Example sentences of "as his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This would have brought Mr Bush into the case as his Vice-Presidential office was the first in Washington to be contacted from Central America when an aircraft was shot down by the Sandinistas . |
| 2 | The roots of this war lie in Yugoslav history ( though not as deep as some claim ) , in the frailty of Tito 's state and in three distinct sorts of nationalism that sprouted as his odd form of communism collapsed . |
| 3 | Then , as his sharp eyes took in the unnatural stiffness of the other two and their frozen expressions , he groaned with mock-consternation . |
| 4 | But , being virtually indestructible , they do turn up , and they 're as well-recorded as his Blue Amberol cylinders . |
| 5 | Gina recoiled , her mind spinning as his blue eyes , brilliant and intense beneath brows drawn together in thoughtful consideration , travelled over her astonished face . |
| 6 | As his hot spunk sprayed into her , she clutched the far side of the table and screamed obscenities . |
| 7 | He established it as an alternative power base in Hebron as his mayoral leadership came under increasing challenge from secular nationalists . |
| 8 | Suppositions built on postcards and photographs might be as ill-founded as his short-lived suspicions of being followed the night before . |
| 9 | He had already shown some delightful touches in central midfield , the position he regards as his best , speed of thought and a supple-like body in what he regards as his best position in central midfield , combining well with Andy Townsend , who usually delights in destroying Spurs on his own . |
| 10 | Yet despite this being his long-term plan , he still thought of England as ‘ home ’ , of Alice and the Pritchetts as his ‘ family ’ , of Aubrey as his best friend . |
| 11 | At this time , for a short while , he was purged , he was himself as his best self should be , he was all that his great promise had held out — untainted , unbrutalised — like the Floating Island on Derwent Water , submerged for years on end , only to rise up intact now and then . |
| 12 | In accordance with certain theoretical considerations and after some empirical experimentation , Barro obtained the following fairly complex equation as his best estimate of the process determining the annual rate of growth of the quantity of money over the period 1941–73 : where is the rate of growth of the quantity of money predicted by the process shown in equation ( 6.7 ) to occur in period t , and is the actual rate of growth of the quantity of money in period t - i . |
| 13 | The recent rainfall will be in his favour , as his best form has been on ground with a cut in it . |
| 14 | Lassus was no less versatile in his Italian pieces : such classic madrigals as his early Petrarch settings — ‘ Occhi piangete ’ , ‘ Amor che ved' ogni pensier ’ — and the profoundly melancholy Lagrime di San Pietro of his last years , mentioned in the previous chapter ( p. 246 ) , and the delicious humour of the Villanelle , Moresche et altre canzoni ( Paris , 1581 ) which include his best-known songs : the Landsknecht 's serenade in Germanic Italian , ‘ Matonna mia cara ’ , and ‘ O la , o che bon eccho ! ’ in which two quartets sing in close canon throughout . |
| 15 | Ronald Reagan 's serious interest in politics dates at least as far back as his early days in Hollywood and , given the later doubts about his intelligence , it is interesting to note that , at this stage , he hardly lived up to the image of an empty-headed film actor . |
| 16 | Bull 's absence would be a big disappointment for Wolves as his fellow striker , Andy Mutch , is almost certain to be sidelined for the third game in a row with a groin injury . |
| 17 | Ken 's more serious side was , as far as his fellow performers were concerned , more obvious in the books he read . |
| 18 | Shocked cries were choked off as his fellow villagers followed him into oblivion , softly caressed by the spreading gossamer folds of vapour which billowed ever more thickly through streets in which even the babies ' cries faded into silence . |
| 19 | Generally speaking , a widower or divorced man was three times as likely to remarry as his female counterpart throughout the period . |
| 20 | It is not so much Davy Spillane 's playing of the uillean pipes , good as it is , as his tireless experimentation that has brought him his revered status . |
| 21 | ‘ As for the manner of burial , ’ the lawyer said , ‘ it appears that your father wishes to be buried in the same place as his first wife . |
| 22 | Bernard VI , count of Armagnac , had married Isabelle d'Albret ( d. 1294 ) as his first wife , and Amanieu VII d'Albret 's eldest son Bernard-Ezi V ( 1326–59 ) was husband to Mathe d'Armagnac , Bernard VI 's daughter . |
| 23 | As his first wife , June Barry , recalls , Whitaker was at work on another project when a knock at the office door heralded the entrance of Donald Wilson . |
| 24 | Every Buttermere neighbour and old wrestling foe would be given a free mug of beer as his first drink and throughout the day Joseph would ask a little — often useless — favour here , another there in order to keep them within his ken : so that they kept their eyes , he would say to himself , on the signals coming from the flagship . |
| 25 | At Oxford he had many friends in religious and artistic circles , chief among them Robert Bridges [ q.v. ] , his trusted confidant and poetic sounding-board for the rest of his life , as well as his first editor , who put his poems before the world . |
| 26 | So Taylor took Lineker into the European Championship as his first choice marksman , but with big doubts about what he would contribute . |
| 27 | As his first book of clerihews explained in 1905 , The Art of Biography Is different from Geography . |
| 28 | The self-discipline and lessened dependence on each other that Helen had hoped for had had some effect on Edward , as his first letter to Helen from his Oxford lodgings shows : |
| 29 | Sadly , the 1954 season saw Richards forced to retire from the saddle by injury ; so the 1953 Derby was his last ride in the race as well as his first victory in it . |
| 30 | Misfortune struck Sir John when his second wife died ; she received the same treatment as his first spouse . |