Example sentences of "his [noun pl] were [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was hard to tell because his face was masked with ribbons of caked blood , and his eyes were just slits in a puffy mess of red and black bruises . |
| 2 | His lips were not steel , but silk . |
| 3 | His lips were only inches from hers when Rosa 's tap at the door made him lift his dark head . |
| 4 | Howard was a revelation to me because his parents were n't intellectuals like the parents of all the other children I knew . |
| 5 | One night when his parents were out David returned to the scene ; as expected everything was quiet not even a walker with a dog was passing through , David cautiously approached the old hut , he peered through a crack in the battens before going round to the door which to his surprise was ajar . |
| 6 | He was wearing Maxim 's car coat over his thin shirt , but his shoes were still canvas and the ground beyond the fence was a mudpond laced with sharp lumps of concrete and old ironwork . |
| 7 | Now , he seemed to be in pain , and the lines on his cheeks were almost cracks . |
| 8 | If his targets were n't killers , he 'd send guns . |
| 9 | Indeed , the nineteenth century English philosopher , Herbert Spencer , had already constructed theories of human society based on Darwin 's evolutionary ideas and his writings were again part of Park 's reading . |
| 10 | His patients were mainly Merseyside dockers and shipyard workers , and seamen injured at sea , and he had to deal with many severe accident cases . |
| 11 | Chapman insisted that his players were not slaves to a system , but merely followed the ‘ fundamental principles of teamwork ’ . |
| 12 | His ancestors were probably Normans who came over . |
| 13 | The man looked to be asleep though his eyelids were only half-closed . |
| 14 | His ministers were just yes-men , puppets . |
| 15 | At first I found him a difficult subject to interview because , to paraphrase Donne , when he had done he had not done , he still had more ; and I had to learn to give him at least five seconds , grace before moving on , because his afterthoughts were often gems . |
| 16 | He claimed his victims were mostly prostitutes or willing sex partners . |