Example sentences of "his [noun] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact he was one of the intellectual élite ; none of his contemporaries ever thought that Wordsworth was ill-educated . |
| 2 | When the Oxford academic Henry Foulis declared in 1671 that ‘ Treason [ is ] the sign of the true Roman religion ’ , he was expressing an opinion that the great majority of his contemporaries still accepted without question . |
| 3 | ‘ I wonder why you told everyone Harbury had lost the crime job if you did n't have his successor neatly lined up ? ’ |
| 4 | Soviet efforts to minimize the impact of his resignation internationally included a Congress resolution passed overwhelmingly at the end of the debate affirming the continuity of foreign policy . |
| 5 | His heart nearly stopped . |
| 6 | He looked about him , his head lifted , his heart suddenly warmed by their concern for him , then turned and began making his way back to the imperial craft . |
| 7 | He believed that his views alone provided a safeguard against Antinomianism . |
| 8 | He believes there were many contributory factors to his sacking but the prevailing one was that his views often clashed with Gedge 's . |
| 9 | His voice was more cultured and he was cleaner , his black hair close-cropped and his beard neatly trimmed . |
| 10 | Her nipples had become rigid , almost unbearably sensitised , as his fingers gently squeezed and played with her firm round breasts . |
| 11 | In appearance he was certainly not the insignificant figure whom his enemies later described . |
| 12 | In the case of Thach , his removal also reflected deep divisions within the leadership over future foreign policy . |
| 13 | Whether or not his opinions actually percolated down to subordinate commanders many of them seemed to share his beliefs about keeping the French out , or at least , in an interesting reversal of roles in the First World War , treating France as an associated rather than an allied power . |
| 14 | He used some of his text already published in his Sixty Etchings of 1814 and began early in 1816 to compile the Guide . |
| 15 | There therefore does n't seem to have been much of a change , and furthermore Smith ( 1983 ) in his text specifically entitled Recreation Geography has also followed this model , albeit in the modified form of the relationship between ‘ travel/resources ’ which he calls the two main branches of the tree of recreation geography . |
| 16 | Stewart was concussed , had some teeth damaged and his jaw badly bruised . |
| 17 | Here he is sitting up in the marital bed , his jaw ruggedly clenched on his unlit pipe . |
| 18 | AS HE EMBARKS upon what may well be his last Test series as England captain , and his zenith surely reached , one wonders why , apart from various ghost-written ‘ autobiographies ’ . |
| 19 | His shoulders , she tried not to remember , were broad , his skin attractively tanned . |
| 20 | The darker grey cravat made his eyes look bluer , his skin more tanned . |
| 21 | His hair was dark and curling , his skin lightly tanned . |
| 22 | It was obviously important to Scott to have his case well stated in what was the most widely read of London newspapers and particularly after the damaging leader on 6th August . |
| 23 | But what Roger Cook and his researchers entirely failed to do was to use the interesting current developments within WWF to highlight a crucial debate of which we are all a part — namely the values that should now guide the work we do in our respective movements , and how to make those values germane and relevant to people the world over . |
| 24 | ‘ You are a fool , Vologsky , ’ Kirov spat , his patience suddenly exhausted . |
| 25 | A person involved in the entertainment industry , such as an actor , might be able to claim if his contract clearly envisaged that publicity would enhance his reputation . |
| 26 | His opponents predictably resorted to the traditional argument that it was " debatable whether defence expenditure could be further reduced without engendering a lack of international confidence in this country as a friend and ally " . |
| 27 | Once he 'd mastered sufficient English to use it without thinking , he surged forward , but his handwriting never improved . |
| 28 | " The problem , dear lady , " he said quietly , his accent more pronounced now that he had calmed down , " is that a certain Madam Lundy was sent a telegram yesterday informing her of the whereabouts of a certain Patrick Lundy . " |
| 29 | But Campbell Scott has arrived with his accent ready shaped — an unlocatable , non-descript English that neatly sidesteps the posh or Cockney axis that characterizes most American attempts . |
| 30 | The narrator makes his presence most felt by a series of moralistic or sacrilegious apostrophes : comments on events within the text . |