Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that he had started , he threw his sister a challenging look and rushed on . |
| 2 | Looking up , he gave his sister a faint smile . |
| 3 | ‘ That 's right , ’ Jeff piped up , throwing his sister a soothing glance . |
| 4 | The scale of Herbert 's power in Wales made his removal a major set-back to royal influence there , as was indicated by the immediate flare-up of trouble in the north and west of the region . |
| 5 | The scale of Herbert 's power in Wales made his removal a major set-back to royal influence there , as was indicated by the immediate flare-up of trouble in the north and west of the region . |
| 6 | Cecil , you will recall , did not choose as his mistress a bit-part actress with a silly surname . |
| 7 | Apart from the execution of the laws the executive has no authority to decide what shall be the relations between the federal government and South Carolina , any attempt to do this would be on his part a naked act of usurpation . |
| 8 | This time the protagonist is the Slovanian , Slavks Sveticic , and his route a direct way up a grey rocky pillar on the Croz Spur of the Grandes Jorasses . |
| 9 | It does n't sound much but you 've got to watch out these days , with everything constantly getting cheaper and Tod grimly counting his money the whole time . |
| 10 | Eliot , who invited his friends to this performance , who attended some of the rehearsals , and who expressed his full confidence in the director Rupert Doone , continued to follow in his text the original impetus which Cornford had given him . |
| 11 | The Sheriff said he would give them his decision the following day . |
| 12 | His hair was dark and rumpled , his face clean-shaven , his skin a sultry gold . |
| 13 | Rehabilitated by the partnership with Sien , refreshed by the gleams of baby life , confirmed by Theo 's continuing supply of materials and basic finance , and by his unflagging moral support , he was ready to move in closer , as if to feel on his skin the buried heat of creation and experience its terrific energies . |
| 14 | A Word Child ( 1975 ) , indeed , is so specific in its references to places , and especially to places on the London Underground , that the narrator remarks he was once tempted to call his story the Inner Circle ; and Martin Amis 's London Fields ( 1989 ) is almost as detailed about Notting Hill as if it were a guide-book . |
| 15 | On the day after his inauguration the new President ordered at least 162 people — including his immediate predecessor Ertha Pascal-Trouillot and her entire Cabinet — not to attempt to leave the country for one month . |
| 16 | He summed up the disseminated structure of his novels ( often in his case a necessary result of serial publication , but also probably a matter of personal preference ) , in the same work , when he compared the chapters of a novel to a convoy of vessels and himself , the inventor , as a man-of-war turning attention now to one ship , now to another , in order to bring them all safely to port . |
| 17 | The ontological idealist , given his general metaphysical premisses , can at least argue that what we regard as " physical bodies " are really no extra-spiritual entities , for all entities are either spiritual or are explicable in terms of attributes of such entities , and although his position gives rise to all kinds of difficulties , he can , on the whole , present his case a good deal more consistently than a dualist can . |
| 18 | He bent and took from his case the half-burnt diary still in its protective transparent wrapping . |
| 19 | I am surprised that he did not cite as evidence in support of his case the moral philosophy of his own Monklands District Council . |
| 20 | He opens with a history of homebuilts dating from Sir George Cayley ( who would have approved the sage advice to get an experienced hand to make the first test flight of your creation , though in his case the unfortunate man was more adept at handling a coach-and-four than a flying machine ) and proceeds through the Flying Flea era to the post-war rebirth in France and the USA , thence to Rutan and the foam/fibreglass revolution , and on to the 1980s emergence of IFR-capable alabaster-smooth hot-rod kitplanes that will blow the socks off anything Vero Beach and Wichita are ( or more accurately are n't ) building . |
| 21 | In fact , Bonanno and Vickers ( 1988 , p. 260 ) show the following proposition : ‘ if franchise fees can be used to extract the retailers ' profits , it is in the individual interest of each manufacturer to choose vertical separation and charge his retailer a wholesale price in excess of unit production cost ’ whether the other is integrated or separated . |
| 22 | The soldier looked over the parapet and saw to his horror the vague heap of a body ; he scrambled down the bank but as he approached , the vision slowly faded , there was no one there . |
| 23 | Why , Mr Tim enquired , his accent a silky simulacrum of an Inuit chewing a Berlitz tape , did I want the afternoons off ? |
| 24 | In his experience the early-morning routine in an institution seldom varied . |
| 25 | Rachaela dreamed of Adamus bending over her , his hair a black cowl . |
| 26 | Many years before he had described , as we have seen the acute but generalized sense of apprehension which invaded him at times of stress or exhaustion and one recognizes in his temperament a permanent sense of impending doom and disaster — as if the world were always threatening to fall in upon him . |
| 27 | His head had dropped forward and over his chest a great mat of blood had spread like a bib . |
| 28 | It 's when I , when I went to Poland it 's not two or three years , it was nineteen seventy three and I was , I was just coming in into the church and the one Witness was with me and we were going in er big town like Cracow , you know , we were going one way and there was a couple coming erm to meet us like you know in , in , in , on the road , and he was just wearing erm jeans and no shirt , but erm a big , big wooden cross on his chest just reaching really across his chest a wooden cross and then erm a safety pin in his nose and three safety pins attached to one another through his ears and this Witness with me walking down , she says just look at this couple and the girl was , wore the same dress she , she had the top on , you know , but again all sort of queer looking and she , this Witness with me , with me so , she said just look at the two that 's er coming aga to meet us and I said yes and I looked and I said look at the cross and she says yes , it used to be , they used to hang the criminals on the crosses and now the crosses hang on the criminals is n't that lovely , and now the cross is er all the criminals instead of the cross , oh yes |
| 29 | Indeed , three generations of Culpepers joined this guild , as Edmund II 's son , John Chandler , in turn became his apprentice the following year . |
| 30 | And for his kitchen the thick stuff . |