Example sentences of "his [noun] [vb past] [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eleven years later the World Federation of the Deaf at the seventh Congress in Washington awarded him an International Solidarity Merit Award , and Gallaudet College , taking advantage of his presence made him the first recipient of a medallion for " outstanding international service to the deaf " , which he received at a special convention attended by the Vice-President of the United States . |
| 2 | Instead of wrestling with the imponderables of land and trees and drainage and crops , he was back where his skills gave him a harsh certainty . |
| 3 | A demand from his bladder gave him a happy idea . |
| 4 | His words gave her a slight shock as they sent tingles of pleasure through her , but she knew she must not allow them to go to her head , so she pushed them aside as she uttered a light laugh and said , ‘ Me — an angel ? |
| 5 | She knew it was ridiculous , but his words gave her a strange little tingle deep inside , and she was forced to smother the smile that kept trying to push its way to her lips . |
| 6 | His sole gave him a peculiar sensation , realising that it was undone and dragging , made him laugh , in retort , but secretly , inside . |
| 7 | Ironically , Johnson 's lawless image endeared as much as it repelled. he was obviously a player who was easily unhinged but in the odd chemistry of Scotland 's footballing psyche , his recklessness made him a dangerous but likeable rogue . |
| 8 | One wonderful story is that he decided against a career in mathematics when his teacher gave him a poor mark in an exam for answering a problem correctly but not using the method taught in class . |
| 9 | His wife darted him an impatient look . |
| 10 | His wife gave me a rough idea of what their insurance situation was . |
| 11 | His wife gave him a long level look with no liking in it at all , and Penelope Huntley watched , fascinated . |
| 12 | A SIX-YEAR-OLD boy died in hospital after being hit by a car while his father taught him the Green Cross Code . |
| 13 | By the time that man gets to Riga he will know his way around the town and every detail of his life from the day his father gave him a light-brown teddy-bear , to the movie show he watched last night . |
| 14 | Last year his father gave him a new car — a very fast car . |
| 15 | His father gave him a white convertible Mercedes 300 for his eighteenth birthday . |
| 16 | His predecessor but one , Hensley Henson , invented the magazine the Bishoprick and by the force of his writing made it a national and not only a diocesan journal . |
| 17 | His claim gave him a useful propaganda weapon , some bargaining power in negotiations , and a basis on which to appeal to discontented French vassals ; it was also a convenient argument with which to counter Philip 's confiscation of Aquitaine . |
| 18 | His ear confirmed what the electronic bug had told him shortly before he had entered the suite , namely that there was no sound of movement from within the bedroom , or its adjacent bathroom . |
| 19 | His employer gave him a glowing reference and spoke about him to a friend by the name of Sir Algernon Clark , a fellow businessman who was having problems with insurance brokers over the size of the premium for insuring his wharf and its most valuable contents . |
| 20 | Those who liked the Prince called him Slender Billy , while his detractors called him the Young Frog . |
| 21 | His haste gave her an uncanny feeling he was trying to escape from an unseen force — or perhaps from herself — and in her efforts to reach his side she panted breathlessly , ‘ Do you intend breaking into a gallop — ? ’ |
| 22 | There are many reminiscences of the two men together at Carlyle Mansions — Hayward talkative and Eliot silent , Hayward persuading Eliot to quote from memory long passages from the Sherlock Holmes stories ( there was an element of putting his famous companion " on show " in such circumstances , although his disease allowed him a certain immunity from conventional social niceties ) , Eliot on occasions reciting his poetry with " an actor 's pleasure " I Eliot standing behind Hayward 's wheelchair at literary parties — almost at attention , as one observer noticed . |
| 23 | Balham-born Akram , who is studying for his A-levels , got the stage bug at the age of three when his mother taught him a few classical Indian dance steps . |
| 24 | And his mother gave me an apologetic smile and said something I did n't catch as she hurried after husband and son . |
| 25 | At his christening his mother gave him a second forename , ‘ Arthur ’ , which he did not like and never used . |
| 26 | He never earned a degree , but an allowance from his mother gave him the financial independence to devote himself to a career as writer . |
| 27 | I am the delighted winner of the Outdoor Action Splash competition and I 'd just like to say that Andy Middleton and his colleagues gave us a great time on our week 's holiday at the Twr-y-Felin outdoor centre . |
| 28 | His brother gave him a sour glance . |
| 29 | Either he was smiling , or the gaunt hollows of his face gave him the daunting appearance of a smile . |
| 30 | Obviously caused by a simple technical fault , this spiriting away of his death gave him a singular nobility totally lacking from the rest of the film . |