Example sentences of "his [noun] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of his opponents evidently went beyond words . |
| 2 | Five of his associates also went on trial . |
| 3 | His parties certainly looked like orgies . |
| 4 | The Archimandrite continued to smile , and his mood still appeared to Miss Logan a gracious one . |
| 5 | The pension from his post also went to Jean , who was then living at home on the rue de Harlay and no doubt working with Martin in the instrument business ( document 5 ) . |
| 6 | The king and his counsellors therefore watched for portents that could be interpreted , so that disasters might be foreseen and , if possible , averted . |
| 7 | His focus soon shifted to subjects he became famous for portraying : the nouveaux riches at play in 1920 's Berlin . |
| 8 | One winter night , as the mutt twitched away in front of the fire , his mind somewhere between Basingstoke and the twilight zone , a 100-watt light bulb in the standard lamp above his head suddenly exploded without warning ! |
| 9 | I admired the way in which the leading Death gestured gallantly towards an open grave , his head bizarrely decked with flags . |
| 10 | Gaston de Rochefort was panting , his forehead heavily beaded with sweat when he reached her . |
| 11 | In July 1773 , following the three highly successful Italian visits , Mozart and his father again travelled to Vienna . |
| 12 | Just as he wanted to assert Romanian sovereignty , Ceauşescu found his economy increasingly inter-twined with Gorbachev 's . |
| 13 | His housekeepers certainly seemed to rate more consideration than his bed-partners . |
| 14 | Whether his ships ever sailed against England , as William of Jumièges claims , is another matter . |
| 15 | His army eventually arrived in Bordeaux , but it achieved little , and Gaunt lost almost half his men as they marched over the Massif Central in winter . |
| 16 | The bleeper attached to his belt suddenly shrilled into life and after silencing it he eased the hook from the mouth of the pike thrashing about at his feet and brushed it back into the water with the side of his boot . |
| 17 | As he progressed there is little doubt that he would have found his path increasingly hampered by obstacles . |
| 18 | During the next few years , the subject was increasingly to preoccupy him , and when his thoughts finally appeared in print , they were concerned with ‘ culture ’ : the word civilization does not feature at all . |
| 19 | His arm supportively slipped round Laura . |
| 20 | The death of his mother certainly took from Louis-Napoleon the one person ( with perhaps the exception of his son ) to whom — during his entire life — he was totally devoted and to whose memory he was always faithful . |
| 21 | The single dead Prussian infantryman , his uniform already looted of food and coins , lay by the bridge . |
| 22 | But his interest soon turned to politics , and in 1910 he entered the New York State Senate . |
| 23 | That would explain why his victims all stayed in bed as he blasted away with a handgun in the luxury , ranch-style home near San Diego , California . |