Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surprise has been expressed in some quarters that Mr Zilligen has been allowed to stay on the Ferranti board given his key role at ISC during the £215m deception . |
| 2 | Journalists christened his daily briefings ‘ the Falt follies ’ , a self-conscious reference to the American briefings in Vietnam which came to be known as ‘ the five o'clock follies ’ . |
| 3 | Business interests in the music industry occupied his later years . |
| 4 | A violent shudder racked his powerful body . |
| 5 | He thought about Hasan and the television , about the way the little boy placed his olive cheek next to the loudspeaker , caressing the wooden cabinet , while the Wilson family watched the evening news . |
| 6 | Hoving 's wide-eyed devotion to Ted Rousseau , the curator of European paintings whose playboy antics and debonair charm masked his mediocre acquisition record , contrasts with his dismissive and sour remarks concerning his successor as director , Philippe de Montebello ( ‘ No one on the museum was more self-assured ’ , notes Hoving , ‘ But Ted Rousseau was convinced he had no eye ’ ) . |
| 7 | In one case a Leeds man received a quarterly bill for more than three thousand pounds after British Gas engineers fitted his new meter back to front ! |
| 8 | And the 19-year-old capped his magnificent performance 60 seconds from time when Andy Mutch 's header looked destined to settle this passionate clash — but the 6ft 4inch Hoult pushed the effort over the bar . |
| 9 | Melissa nodded , concealing a smile as she pictured the ramshackle building where Gloria 's husband operated his used-car business . |
| 10 | The inability of Mr Frohnmayer to come down squarely on one side of this debate or the other plagued his early tenure , and ultimately contributed to his vulnerability when Mr Buchanan stepped up his attack . |
| 11 | On these occasions the king deployed his usual armoury of writs to install his candidate and thwart the rival . |
| 12 | He was standing in a pool of blood and water and behind him a line of bloody footprints marked his painful progress from the showers . |
| 13 | This pursuit of around 700 life histories occupied his spare time for years : ‘ I spent 10 years in Nottingham library going through the old newspapers and noting every reference to cricket up to 1880 . |
| 14 | STRIKER Peter Beardsley has this season rediscovered his best form with Everton after being dropped too early by England . |
| 15 | His chosen career restricted his subsequent appearances for Somerset to 33 matches between 1956 and 1960 . |
| 16 | After a night racked with pain , Bill 's wife Violet took him to their local hospital where horrified doctors treated his multiple injuries . |
| 17 | Suspecting a fuel problem the pilot selected his reserve tanks but the engine continued to run roughly . |
| 18 | A late crow said a word as her entry through the open drive gate disturbed his first sleep . |
| 19 | Sadly , his treatise damaged his professional reputation . |
| 20 | A nervous tremor affected his lower lip and he looked as though at any moment he might burst into tears . |
| 21 | The dim light of the table-lamp cast his hard features into that unnerving resemblance to some long-ago pirate raider … |
| 22 | Paul Oldfield topped the lot in Melody Maker when he wrote of the track ‘ Living And Learning ’ that it ‘ made me think of a man who favoured The Jasmine Minks and My Bloody Valentine , but whose bedroom was so damp that miraculous spores and mildew afflicted his brown suede and paisley . ’ |
| 23 | His eyes were murderous now and rage coloured his pale complexion . |
| 24 | If you think about it , Rocastle is as good as Batty and he scores goals too , so Batts should be concerned for his place in an ideal world given his 3 goal career tally . |
| 25 | Since his retirement books and his garden occupied his whole interest . |
| 26 | The English millionaire folded his singed tents and stole away the insurance money , which did n't belong to him since I had nationalized the paper well before the fire was out . |
| 27 | Central defender Kevin Crisp headed his 11th goal of the season after 15 minutes and Andy Morton ( 28 ) and Colin Vowden ( 35 ) added the others . |
| 28 | 2 Select a patient and ask him whether his surgery affected his normal Pattern of rest and sleep . |
| 29 | He has now completed the marathon three times and this year achieved his best time of 3 hours 39 minutes , coming 8,348th out of 27,000 runners . |
| 30 | Almost immediately , the Company Commander committed his third platoon , which had been kept in reserve for just such an eventuality . |