Example sentences of "his [noun] with the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His wrist still throbbed from his fight with the Big Chicken but it seemed to be the only part of him that still had feeling ; the rest had retired bleeding but numbed into some secret cave of its own . |
| 2 | His link with the redoubtable Mrs Curdle is a long one , and strengthened by her annual visit at the time of the fair . |
| 3 | His joking spatialization of this chapter punningly ( ‘ premises ’ ) draws attention to the subversive implications of his assertions and ironically contrasts the availability of his text with the proprietary attitudes to property within his narrative . |
| 4 | After the Flood is over , God blesses Noah and his sons with the familiar words , ‘ Be fruitful and multiply , and fill the earth ’ ( 9.1 ) . |
| 5 | He is also taking up his case with the European Court of Human Rights . |
| 6 | He was at great pains to ensure that the public did not associate his performers with the bad name that dancers usually had . |
| 7 | His contract with the Royal College , due to end in September 1953 , was renewed for a further five years after that date . |
| 8 | Early in his career he toured with Ken Campbell 's Roadshow , and still says that his times with the former Liverpool Everyman director are among the most memorable . |
| 9 | Music business lawyer John Kennedy ( who successfully fought similar Stone Roses and Frankie Goes To Hollywood cases ) has been enlisted by Michael for his tussle with the corporate giant . |
| 10 | Last season , in his first collection after returning from a lengthy absence to Chloe he re-established his presence with the prettiest reminiscences of the Seventies seen on Paris runways . |
| 11 | The young man began to show his expertise with the long whip . |
| 12 | In foreign policy , while seldom innovative , he did try to carve out new relationships with Britain 's new European partners , especially through his close personal association with Helmut Schmidt , the West German chancellor and a fellow social democrat , as well as maintaining his contacts with the new US Democratic administration of Jimmy Carter . |
| 13 | Important as were his contacts with the Frankish rulers for his preaching in Hesse and Thuringia , he could scarcely bring himself to share the company of the fast-living Frankish bishops whom he met at court — Milo of Trier ‘ and others like him ’ , as he said dismissively — until his mentor , Bishop Daniel of Winchester , had to cite to him texts from Augustine and the Bible against separating oneself from sinners and in favour of dissimulation . |
| 14 | His business prospered , but his rise to prominence in printing circles was attributable to his contacts with the Tory party . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , Hilton continues to delineate an image of inner development which will stimulate the imagination of his disciple and enable her to recognise and order her own experience ; his great skill is to tie in the particularities of his teaching with the overall pattern of the Incarnation so that meditation on the Passion provides the constant focus for an ever deepening understanding . |
| 16 | In his desk drawer was his watch with the broken strap . |
| 17 | His sympathy with the antiauratic surrealists , his proclivity for finding aesthetic signifiers among the flotsam and jetsam of every-day life , his refusal to consider art as of another order of life , and his affirmation of the political nature of the aesthetic are again also integral to the postmodernist programme . |
| 18 | To turn his head sideways meant slicing the edges of his mouth with the taut wire , but he had to see what they were doing . |
| 19 | The purveyor wiped his mouth with the dirty hem of his sleeve . |
| 20 | But he kept pushing the stuff into his mouth with the dogged perseverance of a long-distance runner who has sighted the finishing-line and knows he must keep going . |
| 21 | Not that she was destined to get any practice at such a mega-speed , since Downes , at least for the first half of the interview , was to enunciate his words with the slow deliberation of a stupefied zombie . |
| 22 | Ideologically , it was a return to his roots — to his obsession with the innate hostility of what he called " les féodalités " ( political parties , trade unions , special interest groups ) towards the state . |
| 23 | His obsession with the social history of the Twenties and Thirties led him to Wilsford Manor , Tennant 's home , in 1986 , where he wooed the eremitic inhabitant with chocolates and orchids . |
| 24 | Until two years ago he was , despite his flirtations with the Soviet Union , seen as an ally in President Reagan 's obsessional war against the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua . |
| 25 | The temperature of his skin was so much the same as mine I hardly knew we touched , yet I remained very still , my hands laid on his shoulders with the exaggerated formality of one learning to dance . |
| 26 | She had deprived him of his pleasure with the wayward Meik . |
| 27 | Nigel Mansell has promised he 'll make a statement tomorrow about his future with the Oxfordshire-based Williams team . |
| 28 | Those that he produced for sale through the Redfern Gallery were usually printed in editions of fifty and include Thames-side , Bull Fight , Spain , Tropical Landscape , Horse Guards in their Dressing Rooms at Whitehall and Working Men 's College , this last relating to his association with the Working Men 's College in Crowndale Road , Mornington Crescent , where he gave a lecture , ‘ The Painter 's Intention ’ , in 1952 , taught lithography and also acted as Art Adviser . |
| 29 | CLIFF Burgess of Portchester is best known to Mid-Hants Railway members through his association with the Working Omnibus Museum Project which is creating a vintage bus collection in the former coal yard of Medstead and Four Marks Station . |
| 30 | Although Hayward might talk about his " lodger " in a jocular fashion , he was proud of his association with the great man of letters and defended both his privacy and reputation . |