Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [prep] his [adj -est] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anton though , as if waiting for this opening , Parker 's panic , caught him for his best bite yet , a chunk : with all of his teeth , his werewolf mouth , from high inside of a beefy thigh . |
| 2 | But his personality — assertive and brash yet essentially both cheerful and tough — gradually communicated itself to the public and helped him to his greatest triumph : his victory in the 1948 election . |
| 3 | He used it to his best advantage last week , when he raised the ghastly spectre of Belgium to warn unwary voters of the dangers of coalition governments and proportional representation . |
| 4 | Nobody laughed , and Otto assured her in his best smoothie tones that said beast was scampering in the Elysian fields and piddling all over archangels ' sandals . |
| 5 | No one in Bristol — certainly not Big Mal , now 65 — was letting on exactly who hired him for his latest battle against relegation . |
| 6 | They had three sons and two daughters , all of whom predeceased him except his youngest son , John . |
| 7 | ROKER flop John Colquhoun has revealed how terrace taunts stung him into his best performance for Sunderland . |
| 8 | No wonder manager Ian Porterfield hailed him as his greatest signing . |
| 9 | Jim Haylock on the Moors Valley Railway near Ringwood introduced me to his latest machine last week . |
| 10 | In the early evening of the next day he dressed himself in his best suit and wore a clean shirt and a razor tight collar ; he looked at himself in the mirror , yes , he looked good , almost handsome , one must die with dignity . |
| 11 | Carol had told him before he went home , so Bissett knew what to look for — Carol was the conduit of all the gossip for H3 — and it put him in his best humour of the day . |
| 12 | The first casualty of the match was , for a change , a West Indian fast bowler , when Marshall fractured his left thumb trying to stop a shot from Broad ; yet even this worked against England , for it simply inspired him to his best Test figures when he bowled in the second innings . |
| 13 | Edward Swift had founded Swift Investments , and left it to his eldest son , Charles . |