Example sentences of "his [noun sg] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had something to do with history and the past , that excitement , and something to do with potential as well , with what Orwell or somebody had said , that every man really knew in his heart the finest place to be was the countryside on a summer 's day . |
| 2 | It does n't sound much but you 've got to watch out these days , with everything constantly getting cheaper and Tod grimly counting his money the whole time . |
| 3 | The anthem : ‘ Blessed by Thou , Lord God of Israel ’ was sung by Thomas Street Church choir and the sermon was preached by Mr Guard who chose as his text the fourth verse of the twenty-seventh Psalm : ‘ One thing have I desired of the Lord , that will I seek after , that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life , to behold the beauty of the Lord and to enquire in His temple . ’ |
| 4 | Eliot , who invited his friends to this performance , who attended some of the rehearsals , and who expressed his full confidence in the director Rupert Doone , continued to follow in his text the original impetus which Cornford had given him . |
| 5 | The Sheriff said he would give them his decision the following day . |
| 6 | Ackroyd notices that the Eliot who had once called poetry a ‘ mug 's game ’ was eventually , in his play The Elder Statesman , to use the same expression for forgery . |
| 7 | Euripides , in his play The Suppliant Women , sets out this antithesis in a famous dialogue between the Herald from Thebes and Theseus , the King of Athens . |
| 8 | Rehabilitated by the partnership with Sien , refreshed by the gleams of baby life , confirmed by Theo 's continuing supply of materials and basic finance , and by his unflagging moral support , he was ready to move in closer , as if to feel on his skin the buried heat of creation and experience its terrific energies . |
| 9 | A Word Child ( 1975 ) , indeed , is so specific in its references to places , and especially to places on the London Underground , that the narrator remarks he was once tempted to call his story the Inner Circle ; and Martin Amis 's London Fields ( 1989 ) is almost as detailed about Notting Hill as if it were a guide-book . |
| 10 | On the day after his inauguration the new President ordered at least 162 people — including his immediate predecessor Ertha Pascal-Trouillot and her entire Cabinet — not to attempt to leave the country for one month . |
| 11 | He bent and took from his case the half-burnt diary still in its protective transparent wrapping . |
| 12 | I am surprised that he did not cite as evidence in support of his case the moral philosophy of his own Monklands District Council . |
| 13 | He opens with a history of homebuilts dating from Sir George Cayley ( who would have approved the sage advice to get an experienced hand to make the first test flight of your creation , though in his case the unfortunate man was more adept at handling a coach-and-four than a flying machine ) and proceeds through the Flying Flea era to the post-war rebirth in France and the USA , thence to Rutan and the foam/fibreglass revolution , and on to the 1980s emergence of IFR-capable alabaster-smooth hot-rod kitplanes that will blow the socks off anything Vero Beach and Wichita are ( or more accurately are n't ) building . |
| 14 | The soldier looked over the parapet and saw to his horror the vague heap of a body ; he scrambled down the bank but as he approached , the vision slowly faded , there was no one there . |
| 15 | In his experience the early-morning routine in an institution seldom varied . |
| 16 | Yanto went on to tell Billy about his experience the last time he had used Selwyn 's lavatory . |
| 17 | At his trial the following March Boldwood was found guilty of murder , for which the usual punishment was death . |
| 18 | From B 's perspective of obtaining his freedom the unresolved issues were equally fundamental to the point addressed . |
| 19 | Indeed , three generations of Culpepers joined this guild , as Edmund II 's son , John Chandler , in turn became his apprentice the following year . |
| 20 | And for his kitchen the thick stuff . |
| 21 | He used to sit in his study the whole time . |
| 22 | Forty years later , in his biography The Sweeping Wind ( 1962 ) , he described his first impressions : ‘ a young red-headed man , very tall and slightly stooped , nervous , his face spotty red as if about to explode into a dermatosis … |
| 23 | He was the new and eternal Paschal lamb , he was the new Temple and law ; through his blood the new covenant was established and by his blood sins were forgiven ( see Heb. passim ; 1 Cor. |
| 24 | Neoptolemus , at his side the black Atridae , |
| 25 | The Italian club have bid for Darco Pansere the red star striker whose penalty won his side the European Cup in Bari on Wednesday . |
| 26 | Perhaps the most paranoid variation on this theme comes from William Milton Cooper , who suggests in his pamphlet The Secret Government that J.F. Kennedy was in fact killed because he was about to blow the gaff on the alien conspiracy . |
| 27 | As she watched him striding up the beach she tried to consider what he had said but with his loss the full weight of her grief hit her with a thud that stopped her eyes , her ears , her brain . |
| 28 | And conversely , in the exalté atmosphere of Northern Nigeria , a Resident who admitted defeat at the hands of his emir was deemed to be guilty of two unpardonable sins : he disgraced by his ineptitude the good name of the British Colonial Service ; and he brought the whole principle of local administrative autonomy into disrepute . |
| 29 | ‘ So I see , ’ she muttered , waiting while he gently removed from his neck the clinging arms of a laughing woman who had plastered herself to his front . |
| 30 | He had made money from his movie The Wild Angels and now he wanted to prove he could do something worthwhile . |