Example sentences of "his [noun] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus Sya , who announces that ‘ one who believes in war believes in God ’ and who beats his sister with a khaki belt , is an inflexible symbol of a militaristic ethos . |
| 2 | I rang his sister from a public phone box . |
| 3 | But he pursued his policies within the parliamentary Labour Party and the Labour Party issued the ‘ Mosley Manifesto ’ , develop his policies into a full-scale plan in January 1931 , under the title ‘ A National Policy ’ . |
| 4 | Vlasov showed great energy and leadership qualities , transforming his division into a conspicuous example of efficiency . |
| 5 | He would doubtless suffer this blow to his esteem in a First Folio or a 1532 Chaucer , given half a chance , but in lesser books the wound is too serious . |
| 6 | When he finally emerges , he will hang his shield on a leafless tree , which will sprout green leaves , and a better age will begin . |
| 7 | Only then would he hang the burden of his shield upon a withered branch . |
| 8 | His raptures over pretty strangers and their come-hither designer clothes were as over-the-top as his enthusiasm for a new cocktail . |
| 9 | He cited " personal reasons " for his decision to stand down which was to take effect following the selection of his successor at a special party convention , expected in November . |
| 10 | He could hurt those who cared most about him — his parents when he became a monk and Mirfield when he followed his resignation with a national television account of what was personal and private . |
| 11 | An earlier thinker who declined to see any mutual contradiction between similar terms was Leslie Weatherhead , psychologist and cleric , who published his Creed of a Christian Agnostic . |
| 12 | He says that the squeeze on his income under a Labour government may mean that his wife would have to look for work , or he may seriously consider taking his skills abroad . |
| 13 | Fredrick taught his brother his technique in a short time and the two brothers worked side by side , often having long discussions about the technique , modifying it as they went along . |
| 14 | Spend the entire '80s extolling his genius on a weekly basis . |
| 15 | Time was the theme that fired his heart as a young student and affected him for the rest of his life . |
| 16 | Throughout his adolescence and youth , Lewis interpreted the void in his heart as a tragic awareness of ‘ the North ’ , which he saw as ‘ cold , spacious , severe , pale and remote ’ . |
| 17 | It is expected , however , that the Irishman will make known his views at a later date . |
| 18 | Only that there was at least a minor cultural triumph on the terraces where Francois Aliane , celebrated French restaurateur from Edinburgh , rugby enthusiast and Scotophile , was waxing the way fans do and giving his views to a French spectator . |
| 19 | And anyway I 'm going to leave that on one side now because it 's more erm a problem to reconciling Mill 's views about liberty with his views about a proper government rather than directly about governments , so I 'm just going to note that and move on now . |
| 20 | Questioned on his views by a Hull-based evening newspaper Lord White tried to backtrack . |
| 21 | And when I nodded , he flicked his fingers at a passing waiter . |
| 22 | He moved his fingers with a delicate sureness of touch , thereby undermining Cassie 's wavering defences even more alarmingly . |
| 23 | The bald-headed man caught his stare and waggled his fingers in a friendly fashion . |
| 24 | The boy stroked the girl 's side , twisting the walkman lead around his fingers in a one-handed cat 's cradle . |
| 25 | He kissed his fingers in a flamboyant sort of way and swept off , his quiff bobbing above the heads of the other guests like a small ship on a turbulent sea . |
| 26 | ‘ Demon anarchists , ’ cursed the priest , throwing all his enemies into a single pot . |
| 27 | Although his prime responsibility was transport , whether by air , road or sea , he still had to play his part as a full member of the team when it came to surveillance and attack . |
| 28 | Later in the game he was sent off for his part in a vicious brawl . |
| 29 | For his part in a week-long happening at Glasgow 's Tramway Theatre in early May — ‘ an exploration around the body , halfway between theatre and sculptor ’ — he has drawn on his own private nightmare . |
| 30 | James Shaw was given five years for his part in a later plot to kill Stephen Brown by knocking him down with a car . |