Example sentences of "his [noun] [prep] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he came to the King 's Weigh House Chapel in Duke Street , London , off Grosvenor Square , he surpassed most of his contemporaries by introducing an elaborate ritual centred on a Holy Table . |
| 2 | He also gave me his own way of planning little dialogues , and his technique of distinguishing the three tones of the language , which could alter the meaning of what looked to an English eye to be the same word , often with unexpected , humorous or even disastrous effect . |
| 3 | I actually thought that his technique for unpacking the hidden history of products was despicable . |
| 4 | Mr Lawson did , however , play his part in taking the Prime Minister to that peak of economic success from which the poll tax plan was launched . |
| 5 | It is clear from the section that the producer can negative his liability by providing a suitable warning of any danger , and the warning enables the consumer to avoid the danger . |
| 6 | Mexico 's president , Carlos Salinas , announced his support for giving the central bank autonomy over monetary policy . |
| 7 | Thanks to Jonathan Poole for his support in lending the Russian Sculpture . |
| 8 | Unemployed Dennis Keegan , or Brother Luke , as he likes to be known , is now well known on his council estate following his decision to joined the Greek Orthodox Church . |
| 9 | With his plans for afforesting the poorer parts of his ancestral acres , the replanting , the harvesting of his mature timber crops , his Christmas-tree plantations of Norway spruce , he knew exactly what he was doing . |
| 10 | By early 1937 Waismann completed Logik , Sprache , Philosophie , but the Anschluss and later the invasion of Holland frustrated his plans for publishing the German text . |
| 11 | Even a pious man like Jovellanos could feel bitterly at the attempts of the Inquisition to sabotage his plans for establishing a modern technical institute at Gijon . |
| 12 | After he had beaten off three attacks to retake Aden , Haines was able to concentrate on his plans for turning a ramshackle town where 600 people , nearly half Jews , lived in squalor into the main entrepôt for Arabia and East Africa . |
| 13 | We hear about his plans for harnessing the luminescent power of putrescent meat ( ’ I have read a Geneva Bible by a leg of pork ’ ) , and about his experiments with bottled air ( ’ Isle of Dogs air is the heaviest ’ ) . |
| 14 | Put simply , Mr Erlich , I have an intelligence agent of a foreign country going about his activities without informing the local authorities of his work … |
| 15 | The dealer has also become something of a legend for his expertise in detecting the growing number of Basquiat fakes , an issue that is bound to attract further attention as the first retrospective of Basquiat 's entire career opens at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York this autumn . |
| 16 | A good teacher will constantly exercise his ingenuity in making the new intelligible . |
| 17 | After reading of Helen Wright 's good fortune in September Amicus Ivan McNeill wrote to tell me of his luck in winning a three day family trip to Euro Disney in a free draw organised at his local Esso petrol station in Ballymena , County Antrim . |
| 18 | The Member who wrote to express his disagreement invited Mark to the House to discuss his reasons for taking the opposite viewpoint . |
| 19 | Therefore , the enquirer who is using himself as a research instrument needs to be as aware as possible and committed to becoming more aware of his own biases , values and his reasons for holding the conceptual framework he does . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | This was despite the fact that Churchill , amazingly for a new and over-rewarded recruit to the Conservative Party who twelve years before had nearly broken up the Asquith Cabinet with his demand for a larger navy , began his Chancellorship by presenting an importunate demand to the Admiralty ministers ( who were Baldwin 's closest friends in the Government — Davidson was the junior minister ) for a slashing of the cruiser replacement programme . |
| 22 | One day , soon after the girl 's departure , Tom had complained of pains in his chest after digging the new potato patch , a job which had formerly been undertaken by a youthful employee who had also disappeared into the army . |
| 23 | Finally , in part three , Lowe concludes his study by offering a brief interim assessment of developments in the welfare state since 1976 . |
| 24 | We learn that he has not only killed his brother-in-law for opposing the Iranian government but that he unrepentantly believes that ‘ war is the source of love and hope and satisfaction . ’ |
| 25 | One senses that a few bowling attacks are likely to feel the frustration of Smith as he works out his disappointment at missing the latter stages of the World Cup . |
| 26 | His disappointment at having a second wife barren was , to him , the only flaw in their marriage , and her deception would never be forgiven . |
| 27 | And when the senses of sight and sound are combined , it is usually necessary for the sound engineer to go through all sorts of contortions to make his recordings without upsetting the picture-recording process . |
| 28 | Despite all his talk about having a clear conscience , about Gentle being the man to save her , he was deeply reluctant to hand the letter over . |
| 29 | Participants in the rally , held by a coalition of opposition movements called the National Salvation Front , waved red Soviet and Czarist flags as speakers accused Yeltsin and his administration of destroying the former Soviet Union and Russia . |
| 30 | The move was seen as an attempt to bolster the falling level of public support for his administration by addressing the two crucial issues of national unity and the economy . |