Example sentences of "his [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sisters , who had all married well , were unconcerned that Angel , with only 200 acres of grazing land in the middle of his rich cousins ' estates , had been left to pay his father 's debts . |
| 2 | But he often said that he owed as much to Oscar Browning [ q.v. ] , who had to get his Baptist parents ' permission to take him to the theatre . |
| 3 | Which came mercifully swiftly , in the shape of another devastatingly accurate straight left , and then a perfect right uppercut which hardly seemed to travel more than a foot , but which was delivered with such a force that it lifted Mike up on to his toes , before toppling him backwards in a heap at his elder brothers ' feet . |
| 4 | He attained the rank of acting WO II during his eight years ' service , after which he did a graduate trainee course with Anglo American/De Beers Mining in South Africa . |
| 5 | But he rolled back the years wearing his old jockeys ' uniform in the Radcliffe Selling Stakes at Nottingham . |
| 6 | But it was a bitter-sweet day for the striker who lives on the road — training with his old Dons ' mates , staying at his mum and dad 's in Derby and arriving in Sheffield just to do the business . |
| 7 | He had no office in his old college , but inhabited an office on sufferance , for his few hours ' part-time teaching . |
| 8 | It was like a scene from the French Revolution with the gypsy ruffian and a bog-ridden Tumbleweed perched at the front and Swire Sugden trussed like an oven-ready chicken at the back , his hair singed , his face streaked with smut and his natty gents ' suiting in disarray . |
| 9 | This book is dedicated to his 30 years ' research in the area , and he has contributed an interesting first chapter on his reminiscences . |
| 10 | Finally , does the Secretary of State accept that , no matter how much money he tries to throw around now , he will not save his hon. Friends ' necks ? |
| 11 | Orton Chirwa , one of Malawi 's most prominent political prisoners , died in prison on Oct. 20 , apparently from natural causes , although there was evidence that he had been tortured and had suffered ill-treatment during his 10 years ' imprisonment . |
| 12 | " On the top of the hill near King Darzin 's palace there was a garden and here his many children and his chief followers ' children used to be taken to play by their mothers and nursemaids . |
| 13 | If the power should be exercised solely for the financial gain of the remaining partners the expulsion will not be upheld — as in Blisset v Daniel ( 1853 ) 10 Hare 493 , where the motive for the purported removal of Mr Blisset was rather his remaining partners ' desire to acquire his share at a low valuation as provided in the partnership deed than any misconduct on his part . |
| 14 | I asked Joe about the heart attack and the changes that it had brought to his life as he settled down for his six hours ' daily practice at the Manor Leisure Club in Yeadon , near Leeds-Bradford Airport . |
| 15 | It is assumed that , having married an Englishwoman , he returned to France in December 1788 at the end of his six months ' leave . |
| 16 | IN THE wake of his suspension , French prop GREGOIRE LASCUBE has taken up refereeing in the hope that his six months ' ban will be reduced . |
| 17 | He remembered what he had put on his personal qualities ' file : ‘ Judgement not always reliable in the political and commercial area ’ . |
| 18 | The details of his three years ' captivity from the North African desert to the Eastern Front were not spoken of for more than another thirty , other than by occasional scant reference . |
| 19 | In July he slipped away by train to Dire Dawa and my father wrote despondently to the Foreign Office : " Lij Yasu , during his three months ' stay in Addis Ababa , has succeeded in destroying even the semblance of central government and is dragging down the prestige of individual ministers so that there is no authority to whom the Legation can appeal . " |
| 20 | He acted the fool , losing at first to whet their appetites , but in an hour emptied his three victims ' purses . |
| 21 | This tour of duty also included my first spell in command when Phil took his three weeks ' leave . |
| 22 | As with socialism , its inherent limitations were as important in this respect as its positive aspects : Luis Recabarren founded his Socialist Workers ' party partly out of a conviction that anarchist prohibitions on party and parliamentary activity were short-sighted and had to be rejected . |
| 23 | Michael , waiting at the top , was silently cursing his father as he looked at his younger brothers ' little faces . |
| 24 | All the boy 's instincts told him to throw the money back at the policeman , their natural enemy , but his little brothers ' faces changed his mind . |
| 25 | Recalling his comfortable officers ' quarters in the south , he commented that ‘ the ballot of the ensuing summer renewed our vigour and youth ’ , but the working-men of the north resisted having their lives interrupted and at Hexham in Northumberland a serious anti-ballot riot occurred in which 42 men were killed and another 48 wounded . |
| 26 | This was his sight-starved eyes ' invention . |
| 27 | Nothing in his many years ' service had prepared him for this sort of situation . |
| 28 | Behind every great candidate , there has to be a great agent and who could be better than Mr Joe McLean MBE , the Conservative agent for Bishop Auckland , with his 41 years ' experience ? |
| 29 | He found working for the Maharajah so enjoyable that he refused to accept one penny in payment for his 18 years ' service , although the Maharajah supplied all his material needs . |
| 30 | Stakis Hotels recently presented Stakis Highland Lodges ' Peter McIntosh with a £1,000 travel voucher and a gold and diamond pin in recognition of his 25 years ' service . |