Example sentences of "[subord] his [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Northamptonshire signed him for four years he shared digs with Colin Milburn and though he progressed less spectacularly than his former Durham colleague , Scott proved an able bowler . |
| 2 | Engholm , entered the Bundestag in 1970 , was seen as more centrist , northern and closer to the trade union movement than his rival Oskar Lafontaine , who stood unsuccessfully for Chancellor in 1990 and declined the leadership of the party at that time [ ibid . ] . |
| 3 | Guinness tried his hand at the new Porter with rather more success than his fellow Dublin brewers . |
| 4 | Géraud V of Armagnac was apparently on better terms with Edward I than his contemporary Gaston VII of Béarn . |
| 5 | She might sound diffident , McLeish thought , amused , but she was n't , just more careful than his blunt Francesca about how she made her points . |
| 6 | Craig Walker now has far more than his native Dublin and its age-barred ghetto to examine and write about . |
| 7 | In scene two , he actually has fewer words per turn than his ex-student Pavel Hollar ( 11.5 against Hollar 's 12.3 ) , and in scene nine , less than Hollar 's son ( 8.2 against 13.6 ) . |
| 8 | Far more dramatic than his 1625 Cavendish monument at Edensor , here he has Denham resembling a semi-nude Donne , for the top-knotted winding-sheet has lost its pins and slipped off the body as his reinvigorated corpse steps out of a coffin , his left hand raised as if to shield his eyes from the brilliance of the Second Coming . |
| 9 | Village Group director Paul Hunter said he had been forced to ‘ rest ’ drivers until his firm Liverpool 's largest coach independent was paid . |
| 10 | Even if his New Jerusalem were ever built it would be executed and administered by the people in this city . |
| 11 | Suddenly , however , he turned into an American citizen , a necessary formality if his expanding US empire was to remain legally his . |
| 12 | Enesco is a major force in twentieth century music whose almost total neglect at present is quite astonishing , and if his little Poemes de Clement Marot show a limited aspect of his art , they still breathed an engaging wit and charm in Miss Cotrubas 's heart-warming performance . |
| 13 | Harry felt a glow of pleasure — not least because his darling Alice was making such an obvious success of her career . |
| 14 | Where the editor rattled her half dozen strings of large beads and remarked with a toothy grin : ‘ They say it 's the fashion — ’ Where Gerald , the art editor — who was reputed to have a fabulous house on the Chelsea Embankment full of priceless works of art — was so sensitive that he had to have a soundproof office specially built for him , while his assistant Jeremy padded along like his superior 's spaniel , and if Gerald wore a shirt of subtle pink on Monday , his minion would appear in the same shade on Tuesday . |
| 15 | Out of a total of 55 votes , Qayyum polled 32 while his rival Sultan Mahmud Choudhury secured 23 . |
| 16 | While his former Ibrox team-mates bask in the glory of European Cup conflict , Johnston has slipped into obscurity on Merseyside after starting only four games this season . |
| 17 | Giulini 's view of both works has broadened noticeably since his 1965 Decca recording of these Symphonies was made , and for some listeners these performances will seem impossibly flabby and sentimental . |
| 18 | It was a notable achievement by 24-year-old Stich , who has slipped from third to 15th in the world rankings since his 1991 Wimbledon triumph , while Krajicek , with the biggest serve in the world game , is the up and coming star , having just moved into the top 10 . |
| 19 | He did not immediately contemplate any drastic change in his filmmaking aesthetic , since his first Hollywood picture , Rebecca ( 1940 ) , was based on a British book and used British actors , and it was some time before he made a completely American picture . |
| 20 | But the peer disappeared before they could ask whether his favourite Laurel and Hardy film was Big Business or Blockheads . |
| 21 | Even as a newcomer to films , after his first MGM picture , Anchors Aweigh ( 1945 ) , he told a reporter ‘ Hollywood stinks ! ’ |
| 22 | After a modest playing career , Harford hit the headlines when his unfancied Luton beat Arsenal 3–2 with a last-minute goal in the 1988 Littlewoods Cup final at Wembley . |
| 23 | The pensioner , from Leeds , died when his maroon FSO car crashed head on with a van on the A64 Malton bypass in North Yorkshire . |
| 24 | This results from the strategy adopted by Mr Papandreou , whose eight years in office ended when his socialist Pasok party was defeated in an inconclusive election last June . |
| 25 | ‘ My God , we 're going down , ’ he cried as his blazing El Al jet hurtled towards a huge housing complex in an Amsterdam suburb . |
| 26 | Jenny Pitman 's Do Be Brief stepped onto a racecourse for the first time in the first division of the Christmas Pudding Novice Hurdle and made quite an impression in beating Sailor 's Luck , but not half as big as his stable-companion Egypt Mill , who looked something special in landing the second division by 10 lengths . |
| 27 | But the German manager has been lifted by the recent club form of 31-year-old captain , Lothar Matthaeus — absent in Sweden due to a serious knee operation — as well as his clubmate Olaf Thon 's successful switch from midfielder to libero at Bayern Munich . |
| 28 | Then at Christie 's , Swedish collector Dr Philip Sandbloom looked on as his 1927–28 Matisse , ‘ Harmony in yellow ’ sold for a record $13.2 million ( £8.8 million ) . |
| 29 | South Africa , Mexico , Brazil , Spain , San Marino , France , Britain , Germany — Mansell won them all as his mighty Renault-Williams car blazed to triumph after triumph . |
| 30 | Mansell won them all as his mighty Renault-Williams car blazed to triumph after triumph . |