Example sentences of "his [noun pl] [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like his predecessors , Philip VI used the obligations of liege homage , and the threat of confiscation of the duchy if Edward defaulted on these obligations , as a means of putting pressure on the English king when his policies appeared to threaten French interests . |
| 2 | When she got back to the kitchen , Finn was reading an old newspaper , seated on the table and eating dry chunks of bread gouged from a loaf in the crumb of which his fingers had left grey prints . |
| 3 | If his taxes did deter hard work , the economy would wilt , jobs would be lost and he and his colleagues would run short of the tax revenue for financing their favourite causes . |
| 4 | He felt that Lord Atkin had been attempting to explain what was meant by a judicial decision but unfortunately his words had encouraged subsequent courts to concentrate on the form rather than the essence of the decision . |
| 5 | I said that they must n't be sad because he had , after all , crammed so much into his short life , that his parties had given enormous pleasure to so many people , that Conor was the sort of person Jack Kerouac might have loved , he was one of the ones who are mad to live , desirous of everything at the same time , ‘ the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing , but burn , burn , burn , like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars ’ . |
| 6 | His solutions attempted to provide more speed for developers , more participation for the public and better quality development and conservation . |
| 7 | One or two of his supporters turned to direct malicious glances at Dr McNab , who was still leaning calmly against the ledge and listening attentively to what his prosecutor had to say . |
| 8 | His parents had neglected this aspect of his upbringing , having largely abandoned their religion but for a few outer forms before he was born . |
| 9 | The cultural pattern of the son 's wife being subservient to his parents had created immense difficulties for this mother as she was unable to counter any of their behaviour directly . |
| 10 | His responsibilities included arranging royal visits and schedules and ensuring the Maharajah was never offered unsuitable food . |
| 11 | His ideas appeared to bring some benefits : he lived to the age of 94 and at 87 married a young wife . |
| 12 | On 17 July 1429 , less than ten weeks after relieving Orleans , and having in the meanwhile brought back to French rule a number of towns , including Troyes where the fateful treaty had been sealed in 1420 , Joan stood in the cathedral at Reims watching the dauphin as he underwent the rite of coronation , the rite by which his predecessors had become full kings of France . |
| 13 | His predecessors had farmed these revenues for less than £50 a year , and in some years failed to make any payment at all . |
| 14 | His actions had triggered full-scale rebellion by the hybrids and by the vaster Stealer brood of true-seeming humans . |
| 15 | In 1910 Boccioni and his friends got to know Marinetti well , and were undoubtedly excited at the prospect of creating a new form of painting to correspond to his novel ideas . |
| 16 | He and his men had killed three Germans in this house when he burst into a back room and was probably killed by a fourth German hiding there , although he may have been hit from across the street . |
| 17 | For example , in November 1939 the headmaster of Wesley Road School , Willesden , wrote to the Board , claiming that ever since they had been evacuated to Rugby his pupils had shown definite increases in height and weight growth rates . |
| 18 | It was true that his horses tended to have brief careers . |
| 19 | Drawing to a halt , he recollected an investigation which one of his colleagues had conducted some weeks before . |
| 20 | Haworth and his colleagues managed to obtain larger quantities from Hungarian paprika , from which they established its sugar-like structure and completed the synthesis . |
| 21 | Mr Delors and his colleagues did show guarded enthusiasm for the proposal . |