Example sentences of "his [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leaving his Norman border in the capable hands of his cousin , the warlike Bishop of Beauvais , he advanced westwards from Vendôme , along the valley of the Loire . |
| 2 | Janet Bush was giving evidence at Liverpool Crown Court where Eddie Gilfoyle denies murdering his pregnant wife in June last year . |
| 3 | Janet Bush was giving evidence at Liverpool Crown Court where Eddie Gilfoyle denies murdering his pregnant wife in June last year . |
| 4 | A FATHER-to-be kicked and punched his pregnant girlfriend in a row . |
| 5 | His finest things in this form date from his later years — ‘ Behold thou has made my days ’ can be dated 1618 and ‘ Glorious and powerful God ’ was probably nearly contemporary and the great ‘ O Lord , let me know mine end ’ of the long-lived though generally conservative Tomkins may be later still . |
| 6 | But his finest hour in the Leone films is to be on television next week . |
| 7 | He did so well he has since won three England caps as a midfielder and Liverpool decided he was the man they wanted , although they have tried him back in his striking role in recent games . |
| 8 | The victory means that the embattled Mr Major has re-asserted his shattered authority in the Tory Party , and has saved the Maastricht Treaty from defeat . |
| 9 | Although Olszewski had originally ( as announced in his economic programme in February ) favoured a relaxation of the previous government 's stringent policies , on March 23 he called on the Sejm to recognise the importance of retaining the confidence of the IMF . |
| 10 | The England star takes the first step towards his long-awaited comeback in an A-team game this afternoon , five months after suffering a career-threatening Achilles injury . |
| 11 | He got his sole opportunity in 1599 when he induced Sir Robert Cecil ( later first Earl of Salisbury , q.v. ) to approve a copper coinage scheme for Ireland which was put into operation in 1601 , though he was not able to secure a monopoly for its production . |
| 12 | He can not write for the papers or take part in television programmes and his sole opportunities in public are sharing the replies at question time and answering for the government in adjournment and sometimes in wider debates which concern his ministry . |
| 13 | Chapman & Hall became his sole publishers in 1840 , after buying out Macrone ( publisher of Sketches by Boz ) and Bentley ( publisher of Oliver Twist ) . |
| 14 | Gedge 's studies came to an end and it was at this point that he realised his obsessive interest in music could not be satisfied by part-time activity while he searched for a ‘ proper ’ job . |
| 15 | Students of form , however , lean towards Keith Curle , the Manchester City defender , who won his regional heat in the relatively slow time of 12.10sec but had plenty to spare . |
| 16 | And the traditional form of greeting you 've just seen " — he paused and grasped his left hand loosely in his right fist in imitation of the Annamese — " is employed to denote respect from an inferior to a superior . " |
| 17 | He raised his right fist in the air and then his left , and he waved to the crowd but never broke into a big smile in celebration . |
| 18 | But the England B international dragged a glorious chance wide with his right foot in the second minute , and repeated the sin in injury time with his left . |
| 19 | Typically , Chalmers did some running , his first such stint since he sustained a double fracture to his right forearm in the Calcutta Cup match earlier this month . |
| 20 | The Rothmans Honda team member broke his right leg in five places when he went down for a second time during the opening championship round on a wet Suzuka circuit . |
| 21 | Cumming himself lost the lower part of his right leg in the same accident . |
| 22 | Kerrey , first-term senator and former governor , was best known as a Vietnam war hero who lost part of his right leg in combat . |
| 23 | In 1912 he lost his right eye in a car accident . |
| 24 | The midfield star trained alone — sprinting , jogging , twisting and turning to answer claims that the tackle which put him out of the game would mean another lengthy lay-off , almost 17 months after he wrecked his right knee in the FA Cup final . |
| 25 | He followed her gaze and the barman lifted his right hand in a drink-pouring gesture , nodding at the same time towards the clock which showed five minutes to eleven . |
| 26 | And then O placed his right hand in the small of Boy 's back and put his left hand up behind Boy 's head and he kissed him right there and then . |
| 27 | The humour , I think , came from the fact that at the time of asking I was lying with my head near the ground and my feet near the ceiling and the man in question had most of his right hand in my mouth , his other hand on a high-power drill and his knee wedged round his own spittoon . |
| 28 | He put his right hand in his jacket pocket and produced a bulky envelope . |
| 29 | He flicked his right hand in dismissal . |
| 30 | YARM-based double British champion Gary Havelock broke a bone and severely bruised his right hand in a high-speed track crash in Poland and is out of tonight 's Gold Cup clash between Bradford and Oxford . |