Example sentences of "his [noun sg] with [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crowds have not spat out his name with quite the virulence they showed for Mr Milos Jakes and Mr Miroslav Stepan , the Prague party supremo , in their last days , but there has always been an underlying , almost universal contempt . |
| 2 | The collector is at once confronted with a choice : shall he assemble his collection with only the binding in mind , or shall he pay regard to the contents of the book as well ? |
| 3 | When Isambard came down in the evening with his question , delivered with a dry , impersonal smile as though the brief upheaval in the night had never happened , Harry gave his answer with only the slightest convulsion of fear at the pit of his stomach . |
| 4 | Mr Stein was unable to take much comfort from the performance of the rest of his company with only the racing division performing well . |
| 5 | Significantly , some of the most illuminating comments in the book would have been excised if Hughes had pursued his task with quite the systematic rigour he commends . |