Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After its opening Archbishop Melton of York demanded that the king should be brought before parliament ; Bishops Stratford and Orleton were thereupon sent to Kenilworth , where the king was imprisoned , to request his attendance but they came back to report with some zest his offensive words of refusal . |
| 2 | It had n't occurred to him that at some point his life-support system would be taken away . |
| 3 | At this point Antonio enters , and Shylock instantly switches to verse in an aside to us : This is a crucial moment , revealing to us alone at this point his real hatred , so strong that only verse can express it . |
| 4 | At this point his heavy hand came into harsh contact with my face . |
| 5 | Once again Eliot sought secrecy at one of the most important events of his life , although on this occasion his primary aim was to avoid the attentions of the newspapers . |
| 6 | No one remembered , except Maude who kept her thoughts to herself , that seven years ago this week his little child , Matthew , died suddenly , the victim of the plague which stalked the alleyways and streets of London . |
| 7 | The TV bear comes of age this year his 40th anniversary and puppeteer Matthew Corbett feared rip-offs in the wake of Sooty-mania . |
| 8 | By this time his international reputation was well established . |
| 9 | Immediately a great roar of applause broke out , and Gurney looked at the audience , and this time his self-satisfied smirk seemed to be so obvious , to George at any rate , that he could not understand how the audience too could fail to see it . |
| 10 | This time his 38-year-old legs were not quick enough to cut off the corners and trap his quarry for even the slightest roughing-up . |
| 11 | At this time his poetic inspiration returned , and some of his finest work was written in the last weeks of his life , including his most famous poem , ‘ Heart of the Heartless World ’ . |
| 12 | That was why , apart from a mild hope that this time his wretched daughter would get herself killed , he did not devote his considerable powers to learning more about the three travellers galloping desperately out of his realm . |
| 13 | At this stage his main objective was to catch a wave all the way into the beach . |
| 14 | Morgan , Mr Preston , the bank 's new president , will need all his organisational skills if ( rightly ) he decides in September to make that bureaucracy his first target . |
| 15 | At such time his own life seemed to him equally simple ; the components were there — they had been assembled . |
| 16 | Only for a moment did he pause and face the buffeting wind with an effort , and Paul recognised in that moment his own struggle with bales of wool before the same door . |
| 17 | At that moment his dearest wish was to be back at work and having lunch with Mrs Tobias . |
| 18 | LIONEL HAMPTON One of the few remaining links with the classic era , Hamp played drums for Louis Armstrong as long ago as 1930 ; later in that decade his pulsating vibes gave Benny Goodman 's great quartet much of its joie de vivre . |
| 19 | In much the same vein his contemporary Macaulay wrote that " institutions purely democratic must , sooner or later , destroy liberty , or civilization , or both . " |
| 20 | Brian Wilson , the former Beach Boy who ingested Grade A drugs at the same rate his fellow Californians gulped down vitamins has brought out his autobiography . |
| 21 | Three years later Hicks was dead and in the same year his eldest son , John Phillimore Hicks also died . |
| 22 | Until well-into our own century his embalmed body was displayed in a glass-topped coffin in Faarevejle church on the Danish island of Fyn . |
| 23 | In this way not only are the expenses of ( the worker 's ) reproduction considerably lessened , but at the same time his helpless dependence upon the factory as a whole , and therefore upon the capitalist , is rendered complete ’ ( ibid. , p. 547 ) . |
| 24 | At the same time his pathological detestation of ‘ popery ’ guaranteed that he would vote with the Whigs over great questions of policy , such as the Hanoverian succession and the war with France . |
| 25 | About the same time his second son Daniel [ q.v. ] , |
| 26 | His final letters from Aden , for example , although highlighting his fascination with " bolshevik mysticism " , record at the same time his growing interest in another potential outlet for his talents and energies a business entrepreneurial career in the shipping line of Antonin Besse , his erstwhile benefactor in Aden . |
| 27 | At the same time his specialised senses detected an overpowering impression of money . |
| 28 | His work was encouragingly received , but about that time his emotional life was thrown into turmoil because his closest friend in the company began an affair with another member of their circle . |