Example sentences of "[prep] his [adv] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First to the lens was BRETT ANDERSON , and with his unfeasibly long arms he took to the shape perfectly . |
| 2 | He was a friend of President Kennedy 's and he wrote a rather fulsome biography Marilyn Monroe , and in his most recent novel he allows the suspicion — just the suspicion — that Jack may have had a hand in killing Marilyn , and that the CIA may have winked at the killing of Jack . |
| 3 | Steiner 's association of homosexuality with narcissism , solipsism , and the refusal of referentiality obviously suggests reservations about both modernism ( as he conceives it ) and the efficacy of the homosexual influence upon it , and it comes as no surprise that in his most recent book he launches a strong attack on the former . |
| 4 | If he were to look at his life rationally — as in his most philosophical moments he liked to think he did — then there was no questioning the profile . |
| 5 | He told John Colville , one of the junior private secretaries he inherited from Churchill , ‘ that in his most optimistic dreams he had reckoned that there might , with luck , be a Conservative majority of only some forty seats ’ . |
| 6 | But then , in his very next speech he insists on shaking the hands of all of the conspirators . |
| 7 | Calling for his most precious stones he would draw confidence from extolling the virtues distinctive of each kind . |
| 8 | At his most sensational lecture he sold shilling copies of a pamphlet , The Confessional Unmasked ( 1851 ) . |