Example sentences of "one of his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the course of one of Richard 's retaliatory raids he captured an important man , Peter Seillan , a member of the family which governed the city of Toulouse on the Count 's behalf and one of his closest advisers . |
| 2 | The architect asked one of his closest friends , the painter William Nicholson , to decorate the classic proportions and deeply coved ceiling of the upper hall . |
| 3 | Even more revealing of Baldwin 's personality than The Times letter and the action it announced was the note which he wrote immediately afterwards to John Davidson , who despite a twenty-two-year age gap had become and was to remain one of his closest friends : |
| 4 | One of his closest friends is the director Wim Wenders . |
| 5 | He remained in York 's employment until the Restoration , first in the French and then in the Spanish armies , and became his groom of the Stole and one of his closest friends . |
| 6 | That afternoon the King telephoned Winston Churchill , one of his closest friends . |
| 7 | In the confusion following Majorian 's death in 461 , however , they found themselves fighting against one of his closest supporters , Aegidius , first in the south , and subsequently in the Loire valley , where Frideric was killed in 463 . |
| 8 | Alec says that two years ago one of his closest colleagues was dragged from his home at gunpoint and threatened by the IRA . |
| 9 | Perhaps there was more than a grain of truth in the remark of one of his closest colleagues that Keynes ‘ had never spent the twenty minutes necessary to understand the theory of value ’ . |
| 10 | On the eve of the Congress , Mr Yeltsin carried out a minor reshuffle , recalling one of his closest aides , Mr Gennady Burbulis , from the post of First Deputy Prime Minister back to the safer climes of State Secretary . |
| 11 | Clements turned on one of his innocent smiles . |
| 12 | One of his final acts was to take Britain 's Nigel Mansell from Williams . |
| 13 | One of his current preoccupations is the way in which the Australian literature boards disburse their grants to writers . |
| 14 | We 've tracked down erstwhile Uniplex Inc 's president and chief executive officer Jeff Waxman at one of his current haunts , a six-year-old ‘ start-up ’ called Mentalix Inc , where at least on paper he 's playing the same role he did at Uniplex . |
| 15 | By homing in on a national hero , Clinton will be keeping one of his early election promises to pick the best people — regardless of their party affiliaton . |
| 16 | One of his early projects was a film version of John Galsworthy 's Escape ( 1930 ) , which he proposed to the writer as a way to enable theatre to ‘ regain influence ’ over the screen . |
| 17 | One of his early moves on joining Grant Forrest was to change the name to its current one to emphasise that it was a pan-Scottish agency and in 1983 Cree joined to open the office in Edinburgh , a move he considers a vital part of PRCS 's success . |
| 18 | You may in fact remember that it appeared on one of his early LPs . |
| 19 | Napoleon had fought one of his early battles at Toulon , but Rose-Marie had n't realised this until Catriona pointed it out . |
| 20 | As he said in his first novel , answering one of his early girlfriend 's naive questions , ‘ What was it like to have no father ? ’ he laconically answered , ‘ It made you more grown-up . |
| 21 | As he said in one of his early poems , ‘ Rites ’ ( Let Us Compare Mythologies , p 227 ) : |
| 22 | He also made a comment on one of his early poems that it belonged to his ‘ Imagist period ’ , adding almost sotto voce and in a typical Eliot way — ‘ if there was an Imagist period ’ . |
| 23 | In one of his Delphic moods , he told himself , which was unfair , since the boss must sometimes puzzle himself as much as his underlings . |
| 24 | Back in Johannesburg after the war , Herbert began to practise law in partnership with one of his elder brothers , James , but later went off to Europe for a year to study law in Vienna . |
| 25 | Early in 1923 , Dad had to go hurriedly to Devon to attend the funeral of one of his elder brothers , Uncle Fred , who had died as the result of a heart attack at the early age of forty-seven . |
| 26 | He recalls that when one of his legal team visited Mr McLean in Belmarsh he was in tears of distress . |
| 27 | Plomley did n't regard the show as one of his greatest successes and no one else seemed to remember it . |
| 28 | It was wholly appropriate that to reach this landmark the jockey would have to produce one of his greatest efforts . |
| 29 | While working on the new opera , Don Giovanni , he also completed two string quintets , K.515 in C and K.516 in G minor — one of his greatest works in that key ; the Violin Sonata in A , K.526 ; and two small-scale ‘ divertimento-style ’ pieces , the exquisite serenade Eine Kleine Nachtmusik , and its antithesis , Ein musikalischer Späss ( A Musical Joke ) , which , in its wealth of wrong notes and inept harmonies , is obviously intended to be a satire on incompetent composers . |
| 30 | One of his greatest knocks was the 143 at Port-of-Spain in 1968 — this after he had reached breaking-point in 1966 , only to come back with century after century in the 1967 Tests — but he still found touring the Caribbean a fairly distasteful affair , as revealed in his letter to his wife : ‘ We 're being taken for the biggest ride … the umpiring , the crowd and Charlie … it is downright cheating … |