Example sentences of "his master 's [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Room 89 is haunted , according to the security guard , by the ghost of an RAF batman who still brushes his master 's phantom uniform . |
| 2 | Pry was an inquisitive busybody , but Williams was a faithful servant who kept his master 's guilty secret as long as possible . |
| 3 | As in the earlier lecture , therefore , the most positive valuation was given to Aeschylus , while the harshest words of all were reserved for Socrates ' pupil Plato , who translated into paradoxically artistic form his master 's rationalistic distrust of instinct and instinctive art . |
| 4 | Under his breath the man quietly cursed the interfering clerk who could bring his master 's grand design to nothing . |
| 5 | In ‘ The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth ’ Tídwald says reprovingly to Torhthelm — who has just discovered his master 's headless body : |
| 6 | The beloved cross-terrier , found sitting next to his master 's dead body on Saturday afternoon in Woolfall Heath Avenue , Huyton , was judged to be too ill by animal experts . |
| 7 | She writes that , indeed , when there were balls or fêtes , there was sometimes a queue for the public lavatories , and then a rich bourgeois might pay a nobleman 's servant as much as four louis d'or to be conducted to his master 's privy . |
| 8 | She wondered if fitzAlan had noticed that Chalon , taking advantage of his master 's unusual inattentiveness , had stopped and was investigating a bush by the side of the road . |