Example sentences of "[prep] his [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After his successful discharge he had to change jobs several times . |
| 2 | After a routine check just after his first birthday we were told that Cameron is quite normal . |
| 3 | After his unfair sacking he retired here to Sedgebrook and ‘ lived a quiet and private life ’ . |
| 4 | The next time Seve played after his Open win he was at St Mellion and playing the worst he 'd played to shoot a 79 . |
| 5 | Despite his limited education he was widely read , absorbing the ideas of the European Marxists in the medium of French , German and English as well as Dutch . |
| 6 | Despite his apparent interest he had given her no clue as to whether his future plans might include her . |
| 7 | Despite his European background he developed a detached , almost apolitical style of social research . |
| 8 | But despite his hard work I thought he lacked true happiness and peace of mind . |
| 9 | Despite his earnest Protestantism he married , by licence , on 3 August 1630 a Catholic heiress , Alathea , daughter of John Panton of Bryncunallt , Denbighshire , widow of William Sandys , fourth Baron Sandys . |
| 10 | Despite his calm composure she suddenly had the feeling that the fierce slap was far from forgiven … |
| 11 | With one fierce and skilful kick of his aching foot he will mend a deep concavity in the refrigerator 's flank . |
| 12 | For four years of his early life he lived at the court of King Philip II , to whom he did feudal homage in 1214 . |
| 13 | I visited a college there in , in that offshore island in the Indian Ocean and met the principal of that theological college and I said to him , I asked him how the college was going and he gave the same blandness to his answer as to my question and then he said of his theological college we are still training an aristocracy for the church and ensuring the inertia of the people of God . |
| 14 | In the midst of his second year he was sent off to the University College of Wales at Aberystwyth , for a crash course in everything Welsh prior to his investiture as Prince of Wales in the summer of 1969 . |
| 15 | At the beginning of his second term he started to deal with the problem by introducing people loyal to the administration at strategic levels throughout the departments . |
| 16 | Towards the end of his long life he married for the second time . |
| 17 | His financial position was secure for the first time , and for the last twenty years of his long life he was able to devote himself to his work of creating a Serbian literary language and bringing to the notice of his countrymen and the world the riches of the Serbian oral tradition . |
| 18 | To the very end of his long life he continued to be consulted about these types of issues , and lived to be present at the Pan Anglican Congress of 1908 , at which so many of his ideals were acclaimed . |
| 19 | Then with the chunky knuckles of his right hand he sent his full tumbler of water surfing Western-style up the skiddy steel bar . |
| 20 | ( During the lifetime of his first wife he had also had estate responsibilities at Banbury in Oxfordshire and Kirtling in Cambridgeshire . ) |
| 21 | By the end of his first year he 'll be light-haired , but it will change again so that in maturity he 'll be quite definitely dark . |
| 22 | There was little he could do to combat the hostility of the media , but after the frustrations of his first term he decided to face up to the bureaucracy and the legislature . |
| 23 | But because he was in the middle of his mental stress he suffered a disaster . |
| 24 | ‘ Officially he does , General , but for the purposes of his private life he has a small apartment , a flat as the English call it . |
| 25 | As a result of his lost schooling he could n't return to his previous class , and so was at least a year older than the other boys and girls in the class to which he was now assigned . |
| 26 | To provide for these services to be provided efficiently and to avoid the Assistant Director being involved in detailed matters in these areas to the detriment of his managerial responsibility it is recommended that an Office Manager be appointed who would co-ordinate all these activities . |
| 27 | When , however , one examines Oakeshott 's political writing in the context of his philosophical work it is clear that his notion of tradition is different from that of Burke . |
| 28 | By 1789 he was employing five assistants in London , his brother Robert , a solicitor in Edinburgh , was attending to his Scottish business , and in spite of his Presbyterian background he was working on Sundays to keep up with the pressure of work . |
| 29 | While we do n't believe Mr Clarke is so fond of his junior minister he would be prepared to spend £20m of public money to help secure his re-election , the fact that this was an issue in other Tory marginal seats around the country no doubt influenced ministerial thought processes . |
| 30 | As a sign of his imperial power the pope used the regnum ( the tiara ) and as a symbol of his pontifical power he used the mitre . |