in his drawings , as is also Jacopo Bellini . |
| 8 | He was in effect the news " general " and I was the most junior of his three assistants . |
| 9 | His own preferment was not a little due to his discerning hospitality . |
| 10 | Louisa felt a little helpless before his diffident manner , and she was surprised when Emilia insisted that she remain in the room throughout Frere 's third visit ; surprised and discomfited , for it was not a happy interview . |
| 11 | The evidence for these remarks is to be found in a series of letters which are among the most revealing of his later years . |
| 12 | If just these three are taken , Trollope 's view of women seems to be quite reasonable , though rather odd for his time , and encompasses all types — from the ordinary to the extraordinary — without really saying one is better than the other . |
| 13 | At the bottom of the hill he doglegs left and vaults the creek , his right arm held stiffly out to snap back the neck of any tackler , the ball tucked professionally low into his stomach , hard and muscular as a wash board . |
| 14 | Even Steve sounded a little apprehensive about his father 's anger . |
| 15 | In one of the most striking of his letters to his brother , the Emperor Joseph II , he stresses the need for a ruler always to be willing to give his subjects a complete account of the finances of the state and of their administration ; such action , he writes , is ‘ glorious , useful and just ’ . |
| 16 | The general feeling is that the narrator , although acutely alive to his environment , is detached and powerless in the face of its immensity . |
| 17 | While his loyalism gave him urban working-class support , it was the rural Protestants who were most receptive to his evangelical emphases and who made a seat like Bannside obviously attractive . |
| 18 | ‘ Poorboy ! 'said Charlotte , suddenly outraged by the weariness and exasperation of this ineffectual little man , worn out by a job he had probably chosen as the most profitable within his scope , and now found to be extending him far beyond the end of his tether . |
| 19 | Sam looked out over the flooding river and breathed in the damp smell of the morning as if testing wine for bouquet , and I thought that he lived through his senses to a much greater degree than I did and was intensely alive in his direct approach to sex and his disregard of danger . |
| 20 | The quartet of soloists is completed by Adrian Martin 's likeable Ernesto , overcoming an earlier vocal malaise and wholly admirable in his Act 3 Serenade . |
| 21 | In the most celebrated of his works , The Guide for the Perplexed , he said : ‘ Time is composed of time-atoms , i.e. of many parts , which on account of their short duration can not be divided … . |
| 22 | But tonight he looked splendid in his dinner jacket , groomed , combed , and really being rather charming to his guests . |
| 23 | It seemed not to be a good idea , at this stage of the group 's life , to comment on these similarities , which might have made Mr E even more conspicuously different from his colleagues , especially since , as well as asking insight-generating questions , they had told him how they had handled things better , which had moved Mr E to reject their suggestions as unworkable with somebody like Dave . |
| 24 | Hankin was remarkably candid with his after-match comments . |
| 25 | He was of medium height , with a spare frame , a little unsteady on his feet , perhaps , and with the sallow complexion of recent illness on features that bore a striking resemblance to the girl before him . |
| 26 | And this shows how much they love Lord Frith , for of all the animals they are the most responsive to his warmth and brightness . |
| 27 | Leopold was naturally intensely interested in his son 's financial affairs , and reported to Nannerl that , if Wolfgang had no debts , he should soon be able to put 2,000 gulden in the bank . |
| 28 | Consequently sport is of paramount importance to him and every event has to be approached as if it is the most demanding in his life ; failure is not easily assimilated , as a result . |
| 29 | ROS : ( A flat lie and he knows it and shows it , perhaps catching GUIL 's eye ) Niggard of question , but of our demands most free in his reply . |
| 30 | as it left Lloyd George wholly dependent on his allies . |