Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] his [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have no means of assessing the reliability of automatic control systems but they can make some assessment of a skilled individual and without knowing very much about his working procedures they will trust his actions if he seems calm , competent and mature . |
| 2 | Conscious of his literary failings he often pointed out that he wished some ‘ literary residents , who by their good taste and frequent travel ’ could have undertaken the task . |
| 3 | Probing with his narrow hands he located the organs he sought , and , using another slender knife , dislodged and withdrew them , handing them to his assistant , who placed them in bronze trays and took them to another table where he covered them with natron salt , to dry and preserve them ready for the four jars which would stand in a chest at the head of the coffin . |
| 4 | J. Roberts regretted that due to his many commitments he had not been able to play as active a role in the Society during the past year as he would have wished . |
| 5 | On one of his recent trips they had frightened him so much that he dropped his food and had to watch helplessly while they devoured every last scrap of it . |
| 6 | During one of his European tours he arrived at a prison in the Savoy where a full-scale riot was in progress and two warders had already been killed . |
| 7 | If he got into one of his queer moods he could do anything . |
| 8 | Usually when he was giving one of his little dinners he came into the kitchen while they were preparing it , joked with them , had his hands smacked smartly by Matey when he lifted saucepan lids and tried to peer into the oven ; but today he stayed away . |
| 9 | If the Headmaster 's in one of his bad moods he threatens to throw people to it . ’ |
| 10 | Hmm , well , okay , last night Mickey , you and I just about wrote off Lester Piggott 's career , and er today , well inside the last furlong of er one of his three races I believe today , this is how Rapid Raceline 's course commentator John Penny , saw the closing stages . |
| 11 | One of his old associates he had chatted to in the bar a couple of nights previously , had mentioned how much he enjoyed his regular visits to the Turkish baths in Gloucester . |
| 12 | Having overtaken Clive 's score , he declared knowing that if he lost his wicket in the remaining two of his 10 overs he would have 10 runs deducted . |
| 13 | Otherwise the trainer 's satisfied with his own men he do he gallops Wednesdays and Saturdays . |