Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was genuinely keen to return to St Augustine 's where his sister was now a pupil and both social work and child guidance were keen to see him return to mainstream schooling . |
| 2 | His breathing was almost the panting of a hunting dog . |
| 3 | The Court of Appeal held that the defendant rider 's failure to control his horse was simply an error of judgment which did not amount to negligence . |
| 4 | So you see I could n't fight with them too much cos I thought they 'd take it out on dad , so I said look I do n't want him here , I do n't need all this but I said another thing that got my goat , you asked my mum to help turn my dad , they asked my mum if she could help turn him because they did n't have enough staff or he could n't be turned and when my mum turned him she come out and was sick and cried her eyes out cos he had no skin from the top of his spine to the bottom , and he had a water blister like that Joy yellow on his arm , his penis was nearly the width of my arm pouring with blood , and septic from the catheter , oh and the smell , you 've never smelled nothing like it from the sores and the wounds , cos he was cut from here right the way down to here and they had a , all his legs were festering and gangrene in his legs |
| 5 | ‘ If you ask me , that story about Gebrec having something on his mind was just a cover-up . |
| 6 | His reply was soon the property of every taxi-driver in Moscow , the most certain network in those days for news . |
| 7 | His body was still a rainbow of bruises . |
| 8 | His landfall was probably the Tange peninsula . |
| 9 | As he pointed out to Bouilhet , the Revue 's version of his name was only a letter away from an unwanted commercial pun : Faubet being the name of a grocer in the rue Richelieu , just opposite the Comédie-Française . |
| 10 | There is no insistence from management that a certain proportion of tickets be given every shift , so his behaviour was more a result of the way that he defined the role of neighbourhood policemen as having crime control responsibilities . |
| 11 | His wife was previously the mistress of John Wilkes [ q.v . ] . |
| 12 | Much of his leadership was thus a form of pragmatic extremism , extreme action and the threat of more extreme action to come , but used in the cause of more limited objectives . |
| 13 | His father was also a journalist . |
| 14 | His father was also an economist and spent most of the week in London , coming home at weekends . |
| 15 | Le Destin des Malou ( The Fate of the Malous ) , for example , begins with the mysterious suicide of Eugene Malou , a bankrupt businessman , and the rest of the novel is concerned with his younger son 's discovery that his father was both a crook and , as one of his criminal friends puts it , ‘ a man . |
| 16 | He had been her youngest son ; when he was born his two elder brothers were nearly grown , twelve and fourteen , and his father was already an invalid , dying in a nursing home on the south coast . |
| 17 | Other boxers too acknowledge sometimes unknown fathers as their inspiration , for example , Danny Evans , who was raised in an orphanage but was vaguely aware that his father was once a boxer and tried to emulate him . |
| 18 | His embrace was only an accommodation . |
| 19 | The court had to decide whether the damage was solely as a result of the negligence of the plaintiff 's husband or whether the negligence of his workmate was also a factor . |
| 20 | His voice was just a hint more than a whisper . |
| 21 | His voice was almost a growl . |
| 22 | If he loved Emmie , then , his love was only a projection of his need , and even if he found that need curiously weak and shameful , it was common enough . |
| 23 | He told himself that the itching in his scalp was just a heat rash , and determined not to scratch his head in the presence of the nurse . |
| 24 | Well , you know me , I do n't normally become political , but let's face it , this is one of the direct results of throwing the money to the community without any after care , and I was particularly concerned , with my other hat on , only last week , that a young man told us his address was now the night shelter . |
| 25 | Or sixty two rather but his father lived until he was eighty six and his father was the District Goods and Passenger Manager at Cambridge and er later on , of course , er when he was old enough , he , he was in the same office as his father was but not the same position , you see , but he was a clerk , a railway clerk , and his brother was Stationmaster of Colchester and his grandfather was also a Stationmaster and that would be in Queen Victoria 's reign when , when railways first began and then again , you see , in those first days , you see , when there were highwaymen and that sort of thing erm signalmen , signalmen were issued with a truncheon for their own safety , you see , and I 've got one . |
| 26 | His statement was really an invitation , an offer for her to think about , delivered in the confident style of one who was used to having his own way with women . |
| 27 | His celebration was also a requiem . |
| 28 | His mother was rather a stranger to him , so he did n't feel the loss of her so keenly . |
| 29 | His mother was now the wife of one of the estate carpenters , and the boy was Jean-Paul 's son , fathered after a drinking bout , during his first visit to the Loire after the war . |
| 30 | ‘ She should have worn her flip-flops , ’ he said , and was startled by the sudden explosion of mirth , but then his mother was always a bit prone to that sort of thing . |