Example sentences of "of [noun] his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew little about him , except that when riding beside the Duke of Wellington his right knee was hit by one of the last shots fired that day . |
| 2 | ‘ Of course his real name is Morgenstern . |
| 3 | Of course his first move is to go to a pub . |
| 4 | The disobedient youth has been injected with an experimental drug , though of course his tactile sensations are n't blunted . |
| 5 | Gareth wore of course his psychedelic jacket . |
| 6 | ’ The Squire had a stud here and built more stables ; he fished for trout in the ornamental lakes , grew circular coverts to encourage rabbits , which he loved to shoot , kept harriers and a pack of beagles and of course his favourite hunters ‘ Assheton ’ , ‘ Starlight ’ , ‘ Elmhurst ’ , and ‘ Shamrock ’ . |
| 7 | She patted the Labrador 's head , and at her tone of approbation his heavy tail thumped the floor . |
| 8 | It was biting , but she was censoring herself instinctively now , because Florian 's personality was truly one-dimensional , albeit in another way , and the only thing she had ever given him was the degree of tolerance his peculiar genius made his due . |
| 9 | As a true son of Ulster his dear life he gave , |
| 10 | As a true son of Ulster his dear life he gave , |
| 11 | Dalglish 's first game in charge at Blackburn last October was against Plymouth , when in a blaze of publicity his new side won 5–2 . |
| 12 | Despite appointing a succession of managers his only return has been one League Cup triumph . |
| 13 | Men love him for his hearty back-slapping and hand-shaking , for his habit of bear-hugging his male aides when things are going well . |
| 14 | With extra time on his hands he walked the dog by the Manse Burn in Bearsden and in outcrops of shale his trained eye saw parts of fish fossils . |
| 15 | Just when he was entering the springtime of life his best life was over … he had tasted freedom only to lose it . |
| 16 | Dong , because of his unusual height , had a clear view of the new arrivals above the heads of the crowd — and within a matter of seconds his startled eyes fell on two familiar faces that he had not seen for well over a year . |
| 17 | He spent his time putting down on odd scraps of vellum his different thoughts on what he had learnt over the past few weeks . |