Example sentences of "and his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Owers , a surprise choice as substitute against Ipswich , has done very little training , and his non-stop style will soon show whether he has fully recovered from his injury . |
| 2 | But Hackney made up for those heart-stopping moments with 100 per cent willingness to try anything and his 200 per cent determination for the team cause . |
| 3 | It not only tells the story ‘ with more simplicity , more verve , clarity , and impact … [ it ] will also educate the child 's taste and his visual sense. , |
| 4 | Throughout this agitation Morel 's appeal to the presumed interests of Liverpool merchants was quite open and unashamed : the liberation of Africans enslaved by Leopold and his monopolistic ring of financiers , and the interests of genuine traders in free trade , went hand in hand . |
| 5 | Colloredo refused , and , after an abusive interview in which the archbishop lost both his temper and his priestly dignity , calling Mozart a scoundrel and a knave , both parties announced that each was well rid of the other . |
| 6 | The Americans hope that the installation of Mr Mesic would bolster Croats and Slovenes who hang back from independence now ; that Mr Markovic and his economic reform would win a reprieve ; and that time might be gained for Serbian opposition to Mr Milosevic to grow . |
| 7 | Stockman denounces Reagan for his susceptibility to hard luck stories and his economic illiteracy , but , if the president 's grasp of economics was shaky , he understood politics in a way that the director of the OMB did not . |
| 8 | On Dec. 14-15 Clinton held a two-day televised economic seminar at which more than 300 academics , business and labour leaders presented their views on the economy to the President-elect and his economic appointees . |
| 9 | Racing starts at 6.15 p.m. and there will be a cabaret with Acker Bilk and his Paramount Jazz Band , plus a barbecue with beer and wine . |
| 10 | Enter freelance writer Ian Lucas and his enquiring mind . |
| 11 | No , she would not wander off again , she would go post-haste to England and Alain could get on with his intrigues and his high-powered business . |
| 12 | Charles Lloyd had returned to Lime Street by September , but his presence was now more clearly a burden than a pleasure , and his mental instability was soon to result in what Coleridge bitterly recollected as a ‘ mad quarrel ’ and in vindictive ingratitude . |
| 13 | His description of the anxiety he is suffering suggests Cowper 's later experience of madness , when the nightmares of waking and sleeping states merge indistinguishably ; and his mental state brings on a sensation of alternating extremes of temperature : |
| 14 | They are severe and have a devastating effect on his personality , his physical well-being and his mental state . |
| 15 | He flopped onto Jason Wilcox 's feeble first effort to complete 48 hours of cup misery for Kenny Dalglish and his expensive stars . |
| 16 | It is run by George Vasilas and his Irish wife and it is exclusive to Club 18–30 . |
| 17 | When Tony Eley and his Irish wife Mary purchased Braemount House in 1986 they were newcomers to the hospitality business ; Mary had retired from the nursing profession and Tony from the Royal Air Force . |
| 18 | At a meeting on Dec. 4 in Dublin United Kingdom Prime Minister John Major and his Irish counterpart Charles Haughey agreed to meet every six months , alternately in Dublin and London . |
| 19 | The male driver of a Ford Escort XR3i and his female passenger were being questioned by police . |
| 20 | A pale autumnal sun played over Etive as I gazed up the beckoning folds of Spartan Slab with another partner , watching the leisurely antics of an American climber and his female ropemate on this classic VS . |
| 21 | Within the hour , a telegram was on its way to London claiming the reward for information as to the whereabouts of Patrick Lundy and his female servant . |
| 22 | This followed the pattern of an obscure Ixmaritian legend concerning Ixmar and his female aspect , Atavenom . |
| 23 | Only the waiter arriving with their main course stopped her telling Nathan Bryce exactly what she thought of him and his female acquaintances . |
| 24 | Sergeant Norton and his female companion to Haresfield Beacon , a well known beauty spot . |
| 25 | His admission that he is impotent and his perverse , compensatory hobby of making videotapes of women 's sexual confessions proves a decisive challenge to both sisters … |
| 26 | But the BIS can also be seen as the project of a dissident Quakerism which led Elizabeth Pease Nichol to leave the Friends on her marriage ; the Peases found collaborators in the Dubliner Richard Webb whose contempt for the ‘ form and conventionalisms ’ of British reformers has already been indicated and his Unitarian associates such as James Haughton . |
| 27 | On the twenty-ninth day , being the day before he departed , he called for Doña Ximena , and for the Bishop Don Hieronymo , and Don Alvar Fañez Minaya , and Pero Bermudez , and his trusty Gil Diaz ; and when they were all five before him , he began to direct them what they should do after his death ; and he said to them , Ye know that King Bucar will presently be here to besiege this city , with seven and thirty Kings whom he bringeth with him , and with a mighty power of Moors . |
| 28 | All this while the company of the Cid were preparing all things to go into Castille , as he had commanded before his death ; and his trusty Gil Diaz did nothing else but labour at this . |
| 29 | HUGH Laurie and Stephen Fry return to the screen for another six one-hour episodes of Jeeves and Wooster , the continuing saga of the upper crust twerp and his trusty valet who gets him out of no end of trouble . |
| 30 | Mr Punch and his trusty chum Toby the Dog have appeared in many guises . |