Example sentences of "[coord] his [noun] [prep] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fails to inform either us or his church-wardens of any of his activities . |
| 2 | Yet that is where we begin with God : his providential care for each of us and his provision for each of our lives . |
| 3 | In Birmingham , R. W. Dale was pastor of Carr 's Lane Chapel from 1859 to 1891 and gained considerable fame for his theological writings , his involvement in political issues as a Liberal and his compilation in 1874 of The English Hymn Book . |
| 4 | The story of the manna and the quails is combined with an account of Moses sharing some of his power and his duties with seventy of the elders of the people . |
| 5 | Concurrently with his rural work , Whiteley became a prominent member of the Ipswich branch and his support of some of its antipathetic policies and attitudes towards the District distanced him somewhat from Wash , Pateman and Shearman , who became District Vice-Chairman in 1931 . |
| 6 | She was a wreck and had planned to go and do something about it once dinner had been prepared , but now that would have to go by the board — there would be no time — and , besides , she could hardly appear to Luke 's business partner and his wife in one of Luke 's towelling robes , could she ? |
| 7 | Edward , Prince of Wales , began to share the numerous public functions and his marriage in 1863 to the beautiful Princess Alexandra of Denmark was greeted with joy . |
| 8 | Administration is despatching Gary Gibson and his gang of three to the Golden Gables site while Tim O'Reilly 's team go to the Trinidad Complex . |
| 9 | It is of enormous importance to Bourdieu , as evidenced in the considerable work involved in Homo Academicus , his recent articles on the Grandes Ecoles , and his work in general on the school system and the intellectual field . |
| 10 | Jeremy Montagu , an early member of Musica Reservata , is a leading authority on ‘ world ’ instruments ; David Munrow collected them avidly ; John Sothcott , a founder member of Musica Reservata , always wanted to play in a Bulgarian folk ensemble and his contribution to one of Reservata 's most notorious recordings was inspired by a chance encounter with a record of Romanian music in a Hampstead shop . |
| 11 | However , five years of the sentence were suspended after the judge took into consideration the length of time Hopkins had already spent in custody , and his plea of guilty of possession of guns and explosives in French territorial waters in 1987 . |
| 12 | When Joyce was a teenager Commissioner Charles Duncan came to inspect the corps , and his words in one of the public meetings stuck in her memory : " I have never been in such a well ordered home . " |
| 13 | In resisting rationalism he risks emphasising paradox to the point where it can seem sheerly irrational ; his insistence on the otherness of God and the sinfulness of man , and his fondness for some of the more arbitrary-seeming accounts of God in the stories of Abraham and Job , leave much too little place for a positive grasp of grace and mercy , goodness and love , though he does attempt to give them place ; his stress upon the centrality of the incarnation of God in Jesus commonly seems to reduce to the bare repetition of the claim that Jesus was also , paradoxically , God , but not fully to work through the implications and purpose of this identification of God with man ; his bitter attacks upon ‘ Christendom ’ in his latter years reveal rather too much of the solitary individualist who has little sense of the nature of community . |
| 14 | He was a delightful colleague , amusing and sympathetic , and his suicide in 1973 in his early fifties came as a shock to his many friends . |
| 15 | But his remarks about some of the traditional chippy staff have enraged workers in the region . |
| 16 | But his record on one of the main causes of those divisions — McCarthyism — was hesitant and indecisive . |