Example sentences of "his [noun] was [adj] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His hair was dark and curling , his skin lightly tanned . |
| 2 | His hair was thick and iron grey , and the rather drooping moustache was curved round the mouth to finish in a little tuft just below the under lip . |
| 3 | His mouth was wide and slack . |
| 4 | His mouth was warm and firm , hungry , moving against hers with complete command so that when he lifted his head and looked down at her with glittering eyes she was breathless . |
| 5 | The expression in his eyes was tender and kind . |
| 6 | He never lost hope and his mind was clear and calm . |
| 7 | His grip was firm and self-assured . |
| 8 | His profile was strong and patrician , his nose straight , the bronzed skin clear and healthy , the neat scroll-work of his ears set close to his well-shaped head . |
| 9 | He was gnawed and pinched with cold ; the scabs on his knees showed up a bright purple because of the cold and his nose was red and raw-looking . |
| 10 | His handshake was warm and firm , and his face redolent of his father 's sincerity . |
| 11 | His back was smooth and firm , hot under her palms , and the muscles rippled as she slid her hands down and smoothed them over the slight swell of his hips . |
| 12 | No , it was a candle from the statue of the Madonna where they had met , and then he put his arms around her , each one was long enough to cradle her on its own , and pulled her against him , he was warm and firm like newly-baked loaves , and the taste of his tongue was sweet and salt at the same time . |
| 13 | His voice was pleasant and well-modulated , with only the faintest of Nottingham accents . |
| 14 | When the Doctor spoke , his voice was dark and foreboding . |
| 15 | His voice was dry and calm . |
| 16 | His voice was husky and dark , like part of the night . |
| 17 | His approach was positivist and rationalist and his general objective was to lay down a theory of social evolution . |
| 18 | His coat was wet and travel-stained . |
| 19 | His tone was smooth and teasing , but his eyes were glittering with a disturbing light . |
| 20 | He was short and rotund , his face was broad and flat , his hair a high dark ruff . |
| 21 | One reporter who came to interview him in this period noticed how he looked as if he might collapse from " lack of nourishment , insomnia and fatigue " , and an acquaintance described him thus : " His face was pale as baker 's bread … he smoked and between exhalations he hacked a dry , deathly smoker 's hack Eliot was cadaverous . " |
| 22 | His face was gaunt and unshaven . |
| 23 | His tongue had not been cut out — it loomed thick and purple behind those savage teeth and the thick whiskers of severed whip — however his throat was dry as dust . |