Example sentences of "some of his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Freed from the need to work quite so hard to survive , man has been able to change some of his long-term habits . |
| 2 | From seven or eight onwards he would go with his cousin Dilwyn , spend some of his hard-earned money on a packet of five Woodbines , and hope for action . |
| 3 | This chamber is a natural place for Bardul to retire to talk with the adventurers and offer some of his Lustrian coffee . |
| 4 | His advocacy aroused the interests of some of his many friends in the gallery world , bringing several artists to wider notice . |
| 5 | Some of his many interests include gardening , furniture restoration and music . |
| 6 | Some of his many poems and humorous versifications were published in 1991 and in his introduction he claimed : ‘ The reasons for presenting them at all are twofold . |
| 7 | The thinking is that Conner , or some of his key crew , could join one of Koch 's boats . |
| 8 | Simmons remembers Le Mans qualifying last year when Egbert Streuer rubbed some of his Dutch sense of humour on to the Briton . |
| 9 | She would have seen me the week before ; and this time , have heard my arrival and tried to catch a glimpse of me — that explained the old man 's quick looks past me , and perhaps some of his nervous strangeness . |
| 10 | He has to abandon some of his contemporary behaviour and to accept the older patterns prevalent among the majority of the congregation . |
| 11 | So has team-mate Gehan Mendis , with worse still for Graeme Fowler , who was fined about £2000 for being so critical of the club , even though some of his offending remarks did not even make it into print . |
| 12 | And while Bruce Springsteen does n't have quite his pre-1985 exuberance , he is still a great live performer — even if he insisted here on choosing some of his weakest songs ( Cadillac Ranch hardly seemed appropriate in this context ) . |
| 13 | Since the conferences lasted an hour and a half or longer and some of his individual answers took twenty-five minutes to deliver , this was a prodigious effort . |
| 14 | Ken produced some of his standard characters that were to become as closely identified with him as was ‘ Stop messing about ’ — which did n't disappear totally from the airways . |
| 15 | Admittedly , in some of his loving characterisations of English life Orwell almost flew off the edge — ‘ the beer is bitterer , the coins are heavier , the grass is greener ’ — but even so , the decline of English civility under the impact of ‘ materialism ’ was not only George Orwell 's passion in the interwar years . |
| 16 | Yes , well I was on a r a radio programme with him at one time and er and he was telling about some of his sticky stories , and there was one where he was doing a similar job from a farmhouse and he picked the furniture up and had to drive down this long drive to get onto the road and the the farmer , who presumably was the man who felt er an injustice to him was being done as it were , he was on his tractor , saw the van moving down the driveway , took a shortcut to the road edge , and fired a shotgun at his van . . |
| 17 | Some of his fellow professionals were equally dubious . |
| 18 | He and his wife Mary lived in London , unable to travel freely and even avoided by some of his fellow scientists . |
| 19 | Other members of the curia also by the late twelfth century had been nurtured on Parisian ideas and Lothar himself later promoted some of his fellow scholars to high office in the Church . |
| 20 | His curious insecurity would turn him permanently against some of his fellow hostages . |
| 21 | He was presumably known to at least some of his fellow members — who themselves became foundation members of the Veterinary College — in particular the Duke of Northumberland , first president of the College ; Granville Penn , active in the establishment of the College , who became a member of the Society of Arts in 1788 and was in 1791 a steward ; the Earl of Morton ( one of Vial 's patrons ) ; Thomas Pitt FSA , subsequently to be one of the most assiduous attenders of meetings of the College governors , and last , but not least , Arthur Young , a member of the Society of Arts since 1769 . |
| 22 | A staunch Tory , Shrewsbury was distressed to find himself at odds with some of his fellow Catholics over Ireland and deplored the support given to Daniel O'Connell [ q.v. ] |
| 23 | ( 44 ) How then explain the peculiar animus with which Eymeric and some of his Dominican successors attacked the opinions and works of Ramon Lull ? |
| 24 | Williamson used some of his vast wealth to provide permanent evidence of his beneficence . |
| 25 | But whatever satisfaction Scott may have gained from the debate and the fact that he had been given six months to prepare a new design , it must have soon been dispelled by the public press and the action of some of his professional colleagues . |
| 26 | His Great Backpacking Adventure ( also OIP ) is a narrative of some of his backpacking trips , and this very much the practical manual on such efforts . |
| 27 | He has put in an application to build a restaurant and car park on some of his remaining land . |
| 28 | Mind you , I was pretty out of order at some of his famous parties , out-drinking George Brown and all those Labour ministers that he was courting at the time . ’ |
| 29 | So that was where Spencer wasted some of his ill-gotten gains , was it ? |
| 30 | Some of his grounded colleagues got the same idea . |