Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb base] his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His own notes on the plans for Shotesham indicate his great attention to detail : ‘ Particular care must be taken in finishing the floor of the Nursery etc to prevent any Noise being heard on the Principal Floor . ’ |
| 2 | LAST TIME I meet Bobby Paine was in a hotel room in Milwaukee at 3am , when myself and Brian Setzer were playing indoor golf , drinking a bit and listening to Bobby tell his mad stories about Jerry Lee , Billy Idol and sundry LA psychos — barmy late-night company ! |
| 3 | On Oct. 15 the House judiciary committee 's Democratic majority demanded that Barr reconsider his earlier refusal to appoint a special prosecutor , a demand which was endorsed fully by Boren . |
| 4 | 702–3 , Archbishop Beorhtwald presiding , but the terms are said to have been that Wilfrid relinquish his episcopal office and retire to his monastery at Ripon and they were unacceptable ( Vita Wilfridi , chs 46–7 ) . |
| 5 | His contemporaries reported him as a master of geological field-mapping techniques and his original maps of many parts of Scotland confirm his observational skills and his ability to locate himself in the wilderness with an accuracy that can not be improved upon with aerial photographs . |
| 6 | WEALTHY Lady Alethea Savile never recovered from hearing her lover James Gilbey profess his undying love for Princess Diana , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 7 | WEALTHY Lady Alethea Savile never recovered from hearing her lover James Gilbey profess his undying love for Princess Diana , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 8 | WEALTHY Lady Alethea Savile never recovered from hearing her lover James Gilbey profess his undying love for Princess Diana , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 9 | Willie sat dejectedly at the table and watched Tom drag his small mattress past the window . |
| 10 | COHSE researcher Steven Weeks say his main concern is that the schemes being marketed ‘ are not designed to measure the type of jobs nurses do ’ . |
| 11 | With no flak at all , I watched Eddie drop his ten 500lb bombs from the bomb bay ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ I had listened to them spellbound , just as I once , as a small girl , hid behind my father 's sofa and heard Samuel Coleridge recite his Ancient Mariner 's Rime . |
| 13 | A packed courtroom far from all seated heard the former Recorder of Teesside recall his early days in the area during his speech to mark the opening of the Middlesbrough-based court centre . |
| 14 | ‘ And God help his poor victim ! ’ |
| 15 | That year also saw Jackie Stewart end his racing career with his third championship , with Emerson as his runner-up . |
| 16 | It spawned the Bladud tale , it made Francis Peck subtitle his Antiquarian Annals of Stanford of 1727 Academia Tercia Anglicana , or ‘ The Third English University ’ , and it fuelled the fertile minds of William Stukeley and later Victorian romantics . |
| 17 | The evidence suggests that , far from enhancing the anti-Tory campaign , the debate on PR helped John Major secure his unexpected victory . |
| 18 | Split into two interweaving parts , it recreates the Creation and also has the outlaw Cain tell his fratricidal story , East of Eden in the Tower of Babel . |
| 19 | On Nov. 17 , Havel broadcast his proposed amendments to the referendum law and the existing Constitution . |