Example sentences of "his [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He referred to my rods as stepped-up fly rods , and his I called tent poles . |
| 2 | Their two families had exchanged hospitality and traded with one another for generations , when Kalchu 's went north for its salt and his i a 's came south for grain . |
| 3 | A character making a successful test against one-half his I can just manage to brace himself and avoid falling down , but you have to roll the tests from the top ( front of the party ) down . |
| 4 | Eliot 's youthful familiarity with Kipling 's stories was clear in his 1 909 student essay on that author 's prose . |
| 5 | Given his tiny literary output — four books and a play in 45 years — he wrote endlessly about his habits , frustrations and miseries : even his one novel We think the World of You was so transparently autobiographical as to prompt fears of a libel action . |
| 6 | At the next race it was entrusted to Jo Bonnier , a likeable Swede who had won his one and only grand prix 10 years before . |
| 7 | During Mr John Major 's brief tenure he was made to look foolish on his one co-starring trip — the Commonwealth conference in Kuala Lumpur — by the Prime Minister 's repudiation of the South African statement he had negotiated . |
| 8 | During Mr John Major 's brief tenure he was made to look foolish on his one co-starring trip — the Commonwealth conference in Kuala Lumpur — by the Prime Minister 's repudiation of the South African statement he had negotiated . |
| 9 | His one catastrophic mistake had been to try to settle the mystery for ever by making Harry disappear . |
| 10 | While working on the two biker films and his one sentence in The St Valentine 's Day Massacre , undemanding as they were , Nicholson was also writing another film script for Corman who was once again ahead of the field in latching on to the latest craze sweeping through the world : the children of the post-war baby boom were coming out to play and nothing could stop them now . |
| 11 | His one remarkable feature was his height , six feet and five inches . |
| 12 | He had been well educated , and came from a home where much love was shown , but alone in the darkness he imagined a thousand evil eyes upon him , and his one instinct was to blast away with his gun with murder in his heart . |
| 13 | There was even a time , John said later , when his one ambition was to devote himself to horses , but his father was not especially enthusiastic about that idea . |
| 14 | just as cliché haunted Henry 's daily journey to the train , his socks from Marks and Spencers ' , his regular nightly bedtime , his fondness for a cup of tea at ten thirty in the evening , just as he seemed to be destined to be as remorselessly English as the plane trees in the street outside or the homecoming commuters clacking through the twilight towards the village , so his one existential act ( had n't someone called it that ? ) seemed destined for suburban predictability . |
| 15 | His one kidney has taken over ! ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Peggy ’ James , the proprietor , a heavily built man and had a wooden leg — hence his nickname — but he was remarkably speedy to provide quick service when cars drew up for petrol from his one , hand-operated pump . |
| 17 | The craze hit England in 1951 , when musicians such as Larry Adler , Steve Race and Humphrey Lyttelton ( the latter emulating a traditional jazz band in his One Man Went To Blow ) attempted to make a whole which was greater than the sum of the parts . |
| 18 | In 1798 he exhibited No. 447 , ‘ Derwent Water from Castle Rigg ’ , and in 1801 , No. 649 , ‘ View from Kirby Lonsdale Churchyard Westmorland ’ , but this appears to be the last entry , probably because once he had moved to Ambleside he concentrated on his one man shows in the area . |
| 19 | He looked Parker square in his one good eye . |
| 20 | His principal sexual enjoyment seemed to come from sleeping with young boys and his one foray into a heterosexual relationship ended dismally with his middle-aged paramour complaining , ‘ I ca n't seem to make him understand that biting 's no good . ’ |
| 21 | Delaney raised a critical eyebrow : His one question went to the heart of the matter , since he could think of no other reason for the involvement of G9 . |
| 22 | Robert can see Henry 's star quality and has already aligned him with an animal talent agency ( Satch 's Animals ) , although his one date with the cameras so far — for a Lucozade commercial — was n't exactly a smash . |
| 23 | Despite his one night on Broadway , Dustin felt bitter , betrayed and disappointed . |
| 24 | His one chance came just before half-time when a defender 's shins blocked his shot . |
| 25 | Former champion hurdler Beech Road is an interesting contender , as he reverts to fences after a disappointing season over the smaller obstacles , where his one success came in the ‘ Fighting Fifth ’ at Newcastle . |
| 26 | It was at TMcL that he first met his one and only ‘ accountancy ’ hero , James Dowling , the then senior partner — ‘ one of the finest men I have ever met and arguably the best accountant Scotland has ever seen ’ . |
| 27 | Yet he could not believe that the KGB could have discovered his one small secret . |
| 28 | It was about this time that he started telling Lewis Wyvis Hall would be his one day . |
| 29 | His one decent pair of dark pants and his formal suit were too small for him . |
| 30 | She 's his one soft spot , from what we know about him . |