Example sentences of "one [prep] his [noun sg] 's [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Rain ’ , ‘ Trouble Town ’ and the poignant ‘ Nancy ’ affirm Stephenson as one of his generation 's finest songwriters . |
| 2 | ‘ Katie Daly ’ had been one of his mother 's favourite songs . |
| 3 | United States President Bush stressed in a major televised speech to a joint session of Congress on March 6 that he regarded the drive for a settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict as one of his administration 's top priorities in the post-Gulf War period . |
| 4 | March 6 In a joint address to the US Congress Bush says that he regards the settlement of the Arab-Israeli dispute as one of his administration 's top priorities . |
| 5 | Ranulf and Dame Agatha were waiting for him near the Galilee Gate , the young nun apparently enjoying an account of one of his manservant 's many escapades in London . |
| 6 | However , it was his decision to marry the daughter of one of his father 's political rivals , and a defeated one at that , which brought into the open his unreliability from the clan 's point of view . |
| 7 | William was in one of his father 's two dwellings on High Street , while Thomas had taken over one of the original Fountain Lane/Cowards Batch houses built by his forefather William a hundred years before . |
| 8 | ( One of his father 's particular delights was found in the Reader 's Digest , perhaps an indication of his limited energies . ) |
| 9 | After a while , he took out one of his father 's old police notebooks and started to draw aeroplanes . |
| 10 | One of his group 's first lodgings was in a boarding house in Southend on Sea : |