Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [prep] his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sean Penn was conspicuous only by his absence . |
| 2 | Hankin would n't reveal his views in public anyway about his assistant 's sending off . |
| 3 | Then he returned to the Vico annotations , transferring the most interesting methodically to his card index , until the clanging bell descended the stairwell , signifying the end of study . |
| 4 | That certainly would fit very well with the familiar notion of a writer shaking off the anguished preoccupations of childhood and adolescence , free now in his maturity to put ironic distance between himself and that world , but it wo n't do . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , I know , I know , ’ Theodora answered with fervour untroubled now by his allusion to her own past . |
| 6 | Although most of his final years were spent attempting to defend liberal precedents , those victories which the liberal minority did still achieve were due largely to his authority , intellect and tactical skill . |
| 7 | His state was serious enough for his father to be called . |
| 8 | The king is absolute only in his power to pass from one slavery to another . |
| 9 | He thinks that if he is only slavish enough in his service of the old hag , the beautiful girl to whom he once made love will come back to him : |
| 10 | Work circumstances happened to change coincidentally from full-time to part-time just after his birth . |
| 11 | Because of the likelihood that Russia 's reform could not proceed Grigory Yavlinsky , co-author of the Shatalin plan , had tendered his resignation as Russian Deputy Premier on Oct. 17 , and was relieved formally of his office on Nov. 22 . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , he designed and wired the control panel and delighted both in his consultant capacity and also in being again involved in his life 's obsession on what to him was virtually home ground . |
| 13 | Philip is ironic also about his tendency to think in terms of ‘ higher ’ literature , and he discredits the validity of a quotation from Eliot , when it comes into his mind , simply on the grounds that he has been too corrupted by contemporary culture for anything that occurs to him spontaneously to have lasting value : |
| 14 | Unlike so many conservatives he had not compromised his position and was consistent throughout in his condemnation of Japan . |
| 15 | Dependants are defined in the 1975 Act as a wife or husband ; a former spouse who has not remarried ; a child of the deceased ( including an illegitimate or adopted child ) ; a person who was treated by the deceased as a child of the family in relation to any marriage of the deceased ( e.g. a child of the deceased 's wife by a former marriage ) ; and any other person who was being wholly or partly maintained by the deceased immediately before his death . |
| 16 | Unfortunately he could n't find anything large enough in his wife 's wardrobe . |
| 17 | Under it he was wearing a slate-blue suit in tussore , the cut , material and colour not quite masculine enough for his height and heavily muscled chest . |
| 18 | His cultural education was a process of bourgeois ideological indoctrination , yet his adult allegiance to socialism remained constant even after his departure from the PCF . |
| 19 | When a twelfth-century knight rode into a tournament or into battle he hoped to be worthy either of his lineage or of his lady ; earlier he had thought only of his ancestors . |
| 20 | He was probably very frustrated too as his bride , who had little time to be with him , was struggling to keep two homes running . |
| 21 | Franco 's refusal to recognize that autarchy was economically and politically untenable was due partly to his belief that liberal democracy could not bring economic well-being , and partly to his lack of understanding of the complexities of economic policy-formulation . |
| 22 | Perhaps the pause is only long enough for his mind to find and form a new , fresh and appropriate body in which to continue on the mental outworking of the karmic dance . |
| 23 | And that the hair was black all over his body , a shiny , animal black , even on his back , at the base of his spine . |
| 24 | He may condescend perhaps to think I may be good enough for his harlot and these things do n't disgrace men that ruin poor women as the world goes . |
| 25 | His attitude was that he was the greatest gossip writer on Fleet Street and only the best was good enough for his column . |
| 26 | Eva had to cover a chair in stapled-together plastic bags before it was hygienic enough for his arse . |
| 27 | But Fogerty 's Hollywood dreams will not deter him from his other ambitions — such as becoming a League international just like his dad Terry . |
| 28 | Although he had been a sobering and restricting influence in a Germanic way upon the Queen , she took to wearing black immediately after his death and , in a sense , appeared never to cease mourning for him until the day she died . |
| 29 | Above all , the empire was the only place where he could make good immediately on his claim to represent the real France . |
| 30 | Mr. Docherty told me that he was sleeping rough either in his car or in a small tent . |