Example sentences of "and his [adj -est] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His principal patrons were the family of the dukes of Argyll , his commissions from them including Combe Bank , Kent ( c .1726 ) — his first major independent work — Whitton Place , Twickenham ( c .1732–9 , demolished ) , and his largest undertaking , Inveraray Castle , Argyllshire ( begun 1745 ) ; and this was a contact which again appears to have originated at Marble Hill . |
| 2 | Alfonso , on the other hand , though go-ahead and energetic , was of a docile nature and readily deferred to his parents and his eldest sister Urraca , so that he became the favourite son and developed all the traits of a spoilt child . |
| 3 | , John Langdon Haydon ( 1828–1896 ) , physician , was born in Torpoint , Cornwall , 18 November 1828 , the youngest of the seven children ( three daughters and four sons ) of Joseph Almond Down , apothecary , and his wife Hanna Haydon ; his maternal grandfather was a mathematician , and his eldest sister 's great-grandchildren included J. Maynard ( later Baron ) Keynes and Geoffrey Keynes [ qq.v . ] . |
| 4 | Muhammad Hammad was a literate and qualified person , and his eldest son ( a clerk in the municipality until he joined the army ) was similarly in favour of education . |
| 5 | Two members of the Wigtown council could not vote in a parliamentary election without voiding the election , for the Earl of Galloway and his eldest son Lord Garlies were both members . |
| 6 | The dispute had its origins in the battle of Wakefield , at which Sir Thomas Harrington of Hornby and his eldest son John were killed on the Yorkist side . |
| 7 | The Old King would not do it and from then on he and his eldest son could not talk without quarrelling . |
| 8 | Perceiving the new opportunities , in 1765 Lloyd joined with a rich Unitarian neighbour , John Taylor , to found the first real bank in Birmingham , Taylors & Lloyds , the four equal partners being Taylor , his son John , Sampson Lloyd II , and his eldest son , Sampson III . |
| 9 | In April , Earl Godwin died of a stroke , and his eldest son Harold became Earl of Wessex while Alfgar , son of the Earl of Mercia , was restored to his still-warm earldom of East Anglia . |
| 10 | The dispute had its origins in the battle of Wakefield , at which Sir Thomas Harrington of Hornby and his eldest son John were killed on the Yorkist side . |
| 11 | His uncle was the artist Walter Geikie [ q.v. ] , and his eldest brother was the geologist Sir Archibald Geikie [ q.v . ] . |
| 12 | There , in order not to disturb his convalescent father , Wolfgang abandoned practice in favour of composition , and his earliest symphonies were probably written there . |
| 13 | His early defence of Shelley and Milton against T. S. Eliot 's attacks had been a paradoxical defence of their classicism of style ; his influential essay on metre a defence of using classical terms to describe English poetry ; and his finest work of literary history , awkwardly entitled ( as part of a series ) English Literature in the Sixteenth Century excluding Drama ( 1954 ) , extolled the ‘ golden ’ voice of Sir Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser , as opposed to ‘ drab ’ , in a critical climate in which Metaphysicals like Donne and Herbert counted for more than their courtly forerunners among the Elizabethans . |
| 14 | In his years in Safenwil , Barth and his closest friend throughout sixty years , Eduard Thurneysen ( 1888 — 1974 ) engaged in an intense questioning search for the foundation and ultimate rationale of their calling as pastors and preachers . |
| 15 | The Labour leader and his closest advisers had decamped to a country hotel run by the local council while his own terraced house in Blackwood was being used a committee rooms for the duration of the campaign . |
| 16 | He booked the second floor of the Ivy restaurant near the theatre and there Lou and Pat , and his closest friends of the moment , would drink endless cups of coffee until the first editions of the paper came out . |
| 17 | The UDF proposed instead that by-elections should be held in May to fill the seats left vacant by the expulsion from the Assembly of the disgraced former BCP leader and head of state Todor Zhivkov and his closest associates , and to replace other deputies who were most discredited by their record under the Zhivkov regime . |
| 18 | In mid-December Palestinian sources reported that the Libyan authorities had expelled the Fatah Revolutionary Council , led by Sabri Khalil al Banna ( " Abu Nidal " ) , from its offices in Tripoli , placing Abu Nidal and his closest aides under a form of house arrest . |
| 19 | Little by little , however , MacDonald and his closest colleagues became convinced that if they were given the opportunity to form a Government it would be folly to turn it down . |
| 20 | His political aims were unclear , and his closest allies believed that in 1845 he was about to betray the company , which was in a state of virtual collapse at the time of Somes 's death . |
| 21 | Now he still trundles out cliches about ‘ powerful expressions ’ of ‘ revolutionary worker democracy ’ , but only his wife and his closest retainers believe them any more . |
| 22 | Until yesterday , he and his closest confidante had been forced to meet in secret , at carefully-chosen safe houses — such as the high-walled home of Camilla 's sister , Annabel Elliot , at Stourpaine , Dorset , or her best friend Amanda Ward 's secluded Berkshire mansion . |
| 23 | Potter and his closest colleague , Thomas Herbert ( later first baronet , q.v. ) , were extraordinarily conscientious and energetic , as their surviving letters show . |
| 24 | For Darwin and his closest followers it was evident that the driving force of evolution was the process that adapted populations to their ever-changing environments . |
| 25 | During his description of the interception of the terrorists who had seized the cruise ship Achille Lauro in October 1985 — his best moment at the NSC , and his fiercest crisis — North , who hardly ever used the word ‘ real ’ , suddenly peppered his account with it . |
| 26 | Some pupils were indeed alienated by his dryness and his caustic wit ; his frequent comment on an exercise shown up to him was ‘ Oh , death , boy ! ’ , and his highest expression of praise was ‘ Not wholly bad ! ’ |
| 27 | The men in the wedding party wore navy blue suits and Paul and his best man , brother William , completed their look with matching colourful silk ties . |
| 28 | To finish , Henry takes the crowd gently through the day when he and his best friend , Joe Cole , were stopped in the street by kids with guns . |
| 29 | At the same time , he could make lots of pocket-money for himself and his best friends Robin ( Williams ) and Julia ( Roberts ) and Dustin ( Hoffmann ) . |
| 30 | As he tried to explain it later , when the ruins of arms-for-hostages were all around him , ‘ his heart and his best intentions ’ had ruled him . |