Example sentences of "[be] his [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sotheby 's B shares carry ten votes each and this , of course , will enable Taubman to retain control of the auction house which he purchased for £80 million in 1983 , unless the bank forecloses on the debt of Mr Taubman 's affiliate ( assumed to be his investments in the troubled retailing sectors ) for which 11 million of his Sotheby 's B shares stand guaranty . |
| 2 | He added that we must be his guests at the great banquet he was holding that night for other Scottish lords who had come south with him . |
| 3 | Today they tried to reconstruct what they think might have been his movements before the disappearance . |
| 4 | Throughout his personal battles , and those for others , she has been his ears on the world . |
| 5 | This disappointment was all the more galling for the fact that the prime minister and eight other cabinet ministers had been his colleagues in the UDC ; and , unmollified by nomination for the Nobel peace prize , Morel became almost as bitter a critic of the Ramsay MacDonald government as of its predecessors . |
| 6 | Oh are are his keys in the car ? |
| 7 | What are his plans for the future ? |
| 8 | Then there are his photographs of the starving Sudanese ; Marie Helvin naked , stiletto-heeled and sheathed in bandages ; Catherine Dyer in the bloody throes of childbirth ; more recently , Denice Lewis dancing in the South of France in the Pernod ads . |
| 9 | However , as some of the non-payers are members of the Labour party and are his colleagues on the Opposition Benches , how can he blame the Government for the fact that people have decided of their own free will not to pay a tax ? |
| 10 | Among the most prized of Ackermann 's books are his histories of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge and of various famous public schools , his Picturesque Tours in England and many foreign countries , and his illustrations of costume and architecture . |
| 11 | What is much more difficult to know is what were his motives for the decision , and what he expected to be the likely outcome . |
| 12 | Important as were his contacts with the Frankish rulers for his preaching in Hesse and Thuringia , he could scarcely bring himself to share the company of the fast-living Frankish bishops whom he met at court — Milo of Trier ‘ and others like him ’ , as he said dismissively — until his mentor , Bishop Daniel of Winchester , had to cite to him texts from Augustine and the Bible against separating oneself from sinners and in favour of dissimulation . |
| 13 | The only sounds were his footsteps on the stairs , the slamming of her front door followed by the noise of his car engine as it roared away from her flat . |
| 14 | Less happy were his efforts during the late 1890s to revive the Speaker as an organ for radical ideas , and his editorship of the ailing Daily News from 1901 to 1902 . |
| 15 | Among many professional distinctions were his presidencies of the Institutions of Mechanical Engineers ( 1909 ) and Civil Engineers ( 1919 ) , and the ( Smeatonian ) Society of Civil Engineers ( 1931 ) . |
| 16 | ‘ I have seen God face to face , and yet my life is preserved ’ were his words at the start of the day . |
| 17 | Both were his colleagues amongst the seven original confederate magnates . |
| 18 | Such events , however , were not very frequent — a whole year might pass without one — and so the only additional earnings he could usually rely on were his winnings at the weekly bridge school . |
| 19 | As though he had suddenly realised that Curtis was bluffing him , frightening him into pleading for mercy in a pathetic attempt to humiliate him — or perhaps to force from him a confession of what the lieutenant claimed were his crimes against the whores he had exterminated . |
| 20 | A typical example is his remarks at the Cabinet meeting which approved the employment White Paper , when he suggested that at the beginning of a slump the Cabinet should declare a ‘ Salute the stomach ’ week along the lines of the wartime ‘ Salute the soldier ’ weeks , but with the emphasis on spending rather than saving . |
| 21 | What was his marks for the last test . |