Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] his [noun sg] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The success of an individual in biological terms depends on his ability to leave successful descendants . |
| 2 | Statutorily , the power of the C. and A.G. resides in his responsibility to audit public accounts on behalf of the House of Commons . |
| 3 | If a public servant cheats on his wife does this make him more likely to cheat on the electorate ? |
| 4 | Genius is the bust of Beethoven and Keats dying and Shelley dying and the size of War and Peace and poor old Sartre banging away at his trilogy and Hemingway paring it down to its essence and Monet unable to distinguish colours any more and Picasso staring out at the camera with his chest bare and his eyes blazing and Cézanne snarling like a dog and then walking out of Aix with his canvas and paints on his back to paint that mountain and Byron dying and Pushkin dying and all the rest of it . |
| 5 | Mr Schisgal , whose fame rests on his ability to infuse bloodless old contrivances with the plasma of pseudo-modernism , specialises in the portrayal of loveable failures … |
| 6 | Yet God still speaks by his Spirit to throw fresh light on his word so that we might see its relevance to the contemporary world , and he speaks to his servants to guide them through the perplexities of life . |
| 7 | Sam Torrance is not in the slightest bothered that his super-long putter which he wields under his chin makes some describe him as looking like the Dyna-Rod man . |