Example sentences of "[noun] of his [noun] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Rossini set the words of his theatre librettists happily and so , give or take a few personal quiddities , did the Italian stories , outline and the dictate the treatment , but he handed over the actual versification to Piave , Ghislanzoni , Boito and the rest . |
| 2 | In defence of his policies Gorbachev once again talked of the " grim legacy " inherited from past leaderships , but he also admitted that there were " negative processes " which the current party leadership could have foreseen and prevented . |
| 3 | Sir Anthony Meyer 's self-destructive challenge to the leadership of Margaret Thatcher cost him the support of his constituency party early in 1990 , but , like Sir Ian Gilmour , he was merely symptomatic of a cast of mind common to many of the baronetcy . |
| 4 | Saeed ChaudHry disappeared with his father to Pakistan after the break-UP of his parents marriage early this year . |
| 5 | He decided to use the letter ; the editor of his gossip column astutely elected to buy himself into the good graces of Buckingham Palace by informing their Press Secretary . |
| 6 | No doctor could hope to be appointed to a job or advance his or her career , even in a so called teaching hospital , on the basis of his teaching skills alone . |
| 7 | It has been an uphill battle ever since his father sent a tearful 11-year-old from the security of his Benin City home to board at West Buckland public school in Devon . |
| 8 | Standing in the foyer of his mansion block later that evening , waiting for the lift to descend , Matthew was joined by a small blonde girl of about twelve or fourteen . |
| 9 | He enjoyed considerable success ; in the first ten years of his rule Iran probably progressed more than in the entire Qajar period of the last hundred and twenty years . |
| 10 | In spite of his disappointment Hopkins now felt released from his renunciation of poetry , and a succession of exuberant lyrical celebrations of the natural world followed , including ‘ The Windhover ’ and many of his other best-known poems . |
| 11 | A toneless , disjunctive fact , droll and very uneasy , one of those amputated thoughts I have just mentioned and –so a sensation , a crawling sensation of the time being out of joint ; there is more Hamlet to The Possessed than what is personal to Stavrogin , ‘ the Prince ’ as he first appears , though on the surface of his mind Dostoevsky evidently meant Prince Hal , not the Prince of Denmark . |
| 12 | From the beginning of his career Ashton frequently used the old stereotypes but created unique dances which can be called a translation of favourite comic play into the language of ballet . |
| 13 | Oh he was doing weight training and erm he was doing weights that much he er tore the whole of his chest muscle away from his shoulder . |
| 14 | In the first place , Wagner and the ideal of his music drama directly influenced the direction of Nietzsche 's classical thinking . |
| 15 | Things came to a head in March 1962 when Sinatra offered Kennedy the use of his Palm Springs home . |
| 16 | The East Belfast man ca n't put a foot over the door of his Cregagh Road home without first stripping off in the garden . |
| 17 | He dealt extremely gently with Chamberlain , who was present and still respected , reserving the edge of his debating power entirely for Lloyd George , who was absent and distrusted : |
| 18 | AN 11-year-old boy has died after a tragic accident while playing on a swing in the garden of his Co Londonderry home . |
| 19 | If I owe a client a duty to increase the value of his investment portfolio then if I fail to take action which could enhance its value I am positively harming my client 's interests . |
| 20 | That is , the child is pre-programmed to arrive at this sort of representation of his mother tongue rather than any of the many other mathematically possible kinds . |
| 21 | HUNDREDS of fans besieged Michael Jackson 's hotel after the pop superstar arrived in Singapore for the next stage of his world tour yesterday . |