Example sentences of "use his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His round face , blue eyes and fair hair , plus a serious mien most of the time , gave one the impression of a junior Cambridge don , and he used his long facile fingers like a Frenchman , when explaining a point . |
| 2 | He had a punk haircut and used his right knee to drive down the middle of the road . |
| 3 | Quinn used his right hand to remove his hood . |
| 4 | The great magician Merlin was said to have been born of a union between an incubus and a nun ; happily Merlin used his other-worldly powers of wizardry for good , rather than evil . |
| 5 | Crabb used his real name . |
| 6 | He invested widely in a number of the new industrial and trading concerns of the early 1690s and , in partnership with the goldsmith banker Sir Stephen Evance and others , used his international trading connections to handle the government 's military remittances , first to Ireland ( 1690–1 ) and then , between May 1691 and October 1694 , to the Continent . |
| 7 | As part of his campaign against the transmutationists , Richard Owen used his 1841 survey of British fossil reptiles to argue against the idea of continuous development . |
| 8 | Whitlock used his personal ID card to activate the lift and tapped his foot apprehensively as he waited for it to arrive . |
| 9 | He then used his personal popularity and legitimacy to win public support for his regime . |
| 10 | A young would-be tycoon used his posh private school as an office for his money-making schemes . |
| 11 | I liked the way he used his entire body . |
| 12 | He used his varied talents as a soil improver , a collector and grower of newly available exotic trees and shrubs , and an impresario of entertaining devices , ranging from a water-wheel pump to a grotto , a hermitage , and rare sculptures and follies , ingeniously placed to create a series of agreeable surprises on a tour revealing successive aspects of nature presented in terms of art . |
| 13 | He used his best prose on the earlier stuff about tongues meeting and breasts being cupped . |
| 14 | Again Colberg used his casual voice . |
| 15 | He used his final speech to appeal to voters to give the Liberal Democrats a mandate to ‘ unleash the power of the British people ’ . |
| 16 | Woolmer used his many South African contacts to obtain Smith a winter job with a coloured club in Cape Town . |
| 17 | Proceedings were instituted and various attempts were made by intermediaries to settle the matter , but ultimately the effective voice was that of Sir Solly ( later Lord ) Zuckerman , who used his powerful influence in the United States to persuade the newspaper to settle the matter . |
| 18 | Terry used his limited Arabic to have a long conversation with another visitor who suggested that an American would go home soon with the Irishman and then , after a little while , during which our governments were expected to ‘ make the next step ’ , another American with a Briton and so on . |
| 19 | Given the ball by Jamie Redknapp , Walters moved in from the left flank , used his famous double shuffle to find some space and then beat Hooper with a thunderous drive . |
| 20 | Tolstoy has assumed , in The Minister and the Massacres and elsewhere , that the BGS who originate the signal was Brig Low ( now Lord Aldington ) , and ha used the phrase " verbal directive from Macmillan to Corps Command as important evidence to support his theory that at the 13 May meeting Macmillan had " initiated " moves to hand back the Cossacks , and had in effect used his political authority to " direct " 5 Corps to this end . |
| 21 | Whetstone , a rash and much younger man , proved contemptuous of the admiral 's authority and used his political connections to undermine it . |
| 22 | in the most efficient groups the supervisor assumed the leadership role and used his supervisory talents to get the best out of his group . |
| 23 | He grabbed Alexei 's wrist , then used his other hand to unclamp the fingers . |
| 24 | He blinked , then used his other eye . |
| 25 | Cecil also used his official position to promote privateering voyages in the Mediterranean , from which he drew moderate but dubious profits . |
| 26 | Like Newman , he frequently used his official status to polemicize for a holistic conception of medicine , which took in moral and social factors as part of the new scientific advances . |
| 27 | The mayor of Yeravan used his official car to evacuate some of the wounded . |
| 28 | A lorry driver used his mobile phone to alert police , affter spotting that Walker was drinking from a half bottle of spirits . |
| 29 | ‘ The reason Keith used his Hi-Watt for years and years was because he could n't afford to buy another amplifier . |
| 30 | Although most of the architecture you see before you would be more at home in Vienna , the impetus for development came from committed Czechs like Count Sternberg and the architect of the Ring in Vienna , Josef Hlávka , who used his vast wealth to become patron of Bohemian everything . |