Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ion Aurel Stoica , leader of the government 's negotiating team and Minister of State for the Quality of Life and Social Security , offered his resignation on the same day but it was rejected by Roman . |
| 2 | There had been concern about his progress at the same stage as there now was for Balbinder 's . |
| 3 | In his amateur days he was an ‘ eviction technician ’ ( a fashionable euphemism for bouncer ) but such work is regarded as unseemly for the standard bearer of a sport which prides itself in its healthy clean-living image , and he now supplements his income from the few competitions which pay more than a pittance by personal appearances . |
| 4 | Her pulses were racing madly as he watched him tug his tie undone with a rough impatience , shrug off his jacket and begin to dispose of his shirt in the same cool , determined style . |
| 5 | Where it 's two males , male applicant and a male interviewer , and the prospective employee has a less prestigious accent than the interviewer , so it 's quite likely that the prospective employee would shift his accent towards a more that of the employer , due to his relative need of approval so much more than vice versa . |
| 6 | He was the archetypal theoretical physicist : it was said of him that even his presence in the same town would make experiments go wrong ! |
| 7 | On several occasions the obituarists have been poised , ready to send the man to his grave with a few solemn words of recognition . |
| 8 | Joel Garner was , in fact , almost at the end had begun back in 1976–7 against Pakistan when he made his debut in the same game as Colin Croft . |
| 9 | ‘ Tommy Taylor made his debut in the same game as me . |
| 10 | Jazz skewered up his hair with a few of Mrs Nicholson 's hairpins and the three of them shuffled and clacked respectively for home , grateful for the now emptier streets . |
| 11 | Cos Grant 's gone off to play with his computer for a few minutes . |
| 12 | His pale grey silk shirt hung from slackened shoulders , ruffling against his chest with the same hot breeze that ruffled her own thin blouse softly against her heaving breast . |
| 13 | If he is not saying that he would repeal the increase in VAT , he is simply speaking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time . |
| 14 | And then , of course , there is Steve Bone blowing as many saxes as he can fit in his mouth at the same time . |
| 15 | Perhaps his most popular work , the Turangalîla-symphonie , was a commission from Koussevitzky , fusing his rich and instantly identifiable harmonic language with complex Hindu rhythms : it was his study of the latter that led to his formulation of ‘ total ’ serialism , first seen in his Studies in Rhythm of 1949 . |
| 16 | Uyeshiba developed the techniques of aikido from his study of the many styles of jiu jitsu in Japan . |
| 17 | Alexia held his glance for a few moments , a furrow between her eyebrows , and dropped the subject . |
| 18 | Still I suppose you could say he suffered for his religion in the same way I suffer for my art . |
| 19 | I think that erm he 's almost there , we shall be able to award him his proficiency badge for his locksmithing after a few more tests . |
| 20 | He had caught up with and passed his rival in a latter of a few strides in a quite extraordinary spurt of acceleration for a steeple-chaser carrying twelve and a half stone at the end of a three-mile chase , and for the big horse it was simply too much : Mill House weakened rapidly and by the time Arkle had strode home to a rapturous reception Mill House had been passed by Rondetto . |
| 21 | Immacolata said it glowed prettily , the light was flattering , and this recollection passed across his mind at the same time as he registered the woman 's contorted face , her blotched cheeks and veined eyes , and began to hear what she was saying : |
| 22 | Dorcas vaguely recalled an elderly nome who had once decided that he was a teapot , but he 'd changed his mind after a few days . |
| 23 | It remained his seat for a few months short of thirty years . |
| 24 | However , their arguments rest purely on Sartre 's intentions rather than his practice in the latter novel : Sartre in fact adopts a whole range of modernist devices throughout the three volumes , deriving precisely from the narrative experiments of Joyce , Dos Passos , Faulkner and others . |
| 25 | His work at the same time marks a break with conventional theorisations of power . |
| 26 | Your letter was a great joy to me , a message from another human being who approaches his work with the same seriousness as I do mine , and who has consequently suffered as much under the insanities of our time … |
| 27 | Although he came to Parliaments regularly enough , he spent his last twenty years running his diocese with the same competent mediocrity by which he had come by it . |
| 28 | He carried a colour photograph of his mill in the same way that others carry their wives and children . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , there is no shortage of energy in passes such as ‘ cum gladiis et frustibus exierunt ’ ( ‘ They went out with swords and clubs ’ ) in the former , and Christophers prefer to concentrate on Peter 's fear as he watches Christ being led away from afar , rather than anger at his betrayal in the latter . |
| 30 | I went over to his home for a few days to sort out helmet and leather contracts . |