Example sentences of "his [noun sg] have the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His skin had the golden sheen of an eagle 's plumage … skin but not quite skin — oh yes ! thought Grainne , drowning in delight now . |
| 2 | Hospital executive David Brown , 32 , could suffer 100 strokes from a six foot bamboo cane if his attempt to have the harsh ruling reversed fails . |
| 3 | He wrote , in The Dial for December 1922 , the most emphatically welcoming and apparently influential review of The Waste Land , and although this reads a little quaintly now because Wilson took very seriously Eliot 's supposed debt to Jessie L. Weston 's From Ritual to Romance ( which later criticism has taken lightly ) , his piece had the great virtue of conceding valid points to the opposition : |
| 4 | Although his owner , Charles St George , obviously feels his colt has the necessary speed for Newmarket , he and trainer Henry Cecil will no doubt be hoping for a strong pace on 21 October . |
| 5 | He thrust into her ripe fig , obviously believing that his penis had the magic power to make her his slave forever . |
| 6 | And why , if his enemy had the same thought in mind , should he toss it back to him so carelessly ? |
| 7 | Another case of comparatively recent vintage , Re Bell 's Indenture [ 1980 ] 1 WLR 1217 , confirmed that a solicitor in the ordinary course of his business has the implied authority of his partners to accept trust moneys as agent of the trustees but has no such authority to accept office as trustee and so make his co-partners liable for any misapplication of trust property . |
| 8 | Chas is certainly shown as aspiring to a variety of goals ; these include his aim to have the best war souvenir collection in Garmouth , to detach the machine gun from the crashed aeroplane , to dig his own underground air raid shelter , to build a gun emplacement and to fire the gun . |
| 9 | I always felt that Roman was exiled because his wife had the bad taste to be murdered in the newspapers . ’ |
| 10 | Tall and slim , his frame had the lean tautness of an athlete 's . |
| 11 | In the first half his passing had the right weight and direction to give Williams and Wright opportunities to use their speed against the Yugoslav defence and bypass the sweeper , Petric . |
| 12 | He called it " Propopamide " but his lordship had the utmost faith in him . |
| 13 | At times , his music has the fragmented feel of a late-night stroll through a busy city centre ! |
| 14 | They claimed that Mr Cash had told MPs his motion had the personal support of Mr Major . |
| 15 | Whether his descendant has the same staying power remains to be seen . |
| 16 | His tone had the same finality as the sound of the door closing behind them . |
| 17 | The handsome young Annamese in his early twenties who offered his hand promptly to Joseph and his mother had the piercing gaze and broad forehead of a scholar . |
| 18 | The hon. Member for Neath ( Mr. Hain ) easily won the prize for the longest words in the debate , but that does not mean that his speech had the best content . |
| 19 | He 'd picked up the baby and held her while Ma gave her the medicine , and his face had the same look as when Billy had fallen in the river . |
| 20 | His face had the dead whiteness of someone in shock . |