Example sentences of "his [adv] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In another of his alarmingly sudden changes of mood , his expression reverted to its former anger . |
| 2 | A 1592 manuscript of his highly influential Theories on Calligraphy and Painting is loaned by the Beijing Palace Museum . |
| 3 | The seller appreciates the clear specification of his liability for defects under the contract , and the buyer should be willing to trade his somewhat uncertain remedies at law for the ease and certainty of remedy provided by the guarantee . |
| 4 | One particular candidate responding to the survey went to a great deal of trouble to commit his decidedly anti-headhunting views to paper . |
| 5 | It has always been my belief that casuals were just beer-swilling animals with the intelligence of donkeys , but the letter you published was clearly written by someone who has enough intelligence to put his radically extremist views into practice and cause a lot of harm . |
| 6 | Rees , a key figure in Rugby 's rise from area league status to the top division over the past six years , made his decision for what he called personal reasons , though his increasingly sharp disagreements with Brain became a talking point . |
| 7 | The health visitor referred John to a voluntary family agency in the city because of his non-attendance at school and his increasingly aggressive acts at home . |
| 8 | For Kirton , the assistant-coach position may fall slightly below his highest expectations , but will be a satisfactory position from which he can expand , if not introduce , his sometimes exotic ideas about back play . |
| 9 | His most recent ideas for stage sets were seen at the recent production of Hölderlin 's ‘ Oedipus ’ at the Schauspielhaus in Bochum . |
| 10 | Reid reserved his most venomous attacks for Virgin and Branson . |
| 11 | His resignation letter focussed on his most basic achievements since liberation : the restoration of democracy and public order ; the starting-up of the economy ; the reconstitution of France 's national territory and possessions . |
| 12 | Rex made one of his most doubtful faces to date . |
| 13 | Octogenarian titled ladies have provided accounts of Proust dining at the Ritz and dispensing ridiculously large tips , playing the tables in various fashionable casinos , entertaining the Faubourg Saint Germain with his gossip and his apparently outstanding powers of mimicry , or even cautiously testing the air , at one of the Normandy seaside resorts , wrapped in his fur-lined cloak on a summer day . |
| 14 | During the war he worked in psychological warfare , and doubtless learnt many of his more infuriating tricks of debating and persuasion . |
| 15 | It 's a pity that someone did n't take some aspects of his education in hand , to tame his more bizarre flights of fancy . ’ |
| 16 | He had lectured on philosophy in the university and had made numerous friendly contacts which were of great use to myself , though I was unable to follow on his very able lectures to university students . |
| 17 | I therefore put it to him that he has really now er a definite choice , he can seek to resist most of these amendments and I have n't a slightest doubt they 'll be put into the Bill er the Bill will be drastically altered thereby er and when it goes back to another place nobody quite knows er wh what will happen to it , or he can use his very considerable powers of conciliation er by taking a little time for further consideration . |