Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus Sya , who announces that ‘ one who believes in war believes in God ’ and who beats his sister with a khaki belt , is an inflexible symbol of a militaristic ethos . |
| 2 | Then Finn had come up , grim , silent and dripping blood , wordlessly shown her the dreadful cut and gone upstairs to his sister for a bandage . |
| 3 | I rang his sister from a public phone box . |
| 4 | In another passage our final text reads ‘ His words were as if meant for himself , but he spoke them aloud , and he continued for some time to look at his sister like a man perplexed . ’ |
| 5 | The magazine text brings in the paradox of public and yet as if private utterance : ‘ His words were as if spoken to himself , but he spoke them aloud , and he continued for some time to look at his sister like a man perplexed . ’ |
| 6 | Vlasov showed great energy and leadership qualities , transforming his division into a conspicuous example of efficiency . |
| 7 | His hope of a return to the frontline of European golf has been replaced by the prospect of joining the job queue in his native North East . |
| 8 | He would doubtless suffer this blow to his esteem in a First Folio or a 1532 Chaucer , given half a chance , but in lesser books the wound is too serious . |
| 9 | When he finally emerges , he will hang his shield on a leafless tree , which will sprout green leaves , and a better age will begin . |
| 10 | He serrated the air with his sword and used his shield as a wall and a battering-ram . |
| 11 | Only then would he hang the burden of his shield upon a withered branch . |
| 12 | You ca n't aspire to that degree of quality , but Peter Kirsten , who was my schoolboy hero , … well I think I can get to his level as a fieldsman and , perhaps , batsman . ’ |
| 13 | Roland told his half-truth about his bit of a letter , not saying when or where he had come across it . |
| 14 | His raptures over pretty strangers and their come-hither designer clothes were as over-the-top as his enthusiasm for a new cocktail . |
| 15 | Sexually mature males are driven out of this group once they grow big enough to constitute a threat to the dominant male ( although occasionally an ageing dominant male will allow a younger male to take over his harem and will be tolerated by his successor for a while ) . |
| 16 | He cited " personal reasons " for his decision to stand down which was to take effect following the selection of his successor at a special party convention , expected in November . |
| 17 | Ankara diplomats saw his resignation as a way of distancing himself from an unpopular government . |
| 18 | He could hurt those who cared most about him — his parents when he became a monk and Mirfield when he followed his resignation with a national television account of what was personal and private . |
| 19 | When Birkenhead left office in 1928 , Baldwin accepted his resignation with a reluctance which was convincing because honestly expressed : ‘ We shall part , on my side at least , with a feeling of personal regret which I could not have believed possible four years ago . ’ |
| 20 | An earlier thinker who declined to see any mutual contradiction between similar terms was Leslie Weatherhead , psychologist and cleric , who published his Creed of a Christian Agnostic . |
| 21 | There is no reason to think that Anselm would have thought there was any contradiction between personal humility and the display of the greatness of his office : quite the contrary , humility and grandeur met in the exercise of his function as a ruler . |
| 22 | It was too much , too soon because his development as a person could n't keep pace with his progress as a tennis player . |
| 23 | He supplemented his income with a number of anthologies , of which the most celebrated is Invective and Abuse ( 1929 ) , and by working as literary editor of Punch ( 1942–4 ) and the New English Review ( 1945–9 ) . |
| 24 | Averment that the plaintiff married Ellen Nicholl , relying on the said promise and so married while his income as a Chancery barrister did not amount to 600 guineas per annum . |
| 25 | He says that the squeeze on his income under a Labour government may mean that his wife would have to look for work , or he may seriously consider taking his skills abroad . |
| 26 | Fredrick taught his brother his technique in a short time and the two brothers worked side by side , often having long discussions about the technique , modifying it as they went along . |
| 27 | George , playing at No. 3 to Brian Daly , turned in another five star performance when helping his rink to a rather one-sided 27-6 win over the Dunluce four skipped by Malcolm McMullan . |
| 28 | Spend the entire '80s extolling his genius on a weekly basis . |
| 29 | Throughout his adolescence and youth , Lewis interpreted the void in his heart as a tragic awareness of ‘ the North ’ , which he saw as ‘ cold , spacious , severe , pale and remote ’ . |
| 30 | Time was the theme that fired his heart as a young student and affected him for the rest of his life . |