Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] his [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , a few months ago , a friend showed me his latest acquisition , the all-singing-all-dancing computer which did just about everything except dive for you . |
| 2 | They gave each other presents at the Hanukha-Christmas festival , and the rector showed me his latest gift , a book with the inscription ‘ To my friend the rector , from his friend , the rabbi ’ . |
| 3 | One film , however , Now Barabbas Was A Robber , directed by Gordon Parry from the play by William Douglas Home , brought him his best review yet from the finest film critic of her day , C. A. Lejeune , in The Observer . |
| 4 | It was n't classical music that brought him his widest audience , but musicals like ‘ On the Town ’ , ‘ Candide ’ and ‘ West Side Story ’ . |
| 5 | Ten years after Anselm 's death , when the tide of criticism was running strongly against Anselm at Canterbury for his failure to obtain a secure basis for the primatial claims , Eadmer thought it his best praise that he had allowed the monks to manage their own affairs . |
| 6 | He had great hopes for it , and told an American friend that he thought it his best to date . |
| 7 | He woke me at two this morning and gave me his best horse and bid me not to stop till I had overtaken you on the way . |
| 8 | Morgan dipped in a little bow and gave her his best smile . |
| 9 | He gave her his best smile , a greeting he normally reserved for waiters . |
| 10 | But signing for Rangers in his mid-thirties , when the big time seemed well behind him , gave him his biggest thrill of them all . |