Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [was/were] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The immediate catalyst for his removal was an inept press conference on Dec. 5 in which he declared the recession to be abating , only hours before the publication of official figures which showed that GDP had declined 0.3 per cent in the three months to September , the sixth successive quarter for which it had been either static or negative . |
| 2 | Beneath his shirt was a khaki singlet . |
| 3 | Harrington 's aircraft was hit by a cannon shell in the forward fuel tank , another hitting his parachute pack ; he was unhurt , but his Hurricane was a total write-off . |
| 4 | His decision was a fateful one . |
| 5 | I think that his decision was an honourable one and one which we would expect from an honourable man . |
| 6 | His skin was a golden bronze , as if he spent a lot of time out of doors . |
| 7 | Cleo could see that where the sleeve of his shirt was drawn back , his skin was a greenish colour , like chicken meat that was beginning to rot . |
| 8 | His case was a strong one and when he was prosecuted for criminal libel in 1913 he won a moral , if not a legal victory , avoiding the expected prison sentence . |
| 9 | Some chairmen , notably Randall of the London Board , created considerable surpluses and reserves , and his Board was the only one never to make a loss . |
| 10 | His response was the great ode , ‘ The Wreck of the Deutschland ’ , a masterpiece reflecting all the thinking he had done about poetry , pain , and redemption during his years of silence . |
| 11 | ‘ Yes , ’ one of the philanthropists chipped in , ‘ but you 'll be making money out of it , ’ to which his response was the chilling , ‘ Yes , well ? ’ |
| 12 | His parting was a traumatic event which borough conservative lovers of scenic beauty and wide-open spaces into direct conflict with the new breed of activists , internationalist in their outlook . |
| 13 | His accent was a peculiar mixture of Cockney and American . |
| 14 | Not even Jane 's tender digestion would keep her from tonight 's dancing , and nor did she have any real fear of meeting her husband , for Jane well knew Sharpe 's reluctance to dance or to dress up in a frippery uniform , but the possibility of his presence was an alarming thought that she could not resist exploring . |
| 15 | His mum was a big , volatile , typically Italian mamma who came to live in Britain in 1949 where she made her living as a cook for a medical family in North London until marrying Fred 's father who was Spanish . |
| 16 | His Mum was a horrible nuisance , no question . |
| 17 | Living as he was on the borders of his lost paradise , in the limitless landscape of childhood from which he had been banished into adulthood , an uncomfortable country , I sensed that Jean-Claude was continually grappling with the feeling that his present was a poor reflection of his past . |
| 18 | Next to his acreage was a small field of one and a half acres with a little mound in it . |
| 19 | After all , he had a gun and his captive was no tough aggressive youth who might be foolhardy enough to try to disarm him . |
| 20 | His pulpit was the only source of news in Danu . |
| 21 | His glory was the late cut , rated by C.L.R. James as ‘ one of the great strokes of our time ’ , but apart from the hook , which he did not play , all the other strokes were there , elegant , graceful , polished , a joy to watch . |
| 22 | The same uneasy feeling he 'd experienced that morning returned , and he realized now why it came : of all the people of Dynmouth this boy in his adolescence was the single exception . |
| 23 | ‘ You OK ? ’ asked Ember , and his hair was a dark untidy blond whipping from under his pointed hood . |
| 24 | His hair was a damp , matted tangle . |
| 25 | His hair was a little white in places and he found it difficult talking to people . |
| 26 | One eye had popped out from its socket , his chest was a bloody black hole , whilst the lower half of his face had been completely kicked away , revealing stumps of yellow teeth . |
| 27 | And his back was brown and his chest was a lovely rosy brown , there . |
| 28 | A thin red snake of blood trickled out of the corner of his mouth ; his chest was an open , bubbling mass of blood where he had received his death wound . |
| 29 | His skin was sallow and pitted , his eyes bulged , and his mouth was a slobbering frog-like slit . |
| 30 | His mouth was a hard circle — as if he were howling , but silently . |