Example sentences of "of his [noun] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of his interrogators added a gloss to the story almost forty years later . |
| 2 | EVERYONE is entitled to their opinion , and while I agree with Joe Hyam 's concerning service charges ( Caterer , 15–21 August ) , I feel he is taking unfair advantage of his position to have a go at people who do not do things the ‘ Joe Hyam ’ way . |
| 3 | Two of his ex-pupils contributed a cartoon to issue three of the group 's fanzine . |
| 4 | Some of his advisers favoured a large-scale attempt at encirclement from the north of the capital . |
| 5 | The foreman of his jury wrote a letter to " The Times " : " Where a jury has to decide , as men and women of the world , " how much " " , the degree of uncertainty is so great that a random answer , consistent only with a total lack of any sort of yardstick , can be expected . |
| 6 | Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini had spent much of his life combining a climb towards the summit of the Shiite hierarchy with the elaboration of a coherent set of ideas about what was wrong with both contemporary Iran and much of the outside world . |
| 7 | When it mattered , Linford responded with the run of his life to beat a world class field in Barcelona . |
| 8 | Asil Nadir has been reluctant to return to Britain , partly because he says , media coverage of his case makes a fair trial unlikely . |
| 9 | He thinks Shakespeare in most or all of his works followed a single deep myth , first announced in Venus and Adonis , the Roman Catholic form , and The Rape of Lucrece , the Protestant . |
| 10 | The varying periods of copyright have caused difficulties : Paul Klee for instance , who died in 1940 , is in copyright in France and Germany and therefore monographs on the artist and other reproductions of his works require a royalty to be paid on the books circulated in those countries . |
| 11 | The seventeen volumes of his survey provide a remarkable survey not only of poverty but of employment and religious observance in London . |
| 12 | Marc 's sneer and the sheer force of his presence brought a reluctant answer from between Peter 's lips . |
| 13 | Though Larry does not ultimately succeed in reintegrating himself into the world , his efforts to come to terms with the consequences of his experience in the death world of his hallucination indicate a potential mode of interpersonal relation that would provide the basis for a more ‘ sane ’ existence . |
| 14 | For a sickening moment he swung wildly on the rope and one of his feet slipped a few inches down the wall . |
| 15 | It was n't that she had anything against him personally ; he was a charming and clever man , dedicated to his school , an entrepreneur who was using the fruits of his success to fulfil a lifetime 's dream — and good luck to him , she thought . |
| 16 | He was using the common coin of the judicial language which is frequently employed to remind the jury of their duty in a serious case and their Lordships do not consider that he overstepped the limits of his obligation to ensure a fair trial . |
| 17 | And he blames AC Scotland for the sabotaging of his plans to raise a second round of finance by stockbrokers in Europe who let him down at the last minute . |
| 18 | However most of his paintings have a classical fore , middle and back ground . |
| 19 | One of his paintings shows a rough wooden gallery on a house thought to be Willy Hill . |
| 20 | This man , eager to draw first blood , swerved as he neared Sharpe , then leaned out of his saddle to give a gut-slicing sweep with the glittering blade . |
| 21 | Variously influenced in youth by Freud and Marx , by Richards and T. S. Eliot , he emerged defiant of his sources to adopt a view of civilisation which , by the time he came to write Milton 's God , was fiercely and outrageously his own . |
| 22 | so this memento of the artist at the height of his powers makes a welcome return to the catalogue , sounding finer still on CD . |
| 23 | If anyone writes in to say that Francis Bacon noticed the flashes when he got out of his coach to freeze a chicken in the snow , I shall leave the country , suitably disguised , and write piteous letters about being a laughing stock to all , coupled with the name of sundry . |
| 24 | Emphasizing the intellectual approach , Hourcade was the first of the many writers to relate Cubist painting to Kantian aesthetics , and in one of his articles includes a quotation from Schopenhauer : ‘ Kant 's greatest service was to distinguish between the appearance of a thing and the thing in itself , and he showed that our intelligence stands between the thing and us . ’ |
| 25 | Suger 's historical writings led the monks of his abbey to develop a taste for history and hence to compile a series of chronicles . |
| 26 | The enormity of his betrayal wrenched a choking sob from her . |
| 27 | Frere stepped on to the ice , sniffed at the cold air , and then , hands clasped at his back , the tail of his frock-coat lifting a little in the breeze , he sailed off . |
| 28 | Due to the large crowds coming to hear Baxter 's preaching , some of his friends built a large meeting house for him in Oxenden Street , which was completed on April 16th 1676 . |
| 29 | She is a lady of high birth who has lost her father and now sees one of his friends meet a similar terrible death . ’ |
| 30 | Hank paid five dollars from his paper money as the first month 's rent , and , later that day , he and several of his friends pushed a dowager of a car round from his back lane , where it had been dumped by a tow truck , into the Dawsons ' garage . |