Example sentences of "his [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It helped him find his long-lost daughter . |
| 2 | His long-lost daughter ? ’ |
| 3 | COUSIN BOBBY In and around filming The Silence Of The Lambs , Jonathan Demme was also putting together a cinematic portrait of his long-lost cousin , Robert Castle , a Harlem preacher , minister to the oppressed and scourge of City Hall . |
| 4 | Gordon Turner , 61 , enlisted the help of The Northern Echo , trusting that his long-lost friend had returned to his native Darlington . |
| 5 | By means not specified , from Portugal he arrived in Victorian England , where he got the idea that Lady Laetitia Winthrop ( played by a ‘ discovery ’ from the world of modelling , whose acting talent was 36-23-36 ) was his long-lost love from a world before the subterranean cavern . |
| 6 | Benjamin , however , smiled coolly at the Earl as if the Scottish bastard was his long-lost brother . |
| 7 | Aline said , ‘ Maybe you reminded him of his long-lost youth . ’ |
| 8 | AMERICAN country singing star Conway Twitty , 59 , is being hounded by an obsessed fan who claims to be his long-lost son . |
| 9 | Victor fusses over his gas-ring like I 'm his long-lost son . |
| 10 | Few disciples followed him , his purist rigour being unsuited to compromise or the political infighting which wracked the sectarian Left . |
| 11 | Dougal thought of his unheated flat and shuddered . |
| 12 | His five-point plan , which included a 10-year transitional period and the inclusion of UK-built Japanese cars in quotas , now has the backing of Hahn . |
| 13 | In June 1988 the Dalai Lama made a major policy speech before the European Parliament in Strasbourg , France , developing his five-point plan , first outlined in September 1987 before a US Senate foreign relations committee in Washington [ see p. 35717 ] . |
| 14 | But he did bow to tradition by topping his wacky gear with the gown and a mortar board . |
| 15 | She was amused by his dry tone . |
| 16 | Beneath his dry tone she heard an echo of her own pain . |
| 17 | Freddie fiddles with his dry biscuit , breaking it into small pieces , and dropping crumbs which catch in the hairy surface of his trousers . |
| 18 | He puts his dry biscuit down , and with his left hand seizes his right elbow . |
| 19 | ‘ I need hardly tell you , ’ he continued in his dry voice , ‘ what a blow you dealt to she who cared so much for your welfare . |
| 20 | I looked down at the viscid mess and up to meet his dry smile . |
| 21 | He quickly built up a reputation for his dry wit . |
| 22 | He reminded me of Benjamin with his dry wit , sardonic observations and palpable honesty . |
| 23 | Oh our Mike prefers his dry stuff . |
| 24 | His dry sense of humour still had the capacity to make her lips twitch in amusement , even as she recognised that there was nothing remotely amusing about the way she felt about him . |
| 25 | His dry sense of humour spilled over into what might have been a harrowing session and by carefully chosen words and clear illustrations we came to see the value of the painstaking work required by those at the scene of a major accident . |
| 26 | He is quite witty and his dry humour comes across well . |
| 27 | At Christie 's , Noel Annesley presided over a satisfactory auction with his customary skill , a failing voice enhancing , rather than diminishing , his dry humour which maintained the momentum of the sale . |
| 28 | But once you had found mutual ground for trust , responded to his dry humour or enjoyed his sometimes wicked pranks , the friendship could become deep and permanent . |
| 29 | He said he puts his dry material er into glycerine or er antifreeze . |
| 30 | He hid behind the wine glass again , putting his lips to the liquid but not drinking despite his dry throat ; he would get too drunk . |