Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [prep] [num] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Westminster Abbey Library is a fragment of a funerary taper found in Abbot Thomas Mylling 's tomb , which is presumed to have been placed there at the time of his funeral in 1492 and probably came off the hearse . |
| 2 | After raising his score to twenty-nine and now uniquely entitled to wear the ribbons of both the DSO and the DFC , each with two silver rosettes denoting two bars , Braham 's luck ran out over Denmark on 25 June 1944 . |
| 3 | He had not wished to leave the Commons when he inherited his title in 1895 and thereafter he became an unceasing advocate of the House of Lords , defending its powers , resisting the sale of peerages , and demanding its reconstruction so that its powers could be restored . |
| 4 | His son of the first marriage , Thomas Bowen Kitchin , apprenticed to his father in 1754 and also hydrographer to the king , had already inherited the stock-in-trade . |
| 5 | This was undoubtedly his eldest son , who served his engraving apprenticeship under his father from 1802 and later took over the business c .1821 in partnership with his brother John , although their father probably remained a partner until his death . |
| 6 | It is doubtless true that following his realisation in 1934 that even in post-revolutionary Soviet society men and women were ultimately not liberated from the anguish and fear of individual death and obliteration , Nizan was forced to adopt a more modest , less euphoric tone when praising Soviet achievements . |
| 7 | By the time the army reached Middenheim it was the largest single army in the history of the Empire and Magnus was forced to divide his host in two as no one place could provide enough food and water to support it . |
| 8 | Samuel , who lived with his mother until 1652 or later , collaborated with her in the 1640s in campaigning for religious freedom and upholding the autonomy of individual congregations . |
| 9 | He marched off at a brisk pace , leading his party of fifty or so , including two in bath-chairs intent on taking the tour , come hell or high water , the latter being most probable . |
| 10 | A fully illustrated catalogue contains the text of the Museum of Modern Art 's autobiographical essay composed in English by the artist shortly before his death in 1950 and never before published as well as an interview by Mr Feigen with the film director Billy Wilder , who visited the artist in the 1940s . |
| 11 | Ras Makonnen governed Harar until his death in 1906 and there his son Tafari was born and grew up under the enlightened administration of his eminent father ; he was thirteen when his father died . |
| 12 | Arthurton , who had profited through glorious square-driving in his top-score of 59 after twice being caught at slip off no-balls , essayed the shit once to often against Pringle . |