Example sentences of "his [noun pl] ' [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His first impressions of England were his contemporaries ' upper-class accents , which he initially took for caricatures , and the vast post-war housing estates , unlike anything in his native land . |
| 2 | in a personal injury action an employee who claimed damages for loss of earnings or impaired earning capacity had , if so requested by his employer , to disclose the general medical records of the whole of his medical history to his employers ' medical advisers . |
| 3 | A wise father will recognize the reason for his sons ' aggressive or needling behaviour and remain firm but cool himself without feeling threatened or provoked . |
| 4 | Instead , his half-brothers ' unfilial behaviour spurred Louis the Pious to change his plans . |
| 5 | A throw forward occurs when a player carrying the ball throws or passes it in the direction of his opponents ' dead-ball line ’ . |
| 6 | Dull , physically unattractive and solidly Germanic , the new king was hardly the sovereign to arouse his subjects ' patriotic enthusiasm , and that in the opening years of his reign no invasion attempt occurred was due largely to his chief minister , the all-powerful Sir Robert Walpole . |
| 7 | It 's right that Joe Hawkins and Allen 's other legendary aggro merchants should now be given a new lease of life , and Allen is absolutely sure of his books ' continued relevance : ‘ The doubts and problems which confronted yesteryear 's skinheads have multiplied at an alarming rate in today 's world . |
| 8 | Thus this lawyer accepted his clients ' chosen outcomes as his objective both because he needed to retain his reputation amongst his relatively organised clientele , but also because there were no countervailing pressures , or no alternative rewards . |
| 9 | Lawyer B emerges as the most prone to reject his clients ' chosen outcomes . |
| 10 | Thus lawyer C tended not to translate his clients ' chosen outcomes , whereas lawyer B had transformed them so as to facilitate translation . |
| 11 | A POLICE chief is to snub his bobbies ' big night out — because Bernard Manning is top of the bill . |
| 12 | Just before leaving , glance up to the left to see the glazed window through which Franz Kafka gazed upon Catholic services in church from his parents ' flat next door . |
| 13 | Just before the age of four , William 's first regal wave came from his parents ' horse-drawn carriage during a procession to celebrate the Queen 's 60th birthday . |
| 14 | A Middlesbrough schoolboy ran away from home and spent three nights sleeping rough when he opened his parents ' quarterly phone bill and found his conversations had sent it soaring to over six times its usual amount . |
| 15 | POP recluse Morrissey blames his loveless lifestyle on his parents ' unhappy marriage . |
| 16 | His parents ' religious conviction and corresponding belief in the virtue of hard work clearly had a formative influence , but it is notable how much significance is attributed to more formal education , especially learning through books . |
| 17 | At the time she had supposed it had been a reaction to his upbringing , all those years spent in his parents ' elegant Georgian house on the edge of a quiet , beautiful Sussex village . |
| 18 | ‘ Billy was extraordinarily generous to his friends ’ , says Henderson , who was a guest at McCarty-Cooper 's $250,000 ball at Miami 's Viscaya for his parents ' Golden Wedding anniversary in 1985 . |
| 19 | As sprinter Mike MacFarlane said of his parents ' total lack of encouragement : ‘ It was 'cause they had n't got the time to think about it . ’ |
| 20 | Then he fled to Mexico to live with the family of his parents ' Mexican maid . |
| 21 | What had Christ 's gospel of renunciation to do with his parents ' comfortable parsonage ? |
| 22 | His friend Morton , who had recently been studying art and sculpture in London , mentioned his parents ' old friends , the Pullmans , who had a place in Hampstead . |
| 23 | Vincent , in Catholic Belgium , although emulating his father once again was also mocking him , by going to the limit in a way that passed judgement on his parents ' safe Christianity , while putting himself beyond criticism . |
| 24 | One week at his parents ' opulent home in Beverly Hills was all he could bear . |
| 25 | He had told her enough about his parents ' passionate devotion to each other for Julia to feel desperately sorry for her . |
| 26 | His parents ' cultural and academic interests were reflected broadly in Victor 's later education , which showed a keen enthusiasm for languages other than English . |
| 27 | The critical value of Shakespeare is not founded only in the texts ascribed to him , but in wider circulations and negotiations of Shakespeare within social frameworks , in the moment of his texts ' original production and in subsequent periods . |
| 28 | In it he expressed his own and his dancers ' sheer enjoyment of ‘ just dancing to music which cries out to be danced ’ . |
| 29 | The Highlander Lieutenant asked that one of the unlit chandeliers be raised from floor level so he could make certain there would be adequate room for his dancers ' crossed swords . |
| 30 | If Shakespeare showed little inclination to control the condition of his plays ' textual printing , he was both a part owner of the company which produced them and was himself a director of that company . |