Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [vb base] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas the satiric intentions of Divorce Italian Style were pointed and comic , Alfredo Alfredo gets unduly preachy as Dustin and his mistress join the four-year fight to change the Italian law on divorce . |
| 2 | In slow motion she saw the jagged indigo from his mind outpace the reciprocal movement he made . |
| 3 | Walter Bageho , in his classic work The English Constitution , identified England as a " deferential nation , " one that had a structure of its own . |
| 4 | More remote , but lovely , is Valcebollère , a stone village perched at the end of a valley , where M Lafitte and his wife run the cosy L'Auberge les Ecureuils hotel . |
| 5 | Will the Secretary of State come clean and say why his Government have the worst jobs record of any post-war Government in Britain ? |
| 6 | The best parts of his book reveal the Honecker-like corruption that weaves around the top of the Communist party and embraces even Mr Gorbachev himself . |
| 7 | On the most recent remaining stub the date was April and on that occasion Hatton had paid into his bank account the modest sum of five and fourpence . |
| 8 | As his sword went back for his final sweep the sullen glow that had been growing in the doorway of the Broken Drum flickered , dimmed , and erupted into a roaring fireball that sent the walls billowing outward and carried the roof a hundred feet into the air before bursting through it , in a gout of red-hot tiles . |
| 9 | Erwin Koeman , 30 , the Dutch international midfield player , may be unable to help his country defend the European Championship . |
| 10 | He and his family say the second operation was unnecessary , and the hospital , the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford , was negligent ; a claim Oxfordshire Health Authority deny . |