Example sentences of "one of his " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not altogether satisfactory to call a print by an artist on the same theme as one of his paintings a description . |
| 2 | I was curious to see what shrift she would receive in Naipaul 's novel : the work of a man who has been spoken of by an old friend , the novelist Paul Theroux , as having in earlier times been ‘ merciless , solitary , and ( one of his favourite words ) unassailable ’ . |
| 3 | In that respect , Kundera could have fooled at least one of his readers ; but I do see that it belongs to the point of it all that the uncommon Jaromil should be thought humanly representative . |
| 4 | Raconteur and raisonneur , in his art as in his personal life , he is a concealed author who is evident enough in his hotly opinionated fiction : he is not given to expounding his own passionate opinions there , but can be recognised without difficulty in almost every aspect of every one of his novels , including the speech assigned to his often disputatious characters . |
| 5 | She is entrusted , on one occasion , with what might seem a rudimentary version of one of his own opinions . |
| 6 | On this occasion she is at a posh party , where she has taken a glass of champagne , but only ‘ to be sociable ’ — a motive which in anyone else would have driven Patrick to contemplate another of the umpteen blows he feels like unleashing — when the novelist unleashes one of his phonological jokes , which play on vagaries of pronunciation . |
| 7 | Shakespeare is the most widely known and read of the classical playwrights and it is for this reason that a piece from one of his plays is nearly always obligatory at a drama school audition . |
| 8 | He has just broken one of his records deliberately and is on his knees picking up the pieces as he talks to himself . |
| 9 | At the sermon , Father McKenna introduced one of his altar boys , Colm by name , and got him to tell the story about how he and his altar boy teammates had recently beaten another altar boys ' team by eight goals to five . |
| 10 | Sometimes he walks slowly over and inspects one of his plants . |
| 11 | He was dropping one of his tools and let forth a number of obscenities . |
| 12 | Why , even Peggy herself had been one of his targets — until he realized there was no chance for him there . |
| 13 | Magnus could have made one of his rude jokes which would really have got Claire going . |
| 14 | That Agatha Christie 's reading was wide-ranging can not now be denied , but , even so , the source of one of Hercule Poirot 's favourite ploys — almost , it could be said , his trademark , the gathering together of the suspects at the climax of one of his investigations — is surprising . |
| 15 | The career of one of his Foreign Office contemporaries had been said to have foundered after he said ‘ Pepper and salt ’ to the wife of a diplomat with uncertainly coloured hair and a poor command of the English language . |
| 16 | He did n't even want to consult with one of his colleagues . |
| 17 | He was described by one of his students as being ‘ a brilliant man but so practically inept that he needed help to cross the road safely ’ . |
| 18 | One of his marvellous women , when anyone asks her anything about herself , she just rolls out that line … |
| 19 | He turned to James in amazement and saw that he was enjoying his surprise , as though it confirmed one of his arguments . |
| 20 | The young man scanned the paper , held it out , and as James 's fingers reached for it , dropped it , eyed him , and said in a carrying voice , ‘ I see you are mad , but does even a lunatic suppose that one of His Majesty 's officers would bind himself to oppose the law and refrain from arresting criminals ? ’ |
| 21 | One of his eyes squinted outwards , he looked massively strong , he always edged in sideways , moving the heavy door with his right shoulder . |
| 22 | When he commits himself to an assignment — be it a poem , a book , a song , or merely aiding a fellow-scribbler 's itch , he does it with gusto — con brio , as he might annotate one of his scores . |
| 23 | Our second meeting , once the regulative café au lait had been taken and a strenuous five hours of talk had been put behind us , was concluded by a guided tour of his beloved Montreal , whose night-time allurements were enthusiastically described in a car hired for the occasion , and concluded by a celebratory meal at one of his favourite Indian restaurants , toasting each other 's health and futures in an excellent Chablis . |
| 24 | The plural is required for this multi-talented worker : his ground-floor music-room included a chair , a not over-expensive hi-fi unit with a modest collection of cassette tapes and a synthesiser ; in the corner stands one of his guitars . |
| 25 | In another room adjacent to one of his two bathrooms lies some weight-lifting equipment : the needs of the mind are counterbalanced by those of the body . |
| 26 | Years later , in a moment of youthful self-disclosure , his grandson commented through one of his fictional characters , ‘ It did n't matter to him how he faced the congregation : his grandfather had built the synagogue . ’ |
| 27 | ( One of his father 's particular delights was found in the Reader 's Digest , perhaps an indication of his limited energies . ) |
| 28 | As he said in one of his early poems , ‘ Rites ’ ( Let Us Compare Mythologies , p 227 ) : |
| 29 | In a moment of youthful inspiration , the day after the funeral , he took one of his father 's bow ties , one reserved for special occasions , and opened up its seams , into which he infiltrated a message — his first poetic utterance , as he told his Spanish biographer , Alberto Manzano — long since forgotten ( or too painful to remember ? ) . |
| 30 | As he said in his first novel , answering one of his early girlfriend 's naive questions , ‘ What was it like to have no father ? ’ he laconically answered , ‘ It made you more grown-up . |