Example sentences of "of his [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There , on 17 June , Constanze gave birth to her first child , a boy , named Raimund Leopold in honour of his godfather , Baron Raimund Wezlar , and his grandfather . |
| 2 | With the help of his godfather Elkanah Settle [ q.v. ] , the ‘ city poet ’ , John was sent to a school in Hampstead . |
| 3 | They added 179 in just 50 overs , with Smith scoring 70 of his runs in boundaries , an indication of his ruthlessness in punishing the bad ball . |
| 4 | Despite the terror which as a result of his ruthlessness , cruelty and ungovernable rages his name evoked , he had by the time of the British invasion lost effective control of his country except around his mountain fortress of Magdala . |
| 5 | He looked at his eyes and his ears and his teeth and his droppings and the ends of his claws and he inquired what he had been eating . |
| 6 | And he 's such a hooligan , you know , he 's knackered one of his claws again ! |
| 7 | It is a pity ; for it was commentators of his stature , followed by journalists of no stature , who promoted an excessive negative emphasis on Leonard which was out of balance with his work as a whole . |
| 8 | He vowed there and then he 'd never return to a tournament like that ; he felt that a man of his stature should n't be playing in what was , after all , a second-rate event while the Masters was on . |
| 9 | I would love more people to be aware of the sometimes painfully beautiful music that Gál wrote , but ( and I do no injustice to his shade ) I would n't try to convince anyone of his stature on the basis of the music for mandolin and piano recorded here : it seems to have been composed for the sheer enjoyment of the players — well-tuned , amiable , and slightly unmemorable stuff . |
| 10 | Who would write off a player of his stature ? |
| 11 | As he talked , Serevi constantly flexed wrist levers , which might explain his upper-body strength , a pre-requisite for one of his stature ( around 5ft 7ins ) hereabouts . |
| 12 | The designer who today shows so little emotion was devastated and he still keeps a mural of revered fashion figures ( Mary Quant and Vivienne Westwood are two of his heroines ) with Galeotti at the centre situated behind the enormous , clutter-free desk that 's one more powerful statement . |
| 13 | In an instant the cripple lurched up and with a powerful twist of his crutch sent the end of the log into the water . |
| 14 | can not be denied , but it would seem that man 's instinctive awareness of his mastery of his own destiny , is influenced by an equally instinctive awareness that he can not peacefully and successfully control that destiny unless he can locate , or himself create some supreme form of guiding influence which is recognised by all . |
| 15 | A tranquil demeanour then is also required of the powerful ruwang by the members of his community as evidence of his mastery over his powers and his emotions . |
| 16 | Unlike , say , Lyndon Johnson , there was no chance of Reagan overwhelming or brow-beating legislators into submission ; nor was he likely to intimidate them as Jimmy Carter often did by dazzling but discomfiting displays of his mastery of the detail of policy-making . |
| 17 | In the former he had two 1sts , two 2nds , a 4th and a 7th to discard , a clear indication of his mastery in this regatta . |
| 18 | There was nothing tender or exploratory about his kiss ; there was only an incandescent passion and a simultaneous assertion of his mastery . |
| 19 | Dowd was not invited to occupy it , but stood at the end of the table , mildly discomfited by the stares of his interrogators . |
| 20 | One of his interrogators added a gloss to the story almost forty years later . |
| 21 | One of the highest scoring fighter pilots of the Battle of Britain , Bob Doe has written an interesting book that goes a good deal further than describing some of his exploits in the Battle . |
| 22 | Some of his exploits read like folk tales . |
| 23 | Darby was captured and gibbeted on the heath close to the scene of his exploits . |
| 24 | To learn about the story of his exploits in enemy territory it is necessary to dig out the cuttings of newspapers printed forty-five years ago . |
| 25 | He found fame in poetry and prose , he also has the reputation of being a supernatural Robin Hood and documentary evidence of his exploits attributed to him are legion . |
| 26 | His deeds will be recounted in the warrior societies and the squaws will sing of his exploits . |
| 27 | I noticed Southgate 's hand had fallen to the hilt of his rapier . |
| 28 | This was Bogart 's seventeenth film ( The Petrified Forest had been his eleventh ) and one of the first in which he gave some indication of his range . |
| 29 | The magazine was out of his range . |
| 30 | She stared furiously after him , waited until she heard the thud of the front door , the low throaty rumble of his Range Rover , and then she gave vent to a screech of frustration — short , sharp and extremely satisfying . |