Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harry had worked as tirelessly as his sister for the last few days ; now he sank down on to a stool beside his cannon out of sheer weakness , and began to weep at the thought of the wasted powder and the wasted water resulting from this misfortune . |
| 2 | Louis Dersingham was clearly annoyed to find himself having answered his sister in the first place . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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) ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He concentrates his energies on survival and focuses his hope on the second addition to his life since my departure : a son , now quite as tall as his father and doing well at school . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ He has proved a better confidential secretary than to give revealing answers , despite his weakness for the opposite sex — however beautiful , ’ Ven replied . |
| 9 | He dragged himself from the clump of twitch-grass that had been his hiding-place for the last half hour , and shivering violently , set off on foot to the east . |
| 10 | But today the man who wants to be next the Health Secretary did his bit for the local campaign . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The rebuff did much to undermine his enthusiasm for the Conservative party . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | His enthusiasm for the cloak-and-dagger business of detection seemed to have waned . |
| 16 | Bielicki formally submitted his resignation at the inaugural session of the new Sejm on Nov. 25 , despite a plea from Walesa to remain . |
| 17 | Jovic formally withdrew his resignation at the next meeting of the Federal Presidency on March 21 . |
| 18 | But this was too much ; he picked up the phone and left his resignation on the answering machine at Caxton House . |
| 19 | Ion Aurel Stoica , leader of the government 's negotiating team and Minister of State for the Quality of Life and Social Security , offered his resignation on the same day but it was rejected by Roman . |
| 20 | He had dictated his resignation to the first secretary he encountered . |
| 21 | By the end of May , Vagnorius , refusing to explain his resignation to the Supreme Council , was still Prime Minister , albeit in an acting capacity . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The press was clamouring for blood and Lord Harris told Robertson that he would have to tender his resignation to the academic advisory council . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | His resignation from the National Executive had drawn attention to the difference within the Labour Party on foreign policy . |
| 26 | The labour director is charged in law with carrying out his function in the best interests of the firm as a whole . |
| 27 | There had been concern about his progress at the same stage as there now was for Balbinder 's . |
| 28 | Only his progress to the second round of Wimbledon last year proved more lucrative . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In his amateur days he was an ‘ eviction technician ’ ( a fashionable euphemism for bouncer ) but such work is regarded as unseemly for the standard bearer of a sport which prides itself in its healthy clean-living image , and he now supplements his income from the few competitions which pay more than a pittance by personal appearances . |