Example sentences of "and his [noun] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hitler 's personal magnetism , his unique demagogic talents , his strength of will , apparent self-confidence and certainty of action , and his indispensability to the Movement ( which had fractured without his leadership following the ill-fated Putsch of 1923 ) , all provided the foundations of charismatic authority of extraordinary strength within his own entourage , resting upon bonds of personal loyalty . |
| 2 | but , when you go into the passage his door , he 's got the door into the front room , same as ours , on the left , but when you get into the bottom of the passage , there 's a brick wall in front of ya , and it comes round and his door to the back dining room is on this side here |
| 3 | And then he closed the court and turned his mind and his emotions to the pleasures of the day , literary or social . |
| 4 | The brewery was asked by the Civil War Centre to sponsor two of the key events in the pageant — the entry of King Charles and his Scottish army into Worcester in 1651 and his escape from the city when Cromwell 's forces routed his troops . |
| 5 | And his character as the bullying father in the BBC film Morphine And Dolly Mixtures sent shivers up viewers ' spines . |
| 6 | But we shall miss his warmth , and his originality and his concern for the schools , the teachers and the children . |
| 7 | The responsibility of the adviser will be considerable and his independence from the parties should be beyond question . |
| 8 | That the BIS was a mixture of unconventional religion and radical politics was further underlined by the support of Garrison and his emissaries from the United States ; British India development as a way of undermining British dependence on American cotton was equally for them part of a package , which included association with ‘ moral force ’ Chartists and hostility to evangelical ‘ sectarianism ’ in antislavery in the form of the BFASS , a view they held despite Sturge 's middle-class political radicalism . |
| 9 | Marvin 's mouth went thin , and his grip on the handle of the pot got very tight . |
| 10 | Although repulsed time and time again , Skarsnik 's power continues to grow even today , and his grip over the mountains around Karak Eight Peaks is just as tight . |
| 11 | In fact , Jones ' text does tackle the complexity of Morrison well , and his reading of The Doors as melodrama seems right , but the whole project is unbalanced by the endless , unenlightening shots of those cheekbones , the starry eyes , and that 24-hour pout . |
| 12 | A third might have been deterred from adopting the Copernican theory because of his involvement with terrestrial mechanics and his awareness of the problems that the Copernican theory posed for it . |
| 13 | The contrast between Baldwin 's deflation at the end of 1935 and his prestige at the end of 1936 was as sharp as can possibly be imagined . |
| 14 | His personal attention — ‘ rain , snow or frost never kept him in ’ — and his scrupulousness in the matter of estimates gradually secured country house clients , but his expertise as a house planner took time to develop . |
| 15 | Whether these bourgeois tried to ape the life style of the aristocracy or , like class-conscious Krupp and his fellow-magnates of the Ruhr , built themselves castles and industrial-feudal empires parallel to and more impressive than those of the Junkers whose titles they refused , they had to spend , and in a manner which inevitably brought their life style closer to that of the unpuritan aristocracy , and that of their womenfolk even more so . |
| 16 | One quote from ‘ Yoga Today ’ ( Vol. 12 No. 4 , August 1987 ) will illustrate how the religious philosophy surrounding Yoga contradicts what the Word of God reveals about God and His relationship to the world and man . |
| 17 | There was , in the arrangements for depend ants and widows , inevitably built into the scheme certain assumptions about the male breadwinner and his relationship to the family unit , which have left a difficult legacy for attempts to balance the interests of men and women in our own age . |
| 18 | It was perhaps as a member of Gloucester 's retinue that he fought at Bannockburn in June 1314 , where Gloucester was killed ; and his performance in the battle , for which he was later rewarded with land worth 100 marks a year , may have brought him to Edward II 's notice . |
| 19 | The starting point is Sir Isaac Newton 's discovery of the laws of gravity and his formulation of the laws of motion to explain the movement of bodies in response to forces . |
| 20 | The judice per le indagini preliminari will hold a hearing in the presence of the accused and his counsel on the basis of the prosecutor 's file . |
| 21 | Together with his foreign secretary , Douglas Hurd , and his chancellor of the exchequer , Norman Lamont , Mr Major has shifted the style , the tactics and even , to some extent , the substance of Britain 's European policy . |
| 22 | The driver of the truck sent to meet Charles and his baggage at the railhead south of Arras , had told him that Lord Christopher — Charles did n't ask the surname — was waiting for him in the Officers ' Mess of 2nd Grenadiers . |
| 23 | So the Wife of Bath and the Prioress together challenge the social norms of women 's roles ; the shifting surfaces of the Pardoner 's blatant hypocrisy tease the reader into an uncomfortable awareness of the unfathomable nature of human motivation for the onlooker ; the Nun 's priest 's juxtaposition of intellectual solemnity with quick-witted pragmatism and his stress on the saving grace of social charity cuts self-importance down to size . |
| 24 | I mean , one 's , one 's entitled to ask I think if there is no problem , if we only have vacancies of two or three in our elderly persons homes throughout the county wh erm why on earth did the director of the social serv , did the director of social services and his deputy at the meeting on the twenty fifth of August of the social services committee , say that this was the greatest problem which was facing this council . |
| 25 | Despite opposition from the SDLP , Alliance and Sinn Fein , unionist councillors voted to send the Lord Mayor , Reg Empey and his deputy to the September 12 ceremony honouring Orangemen who died in two world wars and other conflicts . |
| 26 | The discussion continues , with you attempting to assess his staff 's requirements as regards photocopying facilities and his attitude towards the Clearprint machine . |
| 27 | The top-order batsmen has cracked four centuries this season and his selection for the tour was expected . |
| 28 | This feature , which is thought to have developed from a desire for an apse and altar both for abbot and his monks at the east end , and for the bishop and laity at the west , gave no opportunity for masons and sculptors to decorate a deeply moulded western porch , as was usual in France or England . |
| 29 | Churchill 's decision to set up S Branch and his support for the economists within the Cabinet Office stemmed from an enduring distrust of official advice on economic policy which can be dated back to his unhappy time at the Treasury in 1924–29 , particularly his much criticised decision , taken on official advice , to return to the gold standard in 1925 . |
| 30 | A meeting of the Witan divided his kingdom , and in the following year , 958 , a bishop forced the separation of Edwy and his wife on the grounds of consanguinity . |