Example sentences of "[adv] his [adj -est] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stirrup Cup , unbeaten in six races this season , faces much his stiffest test . |
| 2 | Hanley confirmed the rout as he completed a hat-trick in perhaps his best performance of the season to give Leeds the result they urgently needed . |
| 3 | Perhaps his best production in this country was the WNO Ballo in Maschera , a scrupulously organised and visually attractive treatment that benefited from the by now traditional repatriation of Verdi 's subject to its Swedish origin . |
| 4 | Oswald 's best season at the Palace was probably 1933–34 , when he topped our list of appearances with 39 games , although perhaps his finest display for the club was in that season 's 2nd round FA Cup tie at Stockport , when the Palace came from behind to win 2–1 . |
| 5 | Festa was a much more considerable church composer and Willaert also did perhaps his greatest work in this field . |
| 6 | In retrospect , perhaps his greatest mistake since the coup was not to call elections to parliament and guarantee himself a more liberal body . |
| 7 | He was , however , most comfortable in the theatre and perhaps his greatest success was the music for the Royal Shakespeare Company 's dramatization of Dickens 's Nicholas Nickleby . |
| 8 | Perhaps his greatest tribute , however , has been the comments made by so many people in the organisation : ‘ Peter always took time to listen ’ . |
| 9 | Perhaps his greatest contribution to the arts was his key role as a pioneer photographer and photographic instructor , establishing himself as the most accomplished artist turned photographer of his generation . |
| 10 | Perhaps his greatest asset is his ability to let the story tell itself , and not to embroider description with implicit or explicit conclusions . |
| 11 | Perhaps his greatest vulnerability was one shared with the great mass of mankind : a vanity which affected many aspects of his life , and which as he grew older increased his claims for credit for almost every activity within human reach . |
| 12 | Perhaps his worst betrayal had been nothing to do with unburnt papers , it had been whatever he had conceded , or let slip , or left ambiguous , at the second long examination after arriving in Edinburgh . |
| 13 | And whereas on the stage he had the words of Christopher Fry or the presence of John Gielgud — both of which drew out his respect and so his best shots — in films generally he would have a leaky script and brief takes — neither giving him the chance to wind up and deliver . |
| 14 | If only his eldest sons would n't smoke . |
| 15 | His book will appeal to a select élite — only his best friend finished it |
| 16 | That was Gooch 's main intention when he left Gatwick on Monday , thinking only his closest family knew of the marriage breakdown . |
| 17 | Even the Oxford Museum was not free from Italian influence and ‘ Scott would be throwing away his best chance ’ if he let himself be debarred from doing the same . |
| 18 | A man who has given away his greatest secret can not afford further pretence . |
| 19 | He made 829 runs in four matches ( he missed the Lord 's Test through illness ) in 1976 , which was statistically his best performance , and if he has never made quite so many since that must just be because of the demands , physical and psychological , of playing so much top cricket . |
| 20 | It also reminds him of possibly his darkest day in the game . |
| 21 | Possibly his best batting performance was scoring 56 for Middlesex against the MCC at Lord 's in 1790 . |
| 22 | That last phase of his game — linking between forwards and backs — was not always his strongest suit . |
| 23 | ‘ … directly reminiscent of the existence of the individual in infancy before he could talk readily , when everyone was bigger and stronger , when chairs and tables were mountainous and had sharp injurious edges , when he could flood the dark universe with light if someone lifted him to press the switch , but when usually his greatest efforts were ineffectual to change anything . |
| 24 | No more listening to Charlie wittering on about architecture and the environment and bringing home his latest plant pals for her to talk to . |
| 25 | I was about to say that , looking back at his record , I could not understand why the Home Secretary wanted to relive his time as Conservative party chairman , because that was hardly his finest hour . |
| 26 | Years later his eldest daughter Catherine commented , " The Army came first and the position was accepted by all of us as part of the existing order . " |
| 27 | Bath Street , which he was building in the old centre after 1791 , is probably his finest work , with sweeping quadrant arms and a covered promenade of Ionic columns . |
| 28 | Buildings are his monument — " the Hall spans the Drive " — the tangible side ; no less valuable is the spirit engendered by probably his greatest achievement — the Parents " Association , mentioned already . |
| 29 | Probably his greatest claim to fame is as the inventor of microphotography , his earliest successful results , based on the newly introduced wet collodion process , dating from February 1852 . |
| 30 | The mocking-birds were probably his best clue , since here he found that he had clear evidence showing that the populations of different islands were quite distinct . |