Example sentences of "his [noun] [prep] [noun prp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Henry Cotton always maintained that the turning point in his own career was his sojourn in America in the company of Tommy Armour . |
| 2 | Five ministers retained their posts , including Deputy Prime Ministers Becir Zuta and Jovan Andonov , Interior Minister Ljubomir Frckoski , and Foreign Minister Denko Malevski , who had offered his resignation in June over the issue of international recognition of Macedonia . |
| 3 | At least Tom saved his calls from Toronto till the end . |
| 4 | The nobleman Berhtfrith subsequently attributed Osred 's victory over his enemies at Bamburgh to the decision of Osred 's party to do justice by Wilfrid ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 60 ) and the indications are that Wilfrid came to an understanding with Osred 's party following his rejection by Eadwulf . |
| 5 | Although he began life with a number of advantages , not least middle-class parents , his route from Shotts to the Cabinet was still a lot more difficult than most of his Government colleagues . |
| 6 | In his notes to Einstein on the Beach Glass describes his approach in the following way : ‘ As the music develops , the key centres begin to exchange the metrical characters . |
| 7 | Born in Singapore thirty-one years ago , with a dash of French blood in his Asian veins , brought up on Hawaii , he did two years at the University of Hawaii , but concentrated on attending some of the tougher colleges of the North Shore before finally graduating from Pipeline and Sunset to take his PhD at Waimea in the early eighties . |
| 8 | However , in another speech , broadcast on Nov. 23 , the King defended his support for Iraq during the Gulf war and strongly criticized the leaders of the Gulf states . |
| 9 | Asked why he had changed tack in his purchasing , Mr Mason , his dealer , said : ‘ Mr Lloyd Webber has made his money in Britain in the last decade , and he wants to put some back to save the finest of Canaletto 's London views . ’ |
| 10 | This was the third military attempt to oust Prime Minister Joseph Koukou Koffigoh since his election in August by the national conference which had stripped President Gnassingbe Eyadema of all executive power [ see pp. 38379 ; 38518 ] . |
| 11 | He met former James Bond girl Alison Doody in a Dublin nightspot on the last day of his trek around Ireland in the footsteps of ex-fiancee Julia Roberts . |
| 12 | David Hempleman Adams did n't need much help navigating his team from his base at Swindon to the House of Commons ; after all he 'd successfully managed to get them to the North Geomagnetic Pole . |
| 13 | David Hempleman Adams did n't need much help navigating his team from his base at Swindon to the House of Commons ; after all he 'd successfully managed to get them to the North Geomagnetic Pole . |
| 14 | He 's flying a two seater from his base at Nympsfield on the edge of the Cotswolds in Gloucestershire . |
| 15 | Thereafter , he promptly ran off with Natalie Wood , his co-star in Splendor in the Grass . |
| 16 | Sheikh Abu Abdullah Muhammed ibn Abdallah ibn Muhammed ibn Ibrahim al-Lawati , known to his friends by the diminutive Ibn Battuta , had left his birthplace of Tangier in the early June of 1325 . |
| 17 | It may be this which signals the high-water mark of Oswiu 's intervention in Pictland , analogous to his activities in Mercia in the three years after Penda 's death , and it does not imply an obvious community of interest between Oswiu and the sons of Donuel . |
| 18 | Daddy went to his grave at Romaldkirk in the same way , on our cart which was pulled by his favourite horse , a little cob called Dick . |
| 19 | According to Bede , Wulfhere was able to give the Isle of Wight and the territory of the Meonware in the Meon valley of Hampshire opposite the Isle of Wight to Aethelwealh , king of the southern Saxons on the occasion of his baptism in Mercia in the presence of the Mercian king , possibly on the occasion of Aethelwealh 's marriage to Eafe , a Hwiccian Christian princess ( HE IV , 13 ) . |
| 20 | ADRIAN DAVIES , Cambridge Blue and Welsh International fly-half , made his debut for CARDIFF in the Schweppes Cup win over Pencoed . |
| 21 | TAKING the view that he will learn more about the players on the field , Jim Love will today make his debut for Scotland in the opening game of their South African tour , against Stellenbosch Farmers . |
| 22 | The childish drawing of rabbits sitting under the trees among the spring daffodils ; his sketch of Ivan on the sled , of Lepkin dozing in his chair by the stove . |
| 23 | Kornei Chukovsky , in his account of his boyhood in Odessa in the 1890s , described how he and his friend Timosha used to climb into deep rubbish boxes : |
| 24 | Martyn died 3 July 1680 , aged sixty-two , at the home of his brother-in-law in Brockley in the parish of Deptford . |
| 25 | He found his niche in Idaho at the National Engineering Laboratory and , soon after he arrived there , news of the Soviet interest in muon catalysed fusion reached the West . |
| 26 | Prosecutors in Nowy Sacz province had instituted proceedings for criminal slander of a state official , which carried a maximum eight-year prison sentence , and following his defeat by Walesa in the December 1990 run-off election Tyminski had been required to post bail of US$100,000 before he could fly home to Canada . |
| 27 | It may therefore be that 871/1466–7 represents a terminus ante quem for the death of Fahreddin Acemi , provided that the various facts given in the are correct and that Ali Tusi 's departure for Persia followed reasonably closely upon his defeat by Hocazade in the competition , which seems to be the implication in the Shaka'ik . |
| 28 | JUSTIN FARTHING wasted no time picking up the winning thread following his disappointment at Aintree with the Martell Fox Hunters ' favourite , Rushing Wild . |
| 29 | He appeared before his peers on Monday in the darkest of clerical grey . |
| 30 | It is assumed John travelled first as a student , to Paris and perhaps elsewhere in France ; then he travelled countless times to the curia on the business of his master Theobald , archbishop of Canterbury ; and from his letters we know of at least two other major pilgrimages he undertook from his exile at Rheims in the 1160s . |