Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [verb] his [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both were heavy red-wine drinkers , always bloated , and each jealously guarded his own inferior status . |
| 2 | He was n't strong enough to boost his own confidence . |
| 3 | But precisely in that act of consignment you may have committed an unconscious iconoclasm — for each of the above-mentioned artists at one time or another personally designed his own exhibition announcement . |
| 4 | Surely Rob was old enough to manage his own affairs ! |
| 5 | It would have been agreeable if Mr William Ross , who was also in the House , could have been generous enough to admit his own past errors and congratulate his successor on his decision . |
| 6 | Although just over five feet eight inches tall , and seldom well trained , at his best he was strong , fast , and skilful enough to hold his own with Cribb , reputedly the best of all bare-knuckle boxers , and but for his fondness for high living , might well have been champion . |
| 7 | The book becomes gripping once allows his own interests and opinions to come closer to the surface . |
| 8 | On 16 December Hoare returned to London , but was not well enough to leave his own house . |
| 9 | And he 's certainly big enough to draw his own crowd , just as large as Madness . |
| 10 | The opening of Sonnet 148 again criticizes his own powers of sight and discrimination : It is not only a failure in perception : as we have seen in 152 , the eyes were merely agents or instruments of the will or judgement , from which self-deception flowed , forcing the organs of perception to see what they are told to see ( as in the political conformity enforced in George Orwell 's Nineteen Eighty-Four ) . |
| 11 | He was secure enough to mint his own silver pennies , which must have been among the first of the new coins to be produced and an indication of the economic vitality and continuing independence of his kingdom . |
| 12 | Naturally , d'Arquebus Senior never sullied his own hands — or his eyes — by descending with bodyguards from the Spinoza estate to inspect the actual processes of manufacture by tech clans . |