Example sentences of "[prep] his [adj] [noun] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beneath his white linen suit he wears a turquoise woollen rollneck . |
| 2 | But even with his new London base it was impossible to gather enough talent from both his schools for the coming Christmas , so he advertised for dancers in the trade papers and took a chance that he could knock them into shape . |
| 3 | Along with his evil twin brother he was born of Ataensic , the earth goddess . |
| 4 | This needs repeating several times because with his notorious drip paintings he came to be thought of by some as a dripster , a drooler , a mere pourer . |
| 5 | In his blue Guernsey sweater he looked every bit an old sea dog . |
| 6 | In his rear view mirror he saw the solid yellow wall blocking the whole road . |
| 7 | When Patrick Forbes proffered such divisions in his excellent work Champagne it had no bearing on the regulations . |
| 8 | From the ground up to his revolving papier-mache head he is 5ft 7 1/2 in tall , wears a full uniform , and despite being armed — with a radar gun — bears no resemblance to Robocop . |
| 9 | At the time no one denounced it more fiercely than Ayatollah Khomeini , whom the Shah had exiled in 1964 for his fierce opposition tot he Pahlavi regime . |