Example sentences of "his closest [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | William Packer states : ‘ In this instance the paintings and drawings from the figure are all portraits — heads and shoulders only of a handful of his familiar models long fixed within his closest acquaintance ’ . |
| 2 | President Vaclav Havel , who counts many Liberal Club signatories among his closest friends , has refrained from taking sides . |
| 3 | He returned with his head bowed , saying that the Crows , his closest friends , would offer no help . |
| 4 | This continued into adult life and he had a habit of creating nicknames for his closest friends : Anjelica became Tootie , Beatty became the Pro , John McEnroe was Johnniemac , etc . |
| 5 | Handwritten to his closest friends , associates and fans , the letters , together with cards and notes , were traced by an Anglo-Australian company preparing a two-hour television documentary — provisionally called Private Presley — to be screened worldwide next year . |
| 6 | The architect asked one of his closest friends , the painter William Nicholson , to decorate the classic proportions and deeply coved ceiling of the upper hall . |
| 7 | So too did a handful of his closest friends though , for once , this was a rightly kept secret . |
| 8 | Indeed , apart from his Chief of Staff and a handful of aides , all his closest friends were English . |
| 9 | He drew comfort from her warm support , increasingly so as his closest friends — Broisset , Sainte-Beuve , Turgenev — began to die , leaving him to sigh that he was ‘ crammed with coffins , like an old cemetery . ’ |
| 10 | A prince 's entourage provided his closest friends , his most trusted servants , the knights on whom he relied in time of crisis . |
| 11 | Even more revealing of Baldwin 's personality than The Times letter and the action it announced was the note which he wrote immediately afterwards to John Davidson , who despite a twenty-two-year age gap had become and was to remain one of his closest friends : |
| 12 | ‘ I think he was very secretive and never told even his closest friends that he was obviously frightfully unhappy . |
| 13 | James Beck ( late of Dad 's Army ) was among his closest friends , while on the romantic side he almost got engaged to Yootha Joyce , got engaged to Justine Lord , and then finally , in the summer of 1963 , mid-way through his work setting up Doctor Who , got married to June Barry , soon to gain world-wide fame herself as one of the three leading ladies in Donald Wilson 's epic adaption of John Galsworthy 's The Forsyte Saga . |
| 14 | One of his closest friends is the director Wim Wenders . |
| 15 | Many of his closest friends amongst the nobility , notably Algernon Percy , ninth Earl of Northumberland [ q.v . ] , |
| 16 | He remained in York 's employment until the Restoration , first in the French and then in the Spanish armies , and became his groom of the Stole and one of his closest friends . |
| 17 | That afternoon the King telephoned Winston Churchill , one of his closest friends . |
| 18 | A committee of his closest friends planned a memorial celebration for him — and the meetings were interesting , to say the least . |
| 19 | He kept his secret even from his closest friends and checked into a clinic for an operation under an assumed name . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Even his closest friends are going whoa , hold on , ca n't take the Sanhedrin on , hold on , look at the temple , look at the temple guards , look at this it 's too much for me . |
| 22 | Today his closest friends told the court he was always honest . |
| 23 | All his closest friends and that |
| 24 | In addition to addressing the crowds as he journeyed through Galilee and around Jerusalem , he drew aside to be with his closest associates . |
| 25 | This enigmatic man — one reluctant to disclose his plans even to his closest associates and so often the military miscalculator — in this instance judged the French national character correctly : if the Germans attacked Verdun , the French would resist . |
| 26 | However , Ramsay and some of his closest associates still met and its activities were in fact to provide the government with the excuse to intern many fascists without trial in 1940 . |
| 27 | Gloucester and Buckingham then rode to Stony Stratford to take possession of Edward V. His escort was dismissed and some of his closest associates arrested , among them his stepbrother Richard Grey and his chamberlain Sir Thomas Vaughan . |
| 28 | These two men , known because of their German-sounding names as Nixon 's " Prussion Guards " were his closest associates . |
| 29 | In the Commons he joined the opposition ‘ mountain' led by Samuel Whitbread [ q.v. ] , whom he revered , although his closest associates were fellow-lawyers , Thomas Creevey and Henry Brougham [ q.v . ] . |
| 30 | 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 . |