Example sentences of "his [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harford took what many would consider a risk to his purist tendencies by assuming control at Wimbledon . |
| 2 | Flashback F M rewinds to December nineteen eighty three , from three meet former radio four Today presenter John Timpson with another of his wacky books which takes him all over the country looking at the unusual including some of the things you never knew existed in North Yorkshire . |
| 3 | Her easy warmth made Delaney feel good , as he licked his dry lips . |
| 4 | Simon ran a tongue across his dry lips . |
| 5 | The man ran his tongue over his dry lips and nodded . |
| 6 | Nicholson thought that he looked vaguely pleased to see him ; a small smile hovered on his dry lips . |
| 7 | Downes licked his dry lips . |
| 8 | He moistened his dry lips , and held his tongue , his eyes enormous and apprehensive upon Isambard 's face . |
| 9 | Gorbachev 's 80-minute speech on Nov. 16 was widely assessed by commentators as one of his poorest performances . |
| 10 | In the very year when , after taking British citizenship and joining the Church of England , he wrote the famous ‘ Preface ’ to For Lancelot Andrewes ( dedicated to Eliot 's mother ) , Eliot was recalling his own childhood in his introductory remarks to This American World , and his days at Fishermen 's Corner in Gloucester . |
| 11 | Ergo , we have to look , I think , at the record of this company over the last few years and as the chairman said in his introductory remarks the growth in the company , the growth in the earnings per share , has been very remarkable . |
| 12 | The excellent , practical hunter who has had no further lessons in hunting-wizardry than his introductory ones as a teenager is said to know little about hunting . |
| 13 | Along a short passage , the visitor came to the locked theatre door ( the same door whose creaking had sometimes disturbed Coleman in his introductory lectures , when old students who had come to pay their respects , arrived after he had begun ) . |
| 14 | In his Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis ( 1973 ) , Freud discussed the way in which symptoms are experienced in certain forms of obsessional neurosis . |
| 15 | He looked down at Edmund Mortimer , motionless at his feet , his mailed hands relaxed and empty in the turf . |
| 16 | Timothy Gedge , with his hollow cheeks and his gawkiness , had picked on them even though he did n't know them , even though they 'd done him no harm . |
| 17 | Leaning on the edge of his table , he let his hollow eyes rest on Nicholas . |
| 18 | The ability to read and write was confined to churchmen ( this was common throughout the whole of northern Europe ) , not even William or his Norman Barons were able to read , so William appointed Lanfranc as Archbishop of Canterbury and he set up a diocesan pattern which endured and encouraged the growth of ecclesiastical courts of law and a succession of ‘ clerks ’ who became the forerunners of the civil servants . |
| 19 | His Norman guests , from whom he made no effort to conceal what had happened , were inclined , on his return , to admire him for it . |
| 20 | Thus it was that Philip VI , who was not without military skill and experience , felt obliged to seek out and , if possible , defeat the English king and his Norman supporters . |
| 21 | His finest things in this form date from his later years — ‘ Behold thou has made my days ’ can be dated 1618 and ‘ Glorious and powerful God ’ was probably nearly contemporary and the great ‘ O Lord , let me know mine end ’ of the long-lived though generally conservative Tomkins may be later still . |
| 22 | FRANK SINATRA : ‘ The Reprise Years ’ ( Reprise ) ol' rheumy eyes is back with a collection of his finest croons , on the label he founded , including ‘ I 've Got You Under My Skin ’ , ‘ Strangers In The Night ’ and , of course , ‘ My Way ’ — out now |
| 23 | Only Carling of the three-quarters did not get on the scoresheet , ironic in that he had one of his finest games for England . |
| 24 | What has been lost in all this second-guessing is the wanton reckless joy of his finest records . |
| 25 | Already he was capable , it seemed , of making that impact on the stage which was , in record time , to put him at the top of his treacherous profession and bring on the applause of his finest contemporaries . |
| 26 | Stevie Wonder wrote , sang and played arguably his finest albums , ‘ Talking Book ’ and ‘ Innervisions ’ , having only just broken the twenty threshold . |
| 27 | He guided me on to the terrace to share a bottle of one of his finest vintages . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , over at Mount Edgecombe , the most favoured guess as the site of invasion , the Earl reluctantly gave permission for one hundred of his finest oaks to be felled as they could have given cover to invading forces . |
| 29 | The solitary willow , the gutted brook : these were the things which Clare picked out as the climax of his catalogue of casualties in this , one of his finest poems . |
| 30 | Back in England for Christmas , he wrote some of his finest poems , collected and copied others , and by the end of March had completed manuscripts of Alamein to Zem Zem and a volume of poems . |