Example sentences of "his [noun] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The apparently unbridgeable gulf between him and his contemporaries in terms of sheer footballing skill made him an exceptional and enormously wealthy black man , after a childhood spent amidst the poverty and squalor of Bauru ( see Pelé and Fish , 1977 ) . |
| 2 | His weakness for girls from an escort agency run by an old friend of Jack 's had cost him dear over the years . |
| 3 | After his talks with Mr Baker , Chancellor Kohl toned down his enthusiasm for moves toward German unity . |
| 4 | It is evident that he did live there in his later years as the Minutes of 1771 agree to provide his successor with lodgings in Chelsea , ‘ until such time as Mr. Miller has quit his apartments in the greenhouse ’ . |
| 5 | The profits of war were not to be found only in France : a grateful king rewarded his commanders with grants at home , and the wounds of 1341 seem to have been healed by success in war . |
| 6 | By the autumn of 1340 , still awaiting the fruits of these grants , deserted by Lewis of Bavaria and with only the naval victory at Sluys to encourage him , Edward was borrowing from his own archers and offering his commanders as hostages for his debts to his allies . |
| 7 | On his return he continued his discussions with leaders of the deaf community and other missioners . |
| 8 | Yet the means he employs seem to contradict these aims : reconciling his removal of benefits from 16 and 17 year olds , for instance , with his expressed support for the family , is an exercise to test even the wisest . |
| 9 | Mr Heslop was replying to evidence supporting Mr Venables ' attempt to continue an injunction preventing his removal from Spurs pending the hearing of his Companies Court plea for the right to buy out Mr Sugar 's 47.8pc holding in the club . |
| 10 | His concern for religion was shown by service on the commission for the propagation of the gospel in Wales ( where he became a JP ) and by his part in petitions for toleration , which no doubt reinforced contacts with Oliver Cromwell . |
| 11 | The seller appreciates the clear specification of his liability for defects under the contract , and the buyer should be willing to trade his somewhat uncertain remedies at law for the ease and certainty of remedy provided by the guarantee . |
| 12 | On the other hand , for all his ferocity in matters of principle , the archbishop was an aged and a sick man who had suffered too many humiliations and had offended too many of his fellow prelates in the 1290s and since to command strong support from them ; he was still unsure of papal backing for his measures , and indeed found them countermanded by Clement . |
| 13 | In his address on Sept. 24 King Juan Carlos urged delegates to the conference , which was also attended by observers from eight Arab countries and Israel , to work together to limit the pollution of the Mediterranean , and lent his support to plans for a CSCM . |
| 14 | Former EC environment commissioner Carlo Ripa di Meana has expressed his support for opponents of the extension of the M3 through Twyford Down in Hampshire , saying the road project was a " brutal and unneeded monster " . |
| 15 | His support of plots against Beaton in 1544 and 1545 came to fruition in May 1546 , when a group of Fifeshire lairds headed by Norman Leslie , son of the earl of Rothes , broke into the episcopal castle at St Andrews , murdered the cardinal and slung his body over the castle walls ; the murderers , henceforth known as the Castalians , barricaded themselves inside the castle , which they held as a Protestant stronghold . |
| 16 | When he 'd been appointed a Minister he 'd handed over his parcel of shares to his wife , Leonora . |
| 17 | Gray explained his decision in terms of wishing to exert influence over the next generation of black leaders , to earn a higher salary , and to spend more time with his family and his local Baptist church . |
| 18 | The former Northern Ireland international announced his decision after talks with Wigan chairman Stephen Gage and is expected to leave the English second division club immediately . |
| 19 | passing the questioning to the Mountie bridged the void neatly , and the Mountie told us that the reason that Steve , Angelica 's business manager , also her lover , had not turned up at Toronto station was because he too was dead , struck down in his apartment by blows to the head with a mallet . |
| 20 | The UN 's special envoy on human rights , Tadeusz Mazowiecki , arrived in Croatia on Oct. 12 to resume his investigations into abuses of human rights [ see p. 39035 ] . |
| 21 | If the birds or Australia had not received that degree of attention from the scientific ornithologist which their interest demanded ’ , he wrote in his preface to Mammals of Australia , ‘ I can assert , without fear of contradiction , that its highly curious and interesting Mammals have been still less investigated . |
| 22 | Rosa Levine-Meyer recounted to me how Bukharin met and discussed his plans with members of the German Communist Party in the late summer and autumn of 1928 . |
| 23 | Mr Meacher should also spell out his plans for limits on picket lines . |
| 24 | After more than a week of evidence , twenty seven year old Daniel Ahearn changed his plea on charges of assault and robbery and attempted extortion . |
| 25 | Rodrigo strove mightily not to offend his Moorish subjects , especially in Valencia which became his base of operations over the succeeding months . |
| 26 | The directors are set to give McHale a big rise in his budget for players in a bid to win promotion next season . |
| 27 | Whatever the chancellor 's motives , it is a mistake to dismiss his budget for savers as mere window-dressing . |
| 28 | Clearly , someone who wishes to hedge his exposure to variations in the price of an asset in his portfolio could do so either by purchasing an appropriate forward contract — from a bank perhaps — or by purchasing exchange traded futures . |
| 29 | They removed files of documents and tape prepared for his defence to charges of burglary . |
| 30 | The former chairman of Swindon Town football club has begun his defence against charges of cheating the inland revenue out of thousands of pounds . |