Example sentences of "his [adj] work " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four times I went on long visits to the St Jerome , his finest work . |
| 2 | Thomson 's songs contain some of his finest work . |
| 3 | ‘ It was more that just successful , ’ he says today , looking back on what many consider his finest work . |
| 4 | But some of his finest work was done in wartime , in the Western Desert and later in Saudi Arabia . |
| 5 | Its echoes of Keats and Shelley , the image of a desolate landscape with its tracery of ‘ tangled bine-stems ’ against the winter sky , its deceptively simple vocabulary , and carefully controlled metre are characteristic of much of his finest work . |
| 6 | It was over the next few years that he started to produce his finest work . |
| 7 | His early defence of Shelley and Milton against T. S. Eliot 's attacks had been a paradoxical defence of their classicism of style ; his influential essay on metre a defence of using classical terms to describe English poetry ; and his finest work of literary history , awkwardly entitled ( as part of a series ) English Literature in the Sixteenth Century excluding Drama ( 1954 ) , extolled the ‘ golden ’ voice of Sir Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser , as opposed to ‘ drab ’ , in a critical climate in which Metaphysicals like Donne and Herbert counted for more than their courtly forerunners among the Elizabethans . |
| 8 | Shame , his novel of Pakistan , was short-listed for the Booker Prize and is believed by many to be his finest work . |
| 9 | Don McCullin — A Retrospective , a look at his finest work ( until 5 May ) . |
| 10 | It inspired some of his finest work , but the committee only accepted three bomb-store drawings . |
| 11 | Bath Street , which he was building in the old centre after 1791 , is probably his finest work , with sweeping quadrant arms and a covered promenade of Ionic columns . |
| 12 | At this time his poetic inspiration returned , and some of his finest work was written in the last weeks of his life , including his most famous poem , ‘ Heart of the Heartless World ’ . |
| 13 | Of the relatively few exceptions to the pattern two which call for mention are Chicheley Hall , Buckinghamshire ( 1719–21 ) , and Sutton Scarsdale , Derbyshire ( begun 1724 ) : the exotic façade of the former probably owes more to the taste of the patron , Sir John Chester , than to Smith 's own devising ; but Sutton Scarsdale , in part evidently inspired by Gibbs 's unexecuted design of 1721 for the university buildings at Cambridge , is his finest work , a wholly convincing essay in the heroic grand manner , in which the giant Corinthian order is handled with total assurance . |
| 14 | Here Father Algy did his finest work . |
| 15 | A shadow , as the name implies , is someone who follows another person about all day as he goes about his normal work . |
| 16 | Shildon had made remarkable progress in a short time but needed help as he was trying to do his normal work for the business section at the same time . |
| 17 | At a time when he had so many claims on his time , what with his normal work , committees , visitors from overseas , particularly from the United States , a growing acquaintanceship and a formidable correspondence , the assurance that he was ‘ here again and available ’ was of great moral support to me , especially as I was still uncertain about the future , and as the news , as his letter hinted , was by no means all good . |
| 18 | In Sweden the original owner may repossess within three months of discovering the identity of the current owner of his stolen work of art not , as we stated , within three months of the date of unauthorised sale . |
| 19 | He showed great fortitude and tenacity in carrying on his professional work in spite of adversity resulting from enemy action . |
| 20 | His professional work as a scribe meant he could command the means and materials for copying his work , and he was able to supplement his income by writing verses . |
| 21 | To say what it ought to be would be to express attitudes of his own , which he does not regard as the task of the kind of philosopher like himself who is , in his professional work , trying to understand ethical discussion rather than to participate in it . |
| 22 | It said , In this house ( and the ceramic of the plaque had broken and the name was missing ) stayed on his first visit to the city , and it was here that he wrote the opening pages of his greatest work . |
| 23 | There , at Portmore , Taylor completed what he regarded as his greatest work , Ductor Dubitantium , or The Rule of Conscience in all her General Measures , Serving as a Great Instrument for the Determination of Consciences , This work is a manual of casuistry which occupies over 1300 pages of close print . |
| 24 | As a Gaelic scholar his greatest work was the collation and editing of William Livingston 's poems , with his own memoir and introductory criticism , and was one of the translators of the Revised version of the Bible into Gaelic , He died in Edinburgh in 1907 . |
| 25 | Festa was a much more considerable church composer and Willaert also did perhaps his greatest work in this field . |
| 26 | Although best known for such delicious things as ‘ Sweet honeysucking bees ’ , his greatest work is to be found in serious madrigals like ‘ All pleasure is of this condition ’ and ‘ Thou art but young ’ . |
| 27 | The work of Bakhtin has been ‘ taken up ’ in television writing — most problematically in some appropriations of the theory of carnival developed in Rabelais and His World — and the critical vocabulary of the ‘ chronotope ’ and ‘ the dialogic ’ which is developed in his extensive work on literature , culture and language is beginning to achieve some deserved currency . |
| 28 | I am much indebted to Professor Robin Alston for stimulating these comments , based on his extensive work with individual researchers as they approach the resources of the British Library , Humanities and Social Sciences , both through the converted catalogue and through mediated access to Internet and other database resources ( Alston , nd ) . |
| 29 | All his surviving work was done for religious houses in the south-west . |
| 30 | His surviving work in the Bury Bible shows that he was worthy of the admiration which the written sources accord him . |