Example sentences of "his [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fury filled his canine brain and coursed through his powerfully muscled body . |
| 2 | At this time he published his widely used text-book Elementary Chemical Thermodynamics , which was translated into several languages . |
| 3 | As we have already noted , David Rolfe did likewise in his widely publicised series Jesus : the Evidence , which was followed by a book bearing the same title . |
| 4 | In the course of his widely publicized speech the Earl , the Association 's President , had apparently stated that the manual language , as used by the deaf , was a " barbarous " mode of teaching the deaf and dumb . |
| 5 | In 437 one of the last pagan aristocrats allowed himself to be converted on his deathbed by his conspicuously pious niece , perhaps from fear of less gentle pressure from the emperor . |
| 6 | But now Bingham is nearing the end of his remarkably successful time as Northern Ireland 's manager . |
| 7 | Leonard Montague Harrod , in his remarkably anachronistic Library work with children ( 1969 , p.24 ) , saw the good children 's librarian as |
| 8 | He immediately flew to Perth in an attempt to begin his defence and boost the morale of his remarkably loyal employees , who were yesterday attempting to portray the receivership move as a battle between ‘ old money ’ , represented by the Melbourne banking community , and ‘ new money ’ , in the form of Mr Bond . |
| 9 | His skin had an olive hue , signifying foreign blood , and his indecently long hair was very black , worn in a multitude of thin braids and confined at the back of his neck . |
| 10 | We shall not understand Anselm 's last years unless his fundamentally unpolitical attitude to his duties is borne in mind . |
| 11 | In 1883 he also became vicar of Crosthwaite and rural dean of Keswick , where , with the help of his artistically talented wife , he founded the Keswick School of Industrial Arts . |
| 12 | What makes it unbelievable is the stilted , mannered tone of his writing and his wholly implausible description of how the Independent was launched and managed . |
| 13 | Braithwaite was at least six foot five , and broomstick-thin — all long , bony legs and arms in his immaculately starched shirt and knife-edged trousers . |
| 14 | Keeping the ‘ common people ’ of Romania down by always increasing the demands put upon them and diminishing their rewards was good policy as well as economically necessary if his ever-more ambitious plans were to be accomplished . |
| 15 | Still gripping her arm , he pushed her ahead of him and she stumbled into a walk , unable to fight his vastly superior strength . |
| 16 | Music by Scott Joplin then helped him to create his light-heartedly comic Elite Syncopations . |
| 17 | Characteristic of his style is his intensely naturalistic carving of man and nature ; the carved drapery folds seem to take on a life of their own . |
| 18 | But as Freud , with his own particular brand of madness and insistence , pressed on into a more realist style , Minton was obliged to recognise the power of his intensely probing vision . |
| 19 | Along with his intensely loyal family he struggles hard to achieve downward mobility . |
| 20 | His incompletely assembled weapon exploded , smothering his head , arms and shoulders in a mass of flames . |
| 21 | After his return to England , however , his keenly Anglican Parliament caused the Declaration to be withdrawn . |
| 22 | Fakrid screamed as his right front foot was blown off . |
| 23 | The drawback was his rather dowdy wife and their increasing brood of children , an imposition to be endured . |
| 24 | 1 his rather sudden change has still to be explained , although the huge reduction in the overall pace of pasture improvement is clearly linked with the stagnation in the market for cattle and sheep . |
| 25 | He should concentrate on his relentlessly aching arm instead . |
| 26 | He unfolded his incredibly long legs , arranged a white scarf at his throat and checked the mirror . |
| 27 | Bruno is turned out in a set of white-sequined boxing trunks with blue stripes and a matching set of Masters of the Universe shoulder pads , his incredibly muscled midriff exposed between . |
| 28 | The first thing that struck me about Dana 's poems was his incredibly tiny script , an almost minuscule handwriting that was often difficult to decipher . |
| 29 | ‘ Those who followed his career in television , from the role of humble assistant film editor , up through the features department of Granada Television , through to his incredibly successful period as editor of the BBC magazine programme , Holiday '76 , knew him to be resourceful , keen , and deeply aware , not only of the problems of travel — his chosen speciality — but also-of such things as cuisine and interior design . ’ |
| 30 | Okoye has endeared himself to team-mates and fans not only through his play on the field but through his incredibly modest behaviour off it . |