Example sentences of "his [noun pl] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Academically there was n't anything to shout from the ceilings , in fact I do n't think that he found the work easy , but there was a dedication there that some of his contemporaries of the same ability could have used . |
| 2 | The possession of a cow or two , with a hog and a few geese , naturally exalts the peasant in his own conception , above his brethren in the same rank of society … |
| 3 | His rewards from the latter , over his long career , had included the manors of Whaddon ( Buckinghamshire ) and Ringwood ( Hampshire ) , the wardship of the land and heirs of Theobald Butler in Ireland ( for which he paid 3,000 marks ) , and ‘ for his immense and laudable service ’ the whole cantred of the Isles in Thomond . |
| 4 | Early in his career he toured with Ken Campbell 's Roadshow , and still says that his times with the former Liverpool Everyman director are among the most memorable . |
| 5 | Cotton marketed himself and his talents in the same way . |
| 6 | Rory smiled , sucking air through his teeth at the same time , clinked one thumbnail against his glass . |
| 7 | Churchill inspired but also unnerved his listeners at the same time by painting the prospects of the armed struggle in darker and more dramatic tones than might seem necessary or desirable . |
| 8 | In many cases the buildings show the Nordic influence of the long house with farm buildings attached , sheltering man and his animals under the same roof , and the gallery may be on the house or barn . |
| 9 | The book , as we gather from a plan in his notebooks of the same period , was to deal with four large areas : ethics ; aesthetics ; religion and mythology ; and politics , law and education . |
| 10 | One has the sense that he himself was beached there and that one of his comforts lay in writing out his fears in order to bring his readers to the same sands where he lay struggling for air . |
| 11 | There a 15-year-old Jehovah 's Witness , and his parents of the same faith , were refusing to allow doctors to give the boy a blood transfusion without which there was a strong risk ( on the medical evidence ) that the boy would die . |
| 12 | In the following year , addressing the Royal United Services Institute , he was to be found covering his tracks across the same ground : ‘ They accept us now ; they used to suspect us of being a trap to catch boys for the Army … |
| 13 | His statements on the latter issue threatened to revive the scandal which had followed discovery in February of the sale [ see p. 38019 ] . |
| 14 | Instead , George concentrated his efforts on the few remaining furry areas on an otherwise bare bear . |
| 15 | His feelings about the latter are summed up in the phrase ‘ God does not play dice . ’ |
| 16 | He treated all his passengers with the same cheerful courtesy ; if you had VD or had lost an ear in a knife-fight , it would all be the same to him . |
| 17 | Competitors are close-at-hand ( this means the trader can adjust his prices , if necessary — eg if a neighbouring stall is selling tomatoes at 30p a pound , the trader can reduce his tomatoes to the same price or lower ) |
| 18 | Then he sat up and flung wide his arms in the same movement , his eyes rolling , his black face smiling wide , white teeth showing . |
| 19 | She was stitching the holes Rosie had managed to rip in the seat of his pants in the few seconds they were in her possession . |
| 20 | At his death , 12 July 1788 , in addition to his partnerships in the several Smith banks , in Wilberforce & Smith , and in several other firms , Abel Smith II left extensive land holdings , particularly in Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire , a sugar estate in Jamaica , and £59,953 . |
| 21 | He rolled off the bed and walked to the window , moving his hands in the same disconcerting manner as before , though in reverse this time . |
| 22 | With my father , who was trying to protect me and his cigarettes at the same time , I jumped into a nearby ditch which ran parallel to the road . |
| 23 | Budworth is particularly important because he was the first fell walker to record his ascents with the same attitude and feelings as we have today . |
| 24 | Since the Poet indicts himself , we are tempted to reject his artefacts on the same basis , as being either sordid or trivial . |
| 25 | I am not saying that a bream leader dishes out orders to his underlings in the same way that an army commander does . |
| 26 | A girl who is very tall for her age may fear that she will go on growing at the same rate indefinitely , while a boy who is shorter than his mates of the same age may be afraid that he will be permanently undersized . |
| 27 | In one Douglas Fairbanks tells a woman to follow him and when faced with her persistent refusal , arguing as she does that she can not abandon her home , he tethers his horses to the latter and carts the whole house off in a burst of white-toothed laughter . |