Example sentences of "and [noun] his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lancashire gave him one of his most memorable finds ( an Old Trafford cupboard crammed with old minute books ) and Surrey his next subject ( George Lohmann ) : ‘ He was a rebel , but also a tragic figure . |
| 2 | POPE John Paul this weekend starts a trip that was once only the stuff of his dreams and prayers his first visit to the former Soviet Union . |
| 3 | Lewis had his two slender volumes of verse , and Tolkien his learned edition of Sir Gawain and the Green knight and his article on Ancrene Wisse and Hali Meith-had ( which combines deep linguistic learning with a justly famous account of the world of this West Midland prose writer which we can recognize as a foretaste of the Hobbit 's native Shire ) . |
| 4 | Stephen and Susanna ordered lobster salad , Christina a club sandwich , and Antonio his last cheeseburger . |
| 5 | Webern was writing his Five Pieces for Orchestra , Prokofiev his Classical Symphony , Ives his Holidays Symphony , Falla his ballet El amor brujo , and Schoenberg his weird song Herzgewachse , with celeste , harmonium and harp accompaniment . |
| 6 | In the fields around Kouklia and Akhelia his second crop of cane was strong and healthy and promising ; the men in good heart ; Loppe full of plans . |
| 7 | If he 'd picked her up and laid her on the bed and taken her with all the passion and strength his virile body was promising her at that moment , she would n't have raised a finger to stop him , so when he swung her around in his arms and deposited her nearer to the bathroom door before removing his arms from her she was left gasping with surprise and a sinking feeling of disappointment mixed with humiliation which shook her with its intensity . |
| 8 | At that time the Hon. Gentleman expressed the hope that between then and Report his Hon. Friend the Minister would look into the matter , talk to his right Hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State and decide that it was more logical to have one body looking after all transport issues in Scotland . |
| 9 | The subcontractor should also be required to co-ordinate with other trades and phase his own work to integrate with the sequence of operations in the contract programme . |
| 10 | Soon Jaq and Meh'Lindi were donning their stout suits of power armour and Grimm his smaller version of the same , while Googol disdainfully assisted Moma Parsheen into his own suit , his lips curled , as if he was packaging excrement . |
| 11 | But Spenser also makes it clear that it is difficult and sometimes impossible to distinguish between the true and the false , regardless of how clear-sighted and self-controlled his masculine knights may be . |