Example sentences of "his four [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Blantyre man produced two excellent draw shots on the next end , and when Robertson failed to beat either of them with his four deliveries , McCann was through . |
| 2 | The business carried on until 1891 , when Thomas died , leaving Henry in control , aided by his four sons . |
| 3 | Boutros Damiani was born in Jerusalem in 1687 and his four sons were consuls there for Britain , France , Holland and Tuscany . |
| 4 | Old Mr Jacobson emigrated to the Cape in 1880 after a quarrel with his wife , taking with him two of his four sons and all but one of his seven daughters . |
| 5 | And then of course there was the promise of repairs from Dai Jones and his four sons , that prospect offered some hope . |
| 6 | Sampson Lloyd 's iron business prospered during the Seven Years ' War , but the peace in 1763 posed a challenge , as did the need to provide careers for his four sons . |
| 7 | If a man who owns so much land dies and his sons are entitled to such a percentage , how much do his four sons each have , how much do three daughters each have , how much does the widow own ? |
| 8 | And his six goals in his four games while on loan to Coventry City have shown he has not lost his knack . |
| 9 | In 1986 , Sir Ranulph made the first of his four attempts with Dr Michael Stroud to reach the North Pole unsupported . |
| 10 | Famous too was Chapman 's assessment of talent in young players , whom he would watch after reading weekly reports from his four scouts . |
| 11 | his four wings |
| 12 | It is not difficult to see from Salmon 's publications why more orthodox contemporaries saw atheistical or extreme heretical ideas in them , although his four pamphlets , which were read widely in radical religious circles , were really a highly personal attempt to articulate a nearly inexpressible sense of union with the divine . |
| 13 | The inclusion of Nicholas Ferrar in the ASB may have been clinched by the popularity within the Church of T. S. Eliot 's later works , and in particular of the poem ‘ Little Gidding ’ in his Four Quartets . |
| 14 | In 1496 he was able to tell his royal employers that he had found a goldfield of El Doradan proportions , capable of producing up to 3 tons of gold a year , enough to justify the cost of his four expeditions . |
| 15 | Matt Williams seized on some poor Cubs pitching to drive in four of the Giants runs and Will Clark lifting his series batting average to .625 when he reached base on three of his four at-bats . |
| 16 | David Elsworth chose this race to give Barnbrook Again his preliminary for the King George VI and the topweight winner of all his four races last season was made the 2-1 favourite , though some optimistic betting forecasts had him as a ridulous 8-1 chance . |
| 17 | He had won three of his four races as a two-year-old , including the Grand Criterium at Longchamp , and as a three-year-old had taken the Two Thousand Guineas Trial at Ascot before beating Petingo and Jimmy Reppin in the Two Thousand Guineas itself and then producing a telling burst of speed to win the Derby from Connaught . |
| 18 | Lester , who failed to win any of his four races , and Duffield — who won the coveted Yorkshire Oaks — later flew back to Newmarket … in the same plane . |
| 19 | Robin Francis ( York ) made a clean sweep of his four races to win the award for the top ten-year-old boy at the Gateshead open meet . |
| 20 | ‘ Dare Say certainly deserved this change of luck as he 'd been second in three of his four races so far this term . ’ |
| 21 | With Scottish keeper Kevin McKeown a cert to play , Walker must choose between his four southerners — Roddy Collins , Martin Murray , Rob Lawlor and Derek Carroll . |
| 22 | The Creator of the World in Indian mythology , his four faces contemplate the four far comers of the world he has made . |
| 23 | Eck 's defence was that of ‘ operational necessity ’ , i.e. that if he did not destroy all traces of the sinking , his boat would be in grave danger of itself being sunk by Allied aircraft in the morning , as had happened to his four predecessors . |
| 24 | Equally cheerful was the large , garish picture on the wall of a jovial elephant wearing orange pantaloons , an elaborately jewelled headdress and several necklaces : his four arms were festooned with bangles and bracelets . |
| 25 | In contrast , reserve Duncan Chapman with two wins from his four rides boosted his confidence . |
| 26 | Introductions completed , Hawkins looked at Talbot and his four officers and said : ‘ The first question in your minds , of course , gentlemen , is why I have brought two civilians with me . |
| 27 | The famous Protestant clans of Mulhouse relied on one another : André Koechlin , son-in-law of the Dollfus who founded Dollfus-Mieg ( both he and his father had married into the Miegs ) , took over the firm until his four brothers-in-law were old enough to manage it , while his uncle Nicholas ran the Koechlin family firm ‘ with which he associated exclusive ] y his brothers and brothers-in-law as well as his old father ’ . |
| 28 | Dostoevsky had come to a very similar conclusion when he came to write about his four years of penal servitude in Siberia : ‘ I felt that work might be the saving of me , might build my health , my body . ’ |
| 29 | In his four years as DMA director , Mr Brettell had been instrumental in planning the facility , and helped raise the $55 million to build and endow it . |
| 30 | And during his four years on the job he had the satisfaction of seeing all three major contracts renewed in competitive tender . |