Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The line obviously comes from some lost ballad telling the story of how Child Roland went to Elfland to rescue his sister from the wicked King , a monster-legend , a Theodoric-story . |
| 2 | A judge of one division of the High Court can order the transfer of any proceedings against the bankrupt from any other division of the High Court or the county court to his division of the High Court ( r 7.15(2) ) . |
| 3 | In certain rites and ceremonies the Phoenix Guard attend the Phoenix King , most notably when he is chosen and enters the flame eternal in the shrine to mark his rebirth as the new king . |
| 4 | William Waldegrave has now been appointed his lieutenant in the grinding battle within Whitehall , against warriors who will doubtless counterattack with the saddest words of public administration : ‘ We 've always done it this way . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ He has proved a better confidential secretary than to give revealing answers , despite his weakness for the opposite sex — however beautiful , ’ Ven replied . |
| 6 | But today the man who wants to be next the Health Secretary did his bit for the local campaign . |
| 7 | It was his first win in the league and came from a peg at Waverton , where he used a loaded waggler to drag his bit along the far bank and catch quality roach to eight ounces . |
| 8 | It was his next appointment in March 1904 , to the embassy in Constantinople , which fired his enthusiasm for the Middle East and settled the subsequent course of his brief but eventful life . |
| 9 | The rebuff did much to undermine his enthusiasm for the Conservative party . |
| 10 | Once you 've pondered the crucial question of which is the bigger — Mount Everest or Blessed 's supremely affable ego , then the best course of action is simply to let the saltily ribald tidal wave of his enthusiasm for the Big Hill and its history wash over you . |
| 11 | His enthusiasm for the cloak-and-dagger business of detection seemed to have waned . |
| 12 | Bielicki formally submitted his resignation at the inaugural session of the new Sejm on Nov. 25 , despite a plea from Walesa to remain . |
| 13 | But this was too much ; he picked up the phone and left his resignation on the answering machine at Caxton House . |
| 14 | By the end of May , Vagnorius , refusing to explain his resignation to the Supreme Council , was still Prime Minister , albeit in an acting capacity . |
| 15 | On Jan. 16 , Prime Minister , Dashiyn Byambasuren tendered his resignation to the Great Hural and proposed a government reshuffle , claiming that his economic reforms no longer had the support of the people . |
| 16 | The press was clamouring for blood and Lord Harris told Robertson that he would have to tender his resignation to the academic advisory council . |
| 17 | He had been the Land Minister President in 1971-82 in Schleswig-Holstein , where his resignation from the federal government was expected to be a factor in elections in early April . |
| 18 | His resignation from the National Executive had drawn attention to the difference within the Labour Party on foreign policy . |
| 19 | From this small beginning , Mr. Shipsey went on to greater things for we used to hear of his progress after the monthly meetings of the Ancient Order of Foresters as both Dad and his friend were Past Chief Rangers . |
| 20 | After that Aussie series Graham worked furiously on his technique in the Caribbean and returned to tear the Indians apart the following summer . |
| 21 | Despite his notoriety during the Cultural Revolution , Chen even secured a limited rehabilitation in the last years of his life and was allowed to do historical research at the Literature and History Museum in Peking . |
| 22 | His mentor in the early years was William Cobbett [ q.v. ] , and although in his political radicalism Doherty went beyond Cobbett , the attack upon ‘ Old Corruption ’ always remained an essential part of his attack upon contemporary society . |
| 23 | he 's got his heart on the right instead of his left , the liver on the left instead of the right , the appendix on the left instead of the right and other internal organs possibly |
| 24 | At his funeral Rev Leslie had to offer his arm as well as his heart to the young lady , who only six weeks previously he had married to Ivor . |
| 25 | widow whose husband had ‘ broken his heart of the Peruvian mines ’ some forty years ago . |
| 26 | Albert fell prey to his nightly fantasies of living with Bella again and began looking at Jim with rage in his heart toward the wet blanket who was preventing it . |
| 27 | And it was true — progressivism was followed closely in his heart by the decadent enigmas of forgetfulness and oblivion' ( Pasolini , 263 , 265 ) . |
| 28 | Jones opens his heart in the controversial new video , Soccer 's Hard Men , exclusively revealed in yesterday 's Mirror Sport , which has shocked the football world . |
| 29 | One of them , Machik , ‘ manifested great inventiveness , cunning and insidiousness in his struggle against the Russian authorities , and the voevody could not take him at his word ’ . |
| 30 | The idea of civil disobedience had occurred to Gandhi prior to reading Thoreau 's essay , nevertheless he used Thoreau 's phrase to describe his struggle against the African authorities to English readers . |