Example sentences of "he [prep] his [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | His wife of 37 years , Nesta , stood by him during his first public humiliation . |
| 2 | Cerberus is nonetheless fallible , for HERCULES managed to overpower him in his Twelfth Labour with his bare hands while Orpheus lulled him to sleep with soft music . |
| 3 | Though he now said that he was ‘ no longer very much interested in my own theories about poetic drama , especially those put forward before 1934 ’ , the old interests which had fascinated him from his first dramatic Fragments continued to grip him , leading to the fact that each of his dramas had as its ‘ sort of springboard ’ a ‘ Greek myth ’ . |
| 4 | Once he was popping happily round a spooky 3′6″ course with tyres , polythene bags and barrels as fillers , I took him to his first indoor showjumping competition . |
| 5 | This observation led him to his third important realization , namely , that the tension that he had seen in his neck was causing other tensions throughout his whole structure . |