Example sentences of "[prep] his [adj] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite his consummate low-flying ability he had already had a brush with some trees and had also once even grazed the ground in a Mosquito . |
| 2 | Despite his high sporting profile he remains an unassuming , almost diffident character , a stark contrast with some of his more vociferous colleagues . |
| 3 | You could hardly take a woman to her own restaurant , but because of his limited social life he knew of nowhere better . |
| 4 | In the 1659 Parliament he sat for his old home town ; in one of his two recorded speeches he had to justify having arrested a leading Fifth-Monarchy man on the orders of the late lord protector . |
| 5 | In the loft of his small terraced cottage he has constructed a training facility : a hinged wooden board dotted with artificial holds , which can be swung to any angle from very overhanging to ludicrously overhanging . |
| 6 | In his introduction to the published plans of this and some of his other early houses he writes , ‘ Ornaments are to be cautiously introduced ; those ought only to be used that are simple , applicable and characteristic of their situations : they must be designed with regularity and be perfectly distinct in their outlines … |
| 7 | But he refrained from overt agreement , telling himself that in view of his own disreputable pleasure it would have been hypocritical . |
| 8 | It was the first display of his own eidetic abilities I had ever witnessed ; before that all his efforts in this respect had been directed at infiltrating my internal visual world . |
| 9 | She drew a deep breath , and with her cheek pressed against his green woollen jersey she stared at the flightless bird searching for tasty morsels on the path ahead of them . |
| 10 | In one of his private talks with his late general practitioner he said : ‘ Look old son . |
| 11 | With his usual lightning-swift reactions he took advantage of the moment to pull her from the bed , and as she stumbled against him , his arms tightened about her involuntarily . |
| 12 | With his high cultural ideals he had , in any case , strong and growing suspicions about the worth of a Germany united under Prussian domination and dedicated to narrow military and materialistic goals . |
| 13 | With his own modest roots he dismisses the attacks on a class-based judiciary : ‘ The youngsters believe that we come from a narrow background — it 's all nonsense — they get it from that man Griffith . ’ |
| 14 | With his immense practical experience he was suspicious of academics ; he was a perfectionist and would not tolerate any sort of inaccuracy . |
| 15 | And when a waitress named Nanette thrust a glass of claret into his shaking right hand it seemed , well , perfect . |
| 16 | As I looked up into his steely blue eyes I admit I did wonder what disparaging thoughts he was thinking about me . |
| 17 | Under his large untidy desk he would keep several bottles of champagne , and on the shelves above were lines of very explicit African phallic carvings . |
| 18 | In his first two years he taught only bits of course but later , when the well-remembered Stuart Armstrong left to take up a post in Australia , he became responsible for teaching Soil Mechanics , although he continued to teach ‘ everything but hydraulics ’ . |
| 19 | In his first few years he did more to establish the Hellenism of Smirke and Wilkins as ‘ the modern style of architecture ’ in Scotland than anyone else . |
| 20 | Seldom has Philippe Chatrier , a man renowned for his forthright views , especially whenever he has felt the advancement or the image of tennis was at risk , been quite so outspokenly blunt , as in his final Presidential newsletter he issued before ending his 14 year reign in charge ( which & referred to in last month 's column ) at The International Tennis Federation . |
| 21 | Not surprisingly , really , for in his limited first-class exposure he has looked a much better wing or perhaps outside centre . |
| 22 | In his billowing white surplice he looked like a dishevelled old bird struggling to take off in a high wind . |
| 23 | In his own funny way he would miss Joe who had been his passport into the real world . |
| 24 | When in his own ministerial memory he may remember that there were . |
| 25 | It seems that every time Robin sets sail in his venerable old craft he picks up some award or other . |
| 26 | From his great clinical experience he was able to postulate his ‘ mechanical theory ’ , a conception of the fundamental part played by intra-uterine position and pressure on the production of congenital malformations . |
| 27 | Bearing in mind that she would be eating a main meal that evening , Fabia ordered an omelette and salad , and soon discovered that once Lubor had settled down from his initial opportunistic manner he was quite a pleasant lunchtime companion . |
| 28 | From his own first forest I shall find my brother once again . |
| 29 | Thanks to his latest musical offering it 's more popular than ever . |
| 30 | On his last quick visit he 'd been more interested in the situation than in the fittings . |