Example sentences of "[prep] his [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edward , the heir to the throne , used the Geneville castle at Ludlow in the days after his escape from custody in 1265 . |
| 2 | The volume was originally to have been illustrated by Stanfield ; after his withdrawal from fear of anti-Catholic bias in the book , Samuel Palmer was commissioned , and provided 4 vignettes engraved on wood . |
| 3 | Though Caedwalla remained unbaptized until after his abdication as king in 688 , it is not inconceivable that he approached Wilfrid in such a capacity , and certainly by the time of his abdication Caedwalla had resolved to seek baptism in Rome itself . |
| 4 | Back home seven months after his release from prison in Goa , Nicholas Brown is a bitter man , angry about what he sees as a complete lack of help from the British authorities . |
| 5 | Reunited : Wang Dan at home yesterday with his mother , Wang Linyun , sister Wang Jinging and nephew Chen Tian , after his release from prison in Beijing |
| 6 | Merry , in the Houses of Healing , asks immediately after his recall from death by the sacral king for ‘ supper first , and after that a pipe ’ . |
| 7 | Most important of all his buildings was the Tor' dei Conti , begun for his family immediately after his election as pope in 1198 . |
| 8 | Not for them the comprehensibility or even the logic spelt out by the Prime Minister shortly after his election as leader of the Conservative party when he rightly said that there was something wrong with a tax that resulted in 50 per cent . |
| 9 | Shortly after his appointment as Minister of Housing in October 1964 , he telephoned me on a Sunday morning to say that he was having great trouble with his civil servants because he wished to promote an anti-eviction Bill , which would make it impossible for people to be evicted from their premises without special precautions . |
| 10 | Above : Torture victim Manoji Singh , aged 12 , seen after his arrest on suspicion of stealing a purse . |
| 11 | … and in the arms of the law yesterday after his arrest for non-payment of maintenance to his now-estranged wife |
| 12 | This seems to indicate that , despite his reference to sex as a fine and noble thing , he still regards it with a certain amount of misgiving , and as something that should be kept under strict control . |
| 13 | He was conscientiously obliged to obey them , despite his lack of sympathy with , or knowledge of , the principle behind them . |
| 14 | As all Iraqis know , Saddam himself is Sunni , despite his claim to descent from Ali ; and the putative victory over Iran was presumably won by all Iraqis , Shia and Sunni alike . |
| 15 | The position of a lessee after assignment towards his lessor in relation to the covenants in his lease is concluded in this court , and I doubt not in all courts , by the decision of Baynton v. Morgan , 22 Q.B.D. 74 . |
| 16 | To date we have sent the Archbishop the sum of £1978 towards his appeal for help with the massive debt in which the Archdiocese finds itself . |
| 17 | That his views on AIDS carried great weight was a result not only of his experience with research on vaccines , but also because he was so articulate and incisive . |
| 18 | Rodrigo was born near here at Bivar in 1043 and would have spent much of his childhood in sight of these rugged hills . |
| 19 | PRINCE Charles ' great architectural opponent , Max Hutchinson , has ordered that the engraving of his name in marble at the Royal Institute of British Architects ' headquarters , be altered . |
| 20 | Philip would doubtless be gratified by an explicit recognition of his position as overlord of Aquitaine and Toulouse and might well concede something in return . |
| 21 | Marx assumed that the capitalist has access to power because of his position as owner of the ‘ means of production ’ and therefore ‘ buyer ’ of workers ' services . |
| 22 | Then John made use of his position as director of the Comedy Theatre and arranged the children 's dances in the pantomime . |
| 23 | Peck was a popular man , and both the force and the populace wanted him to stay , so they registered their complaint of his dismissal by way of a petition . |
| 24 | It may be an abuse of process if either ( a ) the prosecution have manipulated or misused the process of the court so as to deprive the defendant of a protection provided by the law or to take unfair advantage of a technicality , or ( b ) on the balance of probability the defendant has been , or will be , prejudiced in the preparation or conduct of his defence by delay on the part of the prosecution which is unjustifiable : for example , not due to the complexity of the inquiry and preparation of the prosecution case , or to the action of the defendant or his co-accused , or to genuine difficulty in effecting service . |
| 25 | His enforced retirement followed a public outcry over the leniency of his treatment in connection with the receipt of illegal payments from Tokyo Sagawa Kyubin , the largest regional affiliate in the Kyoto-based Sagawa Kyubin group , Japan 's second-largest parcel delivery firm . |
| 26 | It was a left-over from the days when an admiral , who had spent the greater part of his life in debt to Gieves , none the less had the matter on his conscience and despaired of dying in that state . |
| 27 | Judge Garrett Brown said he would spend the rest of his life in prison with no chance of parole . |
| 28 | He 's spent much of his life in prison after turning to crime to support his habit . |
| 29 | John Gibbons , a courtier , was fined £8,600 for exceeding the terms of his grant of land in the forest : between 1629 and 1634 he had , without warrant , cut down 4,000 oaks worth £1 apiece , spoiled certain coppices , and enclosed 94 acres . |
| 30 | It appeared , to Joshua 's surprise , that a Cabinet Minister was about to announce the break-up of his marriage in favour of life in France with another man . |