Example sentences of "by his [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , in addition , I were accompanied by his fifteen soldiers I believed we should be too strong a party to invite attack , while not so strong as to alarm and provoke the tribes . |
| 2 | By his middle years he had published little , and the ideas for which he is remembered did not begin to develop until then . |
| 3 | By his early teens he was embarrassed by the publicity gained through the frequency with which his poems appeared in the local newspapers and resorted to using a variety of noms de plume : his Bibliography lists over ninety . |
| 4 | By his first wife he had three sons and three daughters . |
| 5 | By his first wife he had a son , Richard . |
| 6 | By his first marriage he had three sons ( the youngest of whom died in infancy ) , and by the second one son and four daughters . |
| 7 | Flanked by his grim-faced wife he said : ‘ We are fortunate in the depth of our relationship . ’ |
| 8 | By his second wife he had a daughter and two sons ; his elder son was killed aged nineteen in the Guards Armoured division on the Dutch-German border in 1944 . |
| 9 | Maximilian was to marry twice , and by his second wife he was to have ten children . |
| 10 | ‘ Just imagine him standing by the side of you , with his hands crossed before him in a Miss Mollyish style , his intended bow half a courtsey , his fat arms and legs assisting , as in duty bound ; his side glances at you every ten seconds , while he softly , sweetly and insinuatingly informs you — that he has made the arts his peculiar study for the last eight years , and that he flatters himself , by his unremitting study he has greatly contributed to their improvement ; that he came to Ambleside for that purpose ( 't is a great big lie — he came solely to get a living for himself and family , but he is too proud to acknowledge this ) and hopes that the time has been employed with equal advantage to the arts and to himself . ’ |
| 11 | Although the romance has powered many a writer , notably Stevenson , some latter-day Scots take the harder , colder view of the pretender — such as the novelist and poet Iain Crichton-Smith , who , in his novel The Dream , has one of his characters muse , ‘ He was an evil ghost who had drifted into the Highlands , like some kind of vaporous poison , with his powdered hair and his boyish rapacity for adventure , intoxicated by the new air , the mountains , the lochs , the heather , and by his selfish opportunism he had brought tragedy on the Highlands . |
| 12 | But no , by his very movement it was plain that he was supple and vigorous , full of life and passion and promise . |
| 13 | Though when , clearly a man who felt he had no need to underline anything , by his very silence he made her believe it , she was back to hating him with a vengeance . |
| 14 | By his own admission he ‘ hypes ’ player to the press . |
| 15 | His move into stockbroking at the age of 21 followed two years ' training to be a chartered accountant which by his own admission he did n't enjoy . |
| 16 | By his own admission he has led a charmed life . |
| 17 | He stated at p494 : If A has the legal capacity to transfer an opportunity to make a gain and in the exercise of that capacity does transfer that opportunity to B by his own act he does so directly . |
| 18 | Overcome by his own joke he broke into a fit of choking laughter until tears sprang from his eyes . |
| 19 | By his own estimate he has spent £38 million in little over a year in his attempt to do so . |
| 20 | However , by his own account he had then been accepted as a volunteer in an unofficial military role . |
| 21 | He has not lost this capacity for pleasure ; by his own account he continues to enjoy his research , and we wish him many more life enhancing years to come . |
| 22 | Now by his Holy Spirit he lives in our innermost selves , so that we become transformed into his image and likeness . |
| 23 | The German plans persisted in his mind for years , but that particular South African aspiration was transitory , because by his next letter he wrote ‘ Listen and attend a minute . |
| 24 | By his next letter he had recovered his good humour and was asking to be forgiven . |
| 25 | He was now in India , and judging by his last letter he appeared to be enjoying life out there . |
| 26 | I arrived back in time to pipe out the Brigadier , and judging by his jovial manner he must have enjoyed his meal . |