Example sentences of "his [noun] [be] [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Oz had worked just as hard as she had , not stopping to gaze down into the dale , but picking and picking until his fingers were stained blue-purple . |
| 2 | But his skin was stretched taut over his cheekbones and his gritted teeth and shaking hand betrayed his tension . |
| 3 | Michael Roper and his step-brother were thrown thirty feet from the lift onto the snow below . |
| 4 | As active manipulator of his existence , he falls within the realm of culture , and so , just as culture is deemed superior to nature , so man and his activities are considered superior to woman and her world . |
| 5 | His mum 's moved te' cat in and a snake into te' bathtob ! ’ |
| 6 | On 18 August 1991 Antonio Palacios Urrea , three of his children and his son-in-law were shot dead by soldiers in their home on the outskirts of Fusagasugá , Cundinamarca department . |
| 7 | Sutton Hall said he would have to pay a carriage fee of £68 ; his cheque was cashed last August , but he still has n't been sent the units . |
| 8 | His certificate was dated 5 July 1794 . |
| 9 | His hair was cut close into a fringe , to-make the best of the fact that he was losing it . |
| 10 | His hair was cut short with a cowlick dropping over at the front , like a freakster . |
| 11 | His hair was dyed black now , and it was spiky . |
| 12 | His brother-in-law was found dead last year after complaining of cash worries . |
| 13 | His words were echoed last night by PC Hall 's boss , Chief Insp Peyer Harrison , of Redcar Police . |
| 14 | His words were cut short at the sight of Willie 's dull , sandy hair on the other side of the counter . |
| 15 | Yer part of the world and one of the best bitters — ’ His words were cut short by a clap of thunder very close . |
| 16 | His words were cut short by a blinding flash in his head . |
| 17 | Then , too , the Garfields of KILSBY and ASHBY ST LEDGERS were the forefathers of another president , James Garfield , whose tenure , however , was one of the briefest in American history ; his term was cut short by an assassin 's bullet just a few months after his inauguration . |
| 18 | When the heavy door of his cell was heaved open and his jailor , along with three of his largest colleagues strode in . |
| 19 | On one occasion the door to his bedroom was left open and if you had passed along the corridor you could have caught a glimpse of the Collector , slumped on his bed , haggard and ginger-whiskered , the very picture of despair . |
| 20 | His car was vandalised several times and he was forced to move his business after it was set on fire . |
| 21 | His car was stuffed full of large pink teddy bears . |
| 22 | Mercifully , his car was abandoned three miles away , and two-year-old Natasha Brown was able to tell a passing couple that ’ a naughty man ’ had taken the car . |
| 23 | He jabbed the poker at chest height of a moving figure and then his eyes were stung closed with pain . |
| 24 | Daniel 's weight plummeted to just over two stone when his condition was diagnosed last February . |
| 25 | He moved forward to close the gap again with the tunic back in front of him and his lips were dented white where the teeth had bitten at them . |
| 26 | What I find fascinating about these eight pages is that they are sustained by rage — by a controlled yet immense rage against a government which could allow its veterans to die — and that Hemingway has the skill to let his anger unroll , rather like one of the giant waves caused by the hurricane , until his readers are held afloat upon it . |
| 27 | Whatever his motives , his experiment was made possible by the power he had to distribute land to the motley collection of individuals who would join him . |
| 28 | An annulment of his marriage was deemed essential not only because Anne had steadfastly refused to become the royal mistress , but more importantly because Henry was deeply anxious about the succession . |
| 29 | His in-tray was piled high with papers and his clerical assistant , WPC Diane Saxton , stood over him , polite but relentless . |
| 30 | He decided to stay on and take a PHD , but his work was cut short by the onset of mental illness . |