Example sentences of "his [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gordon Turner , 61 , enlisted the help of The Northern Echo , trusting that his long-lost friend had returned to his native Darlington . |
| 2 | He is quite witty and his dry humour comes across well . |
| 3 | This empty stage , this empty auditorium beyond , agape like a hollow mouth , had more potency for his mother than ever he and his dry father had ; its unreality was more real for her than their reality . |
| 4 | It is unfortunate that the male-domination of the profession of sculptor to which Glaves-Smith refers in his introductory essay remains intact , with no work by a woman on display . |
| 5 | He looked down at Edmund Mortimer , motionless at his feet , his mailed hands relaxed and empty in the turf . |
| 6 | He was a tall man , heavy in build , his hollow voice making him sound empty , like an old wooden drum . |
| 7 | Leaning on the edge of his table , he let his hollow eyes rest on Nicholas . |
| 8 | A MAN accused of murdering his pregnant wife told colleagues things about his marriage that ‘ just did n't fit ’ Liverpool Crown Court was told today . |
| 9 | His finest moment came the first time he opened the hall door to a visitor and , standing a little aside , intoned , " Follow me , sir , " before proceeding with due dignity to announce the guest at the door of the morning room . |
| 10 | But his finest years found him in some competition with another actor who , like Brando , refused to conform . |
| 11 | One might speculate , as I did myself several years ago ( Widdowson 1979 : Paper 15 ) , that it is because the learner draws variably on his interim competence according to the situational demands made upon it ; that his interlanguage , in other words , contains variable rules as well as invariant categorial ones and in this respect resembles fully fledged languages ( see Ellis 1985 , Chapter 4 ) . |
| 12 | It is another to ask whether he has even begun to succeed in his short-term struggle to stop the rot . |
| 13 | His short-term measures to reduce expenditure brought the figure down to £1,420 million . |
| 14 | I wish he could use his Saudi influences to prevent the barbaric practice of decapitation of human beings which takes place every Friday in the square at Riyadh in Saudi Arabia . |
| 15 | Four Australian cricket-writers and one Australian team manager will never forget the day at net practice in Christchurch on the 1985–86 tour of New Zealand when , during a routine discussion with the journalists on preparation for a one-day match , he made mention of the fact that he intended to resign if his shattered team did not win the match the following Saturday . |
| 16 | He went upstairs to his shattered bedroom to fetch it for Harry . |
| 17 | He had been there at least a week , a stain of blood spreading out from his face across the bottom mattress , his shattered body preserved by the freezing February weather . |
| 18 | Jimmy and Cardiff recoiled , but Rohmer remained calmly where he was , as the impact flung Frye 's sundered head forward , his shattered face smacking into the wall … and rapidly becoming absorbed there . |
| 19 | The boy was past sleep now , his trembling form clinging to Beth and his green eyes wide with fear . |
| 20 | His wheezy laugh squeezed its way out . |
| 21 | Mr Lamont 's squandering of £1 billion in his vain bid to prop up the pound has not helped . |
| 22 | Thus Tony Benn , in June 1975 and three months into his tenure as Secretary of State for Industry , summed up what this volume is all about — his vain attempt to persuade government and Civil Service to implement Labour Party policy and bring about an irreversible shift of power and wealth to the working class . |
| 23 | His vain attempt to win Dad 's mood back . |
| 24 | His economic failure has been less forgivable than Mr Traoré 's : Benin is more fertile and has a better-educated population than Mali . |
| 25 | His economic measures bore fruit , but the constitution was overturned by Peisistratos , who made himself tyrant early in the second quarter and held power ( with interruptions ) and his sons after him till the expulsion of Hippias in 510 . |
| 26 | His economic populism had a powerful appeal to white working-class and middle-class voters , who had often viewed the Democrats as too ready to promote race-based liberalism at their expense in recent years . |
| 27 | The result is that Mr Clinton is unlikely to unveil his plan until the third week of June , and it could be later if his economic package encounters more problems . |
| 28 | ‘ It was his joyous privilege to lead many to Christ ’ his biography said , and ‘ his passion was to preach . ’ |
| 29 | His blind-filmed eyes stared at it , all but unwinking . |
| 30 | Machiavelli in his Florentine history gives this note of Cosmus Medices , the wisest and gravest man of his time in Italy . |