Example sentences of "his [noun] [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His support came from a small group of household knights who were to be well rewarded for their work , but he was not indebted to any great noble for his position . |
| 2 | Suddenly his foot turned on a sharp stone and he almost fell . |
| 3 | In real life he would have been sued for millions and his story turned into a mini-series , but it 's nice to dream . |
| 4 | When his breathing returned to a steady pace , he said coolly , ‘ We 'd better pack after breakfast . ’ |
| 5 | Both his coups began with a ruthless pre-emptive strike from a position of strength . |
| 6 | Both his coups began with a ruthless pre-emptive strike from a position of strength . |
| 7 | His shoulders sloped at an alarming angle so that he looked like a pyramid wearing a hat . |
| 8 | CHELSEA 's new manager , Dave Webb , yesterday discovered the magnitude of his task as his side crashed to a 2-0 defeat against Blackburn Rovers in the English Premier League to make it 13 games without a win . |
| 9 | ‘ I have got a very good deal , and it came virtually out of the blue , ’ said the Doncaster-based rider , who until last week thought his future lay with a new team being planned in Belgium . |
| 10 | Moores and ( inset ) with his wife Kathy , a former Miss England who later tragically drowned when his car landed in a muddy ditch and he forgot to tell rescuers that she was in it |
| 11 | David was driving to his country mansion in Halsall when his car somersaulted into a water-filled ditch . |
| 12 | His eyes glowed with an extraordinary fervour . |
| 13 | ‘ How was your first day as Damian 's secretary ? ’ he asked weakly , but his eyes gleamed with a new reason to live , and he listened eagerly as she told him half-truths about her new job . |
| 14 | His eyes swivelled in an old panic , trying to look inwards . |
| 15 | His eyes swivelled in an old panic , trying to look inwards . |
| 16 | His face was deathly white , and his eyes shone with an unearthly light . |
| 17 | His eyes blazed with a sudden fury , and as she cringed away from him in horror he took a deep breath and ruthlessly controlled himself till nothing but the white-boned knuckles showed his internal rage . |
| 18 | The man 's hair was long and stringy and his eyes blazed like a charismatic actor 's . |
| 19 | His eyes glittered with an arctic coldness . |
| 20 | Lucien had also been warned that Mandru 's liberal attitude towards his Ixmaritians was misleading ; his demesne ran like a well-oiled machine , and he abhorred waste . |
| 21 | All day , his mind swam in a dreamy haze . |
| 22 | Richard looked up and his lips relaxed into a slight smile . |
| 23 | He was not dead ; his lips bubbled with a bloody froth and his eyelids fluttered . |
| 24 | Marc let his glance laze from one to the other , then his lips quirked in a humourless smile . |
| 25 | His experiment consisted of a huge spark-gap into which he passed a mixture of hydrogen and lithium gases . |
| 26 | The decapitated head spun like a ball in the air , lips still moving ; his trunk stood for a few seconds in its own fountain of hot red gore before crashing on to the blood-stained ice . |
| 27 | In this case the offender was caught within minutes , his movements watched from a central control room a mile away . |
| 28 | But after his parents went through an acrimonious divorce , he started wetting it again . |
| 29 | His bones lay in an engraved gold casket , with his armour , sceptre and shield close by . |
| 30 | His eagles came from a 15-yard bunker shot at the eighth and a putt of similar distance at the eleventh . |