Example sentences of "his [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some his some haint . |
| 2 | THE American film maker Woody Allen once said his one regret in life was that he was n't somebody else . |
| 3 | He enjoys music his one regret is that he never learned to play a musical instrument and is chairman of the newly-established music society which is putting on a season of classical concerts in the throne room at Bishop Auckland Castle . |
| 4 | ‘ All right , ’ said Nigel , wobbling crazily on his one leg . |
| 5 | Dadda , voyaging day by day farther out on his black sea of depression , made his one contribution to the talk . |
| 6 | While working on the two biker films and his one sentence in The St Valentine 's Day Massacre , undemanding as they were , Nicholson was also writing another film script for Corman who was once again ahead of the field in latching on to the latest craze sweeping through the world : the children of the post-war baby boom were coming out to play and nothing could stop them now . |
| 7 | His principal sexual enjoyment seemed to come from sleeping with young boys and his one foray into a heterosexual relationship ended dismally with his middle-aged paramour complaining , ‘ I ca n't seem to make him understand that biting 's no good . ’ |
| 8 | Brian Harley had made his one mistake at the sixteenth by finding both a fairway bunker and one by the green and was still standing at four under . |
| 9 | Scrum-half Steve Bates is playing the best rugby of his life and wants to add to his one cap . |
| 10 | Delaney raised a critical eyebrow : His one question went to the heart of the matter , since he could think of no other reason for the involvement of G9 . |
| 11 | Despite his one night on Broadway , Dustin felt bitter , betrayed and disappointed . |
| 12 | His one concession to the heat was a grey suit in place of the usual Cabinet Office blue , with a Trinity 1st & 3rd tie . |
| 13 | His one chance came just before half-time when a defender 's shins blocked his shot . |
| 14 | Thornton , shaven skulled to hide his baldness , knows this is his one chance , at 33 , to crack the big money and supplement his modest postman 's wages . |
| 15 | Fool , he should have known that that was his one chance to strike , and make known his mettle , and assert his right once for all . |
| 16 | Ben Kingsley plays Martin Boyns , a middle-aged engineer at the turn of the century who feels that life has passed him by , and his one chance of happiness is in marrying his longtime friend , Rose Sellars ( Kim Novak ) . |
| 17 | His one slip had been using the phrase ‘ whole sorry business ’ . |
| 18 | Former champion hurdler Beech Road is an interesting contender , as he reverts to fences after a disappointing season over the smaller obstacles , where his one success came in the ‘ Fighting Fifth ’ at Newcastle . |
| 19 | His one weakness was the lack of patience he showed with people he considered idiots . |
| 20 | It 's his one weakness , I suppose . ’ |
| 21 | It was about this time that he started telling Lewis Wyvis Hall would be his one day . |
| 22 | The craze hit England in 1951 , when musicians such as Larry Adler , Steve Race and Humphrey Lyttelton ( the latter emulating a traditional jazz band in his One Man Went To Blow ) attempted to make a whole which was greater than the sum of the parts . |
| 23 | In 1798 he exhibited No. 447 , ‘ Derwent Water from Castle Rigg ’ , and in 1801 , No. 649 , ‘ View from Kirby Lonsdale Churchyard Westmorland ’ , but this appears to be the last entry , probably because once he had moved to Ambleside he concentrated on his one man shows in the area . |
| 24 | His one hope now lay with Philip and he went to visit him in Paris , the traditional move for all discontented sons of Henry Ii . |
| 25 | His one hope was to head for the small area of streets and alleys he had explored around the bar-restaurant before going inside ( ‘ … reconnoitre the Subject 's area … ’ ) . |
| 26 | Given his tiny literary output — four books and a play in 45 years — he wrote endlessly about his habits , frustrations and miseries : even his one novel We think the World of You was so transparently autobiographical as to prompt fears of a libel action . |
| 27 | He laughs again , and crosses to his one way window . |
| 28 | Robert can see Henry 's star quality and has already aligned him with an animal talent agency ( Satch 's Animals ) , although his one date with the cameras so far — for a Lucozade commercial — was n't exactly a smash . |
| 29 | In his one hour and 40 minute speech , Jiang Zemin reviewed the CCP 's major achievements . |
| 30 | Craig Davis is an international photographer/journalist , who has over 20 years experience in yacht racing , most recently with the entry of his one ton Top Gun in the 1987 US Admiral 's Cup trials |