Example sentences of "his [noun] [adv prt] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | In my younger days , ’ he bellowed , pulling his shoulders back martial fashion , ‘ I was keen as a greyhound , fast as a falcon swooping to the kill . ’ |
2 | Bill got his car back last night , put it through M O T |
3 | Anthony King , in his seminal article on overload , published in 1975 , commented on ‘ the increasing difficulty that both major political parties seem to have in carrying out their election manifestos ’ and cast his mind back thirty years to find the standard from which subsequent administrations had fallen : ‘ The fit between what the Labour Party said it would do in 1945 and what the Labour Government actually achieved between 1945 and 1951 is astonishingly close . |
4 | THE off-licence assistant who insisted he served Norman Lamont was dramatically given his job back last night . |
5 | see the jump , you did n't put his teddies up last night |
6 | Vern put his hand out this time . |
7 | As he passed again on the other side of the road on his way back forty minutes later he was caught up in the very worst time of day for traffic . |
8 | Shearer is in to stay , but while Taylor deliberates just who should be his partner up front Campbell plans to gate crash the party . |