Example sentences of "his [noun sg] was [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd explained that his sister was on the pumps at the Smiling Service Filling Station , even though it was Good Friday . |
| 2 | His enthusiasm was in no way aroused by the prospect of being blown up honourably with the ladies and gents . |
| 3 | His favourite was about the man who told a doctor : ‘ Yes . |
| 4 | His route was across the Niagara River above the falls . |
| 5 | ‘ Goodnight ! ’ she snapped , and went to slam the door shut on him — then found that his foot was in the way . |
| 6 | Before she could quite close the door , his foot was in the jamb . |
| 7 | Technically the appeal against the decision of Potts J. is interlocutory because decided on an application by the defendants to strike out the claim as disclosing no reasonable cause of action , while the appeal against the decision of Phillips J. is a final appeal because his decision was on a question directed by consent to be tried as a preliminary issue . |
| 8 | To his dad , they went back to Berlin in nineteen seventy for a visit cos his mum was in a home which |
| 9 | He had to shave , grey bristles ; for Parker had gone bald suddenly ( and very young , a terrible fright , he had awoke one morning , all his hair was on the pillow ) and his wigs — he had three , short to long to shaggy ; the ploy , he hoped , visits to the barber — were black for blue . |
| 10 | Which was okay when he was younger ; his mother , she had helped him choose his first wigs ( even if he could not tell her the cause of his fright , all his hair was on the pillow ) . |
| 11 | When he woke up his hair was in the soup and his head on the rim of the plate , and his hostess had left the table . |
| 12 | The fine red-gold of his hair was like an angel 's aureole against the street lamp . |
| 13 | Ferguson , for his part , can now look any supporter of his club in the eye and say that Gough having to commit the foul that debarred him from a Cup-tie verified the youngster 's ability to put an awkward pre-match situation out of his mind and play in a determined way that suggested his temperament was on the mend . |
| 14 | He began by admitting that there was a crisis of power , but he denied that his administration was without a programme to overcome it . |
| 15 | When his car was past the missile launchers , past the guards , he demanded speed . |
| 16 | His car was in a line of traffic travelling towards Leominster when it was involved in a collision with Mr Haigh 's car , which was in front . |
| 17 | His car was in the turning circle . |
| 18 | For a second his mind was off the ball , leaving it free for Patrick Lombard to belt in and whip it away , dribbling it for a few yards , then powering it to Mike , who , relishing his new freedom at Number Two , took it up field . |
| 19 | His mind was in a fog . |
| 20 | His mind was in a whirl and he was worried . |
| 21 | The spirit of his meticulousness was in the pile of freshly laundered shirts and handkerchiefs at the foot of the bed . |
| 22 | He was a good soldier , but his marriage was on the rocks . |
| 23 | His marriage was in a mess but , to give him credit , he never once uttered the words , ‘ My wife does n't understand me . ’ |
| 24 | His plan was for the contra leaders to set sail with their manifesto , or a version of it , to Philadelphia from Nicaragua . |
| 25 | As Faraday went deeper into electromagnetism , he began to leave his contemporaries behind ; his work was on the boundary between inductive experimental science and deductive physics , and failed to fit easily into either category . |
| 26 | The crucial difference between Mannheim and most of those who picked up his work was in an attitude towards epistemology . |
| 27 | Since the departure of Miss Harker he had become more surly than before and his drinking was on the increase . |
| 28 | His fist was about the size of a sack of potatoes . |
| 29 | His ad was in the paper again today . |
| 30 | Gloucester 's immediate influence was mainly restricted to the edges of the county : to the lordship of Clitheroe in the east and to Furness in the north — both areas where his influence was in a sense overspill from more substantial interests elsewhere . |