Example sentences of "[verb] of his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know of his 26-volume autobiography which Miss Godden asks about , but his 180-volume diary provided the material for a 400-page biography by David Newsome , entitled On the Edge of Paradise : A. C. Benson , Diarist . |
| 2 | Like Piquet he changed his name ( from Senna da Silva to Senna ) so his family would n't know of his racing exploits . |
| 3 | As the educated urban elite abandon Mr Collor , following a series of media exposes of his political record , he has relied on continued support from rural voters at rallies of up to 70,000 . |
| 4 | Another ambition has been financial reward , and it is a lucky man who escapes a conversation with Jackie without being reminded of his various positions , his bankers , his lawyers , his accountants and his courtiers . |
| 5 | So far this is normal and to be expected , but if Claire is told often enough how good she is when she feels herself to be bad , or if Henry is constantly reminded of his vicious streak when he is aware of other , ignored qualities in himself , then both Claire and Henry are likely to become confused as to their own self-images . |
| 6 | He thought : He has acquired the mystique of the story-teller and , glancing at the ring of fire-lit and intent faces , he was suddenly reminded of his first village school , of the children clustered round Miss Douglas at three o'clock on a Friday afternoon for the half hour of story-time , and felt a pang of pain and regret for those lost days of innocence and love . |
| 7 | The times were few and far between when she could look at him and not be reminded of his many faults and shortcomings . |
| 8 | The circumstances surrounding Adele Duncan 's personal tragedy were so similar , how could Niall fail to be reminded of his own marriage break-up ? |
| 9 | He was reminded of his own headmaster back at school . |
| 10 | The spectator has come for blood , but did not buy his ticket to be reminded of his own mortality . |
| 11 | In addition , suctioning of his endotracheal tube cause bradycardias , which occasionally required intravenous atropine , although Brian seemed unaware of this . |
| 12 | On the other hand he would have a much enlarged Aquitaine , to be held in sovereignty , the ‘ perpetual liberty ’ which he had instructed the Black Prince to demand of his royal prisoner in 1357 , and which would remove at a stroke the threat of confiscation . |
| 13 | Sadly , the thief who leaves no clues and is careful disposing of his ill-gotten gains is unlikely to be caught . |
| 14 | If the vendor is disposing of his entire business , he should deregister for VAT purposes otherwise he will continue to receive and be required to file VAT returns . |
| 15 | Eadberht abdicated of his own accord in 758 , handing the kingdom over to his son , Oswulf , and becoming a cleric at York ( where he died in 768 ) , but Oswulf was killed within the year by his own household in 759 near the unidentified settlement of Methel Wongtun and replaced by Aethelwald Moll , who is likely to have been associated with those who were responsible for Oswulf 's murder ; nor did Eadberht 's descendants recover royal power for twenty years . |
| 16 | Speaking through his secretary , the Right Reverend Peter Ball says he would like everyone to know of his immense gratitude for their overwhelming support . |
| 17 | What South American readers will make of his repeated references to the former enemy as ‘ Argies ’ or of the punchy foreword by Mrs Thatcher is hard to predict . |
| 18 | Leeming 's clothes , consisting of his woollen suit , shirt , underwear , white socks and black shoes , were laid out on a chair . |
| 19 | What would she think of his twinkling nipples ? |
| 20 | Ybreska would not ever think of his little errands as subversive acts . |
| 21 | The success that Mr Clinton made of his economic package — the speed with which Congress passed his deficit-reduction measures , the positive reaction in the markets — convinced too many that he would turn all he touched to gold . |
| 22 | A Cornish miner later recalled of his late-eighteenth-century childhood : When I was eight years old my parents sent me to a raiding school kept by a poor owld man called Stephen Martin . |
| 23 | In his heart he was frightened of Michael , frightened of his phenomenal temper . |
| 24 | It was announced through local media sources on Sept. 24 that Carlos Aldana , 50 , generally recognized as the country 's third most important leader , had been stripped of his overall responsibility for ideology , foreign policy and culture . |
| 25 | Maeve ordered him to be stripped of his travel-stained jerkin and leggings . |
| 26 | He had never been stripped of his Bulgarian citizenship , and it was officially reported on June 12 that he had been granted a Bulgarian passport . |
| 27 | Khalid al-Hassan , a member of the central committee of Al-Fatah ( the largest group within the Palestine Liberation Organization-PLO ) and chairman of the Palestine National Council 's foreign affairs committee , was reported on Dec. 19 to have been stripped of his Kuwaiti citizenship . |
| 28 | There was of course Ferdinando , but she hesitated over opening her heart to her husband , who would in any case need her letter read to him and would be unable to answer of his own accord . |
| 29 | ‘ A lot in it remains undiscovered , ’ Ian McDiarmid says of his current lead role in Volpone , the 1606 satire that is Ben Jonson 's most frequently performed play . |
| 30 | ‘ We had a lot to catch up , ’ he says of his early years at Littlewoods . |