Example sentences of "'s [adj] [noun pl] [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vologsky 's dark eyes reflected his puzzlement . |
| 2 | For days Grom lay moaning and groaning as at first the Troll 's regenerative abilities outpaced his own ability to digest it and then his stomach gradually gained ground . |
| 3 | As was his custom , Sukarno adapted Nehru 's actual words to reflect his own hostility to the Dutch and his growing admiration for Japan . |
| 4 | Wherever it was , they have always had a more than casual fascination for me , and when I read Patrick Leigh-Fermor 's splendid books recounting his year-long walk down the Rhine and along the Danube , those childish fantasies resurfaced like long-forgotten toys rediscovered . |
| 5 | Kelly picked her way through saddles , blankets , old copies of Sporting Life , reflecting that Short 's domestic arrangements made his yard looked positively pristine . |
| 6 | He did not particularly like Franco whose view on life was rather cynical , redeemed only by the fact that he was quite willing to listen to Sandison 's halting efforts to tell his tale in Italian . |
| 7 | Despite Zborowski 's frantic efforts to sell his work , Modigliani 's living was still very precarious . |
| 8 | He ignored Tessa 's many attempts to change his notorious toupee . |
| 9 | Ironically , the most noticeable example comes at the end of scene ten , when Broadbent admits that Anderson 's advice on the Czech team 's tactics has proved depressingly sound : Anderson 's laconic replies implicate his loss of interest in the topic , following scene six , even now that Broadbent actually shows interest in what he had said earlier and allocates a turn to him twice . |
| 10 | This , and the free labour conflict conducted by the Shipping Federation , troubled him less , however , than the Federation 's malicious attempts to destroy his credibility and that of the union by maligning his character and labelling him a criminal . |
| 11 | Robertson then attacked another Ju87 from dead ahead , a bullet from the dive-bomber 's forward guns hitting his aircraft and puncturing the main fuel tank in the port wing . |