Example sentences of "[prep] his new [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Galloway had now installed a motor mechanic there whom he had hired to look after his new motor vehicles . |
| 2 | What was erm thingamajigs feelings towards his new dad ? |
| 3 | Ludens had found space and time , amid his new sensations , to feel very sorry that he had not gone to see Franca when she had , so unusually , as he realised just afterwards , invited him . |
| 4 | The Emissary gave me another view of his new teeth as I glanced round . |
| 5 | The consecration of his new basilica on the anniversary of Assandun and the erection of a church on the battlefield could also have owed something to Danish interest . |
| 6 | George VI , a shy man , was terrified of his new position and many feared that the monarchy would not survive into the next decade . |
| 7 | Laurie Mains was busily talking with John Dowling , a New Zealand Rugby Football Union councillor from Dunedin , about the public relations side of his new position as All Black coach when , all of a sudden , a smile moved over Mains ' face . |
| 8 | Second , he shows an intense dislike of his new position , and a continuing desire to resign . |
| 9 | To maintain the dignity of his new position , Elphege needed to have a biography and a complement of musical compositions for his feast-day . |
| 10 | Outside Flanders , Robert 's sister 's marriage to Roger of Sicily was a mark of his new position in the world ; like Louis VI 's sister 's marriage to Bohemond of Antioch , it stretched French kinship connections into the new Norman colonies , ensuring that travellers from the homeland would find a welcome in those distant parts . |
| 11 | Doubtless , at any rate for a while , his son could bear this loss of authority with patience in view of his new position as Henry 's chief heir . |
| 12 | Intervention may be of a befriending nature , offering the person the opportunity to confide , and talk through his emotions , and gently guiding him towards a reassessment of his new position in life without the person he mourns . |
| 13 | Much of his new support has come from the left , however . |
| 14 | His feet were now stuck out in front of him and Nenna could read the word EXCELLA on the soles of each of his new shoes . |
| 15 | The fears which had crawled back over the stockade of his new self were banished : he was unassailable on the rock of Hause Point — what could harm him but Death which here would be no great enemy ? |
| 16 | In the Headington nets : Sachin goes under the scrutiny of his new public . |
| 17 | But underneath all the tough-talking , cryptic statements and pipe-lighting that allows him time to carefully think out his replies , there is another Bill Morrison , a schoolboy at heart , who is happiest sitting in the stands at Lord 's or Twickenham swapping cricketing and rugby stories , who idolises sporting heroes like cricketers Denis Compton and Gary Sobers , four-minute miler Roger Bannister , and former rugby international Gerald Davies , and who is in a fever of excitement over the arrival of his new MG RV8 , a ‘ reincarnation of the old MGB ’ , only ‘ more powerful , more comfortable ( I hope ) and certainly more costly ’ . |
| 18 | Wordsworth was quick to take the measure of his new acquaintance . |
| 19 | And Abbot Suger of St Denis thought of bringing back ancient Roman columns from Diocletian 's baths to use in the construction of his new abbey church outside Paris . |
| 20 | He was a happy and contented member of a new kind of club , and since the last thing Ken wanted to do was join a club , it was a measure of his new triumph that he became part of this one . |
| 21 | Then , during the afternoon he put in a personal appearance at three of the funeral parlours that he 'd recently acquired for the company as part of his new expansion programme . |
| 22 | Before he was incapacitated , Menelik had won recognition for his conquests and acceptance of his new frontiers . |
| 23 | Henrietta did not lose interest in her impecunious father and within two years she was with him aboard HMS Bullfinch for the trials of his new screw propeller . |
| 24 | Henry , on his part , turned seriously towards the fulfilment of his new obligations . |
| 25 | While yesterday 's purchase price was kept confidential it is believed that Mr Arkley paid between £150,000 and £200,000 for each of his new pubs . |
| 26 | Two of his new windows , big ones , have warped and had to be redone . |
| 27 | The joyless cynicism , vicious cruelty , and ugly surroundings of his new life were his punishment for living so long in foolish illusion . |
| 28 | NEWCASTLE 'S Steve Howey will face the toughest examination of his new life at the back tomorrow . |
| 29 | In the same way he himself seemed to be acquiring a greater and greater starkness , and soon after settling into Carlyle Mansions the order of his new life emerged . |
| 30 | Some analysts said President Endara faces a struggle in establishing the legitimacy of his new government . |