Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] his [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt useful when , during exercise periods , I could have Anderson choking with laughter , hanging on to Brian for support , as I imitated one of the guards and his absurdly curious use of English . |
| 2 | The major contradiction that they detected was between his vision of a European ensemble able to challenge the two existing superpowers and his narrowly nationalist priorities . |
| 3 | He remained loyal to Harley until the bitter end , though his own influence in the administration was dwindling , lost all offices except a few local honours at the Hanoverian succession , and more or less retired from active politics to follow his mild interest in antiquarian matters and his somewhat keener passion for the refinement and embellishment of his country seat at Margam . |
| 4 | He had studied at Chelsea in his apprenticeship days and his highly successful practice in Mark Lane enabled him to retire early to Eltham in Kent and to devote the rest of his days to his garden of rare plants , many of which were sent home by his brother from the Near East . |
| 5 | He played a vital part in the whole development both with his ideas and his supremely practical outlook : no setback discouraged him ; a man of great integrity , discerning in his judgments and withal a sardonic sense of humour . |
| 6 | His secret fears and his even more secret hopes . |
| 7 | She swayed helplessly against him , held captive by the spell of his hands and his hypnotically persuasive voice . |
| 8 | Public subscriptions provided a replica of Davies 's statue in Barry Docks and his now stands at the end of Llandinam Bridge , in sight of his former home . |
| 9 | Though in some ways Colin was quite close to his drivers — closer to some than to others — he was , in financial matters , something of a cheese-parer and though his sponsors were generally reasonably generous , even at the height of Lotus 's reputation he neither enjoyed the kind of largesse available to some teams nor , with his many other commitments and his fairly flamboyant life style , could devote all of what he did receive to his team . |
| 10 | He looked around at the ranks of worried faces and his slightly severe expression softened . |
| 11 | Such inconsistencies between d'Indy 's musical instincts and his strongly held right-wing views are so common , indeed , that Romain Rolland asks bluntly : ‘ Is his reason in agreement with his heart ? ’ |