Example sentences of "his [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gorbachev 's 80-minute speech on Nov. 16 was widely assessed by commentators as one of his poorest performances . |
| 2 | Unhappily , Daz Sumner showed his dislike for the big , unwelcoming track with his poorest return of the season , while Mark Lemon 's lack of form continued . |
| 3 | Four times I went on long visits to the St Jerome , his finest work . |
| 4 | One of his finest examples of occupational gesture as the foundation of a ballet remains Les Patineurs . |
| 5 | Thomson 's songs contain some of his finest work . |
| 6 | If this was the summit of his career , his finest moment was his maverick statement opposing the House Committee on Un-American Activities . |
| 7 | PLYMOUTH MUSEUM & ART GALLERY The last self-portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds -regarded by many as his finest — is among a small group of 17th and 18th-century paintings loaned from the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle . |
| 8 | ‘ It was more that just successful , ’ he says today , looking back on what many consider his finest work . |
| 9 | But some of his finest work was done in wartime , in the Western Desert and later in Saudi Arabia . |
| 10 | But his finest hour in the Leone films is to be on television next week . |
| 11 | What has been lost in all this second-guessing is the wanton reckless joy of his finest records . |
| 12 | The solitary willow , the gutted brook : these were the things which Clare picked out as the climax of his catalogue of casualties in this , one of his finest poems . |
| 13 | Its echoes of Keats and Shelley , the image of a desolate landscape with its tracery of ‘ tangled bine-stems ’ against the winter sky , its deceptively simple vocabulary , and carefully controlled metre are characteristic of much of his finest work . |
| 14 | It was only a matter of months before she was forced to withdraw even with the support of Alfonso ( who now that the Cid was dead finally recognized the worth of his finest knight ) . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , over at Mount Edgecombe , the most favoured guess as the site of invasion , the Earl reluctantly gave permission for one hundred of his finest oaks to be felled as they could have given cover to invading forces . |
| 16 | Oswald 's best season at the Palace was probably 1933–34 , when he topped our list of appearances with 39 games , although perhaps his finest display for the club was in that season 's 2nd round FA Cup tie at Stockport , when the Palace came from behind to win 2–1 . |
| 17 | The Stephen Joseph Theatre is proud to present the play generally considered to be his finest , Rocket to the Moon . |
| 18 | It was over the next few years that he started to produce his finest work . |
| 19 | Stevie Wonder wrote , sang and played arguably his finest albums , ‘ Talking Book ’ and ‘ Innervisions ’ , having only just broken the twenty threshold . |
| 20 | FRANK SINATRA : ‘ The Reprise Years ’ ( Reprise ) ol' rheumy eyes is back with a collection of his finest croons , on the label he founded , including ‘ I 've Got You Under My Skin ’ , ‘ Strangers In The Night ’ and , of course , ‘ My Way ’ — out now |
| 21 | A BELA Lugosi horror classic , derided when originally released back in 1932 but now hailed as his finest role . |
| 22 | Only Carling of the three-quarters did not get on the scoresheet , ironic in that he had one of his finest games for England . |
| 23 | It certainly is n't a new invention : Turner used it to produce some of his finest watercolour paintings in the 1880s . |
| 24 | Thus a king would be shown in full coronation robes , holding the sceptres of estate and with a crown on his head , a bishop in full pontificals , a knight in his finest suit of armour and his lady dressed for Court . |
| 25 | But his finest years found him in some competition with another actor who , like Brando , refused to conform . |
| 26 | Whose Life Is It , Anyway ? gave Dreyfuss his finest performance as a paraplegic fighting for the right to die . |
| 27 | And , with Tim Kelaher missing two penalty chances which might have brought the Aussies back into the game , victory was sealed two minutes from time when Williams , in his finest hour for the All Whites , fired over a superb drop goal . |
| 28 | For these concerts , Wolfgang had written two new piano concertos , which are among his finest . |
| 29 | Through it all , remarks one of its editors , Alexander Whyte , ‘ like volcanic rock , thrusting itself up into a harvest field , so does Andrewes ' acute and abiding remorse for sin pierce up through his finest and fullest psalms of Thanksgiving ’ . |
| 30 | The typical Orbison single contained more drama and incident than the average 90-minute movie of the time , and ‘ Running Scared ’ was one of his finest . |