Example sentences of "his [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His international appearances were restricted by injury and suspensions ; although he was one of Scotland 's top players for years , his longest run in the national team was only four matches , and he was actually dropped from a game against England for ‘ not being mentally attuned ’ after he refused to act as a makeshift linesman in a practice match . |
| 2 | The former Highland League player , who also played for Leicester City , Motherwell and Rangers , is now in the midst of his longest run in the first team at Tynecastle . |
| 3 | This is to certify that Color Serjeant Nicholl served in the Grenadier Company of the King 's Regiment for twenty one years , and being myself one of the Officers of the Company during the greatest part of that period , I have consequently had an opportunity for closely observing his character and conduct , therefore it is but doing him that justice which his uniformly good behaviour merits , to state that I have never ( in his station in life ) met with a more truly steady or strictly honest a man . |
| 4 | When these are violated in his painting , it is because the pictorial theory involved conflicted with his intensely visual and empirical approach , and with his desire to reconstruct the three-dimensional form of his subjects as fully as possible . |
| 5 | Yet Gosse 's most enjoyable works are his elegantly written and witty books of recollections , which include Go to the Country ( 1935 ) , Traveller 's Rest ( 1947 ) , and An Apple a Day ( 1948 ) . |
| 6 | More than sixty years after the event , while watching a child of his own try out his first steps , he suddenly stated in reminiscence and satisfaction to his most intimate Spanish friend , ‘ I remember that I learned to walk by pushing a big tin box of sweet biscuits in front of me because I knew what was inside . ’ |
| 7 | Many of his most memorable literary effects attest to this . |
| 8 | It provided the subjects with a soothing and uplifting hope that whenever there appeared in their lives an oppressive mischance , some tormenting difficulty , His Most Unrivalled Highness would hearten them — by attaching the greatest importance to that mischance or difficulty . |
| 9 | Later in the present book there is a discussion of Roth 's regard for the literalism of Primo Levi , who is at his most imaginative when least imaginary , who was not all that successful at imagining things in the style commended in the Zuckerman letter : and in The Facts a related meaning is apparent . |
| 10 | His most recent film work was the script for ROBIN HOOD ( starring Patrick Bergin ) which Working Title produced for Twentieth Century Fox . |
| 11 | The effect of living with this knowledge and using this skill raises the consciousness of the insider , perhaps giving him his most effective methodological tool . |
| 12 | McCulloch had watched the comedy with his most provocative look . |
| 13 | Much as poetry was becoming a part of him , his most natural form of self-expression , and the one that reached him first , was music ; side-by-side they were to advance with him throughout his developing days and early professional life . |
| 14 | Indeed , he is at his most virulent when attacking his fellow-poets , so caught up is he in the seriousness of the poetic task . |
| 15 | What was true on the wider front was also true at a personal level : Layton was about to go into his most prolific period of writing , and the whole literary scene was being galvanised into a productivity never before realised in Canada . |
| 16 | And the details of Raskolnikov 's alienation show Dostoevsky at his most unrelentingly careful and sensitive . |
| 17 | He was at his most two-faced in his dealings with Turgenev . |
| 18 | He is ‘ a villain ’ , but ‘ tragic ’ , and Dostoevsky continues in his most pushy vein , anxious that Katkov shall take notice , ‘ I have taken him from my heart ’ . |
| 19 | His most rebarbative work , Criticism and Ideology , is an Althusserian rewriting of The Great Tradition . |
| 20 | For him it was a matter of great moment , for he was one of those artists who hold that the energy of artistic creation is itself erotic , indeed ( in his most extreme formulations ) positively genital . |
| 21 | Guide to Kulchur gives us Pound at his most personal , at his most deliberately vulnerable ; it is here that we find him wondering aloud , for instance , if the body of his work to that date could be mentioned in the same breath with Thomas Hardy 's . |
| 22 | Guide to Kulchur gives us Pound at his most personal , at his most deliberately vulnerable ; it is here that we find him wondering aloud , for instance , if the body of his work to that date could be mentioned in the same breath with Thomas Hardy 's . |
| 23 | ( His most categorical assertions of this are in Guide to Kul- chur . ) |
| 24 | In the first place , this is Pound at his most old-fashioned . |
| 25 | ‘ You are Michel Debre , ’ he said in his most sardonic tones . |
| 26 | as if deliberately to disconcert the semi-finalists , the world champion , Garry Kasparov , has registered one of his most impressive performances . |
| 27 | He also says : ‘ Jesus reserved his most astringent criticism for the Pharisees . |
| 28 | STEVE DAVIS might have begun his season behind the other players but he started it in style by capturing the first British ranking event , the BCE International , when beating Stephen Hendry , his most obvious rival , 9-4 at Trentham Gardens , Stoke , writes Janice Hale . |
| 29 | OIL RICH beats filthy rich every time , but after several years of battling to remain buoyant in the remorseless wake of the Maktoums , Robert Sangster clambered back on to terra firma with his most significant win for a long time in Saturday 's Hoover Fillies ' Mile at Ascot . |
| 30 | Appropriately , the Wilcox narrative seems to be the book of his most widely read by the kind of people who have just put in a tough day at the office or have two weeks on the beach before clocking back on . |