Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [pers pn] [vb past] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the 15th he hit his drive such a prodigious distance that the one wag among the gallery suggested that drugs testing should be introduced at subsequent Matches . |
| 2 | Through the Thirties he centralized his activities on London and , in 1935 , had his first major success with the spectacular revue Go With The Girls . |
| 3 | And , anyway , it was from the British he made his money , selling them scrap iron during the war , so it will be an extra pleasure to make him cough up that sort of loot . ’ |
| 4 | In the 1970s he bet his father he could open a vineyard in Utah , a state where drink and the devil are considered kissin' cousins . |
| 5 | In the fourth he declared his belief to be in accord with that of the Catholic Church ; he could , of course , privately satisfy himself that this was consistent with his contention that Popery was a corruption of Catholicism . |
| 6 | He worked six days a week in his white milking clothes , milking and butter-making , and on the seventh he wore his best suit to take his family proudly to church . |
| 7 | All the same he raised his eyebrows and pretended to consider the possibility for the first time . |
| 8 | You could say at the last he had his brother 's fibre , but it was manifested in fortitude instead of daring — which is a more admirable thing . |
| 9 | ‘ He did n't give me any easy shots , and from the first point to the last he played his old way . ’ |
| 10 | Almost to the last he kept his director 's seat in the East India Company , attending over half the courts in a year ( 1672–3 ) . |
| 11 | In the 1860s he extended his ownership of collieries into north and south Wales , north and south Staffordshire , and Nova Scotia . |
| 12 | By the 1950s he saw his country 's salvation in keeping a proper distance , a real neutrality , between East and West . |
| 13 | One of his forebears was James Murray , compiler of the ‘ Oxford English Dictionary ’ , and when Les Murray went to Sydney University in the 1950s he spent his days ingesting the contents of the famous Fisher Library , which was ‘ full of the cultural wonders that bushies like me were despised for not having . ’ |