Example sentences of "[adv] his [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Equally striking was Alexander I 's experiment with ‘ military colonies ’ , which was very much his own pet scheme . |
| 2 | ( Unhappily his chosen name Deseado barely survives today ; the dramatic and unlit cliff on Isla Desolación that marks the western exit of the Strait is now called Cabo Pilar . |
| 3 | Boro players were stunned by Lee 's about-turn — especially his former Charlton team-mate Andy Peake . |
| 4 | He is keen to catch up with family and friends , especially his 91-year-old mum Dolly Simmons who lives in Bebington . |
| 5 | Mark Harries burned down his fancy dress hire shop in a bid to swindle £340,000 after he ran up more than £160,000 debts . |
| 6 | But Jones decided to turn down his old Wimbledon club , where he made his name as one of the Crazy Gang . |
| 7 | Trent put down his empty coffee mug . |
| 8 | Harris set down his empty beer mug , took out a handkerchief and wiped foam from his mouth . |
| 9 | I recommend that you read Hare 's trilogy The History Plays , which include Knuckle , Licking Hitler and Plenty — and perhaps his earlier play Teeth 'n' Smiles . |
| 10 | Soon the little terrace house became a hub of domestic activity when not only his first daughter Eleanor Elizabeth played with his half brother but they were joined two years later by his second daughter , Florence . |
| 11 | With only his home-made phrase book to help him , Twoflower was trying to explain the mysteries of inn-sewer-ants to Broadman . |
| 12 | Armed with only his trusty pick-up stick , Bert is ready for battle with Ringmer 's litter louts . |
| 13 | Now he is 44 and something of a veteran in a championship where only his former Ibrox colleague , Tommy McLean , has lasted in the same job for longer . |
| 14 | Neil Jenkins switches from outside-half to centre to allow Adrian Davies to reclaim the number ten jersey and Ian Jones comes in on the right wing for only his second tour outing . |
| 15 | For many , the highlight of the pilgrimage was attending the Angelus and receiving the blessing of the Holy Father at only his second Sunday audience at Castel Gandolfo since his illness . |
| 16 | Forgotten-man Pavel emerges from the shadows for only his second League appearance for the Geordies in 13 months and just three weeks after coming off the transfer list . |
| 17 | The experienced Wall , an accurate seam bowler , comes in for only his second league game of the season after suffering a back injury . |
| 18 | Most of the better things , such as they were , involved the persistent Pears , playing only his second club match of the season , at outside-half . |
| 19 | Yet despite his fame , despite the feeling that he is always in the public eye , he is making only his third TV appearance in a decade in A Foreign Field ( Sunday , BBC1 , 9.05pm ) . |
| 20 | It was a most impressive performance by the 25-year-old Lahore left-hander in only his third Test appearance , all his 205 runs made on the first day before an understandable concentration lapse . |
| 21 | But Ball 's former Neath team-mate Paul Jackson had an unhappier time in his only his third League game for Aberavon . |
| 22 | Sutton , a former sub-editor on the Sunday Times colour magazine , explained how he had started the Post with only his faithful assistant Carmel Bedford , a former Sunday Times copytaker . |
| 23 | When Branson brought in his old friend John Varnom as deputy editor , Pearce Marchbank saw it as a challenge to his authority . |
| 24 | BASSETT 'S ALLSORTS : In 1899 Charlie Thompson , a Bassett Traveller , knocked over his individual sample boxes in front of a wholesaler who like the look of the ‘ the mix . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Exit Captain McTavish , triumphant , ’ he murmured , and went out to his shed to lament over his doomed Triumph Tiger under its sheet of polythene . |
| 26 | He took over his own printing company called E L Hildreth in the forties and in the fifties sometime sold that out and set up a design shop to produce books and magazines , near Brattleboro , Vermont , and the prep school that I went to had retained him for many years as their printing adviser and , you know , he did the catalogues . |
| 27 | This resulted in farce : ‘ I have never forgotten seeing footage of a British manager which began on his moccasined feet , wafted over his monogrammed door mat , and ended up opposite the sofa on which lounged five of his charges , scowling greasily ’ . |
| 28 | Not his musical instruments drums , guitar , accordion . |
| 29 | After the game of dice where Yudhishthira gambles away his kingdom , and finally his shared wife Draupadi , the winner from the rival family , seizes and tries to strip her . |
| 30 | Charles kept the appellants waiting , bribing them from time to time to stop them becoming too impatient ; meanwhile his younger brother Louis Duke of Anjou concentrated on building up a party in Aquitaine , winning over many of the nobility of Pèrigord , Rouergue , Quercy and the Agenais by a judicious mixture of bribes and promises . |