Example sentences of "his [noun] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leonard himself was enthused to make his own music , an inspiration which developed from being induced to learn the piano as a young boy with Miss McDougall , in which he said that neither he nor his sister made any headway . |
| 2 | ‘ One of her lines … as the king … goes on about the Gods not suffering the unpiety of his sister to go unpunished . |
| 3 | The family travelled to Brno and to Olomouc , but nevertheless both Mozart and his sister suffered mild attacks of smallpox . |
| 4 | As you know , his sister inherits this place . |
| 5 | Mrs Joyce , the cook , came panting up from the kitchen with the two maid-servants behind her , her hands and wrists covered in flour , while Uncle Walter and his sister peeped wide-eyed from behind the curtains . |
| 6 | For all John Smith 's fluent fibs about ‘ fairness ’ and ‘ investment ’ , during this election campaign , his policies promise higher taxation , higher interest rates and a corresponding brake upon consumer spending which will delay recovery by months , perhaps years . |
| 7 | Sandys ’ Reformation did exactly the opposite : his policies reinforced British military capabilities for nuclear war , while cutting the ships , aircraft and above all infantry needed for the type of fighting in which military forces have been constantly engaged in the latter half of the twentieth century . |
| 8 | THERE is no need for Mr Smith to impose taxes on capital or on financial institutions though : his policies look set to do their damage by knocking the most valuable asset owned by most voters — their homes . |
| 9 | Though he continued to profess his patriotism as an Englishman and refuted the suggestion that he wanted to imitate Hitler , it was in Germany alone that his hope seemed capable of embodiment . |
| 10 | Billy Callender , Palace 's regular goalkeeper from 1926–32 , was thought by some of his contemporaries to have sufficient skill and character to follow his illustrious predecessor , Jack Alderson , not just as the Crystal Palace custodian but also the full England International Side itself . |
| 11 | In 1875 he entered the newly established University College of Wales , Aberystwyth , where his contemporaries included many other nationally-minded young Welshmen . |
| 12 | In common with most of his contemporaries paying such rates , he was charged twice a year from 1783 onwards at a penny a time , though even he was excused in 1784 on grounds of poverty . |
| 13 | To us Bede is above all famous for his Ecclesiastical History of the English People ( 731 ) , but his contemporaries attached more importance , judging by manuscript circulation , to his scriptural commentaries . |
| 14 | The Bloodthirster lashed out and struck him a terrible blow , breaking the bones of his left arm so that his shield hung useless at his side . |
| 15 | His creativity continued unabated to the end of his life , but his efficiency in administration and political reform soon led to enormous demands being made on his time . |
| 16 | His bit gets excited and itches . |
| 17 | He could see Conker 's large rump with the scruffy outdoor tail swishing as the pony grazed , one ear towards him , the foam round his bit turning green as he munched the soft grass . |
| 18 | I suspect that Blake , in his enthusiasm to demonstrate all the techniques used in the book , has produced a mechanical exercise in linguistic description that risks killing appreciation . |
| 19 | His wishes came true . |
| 20 | One of his strange exploits among other frolics , was having a coffin made of copper ( which one of his mines had that year produced ) , and placed in the great hall , and instead of his making use of it as a monitor that might have made him ashamed and terrified at his past life , and induce him to make amends in future , it was filled with punch , and he and his comrades soon made themselves incapable of any sort of reflection ; this was often repeated , and hurried him on to that awful moment he had so much reason to dread . |
| 21 | His resignation followed persistent allegations that he had been an informer for the " Stasi " ( the East German state security police ) during 1981-88 . |
| 22 | His storm lasted two and half days , leaving him ragged and with only enough energy to get to the airport to be ready for the first flight out . |
| 23 | In the breeding tank there are none , so his function becomes obsolete . |
| 24 | The RICS check each lease to make sure there is a power of appointment ; other than that , the president did not consider it his function to determine any legal questions which might arise in the course of a rent review . |
| 25 | His attempts to turn RIC men from soldiers into policemen may have been appropriate in the largely peaceful Ireland of the 1890s , but when the RIC was called upon in 1919 to resume its military character in order to defeat the IRA it was to prove unequal to the task . |
| 26 | Of his attempts to realize this experience over again in his post-Siberian fiction , the bald Epilogue to Crime and Punishment is an early and unpromising instance . |
| 27 | Schiller 's dual ‘ Superministry ’ attracted criticism however , his attempts to control public spending were unpopular and his bullying behaviour made him enemies . |
| 28 | His attempts to rectify this met with little encouragement . |
| 29 | They saw a frustrated Stalin , foiled in his attempts to extend Russian power into northern , western , and southern Europe by the alliance of the European democracies and the United States . |
| 30 | The truth is that the liberties he wanted to take simply disrupted his attempts to produce marketable drawings for Theo , and for his connections in The Hague ( such as his Uncle Cor ) . |