Example sentences of "his [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his introductory note Gavrilov admits to finding the four Ballades among the most problematical of all Chopin 's works to interpret — in terms of reconciling swift-changing moods with architectural shape . |
| 2 | Certainly his terse telephone technique had annoyed me last night , but not enough to make me want to spit at the sight of him . |
| 3 | In 1948 an illiterate van-driver , Timothy Evans , who was twenty-three , and his pregnant wife Beryl moved into the upstairs flat . |
| 4 | But he said when he and his pregnant wife Julie came to claim the furniture back , they were told it had vanished during a burglary in November . |
| 5 | Bush went jogging with his pregnant daughter Doro in Houston at dawn . |
| 6 | Thomas Rennie has been released from a twenty one month jail sentence , imposed last year , after he abducted his pregnant ex-girlfriend Marita Brown and her father in law Richard Loren from their home in Gloucestershire . |
| 7 | Several of his finest works date from these years . |
| 8 | Sam Maggott did his finest Broderick Crawford ( no relation of Jonathan ) . |
| 9 | It certainly is n't a new invention : Turner used it to produce some of his finest watercolour paintings in the 1880s . |
| 10 | His dazzling skills lifted them to a four-goal victory as he scored one and set up two of his striking partner Kevin Campbell 's three goals . |
| 11 | On July 21 China 's Foreign Minister Qian Qichen , the highest ranking Chinese official to visit Saudi Arabia , signed a communiqué with his Saudi counterpart Prince Saud al Faisal in the capital , Riyadh , establishing diplomatic relations between the two countries . |
| 12 | FLACO HAS been involved in some fun collaborations over the last couple of decades — his trembling accordion signature on Ry Cooder 's ‘ He 'll Have To Go ’ and the peppy bits on Dwight Yoakam 's ‘ Streets Of Bakersfield ’ are two good examples . |
| 13 | McCallen will be riding his 750 Castrol Honda in the open race against Beck on a Ducati along with Holden who is also making his first Irish national road race appearance . |
| 14 | GRAEME SOUNESS will today seek proof that his rebuilt Liverpool team can be a Premier League title threat this season . |
| 15 | He shakes his head , he ums and ahs , his Thelonious Monk fingers chop at the keyboard in talented frustration . |
| 16 | PRINCE has been blasted by chart rival David Was over his raunchy stage antics . |
| 17 | And and what I 've got in front of me , David Lock , what I 've got in front of me is is erm , and I know David 's got it David Allenby 's got it as well , is the er paper from Harrogate 's Economic Development Officer to his Economic Development Sub-Committee , and it 's gone all the way through the process now and through the main council , where he has to answer that very question and I could n't put it better . |
| 18 | Reagan 's notoriously detached style of management made high-quality staff essential , and in his first term he appears to have been particularly well served by those responsible for ushering his economic policy proposals through congress . |
| 19 | Norman Lamont on his economic policy U-turn |
| 20 | At the inauguration of the conference Prime Minister Sharif promised that constitutional measures would be adopted to support the existing legal protection afforded to privatised companies , to prevent any future government from reversing his economic reform programme . |
| 21 | On April 11 President Fernando Collor de Mello , whose National Reconstruction Party ( PRN ) held only 31 of the 570 seats in the Congress , succeeded in dividing the opposition by winning approval for his economic re-adjustment plan announced on March 15 [ see p. 37312 ] . |
| 22 | The Financial Times of March 1 reported that Gorbachev had appointed as his economic adviser Oleg Ozherelev , hitherto an official of the central committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) and formerly dean of the economics faculty at Leningrad University . |
| 23 | In a letter to the summit meeting President Gorbachev had asked for immediate support for his economic restructuring programme in the form of credits , technical co-operation , personnel training , joint ventures and joint projects . ) |
| 24 | EON aka Ian Loveday ( right ) releases his long-awaited debut LP on October 26 entitled ‘ Void Dweller ’ ( Vinyl Solution ) and features previous singles , ‘ Light , Colour , Sound ’ , ‘ Infinity ’ , ‘ Inner Mind ’ , ( featured in the soon to be released movie Buffy The Vampire Slayer ) and ‘ Spice ’ amongst others . |
| 25 | Syria feared this was the fist step in his long-awaited Greater Syria project . |
| 26 | ON MAY 11th Edmond Alphandéry , France 's economy minister , unveiled his long-awaited draft law to make the Banque de France independent . |
| 27 | Prince 's adolescence was spent , by his own account , in daydreams ( of sex , of fame ) in the basement lair where he also learned his multi-instrumental virtuoso skills . |
| 28 | Two examples , one from Silandra 's ‘ Vieni , vieni ’ in Orontea , the other from Arsete 's ‘ Non scherzi con Amor ’ in Act I of his Florentine court opera , La Dori ( 1663 ) : show ( i ) his construction of a long descending phrase pivoting on a descending scale and given cohesion by a motivic sequence ( the latter already a well-known Venetian device ) , ( ii ) his ability to write a sheer catchy tune . |
| 29 | For once the cliche that racegoers wept openly was all too true , but these were tears of real sadness — though it was hardly fair to ‘ blame ’ her conqueror , who had won the race in dour style ( and afterwards took the Jockey Club Cup from his sole opponent Achilles before ending his racing career unplaced in the Prix du Conseil Municipal ) . |
| 30 | According to Nevile Wallis , talk was Minton 's natural medium of expression : ‘ One moment his sallow lantern mask was set in rigor mortis : then at a cue it became animated , and his marvellous gaiety and affectionate raillery would flow unchecked . |