Example sentences of "[conj] his [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mansell dominated the opening qualifying in his Canon-Williams-Renault for the tough 81-lap Adelaide street circuit race , where his 1986 title hopes were wrecked by a tyre blow-out . |
| 2 | He chewed and stared to the south , where his precious parchment sheets might even now be ash , blowing on the storm wind of the new shaman 's power . |
| 3 | He finished with a birdie two on the notoriously difficult 18th where his three wood tee shot finished a mere two feet from the pin . |
| 4 | Taking precipitously to his heels and hurriedly joining the Coldstream Guards , he eventually settled in East Anglia , where he married and where his literary son George was born in 1803 . |
| 5 | On Aug. 18 Ratsiraka declared Madagascar to be a federation of six states with himself as President , claiming to have the support of the five provinces where his ruling Arema party continued to hold majorities in the regional councils . |
| 6 | Neither is Wotherspoon , for that matter , or his two crew members . |
| 7 | There was no picture of his mother or his murdered brother Stefan . |
| 8 | Later in his article , he pinpoints ‘ the necessity of writing long letters daily ’ to Helen as the beginning of his departure from nature descriptions — initially written as talks to be given to the Young People 's Guild at the Unitarian chapel — or his dignified school essays . |
| 9 | The death of his father Edgar was followed by a dispute between the magnates over whether Æthelred , still a child , or his older half-brother Edward , should succeed . |
| 10 | Of any event affecting the good repute or professional competence either of the holder of the licence or his nominated transport manager , or the financial standing of the holder of the licence ( by letter within 28 days ) . |
| 11 | On May 16 Karl Otto Pöhl , 61 , announced that he was stepping down as president of the Deutsche Bundesbank , although his second eight-year term [ see p. 35724 ] was not due to expire until end-1995 . |
| 12 | And although his glitzy Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove , California , is not everybody 's idea of a parish church , in its own way that is what it is . |
| 13 | It is true that his average support score during his presidency was 76 per cent ( Johnson 's was 83 per cent , and no figures are available for Roosevelt ) , but such scores are of only limited value as a measure of a president 's relationship with the legislature . |
| 14 | The Aga Khan , one of the sport 's leading owner-breeders , seems to have accepted that his three-and-a-half year challenge to the decision to disqualify Aliysa for failing a dope test after winning the 1989 Oaks has run its course . |
| 15 | So keen is he on that approach that his six-year-old daughter Rosie studies with a female gospel singer . |
| 16 | But when her father , the widely respected leader of the Welsh radicals in Parliament , died suddenly in 1892 she found to her horror that he had left a crippling burden of debt and that his principal business enterprise , the Dillwyn spelter works at Llansamlet , Swansea , was on the verge of bankruptcy . |
| 17 | Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti on Dec. 1 announced that his four-party coalition government was planning for a general election in March or early April 1992 . |
| 18 | Piggott had replaced McHargue , then sitting out a suspension , on Commanche Run in the Gordon Stakes at Goodwood , which he won by a very wide margin ; and though the stable jockey was back on board for the colt 's victory in the March Stakes on the same course , his preparation race for the St Leger , Commanche Run 's owner Ivan Allan , claiming ‘ There 's only one St Leger and only one Lester , ’ insisted that his close friend Piggott replace McHargue for the Classic . |
| 19 | Andropulos may have made a mistake , Admiral , in telling you that he was scared that his spare fuel tank might blow up . |
| 20 | Lamb 's reward was a two-match suspension and a heavy fine — imposed for failing to get permission to tell the truth — and a strong hint from England supremo Ted Dexter that his international cricket career is over . |
| 21 | He looks around for a moment , pleased as punch , then realizes that his fellow group members have all heard it a dozen times before . |
| 22 | Springbok fullback André Joubert ( below ) , finds that his Barbarian team mates have gone AWOL … |
| 23 | The 25-year-old former England Under 21 international midfield man hopes that his major appearance landmark can co-incide with a victory to wipe out Premier League relegation fears . |
| 24 | GRAEME SOUNESS will today seek proof that his rebuilt Liverpool team can be a Premier League title threat this season . |
| 25 | PLO chairman Yasser Arafat said today that his mainstream Fatah faction approved a self-rule deal with Israel and mutual recognition could be only days away . |
| 26 | Trying to navigate through the ‘ nightmare of childhood ’ and a confusing adult world , innocently nasty Seth ( Jeremy Cooper ) uses pulp horror as his interpretative map and becomes convinced that his grief-stricken neighbour Dolphin ( Lindsay Duncan ) is a vampire , sucking the life from his elder sailor brother ( actually suffering from atomic poisoning ) . |
| 27 | Arthur Stephenson thought that his 1987 Gold Cup winner would need the race and 20-1 about him repeating the feat at Cheltenham again looks good each-way value . |
| 28 | It was also during this period that his single-engined fighter designs began appearing , starting with the Yak–1 and leading on to the classic Yak–3 — later developed into the familiar Yak–11 trainer . |
| 29 | He wrote to his insurance company claiming that his personal liability policy covered him against any possible damages . |
| 30 | DARLINGTON boss Ray Hankin has denied that his former Leeds teammate Tony Currie is on the way to Feethams . |