Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | We plead not simply that God will change our circumstances , but that he will change us so that we can become catalysts , through whom his plans can be implemented . |
| 2 | Mention of ‘ the dark gods of Mexico ’ signals that we are about to move on to the writer for whom his strongest opprobrium is reserved . |
| 3 | Whereas for those classes for whom his discovery was primarily intended , it might indeed reveal the wise intention of the Creator to prevent the sad fate of so many daughters who , because of exaggerated economic expectations , were hitherto condemned to spend their entire lives in the unmarried state . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , despite all the money flowing in from concerts , pupils and publications , Mozart was indeed in debt again by the year 's end and was having to beg a loan from his publisher Franz Anton Hoffmeister — for whom his next string quartet , K. 499 ( the ‘ Hoffmeister ’ ) , was written , perhaps in gratitude . |
| 5 | Ken was rediscovered in the nineteenth century by the Oxford Movement , for whom his idea of the Church of England as part of the Universal Church and his ascetic character had a great appeal . |
| 6 | Of these victims 367 were claimed in Farnes 's games for Essex , for whom he once performed the hat trick — against Nottinghamshire in 1939 — and for whom his best performance was 15 for 113 against Glamorgan in 1938 . |
| 7 | In 1759 he was apprenticed to the civil engineer John Smeaton [ q.v. ] , for whom his father had worked on the new Eddystone lighthouse . |
| 8 | Many degree courses , on the other hand , clearly belong to the specific stage in a person 's educational development , after which his or her interests and horizon may narrow further , in specialized research or employment , or broaden out again . |
| 9 | He attended schools in Bishop Auckland , Gainford , and Glasgow , after which his family connections helped him to gain entry to the music-hall , as a ‘ boy ’ comedian . |
| 10 | The Cabinet included three pastors , Ebeling , the SPD leader Markus Meckel as Foreign Minister , and Rainer Eppelmann of DA , the new Disarmament and Defence Minister , who had spent eight months in prison in the early 1960s for refusing to do military service , after which his church in East Berlin became a centre of dissident opposition . |
| 11 | But Aymer , and after him his widow , remained in possession of their Limousin and Angoumois lordships until Charles V of France confiscated them only five years before her death in 1377 . |
| 12 | Again at the end of his career Attaingnant , and after him his widow , published similar Livres de danceries ( 1550–5 ) compiled by Claude Gervaise which may have suggested Francesco Bendusi 's Opera Nova de Balli a quatro ( Venice , 1553 ) . |
| 13 | Time and again he is savaged for speaking on subjects about which his critics claim he knows nothing . |
| 14 | He only knew that Liza was the most sexually exciting woman he had ever come across and that , should they meet again , neither would be able to hold back from a passion which was so powerful it could only lead to trouble , about which his wife might come to hear . |
| 15 | A good seventeenth-century example is Thomas Howard , second earl of Arundel , a great collector of pictures , who volunteered in 1636 for a special embassy to the Emperor Ferdinand II simply because he wished to see and perhaps buy a number of art treasures about which his agents in Germany had sent him glowing reports . |
| 16 | ‘ The fact that he ( Dr Vaughan ) considers such disclosure of information unethical without the consent of the patient is surely irrelevant when the patient is a newborn baby who can not protest for himself his desire to live . |
| 17 | Does Mr Bush foresee some sort of crisis during which his image will suffer unless boosted ? |
| 18 | After the 1987 stock market crash , during which his Wal-Mart stake plummeted $1 billion in value , Walton 's only comment was : ‘ It was paper when we started , and it 's paper afterward . ’ |
| 19 | M. Dupont took another pause during which his gaze travelled in an almost leisurely manner around all the faces fixed upon him . |
| 20 | He points out that he has come across cases where , a link having been formed between the two , the patient has had phases of extraordinary well-being and health during which his psychologist has succumbed to severe mental malaise . |
| 21 | Entitled ‘ Kandinsky kleine Freuden-Aquarelle und Zeichnungen ’ ( Kandinsky 's small pleasures-watercolours and drawings ) , the exhibition covers the years 1910–1944 , the years during which his involvement with works on paper was most intense , and therefore presents much information in the catalogue not yet published by Dr Barnett . |
| 22 | Discounting all the years during which his stepson had sacrificed a life of his own to follow an old man 's dictates , he pressed on to his bed . |
| 23 | He lets the silence linger for ten endless seconds , during which his bulk seems to swell in the room . |
| 24 | Mitterrand accepted the resignation of Chevènement as Defence Minister on Jan. 29 after a period of several months during which his outspoken pro-Arab views and his opposition to war in the Gulf had become an increasing source of tension within the government . |
| 25 | The President underwent an extensive medical examination on May 21 during which his doctors declared themselves satisfied with the progress of his treatment . |
| 26 | There was a short silence during which his face clouded before he said , ‘ You 're right , your personal life is none of my business . |
| 27 | His 141 at The Oval during which his finger was broken by South African paceman Rudi Bryson remains his side 's only century of the season . |
| 28 | Tory had ridden for Bailey in two spells , during which his biggest success came on Docklands Express in the 1991 Whitbread Gold Cup . |
| 29 | THE innocence of youth will give way to the pressures of adulthood when Duncan Ferguson plays against Germany at Ibrox tomorrow night , ending a nine-month period during which his future at the highest level looked in doubt . |
| 30 | Immobile in his throne on Earth , that godly paragon who was so old that his personal name had long been forgotten both beamed out a beacon and sensed the flow of Chaos , through which his starships must swim and out of which could congeal … abominations . |