Example sentences of "his [noun] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Her party included the President of the British Military Order of Malta Lord Craigmyle , and Lady Craigmyle ; and the Honorary President of the OMV Maj.-General Viscount Monckton of Brenchley , and Viscountess Monckton ; and his sister the Hon.
2 Curzon had little need to spell out to his contemporaries the commercial and strategic dangers of such a scheme .
3 It had something to do with history and the past , that excitement , and something to do with potential as well , with what Orwell or somebody had said , that every man really knew in his heart the finest place to be was the countryside on a summer 's day .
4 His notes the next day were headlined ‘ Catalysis of DT ( deuterium-tritium ) fusion in the Earth ’ .
5 Had it not been his solicitors the Inland Revenue would have got him yesterday for unpaid tax bills , but its petition was dismissed automatically once the High Court heard that a bankruptcy order had already been made .
6 It does n't sound much but you 've got to watch out these days , with everything constantly getting cheaper and Tod grimly counting his money the whole time .
7 The anthem : ‘ Blessed by Thou , Lord God of Israel ’ was sung by Thomas Street Church choir and the sermon was preached by Mr Guard who chose as his text the fourth verse of the twenty-seventh Psalm : ‘ One thing have I desired of the Lord , that will I seek after , that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life , to behold the beauty of the Lord and to enquire in His temple . ’
8 Eliot , who invited his friends to this performance , who attended some of the rehearsals , and who expressed his full confidence in the director Rupert Doone , continued to follow in his text the original impetus which Cornford had given him .
9 The Sheriff said he would give them his decision the following day .
10 Ackroyd notices that the Eliot who had once called poetry a ‘ mug 's game ’ was eventually , in his play The Elder Statesman , to use the same expression for forgery .
11 Euripides , in his play The Suppliant Women , sets out this antithesis in a famous dialogue between the Herald from Thebes and Theseus , the King of Athens .
12 Rehabilitated by the partnership with Sien , refreshed by the gleams of baby life , confirmed by Theo 's continuing supply of materials and basic finance , and by his unflagging moral support , he was ready to move in closer , as if to feel on his skin the buried heat of creation and experience its terrific energies .
13 A Word Child ( 1975 ) , indeed , is so specific in its references to places , and especially to places on the London Underground , that the narrator remarks he was once tempted to call his story the Inner Circle ; and Martin Amis 's London Fields ( 1989 ) is almost as detailed about Notting Hill as if it were a guide-book .
14 On the day after his inauguration the new President ordered at least 162 people — including his immediate predecessor Ertha Pascal-Trouillot and her entire Cabinet — not to attempt to leave the country for one month .
15 He bent and took from his case the half-burnt diary still in its protective transparent wrapping .
16 I am surprised that he did not cite as evidence in support of his case the moral philosophy of his own Monklands District Council .
17 He opens with a history of homebuilts dating from Sir George Cayley ( who would have approved the sage advice to get an experienced hand to make the first test flight of your creation , though in his case the unfortunate man was more adept at handling a coach-and-four than a flying machine ) and proceeds through the Flying Flea era to the post-war rebirth in France and the USA , thence to Rutan and the foam/fibreglass revolution , and on to the 1980s emergence of IFR-capable alabaster-smooth hot-rod kitplanes that will blow the socks off anything Vero Beach and Wichita are ( or more accurately are n't ) building .
18 The soldier looked over the parapet and saw to his horror the vague heap of a body ; he scrambled down the bank but as he approached , the vision slowly faded , there was no one there .
19 He would not put out of the power of his creditors the mental and literary resources which yet remained to him .
20 In his experience the early-morning routine in an institution seldom varied .
21 In his experience the British — and especially the noted economist , Lord Keynes — seemed too addicted to unorthodox and inflationary experiments .
22 Yanto went on to tell Billy about his experience the last time he had used Selwyn 's lavatory .
23 At his trial the following March Boldwood was found guilty of murder , for which the usual punishment was death .
24 From B 's perspective of obtaining his freedom the unresolved issues were equally fundamental to the point addressed .
25 Indeed , three generations of Culpepers joined this guild , as Edmund II 's son , John Chandler , in turn became his apprentice the following year .
26 And for his kitchen the thick stuff .
27 He used to sit in his study the whole time .
28 In his words the global corporation ‘ sells the same things in the same way everywhere ’ .
29 What 's there ? ’ said Snodgrass , adjusting his spectacles the better to see .
30 Even the intendants , who had been under Colbert and his successors the greatest of all agencies of administrative centralization , showed tendencies of this kind in the last decades of the period .
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