Example sentences of "his voice " in BNC.
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| 1 | His voices , insights , personae and images feel truthful and contemporary in a way that most theatre does not . |
| 2 | He had closed his eyes again and was once more listening to his voices . |
| 3 | Well you can just look at him and do his voices , look ! |
| 4 | To imagine this is to be aware that the aggressive term which I have applied to Amis 's novelistic method , ‘ ventriloquism ’ , has the drawback of suggesting that when an author throws his voice , the character who receives it will necessarily be found to be inanimate , a dummy . |
| 5 | His voice was what is called , I am understanding , Cockney or perhaps Australian . ’ |
| 6 | His voice croaked . |
| 7 | His voice was mean too : mean and foreign . |
| 8 | ‘ We thought of that , sir , ’ said the inspector , a touch of melancholy in his voice . |
| 9 | What do you mean by us being set in our ways ? ’ he asked , the tone of his voice changing when he put the question . |
| 10 | He used the complete gamut of his voice , from a growl like a dog warning its master that it has a sore foot to a high , exalted monotone which he kept for perorations ; and when he was using the words of an Old Testament lament , Isaiah or Zephaniah , to make a piteous effect , he had been known to put his head back and yowl like a tom-cat . |
| 11 | At times his voice went through its paces almost independently of the sense . |
| 12 | But equally , ’ his voice surged , ‘ they knew that the Lord would provide . |
| 13 | James nodded to him as though for confirmation and then said loudly , ‘ Let us go to the Castle — ’ He became aware that the further reaches of the crowd were out of hearing and shouted at the top of his voice , ‘ Let us go — along to the Castle — and let us see — what John Menzies — will do about the Act ! ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Tell the laird , ’ James Menzies began , then raised his voice so that he could be heard as well by the crowd as by the factor . |
| 15 | ’ He was wandering now , his voice had dropped as he struggled to keep his thread and a restlessness at the back of the gathering broke out in shouts of ‘ Speak up ! |
| 16 | We need a little ceremony ’ — he dropped his voice — ‘ it will keep the women happy . |
| 17 | ‘ Now , ’ said Cameron , letting his voice peal round the yard , ‘ we wish you happiness and health , Alexander and Mary McLaggan . |
| 18 | The lords in parliament , and in the courthouse and the castle , they do not know how we live — they know nothing about us , except that we will die for them , to protect their forts in India and in Scotland ’ — his voice sharpened suddenly , his arm swung round and pointed north and a gust of response rose out of the crowd — ‘ we have always been good at that , their demands can never be satisfied , regiments for the colonies , indentured servants and labourers for the plantations , they have scoured Scotland like a killing wind and the men have been whirled away in the blast of it . |
| 19 | His voice was barbed with irony . |
| 20 | His voice changed abruptly . |
| 21 | Cameron shot down the little casement of the window and roared out in his own language , with the whole strength of his voice , ‘ We are here , friends ! |
| 22 | His voice rose suddenly : ‘ By twos — to the right about — march ! ’ |
| 23 | He hugged Cameron and said , ‘ Mister Campsie , Mister Campsie ’ — his voice cooed on a high note , not his at all , as though he was possessed by the spirit of a woman who had nursed him once . |
| 24 | Once a man sang with a little laugh in his voice , |
| 25 | I love the Deep South honey in his voice . ’ |
| 26 | Now his wife seemed to have snatched his voice to lament for him , joined by her daughters , by his aunts and sisters , all beating their faces and rubbing ash and black soot on to their cheeks . |
| 27 | He could speak no longer : he 'd swallowed his voice , choking on the words , while his wife 's voice , which had always been weak and incoherent before , rose high into the air , followed by those of his daughters and his sisters . |
| 28 | His voice was reassuring , but I was worried . |
| 29 | Therefore he is asking for trouble , and he receives it suddenly and in full measure , above the groundswell of heckling , at the hands of a divinity student who reminds him at the top of his voice about Fedka , a dangerous escaped convict now roaming ‘ our town ’ and originally a serf of Stepan 's whom he sold into military service to pay a gambling debt : |
| 30 | And the over-use of an extra microphone , giving his voice the qualities of a US TV cop with a bull horn , made many of the lyrics unintelligible , removing the thrust of his carefully-penned portraits of despair . |