Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] [prep] his [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew it instinctively in spite of the curtness of his words . |
| 2 | It is now not easy to talk to Bill Larnach for very long before becoming aware of the depth of his knowledge and the way in which , following the traditions of his birthplace , he has achieved a mastery of this very difficult subject . |
| 3 | Steve was doing the right thing ; he was going to marry the woman he loved even though she had a baby by another man , which was a true measure of the depth of his caring . |
| 4 | With astonishing rapidity the sick man-gathered the threads of the battle into his hands . |
| 5 | Gaunt aroused the opposition of the Church by his attack upon William of Wykeham and his refusal to include Wykeham in the general pardon offered in honour of the king 's golden jubilee . |
| 6 | He was the protector of the Church in his land , and the Church required him to take a keen and personal interest in its affairs . |
| 7 | Tail wagging his thanks , he took the handle of the basket in his mouth and padded happily along beside Angela . |
| 8 | He rubbed some of the powder in his hands , sniffed it and threw it back on to the ground . |
| 9 | After his sensational ( and bloodthirsty ? ) triumph over the priests of Baal on Mount Carmel , he was told of the threat to his life by Ahab 's foreign queen Jezebel , and decided to flee down to the desert around Mount Sinai , the home of many prophets and a place of pilgrimage for many more . |
| 10 | You did us a great service in warning him of the threat to his life , Isabel . |
| 11 | But God ‘ misreads ’ what is going on ( how is that for audacious storytelling ! ) and is conscious only of the threat to his domain . |
| 12 | A German peasant farmer moving to the east was obliged to pay one sixth of the profit of his labour to a landlord , and only those peasants who took on more than 6.4 hectares ( 16 acres ) were given the opportunity to buy their land . |
| 13 | The issue which brought Henry VIII into dispute with Pope Clement VII was the question of the annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon . |
| 14 | He reached across into the back of the hut for his piece-box . |
| 15 | In the late eleventh century , Osbern , the precentor of Christ Church Canterbury , wrote both a life of St Ælfheah , the archbishop killed by the Scandinavians in 1012 , and an account of the removal of his relics from London to Canterbury in 1023 . |
| 16 | Ian Storey is arranging transport of the tender to his works at Morpeth where the tank will be removed and renovation of the chassis can proceed , prior to building a new tank . |
| 17 | In any case , Charles Henstock cared little for creature comforts , and had lived there for several years , alone , in appalling conditions of cold and discomfort , until his marriage to Dimity Dean , a few years before , had brought companionship and a slight mitigation of the hardship of his surroundings . |
| 18 | Stavros Niachos , 81 , will neither confirm nor deny that he was the buyer of Yo , Picasso , the 1901 self-portrait of the artist at his easel , staring boldly out at the new century ; but it certainly went to the bidder who has often acted on his behalf . |
| 19 | We should also try to gauge the attitude of the artist to his subject ; here again there may be coded " messages " . |
| 20 | The miracle of sharing , as the audience of both versions shares , in the devotion of the artist to his work and in his emotional involvement is always the motivating force . |
| 21 | Few stones are left unturned as the life of the artist from his childhood to his marriage , to lifelong companion and fellow artist , Edyth Starkie , unfurls . |
| 22 | Malcolm Morley 's spectacular copy of Vermeer 's ‘ Portrait of the artist in his studio ’ ( Sotheby 's lot 43 , est. $350–450,000 ) established a new auction record for the artist when it was sold to Los Angeles collector , Eli Broad , for $570,000 ( £316,700 ) at the evening sale of 6 May . |
| 23 | A report on ( Hekmatyar 's ) Radio Message of Freedom on Sept. 24 said that former President Najibullah had been moved from the UN offices in Kabul ( where he fled at the outset of the fall of his regime ) to Mazar-i-Sharif " where he now lives under the intimidation and torture of leaders of the unholy coalition of the north " . |
| 24 | If anything , it enhanced it , made you aware of the broadness of his shoulders , the firmness of his muscles , the long , lean power of his legs … |
| 25 | The boy 's story was discounted and Oldfield was able to continue in charge of the home until his suspension in 1990 when new evidence came to light . |
| 26 | Now the systems analyst has a pretty good knowledge of the capability of the computer , and the user has a fairly good idea of the problem in his department . |
| 27 | As it turned out , the plan of Bailie Hooks was too optimistic and Lord Galloway retained control of the council of his town , but the incident affords a clear illustration of the close links between parliamentary and municipal politics and the holding of official appointments in the period , and indeed the officers in question were placed in their situations through the political influence of the Galloway family . |
| 28 | He was not permitted to call other officers of the Council in his defence and he was found guilty of 12 offences and dismissed . |
| 29 | In the case of parish , town or community councillor the declaration must be made before or at the first meeting of the council after his election , or if the council at that meeting so permits , before or at a later meeting fixed by the council . |
| 30 | A second US citizen , Arvey Duane Drown , had been held in the Cordillera region in the north of the country since his abduction by NPA guerrillas in October 1990 . |