Example sentences of "a [noun] his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result his own kingdom was divided among his brothers . |
| 2 | The months of frustration had begun to drain his enthusiasm , until the arrest of Terence MacSwiney , MacCurtain 's successor as Lord Mayor , and his death in Brixton Prison after seventy-four days on hunger strike banished at a stroke his returning doubts . |
| 3 | She took his arm , tugged him towards her , and after a second his gaunt gaze turned on her and he smiled weakly , and kissed her brow . |
| 4 | And as a child his own household included not only his father 's father but his mother 's grandmother , who spent most of her days hidden away ‘ in her own cabin ’ , but who would emerge on Sundays , always knitting a long stocking . |
| 5 | He saw a young woman , slight of figure , with narrow , sloping shoulders and a waist his two hands could easily have spanned , yet full-bosomed , the outline of her breasts , the small mounds of her nipples , thrusting against the sprigged cotton dress which was slightly too tight for her . |
| 6 | For the length of a heartbeat his tall figure remained stiff and unyielding , and then she heard him swear harshly under his breath , and felt his strong arms enfolding her trembling figure . |
| 7 | He recalled with a shudder his futile attempts to pull together the shreds of his old life as if nothing had happened , his tangled emotions , the trouble at school . |
| 8 | In his own time he had been a maverick , and for being a maverick his grateful sovereign had pinned on his chest the gallantry medal of the Military Cross . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , I 'll be damned , ’ said Mr Frizzell , forgetting for a moment his Presbyterian upbringing . |
| 10 | It began with a Joey Cunningham shot blocked by Lee Greenhalgh , Strain 's free header from Russell 's free kick went inches past and then Russell with a saw his power-laden shot tipped over by Paul Rice . |
| 11 | After a while his initial panic died down and he settled down into a steadier gallop , still with his head turned to the outside . |
| 12 | For a decade his gentle pleas have been ignored , but now Wear Valley Council has promised to treat his request sympathetically . |
| 13 | Perhaps they meant it , but he died of a fever his first winter here and it must have seemed to him that they 'd broken a promise . |
| 14 | Nobody wants to tell a man his eldest son 's gone . |
| 15 | Show a man his lost mother 's grave , and you invoked deep emotional forces which could be played upon , manipulated . |
| 16 | Thus even if an actor , following Stanislavsky , allows himself to become emotionally engaged during a performance his emotional response , mediated by dramatic form , can only be an approximation to the character 's supposed emotional state . |
| 17 | Within a year his civil servants produced a document called " The Basic Principles for the Reform of the Courts " , which recommended all the steps Panin and Bludov had resisted for twenty years . |
| 18 | Under the peak of a cap his green eyes shot long glances aware of any trouble or any fun that was going . |
| 19 | There is the folklore assertion that when an experienced warrener went to buy ferrets at a market his first action on inspecting them was to insert his hand in a cage containing a number of the animals . |
| 20 | He also remembered the look of the adjustable spanner , and it seemed to him appropriate that having been knocked down with a spanner his whole body was now apparently being alternately wrenched and tightened . |
| 21 | In an instant his fine offering consisted of nothing but a tangle of leaves and twigs and the pale unlovely innards of dead blossoms . |
| 22 | It also noted comments by Gorbachev , quoted in the newspaper Sovietskaya Rossiya , that he was retaining as an adviser his former CPSU politburo ally Aleksandr Yakovlev . |
| 23 | Wilby was interviewed by an assistant his own age before being granted a £2,500 loan in the name of his father William , 49 . |
| 24 | In 1834 , as we have already seen , he brought to an end his six-year occupation of the Danubian Principalities . |