Example sentences of "his [noun] in [noun prp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was many years since he 'd had anything in common with his foster family and she would have expected him to use his sojourn in America as a tactful method of ending the association , of breaking ties that could have no conceivable advantage for him . |
| 2 | Henry Cotton always maintained that the turning point in his own career was his sojourn in America in the company of Tommy Armour . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 ] . |
| 6 | Thereafter , he promptly ran off with Natalie Wood , his co-star in Splendor in the Grass . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | Conway , who prudently forbade Taylor to dedicate any of his works to himself , eventually persuaded him to come and live on his estates in Ireland as a ‘ lecturer ’ , which was a more acceptable title to the authorities than ‘ chaplain ’ . |
| 10 | 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 : |
| 11 | His marriage to Elizabeth Calandrini cemented important business ties with her family , and one of her brothers , Philip Calandrini , was to be particularly closely associated with him , acting frequently as his agent in Amsterdam in a variety of business , including the pawning of jewels for Charles I in 1625 . |
| 12 | Martyn died 3 July 1680 , aged sixty-two , at the home of his brother-in-law in Brockley in the parish of Deptford . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | That left Charles Frederick at home with Mum and Dad — but not for long ; by the end of 1871 he , too , was serving his apprenticeship in Haymarket with a goldsmith . |
| 15 | He was born in Wales in 1771 but served his apprenticeship in Stamford at the drapery business of James McGuffog , where he stayed for three years , originally at 31 High Street and later on St. Mary 's Street . |
| 16 | Branson had decided that after his experiences in America with the Pistols , Lydon needed a holiday ; a keen reggae fan , he could also help on auditions . |
| 17 | Even more importantly , though , he regards his experiences in Africa as a professional and personal turning point . |
| 18 | The eight-month-old tot , flown to Teesside from his home in Romania for the delicate brain operation as a last chance hope for survival , suffers from hydrocephalus water on the brain . |
| 19 | Detectives arrested the suspect at his home in Toxteth after a lengthy cat-and-mouse game involving surveillance experts . |
| 20 | Next month he will commute from his home in Fulham to a club in Hamburg , where he will prepare for the grass-court season by playing on clay for a club in the Second Division of the German League . |
| 21 | Father-of-two Mr Watts was returning to his home in Portugal after a shopping trip to Amsterdam . |
| 22 | A mutilated body found in Portugal is believed to be that of a man missing from his home in Oxfordshire for a month . |
| 23 | The sculptor Rob Blote has set up a gallery in his home in Wassenaar with the specific purpose of selling works of art which the Dutch government had purchased through the BKR Scheme . |
| 24 | His years in England as a student of law involved him in an earnest effort of adaptation , and it is clear from his own account that he absorbed through his reading and his acquaintance a sense of British moral aspiration , for which he acquired a genuine respect . |
| 25 | The second was his residence in France during the French Revolution : this direct encounter with the main movement of the age led Wordsworth into constant political agony and debate , and it is significant that one of the main characters in The Excursion , his other long poem , is the Solitary , a despondent figure disillusioned by the failure of the Revolution . |
| 26 | He noticed that her figure was good and that her legs and ankles were very much better than those of the girls he remembered from his days in London before the war . |
| 27 | The Secretary of State found it difficult enough to maintain the unity of his allies in Europe over the question of re-arming Germany . |
| 28 | In 1805 Jesty gave his evidence in London at the institute 's invitation , when he was presented with a long testimonial and pair of gold-mounted lancets . |
| 29 | ROCK star Phil Collins is leaving Britain to make his mark in Hollywood as a movie star . |
| 30 | By the time Zahedi rejoined his king in Morrocco at the end of January 1979 , he had decided that by refusing to give the Shah unequivocal support , the United States had betrayed him . |