Example sentences of "his [noun] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trevor Griffiths asks many painful , searching questions about laughter and humour in his play The Comedians . |
| 2 | Beneath his skin the muscles were tight with tension , and so the sensation was alarming . |
| 3 | Not that he 's the only gay don at Oxford , far from it , but in his case the rumours were about boys . |
| 4 | In his case the losers were on four legs . |
| 5 | The fate of a fallen minister or favourite might be even harder if he had aroused real fear and hatred in his opponents the executions ( or rather judicial murders ) in 1719 of Baron Goertz , the adviser of the dead Charles XII of Sweden , and in 1772 of Count Struensee , the progressive-minded but tactless favourite who had for several years dominated the court of Denmark , are good illustrations of this . |
| 6 | Indeed , it could be said that the secret of his success lay not so much in his ability to use to his advantage the divisions within his own forces as in his perception of conservative Spain 's deep-seated desire for a leader who would restore and conserve the country 's identity as a great world power . |
| 7 | He 's honoured as a national hero , he has a shrine in a Washington Masonic temple , he carried to his grave the tributes and the written gratitude of every president he ever served ( at least one , Gerald Ford , was his informer ; so was Ronald Reagan ) . |
| 8 | At his trial the magistrates urged that the Book of Common Prayer had been used ever since the time of the Apostles . |
| 9 | He too wore baggy jeans and baseball boots , and across his T-shirt the words ‘ Ski-Club ’ could be clearly seen . |
| 10 | This problem is most explicitly addressed by Le Roy Ladurie , and I shall reconstruct his view from his study The Peasants of Languedoc . |
| 11 | Edward I had exploited the church 's national network to publish and justify to his subjects the reasons for his campaigns against Scotland and France ; under Edward 111 this development reached maturity . |
| 12 | Under the guidance of Nehemiah and his successors the Jews were intent on isolating themselves from the surrounding nations . |
| 13 | But by the end of the poem , he has become a character of extra-terrestrial proportions , a romantic sufferer carrying on his shoulders the sins of society . |
| 14 | Under his aegis the tentacles of the electrified lines stretched south and west . |
| 15 | On the day of his coronation the Priests of Asuryan chanted the warding spells that enabled Bel Shanaar to pass unscathed through the flame . |
| 16 | With just two minutes to go , the striker unleashed an explosive drive from the edge of the penalty box to give his side the spoils in a tightly-fought final . |
| 17 | Furthermore , when Joseph explained to his brothers the purposes of God that had been running through the events they had been caught up in , he used terms recalling the promises of Genesis 12 : ‘ … you meant evil against me ; but God meant it for good , to bring it about that many people should be kept alive , as they are today ’ ( 50.20 ; see , too , 45.4–11 ) . |
| 18 | It was probably with his authority already established over the Angles of the east and the midlands that Eadwine also aspired to subject to his rule the Saxons of the upper Thames valley . |
| 19 | Watching him , teasing him , tickling him in the place he liked between his front legs , Nails idled the afternoon away , pushing out of his mind the horrors that lay in wait : the busybody care people poking their noses in , the job he had no fat chance of getting when he was out of school on his ear , no more riding at Biddy 's , no nothing at all , not even any certainty of keeping in touch with batty Firelight and her pushy baby . |
| 20 | The cold of the ground slowly seeped through Riven 's bedroll to chill his back , and he edged closer to the fire , sick of the aches in his bones and counting out in his mind the hours before he had to go on watch . |
| 21 | Better to turn over in his mind the arrangements he and Bicker had organised , to search for loose ends , gaps in the plan . |
| 22 | He tried to compose himself and go over in his mind the details of what had taken place almost a month before . |
| 23 | I 've called back into his mind the spells I put on him at his birth . |
| 24 | And in his mind the words he sought . |
| 25 | Peirithous , king of the Lapiths in Thessaly , invited to his wedding the Centaurs , wild man-horses of the mountains who were both neighbour and kin to him . |
| 26 | I wish him the best because it is n't his fault the dickheads wanted to sell him , and he gave us 200 games of total commitment . |
| 27 | But as he raised it to his lips the windows flashed bright again , and the heavens gave forth another stream of rumbling abuse . |
| 28 | In his books The Glaciers of the Alps ( 1860 ) , and Hours of Exercise in the Alps ( 1871 ) , we find him describing daredevil climbs , astonishingly ill-prepared by modern standards ; but also making a serious study of how glaciers move , which in 1872 came out more formally as The Forms of Water . |
| 29 | The official citation , more dramatic , states that under his command the remnants of II Company retook half a mile of what were once trenches , ‘ lined up as for a tattoo , singing and laughing , and saved the 151st Regiment ’ |
| 30 | On his command the sheets were dragged back . |