Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [coord] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | To his right were stacked stationery and pens , jigsaws , and wool , needles , scissors and assorted oddments and to his left sweets and bottles of pop . |
| 2 | The God Siva , who represents in his higher aspect universal intelligence and in his lower aspect metamorphosis , renewal and re-generation , governs these principles relating to the creative and dissolutionary processes in nature , and that is why the God 's image is always depicted with the Cobra adorning his person . |
| 3 | He received a standing ovation for his comments on retribution from violent offenders , on his personal belief in the deterrent effect of capital punishment and for his promise that ‘ life imprisonment in the worst cases will mean life ’ . |
| 4 | Sitting at the table one evening next to Astrid 's mum , Peg , from Massachusetts , he opened up , as one sometimes can , to an interested stranger and spoke for hours about the old days and about his condition and his feelings . |
| 5 | When a tribe breaks apart the main portion will probably continue under the old leader or under his successor if the original boss has been slain . |
| 6 | Hans Baensch for being involved in the publication of one of the best general reference works on coldwater/tropical fish and for his lifetime 's work with fish |
| 7 | Although he reached an uneasy peace with the Hanoverians , Crewe held privately to his old loyalties and on his death bed he is reported to have called out to Grey : ‘ Dick , do n't you go over to them , do n't you go over to them ’ [ Clarke ] . |
| 8 | The man had been seen firing a rifle in his back garden and through his letter box . |
| 9 | At Van Gogh in England , an exhibition at the Barbican Gallery ( until May 4 ) , we see the young art dealer drinking in the culture Pissarro had rejected and falling in love with the black-and-white prints of the Social Realists and with his landlady 's daughter , the stern young Eugenie Loyer . |
| 10 | Raja James resisted British annexation and on his death in 1868 his title passed to his nephew Charles Johnson , who took the name of Brooke , an active and vigorous administrator of austere though unconventional disposition . |
| 11 | Submitting to ‘ Be aware ’ , he attends closely to his situation and to his own reactions , and instead of trying to infer from principles how he ought to respond , discovers how when most aware he does respond , and perhaps surprises himself by an impulse contrary to social convention or to his own self-image . |
| 12 | These are the policies that are the responsibility of the Secretary of State for Social Services and of his department , the Department of Health and Social Security . |
| 13 | Prima facie , therefore , a charge to capital gains tax will arise on any transfer by the husband to the wife of the former matrimonial home or of his share or interest in it . |
| 14 | Calandrini corresponded with an impressive number of leading European Calvinists and among his English correspondents were such leading Puritan divines as Herbert Palmer , John Davenport , Stephen Marshall , Thomas Gataker , Hugh Peters [ qq.v. ] , and Cornelius Burgess . |
| 15 | One was about five foot six , clean shaven with dark hair and in his late twenties . |
| 16 | To mark the occasion , the company presented him with an engraved watch and from his colleagues and friends he was given a number generous gifts , including an envelope containing £100 from the Axminster Darners , a magnum of sherry , a shirt and a birthday cake . |
| 17 | Throughout the imperial struggle and in his dealings with the separate kingdoms , Innocent used the weapon of excommunication . |
| 18 | Sullivan crawled to the relative security of the chancery 's central corridor and on his walkie-talkie ordered the US marines guarding the compound not to resist , still less to shoot anyone . |
| 19 | He was some sort of a manservant , because above his dark trousers and over his white shirt he had the sort of striped waistcoat she had imagined such people would wear — normally only in films , though , especially as this particular waistcoat was striped in black and subdued gold . |
| 20 | Unlike the other Annamese present who wore court robes , he was dressed in the conventional short black gown and white trousers of an ordinary civilian and on his head he wore the traditional black turban of the region . |
| 21 | I am grateful for the hon. Gentleman 's kind personal comment and for his continuing support over many years for the policy of integrated education . |
| 22 | There were heavy Moorish stirrups and over his trousers he had chaps of dark , soft leather , the glitter of silver down the sides . |
| 23 | One thing I am sure of is that would agree that the job of Treasurer of the Bar Council would be quite impossible without the daily support and guidance of the Chief Executive and of his Finance Officer , , and his deputy , . |
| 24 | Satan possesses many of the qualities found in conventional epic heroes in his struggle against overbearing , opposing forces while building up new cities in place of lost ones and in his determination to regain as much as possible from the debris into which he has fallen . |
| 25 | He was diverted into politics both by his upbringing in a Liberal tradition and by his marriage in 1890 to Georgina Fleetwood , daughter of George Pargiter Fuller , of Neston Park , a neighbouring squire and Liberal MP . |
| 26 | was sanctioned by male tradition and by his class , if not by his upbringing . |
| 27 | Lloyd George had both a real desire to bring about social improvement and a shrewd appreciation of the gains it could , if carefully approached , bring both to the Liberal party and to his personal reputation . |
| 28 | The selection of committees is an important matter and the newly-elected councillor , if he has any preferences , should make them known in some form either to his political group or to his acquaintances on the council . |
| 29 | In 1934 came Having Crossed the Channel , a lighthearted record of a journey through the Vendée , the Landes , the Bordelais , a pilgrimage back to his native Périgord and into his youth , a drive across central France , down to the coast , into Italy and Southern Germany and back via Belgium and Holland . |
| 30 | This could not be handled via temporary exception from part of the National Curriculum , referred to earlier ( see p. 118 ) , because a ‘ general direction ’ can only be issued if the head teacher considers that it is inappropriate for the child to follow the National Curriculum and in his opinion that situation is likely to change within six months . |