Example sentences of "[det] [coord] his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | £100,000 campaign for this and his new paperback . |
2 | This and his personal worries , which must have seemed without issue , were perhaps responsible for a certain reliance , though by no means dependence , on alcohol . |
3 | He lost some of his sparkle after this and his final game for us was at Swindon on Easter Monday 1935 when he scored our goal in a l-l draw . |
4 | Goodridge 's best-known work is the Lansdown tower on the edge of the city , built in 1824–7 for the celebrated William Beckford [ q.v. ] , who had settled in Bath in 1823 ; and this and his own residence , Montebello ( later Bathwick Grange ) on Bathwick Hill ( 1828–30 ) , are compositions of great originality , combining a Picturesque irregularity of form with an eclectic mixture of Greek and Italianate detail . |
5 | Randall for the London Board did not fail to point out the contrast between this and his own refusal of central funds for standardisation ( for which there was in fact a far sounder economic case ) . |
6 | Donald 's father , the bodach [ old man ] as he was affectionately called , was most particular about this and his own banks were models of efficiency . |
7 | It was Eddie 's refusal to do this and his blind obsession and one-track mind which caused him to lose his family , his friends , his respect , his happiness and finally his life . |
8 | This and his aristocratic connections served him well at the Restoration . |
9 | Alexander 's first wife died , his two sons died ; the way he drank to forget it all and his mad rides at night to satisfy any lust , it was only a matter of time before such an accident occurred . ’ |
10 | Fleeing across the western deserts , abandoned by all but his immediate family , Dara was eventually betrayed by Jiwan Khan , a local chieftain whom Dara had personally saved from death only a few years before . |
11 | At this time he decided to dispose of all but his essential possessions , and hid his library of books ( his most treasured possession ) with a view to selling them also . |
12 | Its endemic pessimism had got him by the balls and left him beached and burned out by his late twenties , unemployed , unskilled and unloved by all but his widowed mother . |
13 | Even a writer as far removed from the field covered in this book as John Le Carré owes a great deal , in all but his latest work , to the blueprint detective story . |
14 | Soldiers loyal to President Gnassingbe Eyadema , who was divested by the national conference in August of all but his ceremonial powers [ see p. 38379 ] , twice stormed the national radio and television station on Oct. 1 , in separate attempts to return him to power . |
15 | ‘ The author is an historian respected by many but his so-called facts , he does not always verify them . |
16 | For the rest of Russell 's life there was a constant tug of war between the very real religious sentiments which he expresses in passages like those and his sceptical attitude towards established religions . |
17 | His hair had the chestnut glints of George 's own and his brown eyes were steady with a touch of humour . |