Example sentences of "his [adj] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With his usual lightning-swift reactions he took advantage of the moment to pull her from the bed , and as she stumbled against him , his arms tightened about her involuntarily . |
| 2 | He was being his usual ethical self I suppose , calling David a capitalist swine , ’ he remembers . |
| 3 | Despite his high sporting profile he remains an unassuming , almost diffident character , a stark contrast with some of his more vociferous colleagues . |
| 4 | With his high cultural ideals he had , in any case , strong and growing suspicions about the worth of a Germany united under Prussian domination and dedicated to narrow military and materialistic goals . |
| 5 | And when a waitress named Nanette thrust a glass of claret into his shaking right hand it seemed , well , perfect . |
| 6 | During his colourful stand-up career he never prepared an act and developed a reputation as an aggressive , confrontational performer that still haunts him . |
| 7 | Not surprisingly , really , for in his limited first-class exposure he has looked a much better wing or perhaps outside centre . |
| 8 | You could hardly take a woman to her own restaurant , but because of his limited social life he knew of nowhere better . |
| 9 | Despite his consummate low-flying ability he had already had a brush with some trees and had also once even grazed the ground in a Mosquito . |
| 10 | Under his large untidy desk he would keep several bottles of champagne , and on the shelves above were lines of very explicit African phallic carvings . |
| 11 | In one of his private talks with his late general practitioner he said : ‘ Look old son . |
| 12 | If Mr Bush vetoes the measure , he risks losing abortion-rights voters who supported him for other reasons , and if he changes his firm anti-abortion stance he runs the potentially greater risk of losing his hard-core right-wing support . |
| 13 | From his great clinical experience he was able to postulate his ‘ mechanical theory ’ , a conception of the fundamental part played by intra-uterine position and pressure on the production of congenital malformations . |
| 14 | As I looked up into his steely blue eyes I admit I did wonder what disparaging thoughts he was thinking about me . |
| 15 | Bearing in mind that she would be eating a main meal that evening , Fabia ordered an omelette and salad , and soon discovered that once Lubor had settled down from his initial opportunistic manner he was quite a pleasant lunchtime companion . |
| 16 | At his first diocesan conference he told them his idea of a bishop 's job . |
| 17 | The safe shelter he had found on the edge of the village could not have been more comfortable , for all that on awakening and having his first lightsome look it struck him as a mite strange . |
| 18 | In the loft of his small terraced cottage he has constructed a training facility : a hinged wooden board dotted with artificial holds , which can be swung to any angle from very overhanging to ludicrously overhanging . |
| 19 | It was laughable , really , but when she looked back on her nervous apprehension regarding his overwhelming sexual magnetism she almost felt like weeping with frustration . |
| 20 | With Gary 's wealth of experience in bridal hairstyles and his superb creative talent we 're going to create a look for you that would make any bride blush . |
| 21 | She drew a deep breath , and with her cheek pressed against his green woollen jersey she stared at the flightless bird searching for tasty morsels on the path ahead of them . |
| 22 | With his immense practical experience he was suspicious of academics ; he was a perfectionist and would not tolerate any sort of inaccuracy . |
| 23 | For an application of the defence in a case where a claimant , in order to make good his claim , was obliged to assert his own fraudulent purpose I was referred to Palaniappa Chettiar v. Arunasalam Chettiar [ 1962 ] A.C. 294 . |
| 24 | But he refrained from overt agreement , telling himself that in view of his own disreputable pleasure it would have been hypocritical . |
| 25 | and it will not in that sense make any difference to God love , make a lot of difference to you and to me , but it will not make any difference to God 's love whether we spend our eternity in heaven or in hell , he will not love those in heaven any more than he loves those who are already , who will be punished for ever in hell , because God 's love is eternal , it did n't start at Bethlehem , it did n't start at Calvary and it does n't end when you and I die , as love is eternal , so God has provided salvation for every body and he offers salvation to all who will come to him in repent and and seine fe and except his salvation , you see when the Lord Jesus Christ died upon Calvary 's cross he died to make salvation available for who , for every body , you see he did n't just lay your sins on Jesus , listen to what the old testament profit Isaiah says , there in that tremendous fifty third chapter , and , and in what it 's in verse six , all of us says the profit like sheep have gone astray , each of us has turn to his own way , but the Lord has caused the iniquity of us all to fall on him , whether you and I reject Jesus Christ or accept him does not alter the fact that our sin was laid on Jesus the sins are the most awful person you can think of were laid on Jesus Christ , Jesus Christ paid the sins for , for , for , for men like Hitler , he paid theirs , the price for their sins , as much as he paid the price for the sins of somebody like St Francis of Assisi So God is not partial , it 's clear from scripture that all maybe saved , he made salvation available to all in that same book of Isaiah in chapter forty five , verse twenty two , it says look unto me all the ends of the earth are being saved said the Lord , in Romans one sixteen Paul says I am not ashamed of the gospel because it is the power of God onto salvation to all who will believe , and the verse we 've already quoted John three sixty , for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son , that who so ever believe in him should not perish , but have ever lasting life and Paul when writing to Timothy says he gives his own personal testimony he says this is a good and a faithful saying , it 's worthy of every body accepting that God desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth , so it 's quite clear that all maybe saved . |
| 26 | Giggling at his own hilarious wit he heaved himself out of the bath . |
| 27 | Through receiving so many treatments for his own various ailments he had gained some experience which was a help to others . |
| 28 | When Jesus was warning his followers about his own forthcoming death he told them not to be worried or upset but to put all their trust and confidence in him and in God . |
| 29 | When in his own ministerial memory he may remember that there were . |
| 30 | However , Winters was to decide that Williams was ‘ wholly incapable of coherent thought ’ , and when Williams tried to explain his own rhythmical procedures he invented ‘ the variable foot ’ — which is , as has been remarked , the equivalent of a rubber inch . |