Example sentences of "[coord] his [noun] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I grew more proficient he leaned on the rail , sucked at his long clay pipe and reminisced about his days in sail or his experiences in ports from Aden to Hong Kong . |
| 2 | Cricket , he claimed , was his second religion , but his first won him the loyalty and affection of generations , whether the staff and pupils of Worksop College , of which he was chaplain , or his parishioners at Blewbury in Oxfordshire , of which he was vicar from 1964 until his death , five days before he was due to retire . |
| 3 | He would not neglect his wife in favour of his work , nor his work in favour of his wife . |
| 4 | On a chair in the scullery in his cardigan and his cap and his bad leg stuck out to one side , and his tins of paint on newspapers all around , and a big panel of wood propped up against the wall with a picture on it of a battleship in a stormy sea . |
| 5 | Vital patterns become distorted and lost in the sort of fragmentation and change with which Eliot 's textual studies in a battery of languages and his reading of works like Cornford 's had made him particularly familiar . |
| 6 | This multiple view of Cruz not only gives an insight into the conflicting forces that have been struggling to control his soul , but also reflects his loss of integrity as a man and his disintegration in face of his approaching death . |
| 7 | In the meantime , Daniel Weaver is living and rehearsing with his band of Irish musicians in the Temple Bar area , and his performance in Whelans on November 3rd should prove extremely interesting … |
| 8 | As with Wilekin in Dame Sirith , the teller is careful to describe the monk and his actions in terms of a courtly gentility , an affectation of the monk to be " " free … and manly of dispense " " ( 43 ) , " " a man of heigh prudence " " ( 64 ) , " " ful of curteisye " " ( 69 ) , a " " gentil monk " " ( 195 ) who will be " " trewe " " to his lady ( 207 ) . |
| 9 | The apparently unbridgeable gulf between him and his contemporaries in terms of sheer footballing skill made him an exceptional and enormously wealthy black man , after a childhood spent amidst the poverty and squalor of Bauru ( see Pelé and Fish , 1977 ) . |
| 10 | The election of Cardinal Wojtyla of Krakow as Pope John Paul II in 1978 and his visits to Poland in 1979 and subsequently emphasised these attachments and strengthened the historic association between the Catholic faith and Polish nationhood . |
| 11 | Not only was he engaged in his publishing work , his meetings of the Moot and the Chandos Group , and his visits to Oxford for the Christian News Letter , but also he set himself a punishing schedule of conferences , talks and lectures ; in the first week of January 1941 , for example , there were six full days of such conferences . |
| 12 | I was amused at Dr Spock 's comment about his book and his attitude to child-rearing towards the end of his life . |
| 13 | 4.3 We propose a general rule that the liability of the original tenant , and his entitlement to benefits under the lease , should not survive an assignment of the lease . |
| 14 | When Graham Smith contracted cancer , she invited him and his wife on holiday to Necker in the Caribbean and also on a Mediterranean cruise on board the yacht owned by Greek tycoon , John Latsis . |
| 15 | ‘ I think I 'll ask the new vicar , Mr Allan , and his wife to tea on Wednesday , ’ said Marilla one day . |
| 16 | Four of his clients were executed , including Lt Degueldre , head of the Delta Commando and Col Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry who nearly succeeded in blowing up General de Gaulle and his wife at Petit-Clamart in 1962 . |
| 17 | Officers from Love and Co. were due to pick up goods belonging to Jim Sneddon and his wife in preparation for a warrant sale following the couple 's refusal to pay the tax . |
| 18 | Three days later , in an extraordinary further development , the Justice Department announced that it was investigating Sessions and his wife in relation to the possible violation of ethics rules . |
| 19 | In the event , Tyndale 's unorthodox beliefs and his lack of support for the annulment prevented him from having any direct impact on royal policy . |
| 20 | His prominence in his time and his lack of consequence for it both derive ultimately from his pleasant mediocrity . |
| 21 | He was the son of a rich merchant , with whom he fell out , however , because of his preoccupation with and his lack of interest in his father 's profession . |
| 22 | In the visual arts , the exhibition seeks to codify the classicising social realism of Nazi-approved compositions , contrasting images by Brekker and his associates with prints by German Expressionists . |
| 23 | ( 15 ) If a tender offer is made in competition with an offer made under the Code , the Panel must be consulted and consideration will be given to extending the offer period of the Code offer , circulating the tender offer to all shareholders and requiring the buyer to disclose dealings of his and his associates in accordance with Rule 8. 4.8 What is the difference between a partial offer and a tender offer ? |
| 24 | then there 's Steve Bennett and his dad from Ross on Wye who 've built their own car … |
| 25 | As far as Gloucester was concerned , it was a recognition of the fact that the north had now emerged as his main sphere of interest , and his surrender of land in East Anglia was to some extent the corollary of the consolidation of his northern interests which was taking place in the same year . |
| 26 | As far as Gloucester was concerned , it was a recognition of the fact that the north had now emerged as his main sphere of interest , and his surrender of land in East Anglia was to some extent the corollary of the consolidation of his northern interests which was taking place in the same year . |
| 27 | Azhag was one of the most dangerous Orc Warlords of recent history , and his campaigns of destruction throughout the Empire almost brought the eastern provinces to their knees . |
| 28 | Only make the right wing strong ’ ) , and his successor as Chief of Staff , General Helmuth von Moltke , while broadly adopting Schlieffen 's plan , had already fatally modified it through timidity . |
| 29 | In 1860 , the last bishop to wear his wig to the House of Lords died , and his successor as Bishop of Rochester , Dr Joseph Wigram , sharply criticised the wearing of beards and moustaches by the clergy . |
| 30 | The implication at the beginning of the text is that the lord feels his worldly duty and his love for God to be pulling against each other and unbalancing him : The state to which Hilton hopes to point him is one of discretion in which self-knowledge and the love of God are the means of integrating what seem like opposites in equilibrium . |