Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh , no ? ’ he drawled mockingly as he slowly lowered his dark head towards her . |
| 2 | Damian Flint slowly lowered his dark head . |
| 3 | In 1987 , Tyacke vigorously restated his original position in his book Anti-Calvinists : The rise of English Arminianism c. 1590 1640 , only to be turned on once more by his critics . |
| 4 | He eventually realised his only chance of survival was to make his own way down the peak . |
| 5 | Cook eventually created his own fleet of floating palaces to carry the ‘ Cookii ’ down the Nile . |
| 6 | Later developments in the understanding of kinship and lineage relationships owed much to his discussions of this topic , but many of his academic successors — notably ( Sir ) E. E. Evans-Pritchard [ q.v. ] and ( Sir ) E. R. Leach — effectively dismissed his doctrinaire methodology . |
| 7 | By thinking carefully about every detail , Geoff successfully created his own look . |
| 8 | Helen , too , was frequently informed of his over-readiness to fall in love with an attractive outward appearance , even as he constantly restated his heavy dependence upon his engrossed love for her : |
| 9 | Winter storms swiftly obliterated his expensive engineering structures . |
| 10 | Although he was a leading member of the Danzig Party it would probably be fair to describe him as a misguided liberal who only realised his mistaken alliance when he saw the brownshirts pulling on their kicking boots . |
| 11 | Sex the night before picking up his pen apparently impaired his literary powers . |
| 12 | His partially-aroused prick became as hard as iron as she gently massaged his loose foreskin . |
| 13 | MacDonald decided , naturally but disastrously , that the obvious objective was to import into the living rooms of the wireless-owning population the soaring platform oratory which so moved his immediate audiences . |
| 14 | He looked round , somewhat disappointed his first resolution met no opposition . |
| 15 | The pathologist suddenly dropped his habitual banter , and looked Morse in the eye . |
| 16 | His trouble was that he drank far too much strong tea and so ruined his digestive system . |
| 17 | TEN years after prison bride Anna Moore brutally murdered his youngest daughter , Dick Dixon still believes the Ballykelly bomber should have been hanged . |
| 18 | It was the greatness of the ancient empire to which the Shah was attracted and with which he constantly compared his own achievements and ambitions . |
| 19 | At the Council of Arminium forty-five years later , there were four British bishops , one of whom apparently paid his own way — which would seem to indicate some degree of prosperity . |
| 20 | This is an increase of £200,000 on last season when John Fourie not only celebrated his 53rd birthday here , but led South African golfers to a splendid 1-2-3 on the scoreboard . |
| 21 | His trip to the Caribbean , and subsequent lecture tour , not only widened his democratic vistas , it allowed him to expand upon his vision of an independent Trinidad whilst laying the foundation of his emergence as its intellectual spokesman . |
| 22 | Barbarossa was crowned Emperor in Saint Peter 's Basilica , declaring that the Pope merely confirmed his existing right to imperial power , but opposed by the Roman citizens and surrounding Italian territories . |
| 23 | He greatly admired his clever mother , from whom he inherited a love of poetry . |
| 24 | When the roaring giant of a tube train came , the fag sucker suddenly withdrew his double-buckled shoes from the concrete and became a little scuttling pixie to compete with all the other scuttling pixies , but managed a further quick change to a hunched-up half-shut-marble-eyed frowny scowling monkey as he took his tense unrest out on the floor of the tube train that was carrying him to his necessary employment . |
| 25 | Throughout he fiercely defended his own actions and was at pains to explain why he did not quit as many had said he should immediately after Black Wednesday . |
| 26 | He noted that two shirts were warmer than one overcoat , and he obviously enjoyed his open air sessions on the clinic rounds in the College yard . |
| 27 | Shelley suddenly swung his luminous face towards me , sat quickly down on a chair , sticking out one leg and resting a hand on his thigh , clearly inviting me to hold the floor awhile . |
| 28 | But Ferreira , who had not come close to breaking the sixth seed , suddenly discovered his best form , hitting three glorious forehands , including one to save match point , and capturing the game when Stich hit a backhand volley out . |
| 29 | Rory had always thought of Hamish as a sort of ponderously eccentric fool , and Ken a kind of failure because he had so much wanted to travel , and instead had settled down with Mary , stayed in the same wee corner of the world as he 'd been born and raised in , and not only raised his own children , but chosen to teach others ' , too . |
| 30 | He returned to London early in 1930 , but only displayed his Spanish paintings in a 1932 one-man show at the Bloomsbury Gallery . |