Example sentences of "his [det] [noun] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know that his many friends and family , as well as those who have only recently met him , think that this must be one of those marriages that are made in heaven , and will want to join me in wishing Steven and Annabelle a long and happy married life together . |
| 2 | His many medals and Order of the Red Star testified to his father 's unwavering faith in the system . |
| 3 | His many anthems and music for church performance include delightful settings of Psalm 150 and ‘ Bring Unto the Lord O Ye Mighty ’ . |
| 4 | Hilton uses words like " shape " and " image " ( " oure lord God schope man in soule to his owne ymage and liknes " ) ( 1.63r. – 193 ) which depend on spatial dimension for their meaning ; but as he defines them they point to an integration of human sentient powers in a consciousness of transcendent love and knowledge . |
| 5 | This occurred in those cases of sex murder where the supposed infidelity of the woman was the excuse the man used to justify killing his former wife or lover . |
| 6 | He has also seen Des Walker , his former England and Forest team-pal , become an instant millionaire with a £1.5million close-season move to Italy to join Sampdoria . |
| 7 | Mikhail Gorbachev , the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Sovietskogo Soyuza — CPSU ) , was elected to the new presidency on March 15 , having already served as executive President of the Soviet Union since May 1989 in his former capacity as Chairman of the USSR Supreme Soviet [ see p. 37297 ] . |
| 8 | He succeeded his former master as surveyor to the estates of All Souls College , Oxford , and continued in the college 's employment until 1605 . |
| 9 | Its dean was his former teacher and friend , Eric Milner-White . |
| 10 | He presented telescopes to the Doge of Venice ( and had ageing councillors climbing a campanile to see merchant ships out at sea ) and to his former pupil and friend Cosimo II , Grand Duke of Tuscany . |
| 11 | Bruised and bloodied from days of interrogation on the floor of a cell that was an inch deep in his own shit and piss , the Colonel had found him and freed him . |
| 12 | He 's unpatronising towards the individuals whose lives and circumstances illustrate his subject , but he continually questions his own attitudes and motivation . |
| 13 | Moreover throughout his life he continued to stress very heavily in his voluminous writings the moral obligation of the ruler to use his powers selflessly , unsparing of his own peace and comfort , for the good of the State . |
| 14 | Despite his experimental and evasive approach to foreign policy from 1937 – 38 — a product of his own character and temperament , divisions within his administration , and especially his fear of isolationists at home — it is still possible to detect an underlying strategy among his cryptic statements and devious tactical moves . |
| 15 | In this judgment there is no mention of " quasi-arbitrators " : it is fully accepted that the question of the quality of the textile was determined by an arbitrator acting on his own knowledge and experience . |
| 16 | Ben Braithwaite , lusty , thirty years old , his own master and master of a sizeable fortune since his father died two years ago , certainly thought so . |
| 17 | Some will think him a spiritual butterfly , some an intellectual too ready to be hoodwinked ; but his searching has a definite progress to it , and the heights and depths encountered in this book make it clear that he is getting somewhere , often against his own will and inclination . |
| 18 | Small wonder , if his own account was truth , smaller still if today he was being forced back to a scene about which he had lied ; lied to the law , lied to his superiors in the Order he had chosen of his own will and desire . |
| 19 | He left Macmillan in 1989 to establish his own consultancy and training practice , specialising in electronic information media . |
| 20 | The irony is that in striving to perpetuate a certain mythology about his own prescience and consistency , about France 's fundamental unity , and about the mediocrity of the times in comparison with the exalted hours of the war and the liberation , de Gaulle actually masked one of the great achievements , perhaps the greatest achievement , of his political career . |
| 21 | He admits he lost his naiveté and began to think more deeply about his own work and photojournalism generally . |
| 22 | The lauding of Hitler 's modesty was compared with the tone of self-praise with regard to his own work and effort which had been a feature of his New Year address . |
| 23 | ‘ You and I have got some serious talking to do — I 'm not about to let the director have things all his own way where make-up 's concerned . |
| 24 | He parted the bushes and drew the beast in to them , and left Cynan and Meurig to hoist the lord of Parfois across his own saddle and hale him away hastily among the trees towards the river . |
| 25 | As well as fine-tuning his own stamina and fitness by clocking up to 70 miles in training each week , Paul has been helping his 12-year-old daughter Sacha in her bid to compete her first four-mile London mini-marathon . |
| 26 | And the replacement of anti-Semitism by anti-Marxism as early as 1922–23 as the main ‘ hate-theme ’ of his public addresses , and the relatively low profile of anti-Semitism in his speeches during the 1930s , can again only be explained in terms of a conscious decision to limit the public expression of his own phobias and paranoia for political and diplomatic purposes , to provide a wider appeal and to avoid gratuitous alienation at home and abroad . |
| 27 | Nye was a rich character , with an enormous consciousness of his own powers and ability . |
| 28 | He thus grows up , largely unaware of his own emotions and thought processes . |
| 29 | In fact , he was married , although not many people knew this , and his wife had a serious and incurable disease called lupus , which at times took quite a toll on his own emotions and energy . |
| 30 | At this stage the Collector seemed to be sparing only occupied beds and charpoys , his own desk and chair , and the Louis XVI table from the drawing-room . |