Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He replaced the receiver , having been given his new instructions . |
| 2 | If it had n't been done his other hip would have gone and his spine would have been twisted . |
| 3 | But the mention of a ‘ jubilant horn ’ in Jagdlied or ‘ jangling spurs ’ in Reiselied stirs him to immediate response , and in the dreamy melancholy of Schilflied or the elfin scherzo tinged with drama of Neue Liebe ( with which the disc artfully opens ) we can see the song writer he could have been had his general approach been different . |
| 4 | Organisers of next week 's grass court tournament in Halle , Germany , in which Agassi is due to play , have been told his injured wrist is now free of pain . |
| 5 | McDonough has just been handed his third suspension of the season following his sending off offence at Rochdale last weekend , and he is prepared to take a back seat for much of the rest of this season — if not all of it . |
| 6 | The pupil can be given his own strategy to follow which will help him to learn . |
| 7 | Off stage , he 's not exactly full of the joys of life either , despite being the latest comic to be given his own Channel 4 series . |
| 8 | Robyn followed as a determined Melissa led Luke , whose expression resembled that of a prisoner about to be given his last rites , across the field and in through the french windows . |
| 9 | JONATHAN Bell , former Ireland Schools ' full-back will be given his big break in senior rugby when he lines out for Ballymena against their old Scottish foes Hawick in the Borders . |
| 10 | … To all this must be added his famous talent for oratory , and his resonant carrying voice . |
| 11 | He said Prost would almost certainly be granted his super licence , but said his behaviour in using ‘ insulting terms ’ in his criticism of FISA would still need to be considered by the world council next month . |
| 12 | The show was the brainchild of producer Verity Lambert , who saw Mr Yentob in London yesterday to be told his final decision . |
| 13 | The show was the brainchild of producer Verity Lambert , who saw Mr Yentob in London yesterday to be told his final decision . |
| 14 | If tales are to be believed his improbable bulk was due to his eating raw Troll for a wager . |
| 15 | The first step is for the seller to send out a quotation , on the back of which will be printed his standard conditions of sale . |
| 16 | The punishment for this crime was to be docked his best wave , so his tally would be reduced to three against the other surfers ' four . |
| 17 | It was as if poets owed an explanation to the audience for being what they were , to bring creatures apart down to the level of ordinary folks ; as if the poet might be indulged his little failings and eccentricities as long as he allowed himself to be democratically mauled in public by thoughtless questioners or — even worse , much worse — by fellow-poets or by those who had poetic pretensions and who found in ‘ question time ’ an opportunity to assuage their jealousy or seek revenge for their own incompetence and mediocrity . |
| 18 | But Bjornebye wants to be assured his international ambitions with an emerging Norway side will not be affected by his proposed move to Anfield . |
| 19 | A traditional device for drawing us beyond the possibility of sweetening by sadism , right to the viewpoint of the dying man , is the death speech , at its starkest when Agamemnon cries offstage that he has been struck his mortal blow . |
| 20 | After recording that the specific purposes for which leave was granted were to quash the section 2 notice dated 24 June 1991 , and to require the applicant to be cautioned in accordance with paragraph 16.5 of Code C before being called upon to comply with the requirements of a section 2 notice , the court began by noting that these two grounds rested upon substantially the same basis ; namely that if the notice could lawfully be served after the person under investigation had been charged his constitutional right of silence would be lost , at any rate if a caution were not administered . |
| 21 | Here we go again I thought ! ’ — ROGER BIDGOOD ( Newport centre ) on being given his first cap after losing his original chance five years ago thanks to bad weather . |
| 22 | He felt that he was being earmarked for special attention from the Dale 's big central defenders in a rough and tumble encounter that saw McDonough being given his marching orders in the 66th minute for an alleged use of the elbow . |
| 23 | But I , I had no idea that he then had to be that , being given his own funding , he then had to be organized by a committee . |
| 24 | Mark , who has been blind from birth , has had a meteoric rise in radio broadcasting , being given his own show less than a year after joining Radio Cleveland as a reporter . |
| 25 | The frenzied excavations of a wooing mole gripped by spring fever were evident and , acting blind , I could feel how close together were positioned his little hills of excavated earth . |
| 26 | When Matthew was six weeks old , Karen and husband Tony , 28 , were told his chronic kidney condition was deadly . |
| 27 | I knew he could n't resist being asked his professional opinion . |
| 28 | So David 's given his Central Area people to Barry but retained Traffic Signals and Parking . |
| 29 | Iago , that ‘ Spartan dog ’ , is given his final share of responsibility : Just as Iago poisoned sight , so do the fruits of his action . |
| 30 | If a pianist is particularly charming and quite gifted , his failure to win the competition need not trouble him ; money is raised privately among local citizens , and he is given his own Carnegie Hall recital , perhaps , or his own scholarship to the Conservatoire in Paris , with a living allowance to provide for ‘ a minimally decent standard of living ’ — a phrase used in Forth Worth to describe what British people might call an upper middle-class lifestyle . |