Example sentences of "of his [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the war a number of volumes of his collected poems were published , the most notable being Rough Rhymes of a Padre ( 1918 ) , Peace Rhymes of a Padre ( 1920 ) , Songs of Faith and Doubt ( 1922 ) , and The Unutterable Beauty ( 1927 ) . |
| 2 | Konstantin Kavelin took the train from St Petersburg and persuaded Chicherin to write the first of his anti-governmental memoranda . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | To him and to most of his European friends , it was as clear as daylight in the sky that a war was coming . |
| 5 | Sultan Mahmud I ( 1730–54 ) attempted to disband the janissaries and to put in their place a modern force , modelled on the standing armies of his European enemies . |
| 6 | During one of his European tours he arrived at a prison in the Savoy where a full-scale riot was in progress and two warders had already been killed . |
| 7 | Dowland was a European figure , lutenist to James I 's brother-in-law , Christian IV of Denmark , from 1598 to 1606 ; he boasted of his European travels , his friendship with Marenzio and Giovanni Croce , and the fact that his compositions had been published in Paris , the Netherlands , and several German cities , for instance in Jean Baptiste Besard 's famous collection of lute solos and songs , Thesaurus harmonicus ( Cologne , 1603 ) . |
| 8 | Tuathal had crossed the Earn and was on this side , strung out with what remained of his hundred horsemen . |
| 9 | The only trouble was that under questioning it became clear that one of his central aims was to abolish mortgage tax relief . |
| 10 | Masefield 's choice of his central characters , at least in his later novels , was always a little unexpected , and there is a particular piquancy in the seemingly inappropriate nature , as a romantic hero , of Chisholm Harker , nicknamed Sard ‘ because he was judged to be sardonic ’ and defined as a proud , reticent , austere man . |
| 11 | One of his central points is that it is the already employed and relatively well-off households who are in fact engaging in such self-servicing . |
| 12 | On 31 October 1605 he was by-elected for Evesham , taking the place of a man who had been an Exchequer colleague of one of his Bowyer cousins . |
| 13 | He may be tempted to poach some of his promising-looking freshmen to strengthen Goldie , or even the Blue boat . |
| 14 | He was sitting in the front row of his theatre watching me , a notebook balanced on the leg of his rancid trousers . |
| 15 | But the touch of his warm fingers through the silk of her blouse felt electrifying , like a shock ripping through every nerve-centre in her body . |
| 16 | One of his Bengali hymns , translated by Joshua Marshman , still features in the Baptist Hymn Book . |
| 17 | He was fairly sure that he remembered the cottage , nearly three miles along a track into the woods , close by an abandoned quarry and a little further from a small coalmine once worked by four of his distant cousins . |
| 18 | I am not sure whether John was aware of a tradition among some of his distant cousins that the family originated from Poland , possibly in a Count Cranko , romantically supposed to have been descended from the founder of the city of Krakow . |
| 19 | Cowie , she insists , used the same rubber apple for batches of his still lifes . |
| 20 | There was the experience for Daniel of falling in the water at a very early age , followed by the frequent admonitions of his anxious parents . |
| 21 | To discover what kind of animal I was , he sent for three of his cleverest professors . |
| 22 | One of his cleverest tricks yesterday was to throw a bridge across a potential Cabinet reshuffle by laying down a Budget not just for this year — when the effect will be fiscally neutral — but for next , and for the year after too . |
| 23 | He addressed a crowd of his civilian supporters at Baabda on Oct. 12 , when he only narrowly escaped an assassination attempt . |
| 24 | The heat of his caressing fingers through the thin linen of her shift made Isabel gasp . |
| 25 | According to Eadmer , it was a small incident which opened Anselm 's eyes to the true state of affairs , and made him realize that the king would in no circumstances allow him to take any action beyond the routine of his episcopal duties . |
| 26 | Although the number of his palatial residences and hunting lodges — twenty-two — rivalled his Romanian neighbour 's collection , unlike Ceauşescu , Zhivkov had fairly good taste . |
| 27 | Because of his fast-track methods , such people may well be returned to face even greater danger to themselves and their families in the countries from which they have come . |
| 28 | ‘ Yes , I used to believe that , ’ Luke conceded slowly , but with no relaxation of his taut features and aggressive stance . |
| 29 | ‘ The name he used — ’ she swallowed and took a hasty breath , aware of his taut features , the sudden stillness of his body ‘ — Because I believe there already was another actor somewhere on the Equity list with the surname Drew . ’ |
| 30 | What was established beyond doubt was that Phar Lap , winner of thirty-seven of his fifty-one races , was one of the finest racehorses ever . |