Example sentences of "his [noun] [adv] [verb] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oliver , observing the scene with the same keen interest as had she , munched his way through a Dickensian gingerbread cake , his emotions harder to determine than those of his companion . |
| 2 | Lieutenant-General Hunter-Weston ( whose pre-battle proclamation to his troops pessimistically stated that heavy losses were to be expected ) commanded British 20th Division , which landed at Cape Helles , and Major-General Sir William Birdwood the Anzac forces . |
| 3 | ‘ A few minutes after I had told him I was n't going on , a gang of his thugs suddenly appeared and pointed machine-guns at us and ordered us to get up on stage . |
| 4 | Although an order of substituted service may be made in committal proceedings , the judge may decide to exercise his discretion not to commit until personal service has been effected . |
| 5 | His Lordship also indicated that such a common law contempt need not depend on proceedings being ‘ imminent . ’ |
| 6 | Isaac Walton , Donne 's biographer , relates the tale : ‘ Several charcoal fires being first madde in his large study , he brought with him into that place a winding sheet in his hand , and having put off all his clothes , had this sheet put on him , and so tied with knots at his head and feet , and his hands so placed as dead bodies are usually fitted , to be shrouded and put into their coffin , or grave … with his eyes shut and with so much of the sheet turned aside as might show his lean , pale and death-like face . ’ |
| 7 | The room itself , however , was perfectly neat , and provided an excellent foil for Gerald Seymour-Strachey , who was no drivelling dotard , but a smart , upright , handsome old man , his clothes admirably cut and suitable for the occasion , his profile cunningly arranged to impress , his mane of white hair , thick and shiny , suggesting intellect and a sense of the aesthetically satisfying . |
| 8 | His mathematics strongly indicate that living systems are manifestations of a previously unknown interaction between fields of life energy ( sakti ) and organic matter in the physical world . |
| 9 | Mr Phillips and his bulldog prudently decided that such a salute did not amount to ‘ trouble ’ . |
| 10 | Whether documenting a war atrocity or capturing the beauty of a Japanese garden , his photographs always retained that special ingredient — sensitivity |
| 11 | Way , his face still cut and bruised , put his nightmare behind him yesterday at Sunningdale to resurrect his once glittering career . |