Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] his [noun] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had had a letter from Edwin 's solicitor asking her to come to his office the following day . |
| 2 | There began to appear on his stall the occasional letter , its edges artfully worn , its folds artfully aged . |
| 3 | The Danzig Party leapt into the political struggles of the Volkstag with renewed energy and Forster settled down with confidence to work at his leisure the rich vein of economic discontent that ran right through every strata of Free City society . |
| 4 | ‘ I want to paint men and women with that something of the eternal which the halo used to symbolize , ’ Van Gogh had written , groping to define for his brother the human essence that was his aim in pictures such as this . ’ |
| 5 | Because of the many opportunities that a designer has of seeing many types and design of kitchen equipment in action , he is able to pick for his client the best type and design for the job in hand . |
| 6 | He then decided to fit into his lounge the biggest tank possible . |
| 7 | Wagner began to assume in his mind a heroic , aesthetic , Schopenhauerian status , so that it was natural for him to couple the two even before he had any reason to suppose that Wagner was at all interested in the philosopher . |
| 8 | His main theme was the increasing power of Rome in the Mediterranean and this , as Momigliano points out , Provided him with a new historical perspective : ‘ Just because Fortune made almost all the affairs of the world incline in one direction , it is the historian 's task to put before his readers a compendious view of the ways in which Fortune accomplished her purposes . ’ |
| 9 | The coroner made a mental note to include in his treatise a special chapter on the cleaning of the ditch . |
| 10 | He used to sit in his study the whole time . |
| 11 | If the format was chosen by a mosaicist 's clients ( as seems likely ) it is also difficult to attribute to his discretion the occasional regularities in the form and placements of motif . |
| 12 | He puzzled over the dates on the backs of photographs , most of which seemed to have been taken in May , and he tried to get from his aunts the precise age gap between his parents and between his mother and Uncle Stanley . |
| 13 | To avoid such problems a technologist may wish to have at his disposal a rough guide to aid the selection of solvents for a polymer or to assess the extent of polymer-liquid interaction other than those already described . |
| 14 | He seemed to embody in his person the entire history of the sport : he symbolized the Hawaiian spirit . |
| 15 | He would like to reproduce for his customers a certain dish of sliced potatoes and artichoke hearts baked with olive oil and garlic and scented with wild thyme . |
| 16 | Eliot , who invited his friends to this performance , who attended some of the rehearsals , and who expressed his full confidence in the director Rupert Doone , continued to follow in his text the original impetus which Cornford had given him . |
| 17 | Rehabilitated by the partnership with Sien , refreshed by the gleams of baby life , confirmed by Theo 's continuing supply of materials and basic finance , and by his unflagging moral support , he was ready to move in closer , as if to feel on his skin the buried heat of creation and experience its terrific energies . |
| 18 | Cook , Cook , Cook ! we croaked in deprecatory tones as one by one we crept past him cowed and cold , fearing that he might invent some pretext to detain us … we hurried to bring to his notice the only name which seems to have power in Syria , that famous name of the hydra-headed , the indispensable , the world-wide Cook . |