Example sentences of "[prep] his [noun sg] [art] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet three years after his death the heirs of his Islamic regime are engaged in a debate on food prices , economic policy and relations with the West . |
| 2 | From the publication , in 1946 , of his book The Affairs of the Poles Osmanczyk 's constant call was for Polish-German reconciliation as one of the essential steps towards the creation of a new , permanently conflict-free Europe . |
| 3 | On the day of his coronation the Priests of Asuryan chanted the warding spells that enabled Bel Shanaar to pass unscathed through the flame . |
| 4 | Showing members of his family the complexities of the main control room is who works in the Basket Handling Cave area . |
| 5 | Behind his head the lights of the lorry were flashing as it bumped over the hard ridges of ice . |
| 6 | Gaston , however , disposed of the latest invaders and then commemorated his double success over the heathens by incorporating into his portal the figures of two Saracens in chains and oriental costume , to be seen still hunched submissively at the foot of the central pillar of the doorway as if having to bear all its weight . |
| 7 | Under his aegis the tentacles of the electrified lines stretched south and west . |
| 8 | 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 ’ |
| 9 | The quatrain poems bind up such sympathies with a way of thinking which owed much to anthropology and Eliot 's growing wish to include in his work the worlds of both the savage and the city . |
| 10 | Far from welcoming the new challenges and opportunities , many saw retirement as a kind of bogeyman who trailed in his wake the threats of a lower standard of living , boredom and impending old age . |
| 11 | The experienced practitioner carries in his head the names of the best works on the subjects with which he usually deals , and the sooner the student gets to know some of them the better . |
| 12 | Mountbatten looked much older than when we had last met , still handsome and alert , but with deaf-aids in both ears , wearing a blazer that now hung loosely on him , and in his walk the beginnings of old man 's shuffle . |
| 13 | He tried to compose himself and go over in his mind the details of what had taken place almost a month before . |
| 14 | Over many years I have visited some of the gardens Andre Gide wrote about in his book the Fruits of the Earth . |
| 15 | This problem is most explicitly addressed by Le Roy Ladurie , and I shall reconstruct his view from his study The Peasants of Languedoc . |
| 16 | Although not a complete survey , the ninety-seven paintings assembled by Adriani , director of the Kunsthalle , and Walter Feilchenfeldt , a Swiss dealer who inherited from his father the archives of the Cassirer Gallery in Berlin with account books tracing sales of paintings by Cezanne , are balanced chronologically and include both of revered icons and surprises . |
| 17 | Little Billy was running with the speed of an arrow , but each time he glanced back over his shoulder the puffs of orange-red smoky-breath had gotten closer . |
| 18 | Since his death the workers of the industrial world have experienced ( despite severe dislocations in the 1920s , 1930s and 1970s ) a fairly continuous increase in their material standards of living , a massive expansion of social welfarism and have also been given the right to vote for their own governments in relatively pluralistic political systems with competitive political parties and regular elections . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Hidden by her handmaids she is seen to blush , then turns to Actaeon and throws water in his face to blind him , to stop him seeing her naked , but that is not enough and she knows it is not enough , and soon he feels the horns growing on his forehead , dat sparso capiti vivacis cornus cervis , she caused to grow on his head the horns of the long-lived stag , as if the cost of seeing her naked had to be death , first metamorphosis then death . |
| 21 | Next time he came on one of these recces he would bring a bag for these trophies , but the chinagraph pencil had worked well in noting on his slate the depths of water and the position of that false beach . |
| 22 | They were based on his book The Principles of Quantum Mechanics , one of the intellectual classics of this century . |
| 23 | During his reign the factions of the court destroyed the stable ministerial tradition which had been the precondition of his father 's achievements , substituting for it the rule of a favourite — the queen 's supposed lover , Godoy . |
| 24 | And take for his reward the lands of the folk he decides have broken the law ? |