Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In retirement Mr Hewitt is looking forward to having more time for reading , preferring biographies and works of historical interest , with French literature his main love . |
| 2 | Lawson got most fun watching Schwantz laying rubber wrestling his evil Suzuki |
| 3 | Kapil Dev appeals , and Australian opener Mark Taylor is lbw , giving the popular Indian his 400th Test wicket . |
| 4 | For example , though he made a number of proposals to increase public participation his overriding concern for expediting procedures forced him to compress these into a impracticable time-scale . |
| 5 | In public life his guiding principles were Protestantism and protectionism . |
| 6 | His faith , to a degree , had dissipated his own , imbuing with a little fresh strength his run-down role . |
| 7 | He requested her to parcel up most carefully in an oiled cloth his other gun and have it sent to him . |
| 8 | Indeed , he cut from his published version his original account of the hospitality they experienced — a pity because it constituted a valuable little sliver of social history , describing their arrival in ‘ a low parlour ’ of this two-storeyed house , to be greeted with tea from a silver service . |
| 9 | This regretfully brought to an abrupt end his continuing work for the Building Employers Confederation as well as destroying a lifetime 's work in building up a family company . |
| 10 | Employing with perfect ruthlessness his formidable resources of charm and persuasion , he managed to extract from all parties an affirmation of the desirability of Commonwealth membership . |
| 11 | The following term his average marks were down to 22% . |
| 12 | The intensity of these hatreds was such as to ensure that at the christening of a male child his right hand was kept clear of the water so that it would be free for unhallowed retribution upon family enemies . |
| 13 | It had long been suggested that Mayer had the sound technician tamper with the soundtrack of Gilbert 's early talkie His Glorious Night to make him sound risible . |
| 14 | In July 1982 , he fell ill and the following month his fellow directors decided in his absence to sack him . |
| 15 | He recalls with amazing clarity his first day , Sunday , 1st April , when he started on the night shift as a bank boy , keeping the looms supplied with coloured yarn . |
| 16 | It was in a very real sense his natural home , particularly during the initial stages of his membership when the anger and hatred nurtured by Nizan against bourgeois existence and bourgeois culture found sustenance within the counter-culture of a highly sectarian communist party . |
| 17 | We can have ( 52 ) but never ( 53 ) : ( 52 ) Lewis left the bag in a dark corner his short answer irritated her ( 53 ) Lewis left the bag in a corner dark his answer short irritated her In suggesting the elements from which an answer can be constructed , we should bear in mind that here , as often in syntax , to assume a single explanatory factor risks oversimplifying matters . |
| 18 | On his departure the following year his two neighbours in nos. 48 and 50 moved along — Mrs. Jeffery taking no. 46 and Mrs. Tapper ( my grandmother ) no. 48 . |
| 19 | In 1641 he produced two new works , Le nozze d'Enea con Lavinia ( also lost ) and Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria and the following year his final masterpiece L'incoronazione di Poppea . |
| 20 | The following year his whole family was carried off by the plague , while in 1666 most of his remaining property was destroyed by the fire . |
| 21 | The second was two-on-one , with the extra player his 83-year-old mother Elizabeth . |
| 22 | I shall allow my hypothetical ideal natural lawyer his fundamental principle or principles and enter no objections as to the difficulties of conflicts between and priorities amongst fundamental principles where more than one is in question . |
| 23 | When the subject of his father cropped up , which was not very often , Phil found that she could speak of him with true affection , keeping alive for the little boy his early memories of a loving father . |
| 24 | She was a pretty young widow with a small son , and Thomas went to law to give the little boy his own surname . |
| 25 | In one more smooth movement his own shirt was gone , and as she looked at him her naked skin seemed to cry out for the touch of his . |
| 26 | Though not a natural speaker his pithy style , backed by his fame and renunciation , strengthened the Student Volunteer Missionary movement . |
| 27 | Will he also accept the Opposition 's view that , with the social fund , the Prime Minister first demonstrated on a national scale his dangerous incompetence ? |
| 28 | In The Discarded Image his omnivorous reading taste is best synthesized . |
| 29 | During those same years J. W. B. Douglas was carrying forward into the secondary-school stage his massive study of a sample of 5,000 children born in 1946 . |
| 30 | But a sending-off two weeks ago will give the talented striker his second suspension of the campaign . |