Example sentences of "his [noun] [vb past] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.

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1 The National Trust , Friends of the Lake District and the National Parks have put into practice many of Green 's ideas , but the extent of his plans went even further than these and might well be worth looking at again .
2 In fact , every Stewart king between 1424 and 1542 was able to make his presence felt abroad precisely because he could impose it so effectively at home .
3 But his clubs blazed most effectively when he put Nicklaus and Ballesteros into second place at Royal Birkdale .
4 Archer 's expression was grim , his mouth closed tight briefly as it came flooding back to him .
5 The Magistrate , standing in hesitation on the verandah , was illuminated by a rare shaft of watery sunlight for a moment and his whiskers flared more brilliantly than ever but then the sun moved on , extinguishing them .
6 She swayed towards him , wanting to feel his skin against hers , but his mood changed as swiftly as the wind and he pulled the gown round her roughly , his eyes as cold as stones .
7 His laughter stopped as quickly as it had begun .
8 Craig 's is an untypically simple case inasmuch as his surplus arose as early as the second count and was disposed of in the third .
9 His career collapsed as quickly as it had begun , and he died from alcoholism in 1957 .
10 David Nicholson says he lived on the end of the racecourse for 22 years and his father lived there longer than that … for him Cheltenham is the best three days racing anywhere in the world and he loves it
11 Thereafter , his form fluctuated as irregularly as his training and his domestic affairs .
12 Roebuck revealed that his ankle dislocated no less than four times during the World Cup final .
13 His face went as hard as the bronze , it resembled and his eyes said things I pretended not to hear .
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