Example sentences of "of his [adj -est] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | To discover what kind of animal I was , he sent for three of his cleverest professors . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | And while Bruce Springsteen does n't have quite his pre-1985 exuberance , he is still a great live performer — even if he insisted here on choosing some of his weakest songs ( Cadillac Ranch hardly seemed appropriate in this context ) . |
4 | Many of his best-paying clients were American corporations in Europe , the sort to whom he would prefer to avoid making laborious explanations . |
5 | One of his proudest moments was the presentation by Prince Charles of an Enterprise award for Small Businesses during a television ceremony at Pebble Mill in Birmingham . |
6 | One of his proudest moments in his BIE life was the appointment of his son , Jeffrey , as National President in 1990/91 . |
7 | One of his proudest moments came when he was appointed provost of the Royal Burgh of Selkirk , a position he was to hold for seven years , He was the town 's last official provost before regionalisation . |
8 | John Weber where an exhibition of his newest denunciation may be seen until the sixteenth of this month is not leaking any advance information about the show . |
9 | Gorbachev 's 80-minute speech on Nov. 16 was widely assessed by commentators as one of his poorest performances . |
10 | A bottle of Bell 's was the only witness of his lowest moods . |
11 | Meanwhile , over at Mount Edgecombe , the most favoured guess as the site of invasion , the Earl reluctantly gave permission for one hundred of his finest oaks to be felled as they could have given cover to invading forces . |
12 | He guided me on to the terrace to share a bottle of one of his finest vintages . |
13 | What has been lost in all this second-guessing is the wanton reckless joy of his finest records . |
14 | It was only a matter of months before she was forced to withdraw even with the support of Alfonso ( who now that the Cid was dead finally recognized the worth of his finest knight ) . |
15 | Thomson 's songs contain some of his finest work . |
16 | But some of his finest work was done in wartime , in the Western Desert and later in Saudi Arabia . |
17 | Its echoes of Keats and Shelley , the image of a desolate landscape with its tracery of ‘ tangled bine-stems ’ against the winter sky , its deceptively simple vocabulary , and carefully controlled metre are characteristic of much of his finest work . |
18 | It inspired some of his finest work , but the committee only accepted three bomb-store drawings . |
19 | At this time his poetic inspiration returned , and some of his finest work was written in the last weeks of his life , including his most famous poem , ‘ Heart of the Heartless World ’ . |
20 | FRANK SINATRA : ‘ The Reprise Years ’ ( Reprise ) ol' rheumy eyes is back with a collection of his finest croons , on the label he founded , including ‘ I 've Got You Under My Skin ’ , ‘ Strangers In The Night ’ and , of course , ‘ My Way ’ — out now |
21 | Already he was capable , it seemed , of making that impact on the stage which was , in record time , to put him at the top of his treacherous profession and bring on the applause of his finest contemporaries . |
22 | Only Carling of the three-quarters did not get on the scoresheet , ironic in that he had one of his finest games for England . |
23 | ‘ Portrait of an artist , possibly a self-portrait ’ by Michael-Martin Drolling is one of his finest works . |
24 | This picture is indisputably one of his finest works and the rareness of his oeuvre ( Favretto died aged just 37 ) has fuelled expectations of a record price . |
25 | Several of his finest works date from these years . |
26 | Rather , it is the influence of the German tradition that is more apparent in ‘ Enigma ’ — particularly through Brahms , who used variation forms in many of his finest works . |
27 | The visit would not have been possible without their tremendous enthusiasm for our invitation , and we particularly thank John Neumeier for his determination to bring over one of his finest works . |
28 | It certainly is n't a new invention : Turner used it to produce some of his finest watercolour paintings in the 1880s . |
29 | And when at last in February 1662 the real festival opera , Ercole amante , one of his finest scores , was produced to inaugurate the new theatre in the Tuileries , he had — despite his deliberate attempt to satisfy French taste with pomp and dancing rhythms — again to accept the insertion of ballet music by Lully , the success of which completely distracted attention from his unusually fine recitatives . |
30 | One of his finest examples of occupational gesture as the foundation of a ballet remains Les Patineurs . |