Example sentences of "his [noun sg] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that he had started , he threw his sister a challenging look and rushed on . |
| 2 | Looking up , he gave his sister a faint smile . |
| 3 | ‘ That 's right , ’ Jeff piped up , throwing his sister a soothing glance . |
| 4 | As he thought this he felt in his heart a voiceless nameless twinge , like a tiny spark , which he chose to identify as a signal , which very rarely came through , from his ancestors who had lived in the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw . |
| 5 | The scale of Herbert 's power in Wales made his removal a major set-back to royal influence there , as was indicated by the immediate flare-up of trouble in the north and west of the region . |
| 6 | The scale of Herbert 's power in Wales made his removal a major set-back to royal influence there , as was indicated by the immediate flare-up of trouble in the north and west of the region . |
| 7 | Cecil , you will recall , did not choose as his mistress a bit-part actress with a silly surname . |
| 8 | Apart from the execution of the laws the executive has no authority to decide what shall be the relations between the federal government and South Carolina , any attempt to do this would be on his part a naked act of usurpation . |
| 9 | This time the protagonist is the Slovanian , Slavks Sveticic , and his route a direct way up a grey rocky pillar on the Croz Spur of the Grandes Jorasses . |
| 10 | He was twenty-nine but he looked younger because his hair was fine and very dark and his skin a fresh white and red . |
| 11 | His hair was dark and rumpled , his face clean-shaven , his skin a sultry gold . |
| 12 | He summed up the disseminated structure of his novels ( often in his case a necessary result of serial publication , but also probably a matter of personal preference ) , in the same work , when he compared the chapters of a novel to a convoy of vessels and himself , the inventor , as a man-of-war turning attention now to one ship , now to another , in order to bring them all safely to port . |
| 13 | The ontological idealist , given his general metaphysical premisses , can at least argue that what we regard as " physical bodies " are really no extra-spiritual entities , for all entities are either spiritual or are explicable in terms of attributes of such entities , and although his position gives rise to all kinds of difficulties , he can , on the whole , present his case a good deal more consistently than a dualist can . |
| 14 | In fact , Bonanno and Vickers ( 1988 , p. 260 ) show the following proposition : ‘ if franchise fees can be used to extract the retailers ' profits , it is in the individual interest of each manufacturer to choose vertical separation and charge his retailer a wholesale price in excess of unit production cost ’ whether the other is integrated or separated . |
| 15 | Why , Mr Tim enquired , his accent a silky simulacrum of an Inuit chewing a Berlitz tape , did I want the afternoons off ? |
| 16 | Rachaela dreamed of Adamus bending over her , his hair a black cowl . |
| 17 | He was short and rotund , his face was broad and flat , his hair a high dark ruff . |
| 18 | His eyes were like black pools of water , his hair a hoary white , prickly and short , with a parting down the middle which looked as though it had been cut by a Stanley knife . |
| 19 | Many years before he had described , as we have seen the acute but generalized sense of apprehension which invaded him at times of stress or exhaustion and one recognizes in his temperament a permanent sense of impending doom and disaster — as if the world were always threatening to fall in upon him . |
| 20 | His head had dropped forward and over his chest a great mat of blood had spread like a bib . |
| 21 | It 's when I , when I went to Poland it 's not two or three years , it was nineteen seventy three and I was , I was just coming in into the church and the one Witness was with me and we were going in er big town like Cracow , you know , we were going one way and there was a couple coming erm to meet us like you know in , in , in , on the road , and he was just wearing erm jeans and no shirt , but erm a big , big wooden cross on his chest just reaching really across his chest a wooden cross and then erm a safety pin in his nose and three safety pins attached to one another through his ears and this Witness with me walking down , she says just look at this couple and the girl was , wore the same dress she , she had the top on , you know , but again all sort of queer looking and she , this Witness with me , with me so , she said just look at the two that 's er coming aga to meet us and I said yes and I looked and I said look at the cross and she says yes , it used to be , they used to hang the criminals on the crosses and now the crosses hang on the criminals is n't that lovely , and now the cross is er all the criminals instead of the cross , oh yes |
| 22 | Lucenzo 's hands curved into her waist , holding her firmly against him , the masculine sensuality of his mouth a terrible focus for her eyes . |
| 23 | Her nipple was hard and swollen in Luke 's mouth , its hot stinging ache too much like pleasure , and she knew herself doubly degraded , by his kiss and by her own response to it , the pleading curve of her body as she pressed herself into his mouth a flagrant denial of the protest screaming in her mind . |
| 24 | As I pull up at the back of the hotel Mr Shah is waiting with a folder full ; his expression , although friendly , contains around his mouth a little reproach that I should have been away from the action for so long . |
| 25 | His eyes were as cold as polar ice , his mouth a brutal slash . |
| 26 | He flicked her a sideways glance , his mouth a thin line that sent fear tiptoeing along her spine . |
| 27 | Sergeant Joe did n't quite , but he looked as if he did , his eyes like gimlets , his mouth a hard line beneath his moustache . |
| 28 | Looking up with a gasp , she saw him watching her with narrowed blue eyes , his mouth a hard line . |
| 29 | He nodded , his mouth a bitter line , but she could see acceptance in the way he bowed his dark head , and she felt deep compassion for him , for his wasted life and wasted efforts and wasted pain . |
| 30 | With the defeat at Brignais avenged , Charles V , who had just succeeded his father as king , could go to his coronation a satisfied man . |