Example sentences of "his [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | This is to certify that Color Serjeant Nicholl served in the Grenadier Company of the King 's Regiment for twenty one years , and being myself one of the Officers of the Company during the greatest part of that period , I have consequently had an opportunity for closely observing his character and conduct , therefore it is but doing him that justice which his uniformly good behaviour merits , to state that I have never ( in his station in life ) met with a more truly steady or strictly honest a man . |
| 2 | Gradually he undermined the potential of one of his most profitable production centres . |
| 3 | But Teutonic gravitas marks his most typical work and he is strikingly responsive to German verse . |
| 4 | It was Gharr , with his most arrogant grin . |
| 5 | He is delighted to have run into form at just the right moment , leaving him in his most confident frame of mind since the days leading up to his triumphant 1990 Open at St Andrews . |
| 6 | Hence-forward an astute man by adherence to legal rules which had nothing to do with morality could grow immeasurably rich by virtue of shuffling off his most elementary obligations to his fellows . |
| 7 | In 1917 , as if in defiance of the death and destruction all around him , Modigliani painted his most glorious series of nudes . |
| 8 | One of his most extravagant displays was in a race against a Jaguar racing car at Abingdon 18 months ago . |
| 9 | But in fact George Brown had a considerable edge over Labour 's later candidate , David Owen , who offended the mandarins of King Charles Street with a quiet deliberation that was wholly lacking in George even in his most sober moments . |
| 10 | He spoke with all his habitual power of his recent follies ‘ abberations from prudence ’ as he called them — and of his resolve now ‘ to be as sober and rational as his most sober friends could wish ’ . |
| 11 | Arguably , however , his most brilliant work was done during the many months of relative inactivity that followed , for it was then that he remoulded his demoralized command into a confident , compact fighting unit . |
| 12 | The would-be assassins missed their prey , and Phar Lap , unperturbed by the incident , duly won the Stakes and then ran one of his most brilliant races to lift the Cup , for which he carried nine stone twelve pounds and started at 11–8 on , the shortest-priced favourite in the history of the race . |
| 13 | He had a boyish , slightly abstracted look , that was his most endearing expression . |
| 14 | His most endearing habit ? |
| 15 | In his most familiar guise , as a literary figure , he is brave , heroic , loyal , a good husband and father , a redoubtable foe and a man of honour . |
| 16 | ( His most categorical assertions of this are in Guide to Kul- chur . ) |
| 17 | The Captain sent his Adjutant for the Sardinian file and then set about selecting a group of his most experienced men . |
| 18 | His most prominent characteristics were plain , practical good sense , perseverance in his pursuits , thoroughness in his investigations , and an equanimity of temper . |
| 19 | He took small parts in ballets by Ashton ( a courtier at the ball in the premiere of Cinderella , one of the revellers in the cave scene of Apparitions ) and de Valois ( Checkmate , Don Quixote and Job ) , walked on as a pall-bearer in Helpmann 's Hamlet , and appeared in the classics , where his most prominent parts were a mazurka dancer in Swan Lake and a marquess in the hunting scene of The Sleeping Beauty . |
| 20 | ‘ I can not make it too abundantly clear that , under no circumstances whatsoever , will I support Mr Baldwin unless I know exactly what his policy is going to be , unless I have complete guarantees that such policy will be carried out if his party achieves office , and unless I am acquainted with the names of at least eight or ten of his most prominent colleagues in the next Ministry . |
| 21 | He suggests that such tendencies occur here as an overcompensation for the closed consciousness or ‘ dual narcissism , to which Fanon attributes the depersonalization of colonial man ; that ‘ it is as it Fanon is fearful of his most radical insights ’ ( p. xx ) . |
| 22 | Technology and the Future of Work — crystallises many of his most radical ideas and has become compulsory reading , particularly in the corridors of his new department . |
| 23 | It begins just as President Gorbachev embarks on his most radical policy changes yet : a new economic strategy and , possibly , a new treaty of the union . |
| 24 | For Gould , eager to shake off the connotations of his previous post as museum curator , and besieged by allegations of being an ‘ indoor naturalist ’ , a sojourn spent collecting in the southern hemisphere would silence even his most vociferous opponents . |
| 25 | Petri often quoted the older man 's opinion : ‘ He called me his most genuine pupil and tried everything to further me , recommended me to managers and conductors , sent to me all the pupils he did not want to take , and was instrumental in getting me the appointment of Professor of Piano at the Royal College of Manchester , England , where I remained from 1905 to 1911 ’ . |
| 26 | His most spectacular success came in the AJC PLate , where he handed out a ten-length beating to his Melbourne Cup conqueror Nightmarch . |
| 27 | He secured his most spectacular coup in 1872 when he won a concession from the shah of Persia covering the exploitation of all industrial and mineral rights . |
| 28 | His most spectacular fraud , in 1976 , was reportedly tricking a US paper out of £25,000 for a pair of shoes he claimed belonged to the murdered head of the Teamsters union , Jimmy Hoffa . |
| 29 | He has an inner life , and his most telling statement of his ills is embodied in a Godwinian phrase , ‘ I am malicious because I am miserable . ’ |
| 30 | From childhood he had feared that his most intimate thoughts and desires were different from those of others and when his reading showed him that they were not he felt that his grip on life had been strengthened , his confidence reinforced . |