Example sentences of "his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AMERICAN country singing star Conway Twitty , 59 , is being hounded by an obsessed fan who claims to be his long-lost son . |
| 2 | It helped him find his long-lost daughter . |
| 3 | COUSIN BOBBY In and around filming The Silence Of The Lambs , Jonathan Demme was also putting together a cinematic portrait of his long-lost cousin , Robert Castle , a Harlem preacher , minister to the oppressed and scourge of City Hall . |
| 4 | Aline said , ‘ Maybe you reminded him of his long-lost youth . ’ |
| 5 | By means not specified , from Portugal he arrived in Victorian England , where he got the idea that Lady Laetitia Winthrop ( played by a ‘ discovery ’ from the world of modelling , whose acting talent was 36-23-36 ) was his long-lost love from a world before the subterranean cavern . |
| 6 | Victor fusses over his gas-ring like I 'm his long-lost son . |
| 7 | His long-lost daughter ? ’ |
| 8 | Benjamin , however , smiled coolly at the Earl as if the Scottish bastard was his long-lost brother . |
| 9 | Gordon Turner , 61 , enlisted the help of The Northern Echo , trusting that his long-lost friend had returned to his native Darlington . |
| 10 | Harford took what many would consider a risk to his purist tendencies by assuming control at Wimbledon . |
| 11 | Few disciples followed him , his purist rigour being unsuited to compromise or the political infighting which wracked the sectarian Left . |
| 12 | Dougal thought of his unheated flat and shuddered . |
| 13 | His five-point plan , which included a 10-year transitional period and the inclusion of UK-built Japanese cars in quotas , now has the backing of Hahn . |
| 14 | In June 1988 the Dalai Lama made a major policy speech before the European Parliament in Strasbourg , France , developing his five-point plan , first outlined in September 1987 before a US Senate foreign relations committee in Washington [ see p. 35717 ] . |
| 15 | But he did bow to tradition by topping his wacky gear with the gown and a mortar board . |
| 16 | Flashback F M rewinds to December nineteen eighty three , from three meet former radio four Today presenter John Timpson with another of his wacky books which takes him all over the country looking at the unusual including some of the things you never knew existed in North Yorkshire . |
| 17 | Walking with his gauche , bouncy tread , his shoulders hunched , Nicola 's husband led Blanche and Dexter down the steps into the kitchen and gestured for them to sit down round the kitchen table . |
| 18 | This empty stage , this empty auditorium beyond , agape like a hollow mouth , had more potency for his mother than ever he and his dry father had ; its unreality was more real for her than their reality . |
| 19 | By 1984 he plucked up the courage ( or obtained the permission ) to do the two things he really wanted : make wine from Pinot Gris ( originally a Burgundian grape ) as a Burgundian would , fermenting and maturing it in ( partly new ) French oak barriques ; and stop filtering his dry white wines . |
| 20 | He can now put his dry economic views to the test in an area of spending which has soared despite Mrs Thatcher 's strictures on good housekeeping . |
| 21 | She was amused by his dry tone . |
| 22 | He quickly built up a reputation for his dry wit . |
| 23 | He is quite witty and his dry humour comes across well . |
| 24 | Her easy warmth made Delaney feel good , as he licked his dry lips . |
| 25 | ‘ I need hardly tell you , ’ he continued in his dry voice , ‘ what a blow you dealt to she who cared so much for your welfare . |
| 26 | Simon ran a tongue across his dry lips . |
| 27 | At Christie 's , Noel Annesley presided over a satisfactory auction with his customary skill , a failing voice enhancing , rather than diminishing , his dry humour which maintained the momentum of the sale . |
| 28 | The man ran his tongue over his dry lips and nodded . |
| 29 | But once you had found mutual ground for trust , responded to his dry humour or enjoyed his sometimes wicked pranks , the friendship could become deep and permanent . |
| 30 | He looked at the stiff unbending features of the recruiter for a moment : the dark hollows around his eyes and his dry , parchment-like skin betrayed a long addiction to opium , and Duclos guessed that hid irritability stemmed for this . |