Example sentences of "king [coord] his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus it was that Philip VI , who was not without military skill and experience , felt obliged to seek out and , if possible , defeat the English king and his Norman supporters . |
| 2 | The plan , therefore , had been made by John and Astorre , Pesaro and himself while the Mamelukes kept to their camp , and the King and his other officers prepared to hold Christmas at Nicosia . |
| 3 | Arnulf always considered himself a member of the court , although his services were somewhat sporadic and sometimes unappreciated by the king and his other advisers . |
| 4 | At North Berwick he was reported to have assembled a band of 200 witches to raise a magic storm which would drown the king and his new queen on their voyage to Scotland . |
| 5 | But in the evening he came out and made his way to the royal store-rooms , where the food was being got ready for the King and his chief followers and wives . |
| 6 | A meeting of minds between the old King and his Prime Minister ( fortified by the support of Chamberlain , Baldwin 's clear successor ) might not therefore have been difficult to achieve . |
| 7 | The success of three " pro-democracy " commoner candidates — ably led by Akilisi Pohive — in the 1990 general election increased the pressure for reform of the absolutist power of the Tongan King and his appointed government . |
| 8 | Thereupon Edward sent Hugh le Despenser , knight , and John de Berwyk , clerk , to order the clergy on behalf of the king and his loyal subjects to ‘ provide such a subsidy by which the land may be defended , lest the king , earls and barons ordain and dispose of your ecclesiastical goods at their will ’ . |
| 9 | During the 1630s , the king and his Arminian bishops encouraged both laity and clergy to fill their parish churches with lavish decorations and furnishings , in the form of new altars , chalices , pictures , and stained glass , thus provoking a bitter conflict with those who preferred the plainness of the pre-1625 church interiors and who continued to regard decoration as popish and idolatrous . |
| 10 | In the centre a huge canopy shielded the place where the king and his leading nobility would sit . |
| 11 | On the walls , the cresset torches , untended , spluttered fiercely in their sconces and Corbett realised that the retainers were taking full advantage of a dead king and his lonely , isolated widow . |
| 12 | That , however , is to ignore the efforts of several bishops over many years to secure some lasting settlement between a wilful king and his resentful subjects ; the lateness of their conversion to deposition — under duress or in despair — is rather to their credit than otherwise ; as for the fiercest episcopal opponents of the king , their experience gave them good grounds for believing that the church 's liberties would be better protected under another king . |