Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Democrats sound as interested in Perot as Republicans do , though most pundits think his pro-business background would attract more disaffected Republicans and hurt Bush hard in Texas . |
| 2 | In the increasing number of critical surveys of the English novel published during the present century Conrad is the sole writer ever to be included in the safe , accepted procession from Fielding to Henry James and beyond who could , to some degree , be considered to write of adventure in the traditional sense ; and it is always made perfectly clear that Conrad 's moral and philosophical probings constitute his true value , his story-telling expertise being , by implication , no more than a means to an end . |
| 3 | But he was in poor health when the latter was written , and both books reflect his increasing pessimism about international affairs ; as Edward Blishen says , ‘ the positive and determined John Dolittle has been replaced by an unhappy dreamer . ’ |
| 4 | His likely successors include his new boss , Carlton programmes director Paul Jackson , and Janet Street-Porter , the BBC 's head of youth programmes . |
| 5 | Will he confirm that he does not stand alone in the European Community but that other countries support his firm stand ? |
| 6 | In 1155 he became abbot of St Victor : several letters and charters attest his financial vigilance and the practical support that he received from the English pope , Hadrian IV [ q.v . ] . |
| 7 | Experts consider his finest achievement to be the West Pier , with its elegant cast-iron kiosks , railings , and windscreens . |
| 8 | Conference watchers say his barnstorming oratory 's been sorely missed . |
| 9 | His forelegs support his horizontal body and the great back legs do the work . |
| 10 | Made reserve debut three days aftr his 17th birthday and after a substitute appearance at Wimbledon started the Premier League game against the scum in February . |
| 11 | For mighty Projects fill his working Brains … |
| 12 | For a genre that often takes itself too seriously , it 's reassuring to know that Les 's jokes remain his greatest joy . |
| 13 | The inevitable comparison with Horowitz followed , though from the start Gavrilov was his own man , nurturing and projecting a style and brilliance all his own and remaining true to his own lights thoroughout his mercurial career . |
| 14 | In Kosovo , Albanians accuse his paramilitary group , the Tigers , of terrorism and mass murder . |
| 15 | President Bush himself , no less , effectively called on Gen Aoun 's loyalist troops to rise against him , but , though some senior officers oppose his high-risk strategies and resent his authoritarian style , they are unlikely to move in the recent climate of public adulation for the great new champion . |
| 16 | Our panel this month included Paul Boutinot of Paul Boutinot Wines the north 's leading shipper , who trotted out some wines form his own stable of Champagne look-alikes ; Bill Towers who must be unique in Britain because as a sheep farmer in the Lake District he runs a very successful wine merchants out of one of the barns on his farm . |
| 17 | ‘ And the sad thing is , it 's a habit very hard to break because he 's always so damned competent — and we all in our various ways expect his uncomplaining support . |
| 18 | Their plans and details resemble his known output . |
| 19 | The Created God , developed with life , could serve mankind 's ‘ spiritual ’ needs as the sciences serve his physical needs . |
| 20 | If the Cubans and Nicaraguans become his primary support groups , it will be a very bad situation , ’ Mr Andy Messing , a former US Special Forces officer who trained in Panama , said yesterday . |
| 21 | He works as a journalist ( Naipaul 's father was also a journalist ) and some of the funniest scenes include his imaginative coverage of local news . |
| 22 | His talent for inspiring , and his rational working demonstrations explain his ongoing success . |
| 23 | The eyes in his skull-like face have long sunk into their sockets , and the rotted remains of a few teeth share his fetid mouth with a blackened , slightly forked tongue . |
| 24 | Some thought Meredith Jones a rough , bullying master , picking out the brightest boys to train them up for the scholarship class and by their results inflate his own ego . |
| 25 | We used to split them up and his men take his that way and th we used to bring ours this way , yeah . |
| 26 | Though the surviving attendance registers attest his regular presence in Windsor , he continued as a clerk of the chapel royal ( under Edward IV ) , no doubt on an occasional basis , becoming senior clerk by 1465 . |
| 27 | Although much of this criticism centres on the misuse of his work by others , some more substantive arguments are that middle-class values inform his conceptual distinctions and that these are insufficiently grounded in the raw data of speech patterns . |
| 28 | Those chapters summarize his main concerns , which are then illustrated in the narrative of the text with descriptions of individual institutions . |
| 29 | Waller 's double-glazing business was caught up in the plague when hooligans set his small factory on fire . |