Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] [prep] his [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew it instinctively in spite of the curtness of his words . |
| 2 | With astonishing rapidity the sick man-gathered the threads of the battle into his hands . |
| 3 | He rubbed some of the powder in his hands , sniffed it and threw it back on to the ground . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 … |
| 7 | She looked at Adam and saw the mark of the spear between his eyes ; blood had flowed , streaking his face . |
| 8 | Disgust shivered through her , and stepping out of the reach of his hands she hissed , ‘ Get out of my house , you mucky little sod ! |
| 9 | It is interesting to see a professional historian reminding the reader explicitly of the relevance of his facts , analysis and discussion . |
| 10 | He returned to work in September but , in the following month , was forced to have most of the remainder of his teeth extracted : he had now entered his sixtieth year , and was suffering some of the inconveniences of age . |
| 11 | Quite apart from Lanfranc 's example , the commonest of all images of authority , whether of the abbot with his monks , or the master with his pupils , or the king with his witan or barons , displayed the seated ruler presiding over them , dispensing justice and declaring doctrine . |
| 12 | Eddie splashed more of the liquid against his temples , brushing it back and then rubbing it in with a comb . |
| 13 | And the most Anglophobe of Pound 's books is , appropriately , the one that is most full of shoptalk — though of shoptalk of a special kind , the talk of the master to his apprentices in the shop that is a workshop , the atelier where the talk that goes on is the vehicle by which an artistic tradition is transmitted , not in conceptualizing , and tendentious readings of history , but where it is concrete , in tricks of the trade and rules of thumb and words to the wise . |
| 14 | His T-shirt was too small for him and came out of the waist of his pants . |
| 15 | Not that it had done Oliver Rattrie any good , since he 'd been caught the day after by those same Chartist women who had marched into Halifax singing the One Hundredth Psalm ; sheep no longer but howling Furies who had seized him , puny little thing that he was , and thrown him in the canal where , in his struggle to keep himself from drowning , he had lost every last shilling of the blood-money in his pockets . |
| 16 | For a moment he paused , stretching , working the last traces of the drug from his limbs , then crouched , listening again . |
| 17 | Bishop tried to block the sound of the explosion from his ears , but could n't . |
| 18 | His ‘ Dirty toys ’ , as he describes his arrangements of battered dolls and stuffed animals which he rescues from thrift shops , were included in last autumn 's ‘ Objects for the Ideal Home ’ at the Serpentine Gallery and in the Hayward Gallery 's recent ‘ Doubletake ’ , but neither occasion gave a complete or convincing account of the range of his interests . |
| 19 | Bisset protested that it was wrong to accuse Burke of inconsistency , because of the change of his arguments . |
| 20 | When he has not seen the man he has hoped to see , his long spine slackens and he falls back upon the red vinyl of the booth with his eyes closed and his foot shaking in a livid tic . |
| 21 | General Publius announced to his soldiers that they would soon get proof of the truthfulness of his prophecies : a red wolf would come and eat him up . |
| 22 | Having spoken , the monk undergoes a physical reaction to the utterance of his salacious thoughts of the wife being exercised , sexually , in bed : This response to his own thought and speech on the monk 's part creates another novelty within this fabliau : a character who assumes a role parallel to that of a real reader outside the text ; a listener to and responder to a text and its implications , and what is more a reader who indulges in an interpretation of the text of his thoughts as pornographic , i.e. capable of exciting vicarious , erotic sensation . |
| 23 | Aided by some of the ablest ministers possessed by any eighteenth-century ruler ( Pompeo Neri until his death in 1776 ; Francesco-Maria Gianni after that date ) he changed every aspect of the life of his dominions . |
| 24 | Then , at the edges of her consciousness , outside the explosive heat of the passage of his lips about her neck , of his fingers reaching into some recess of her costume to make her bare flesh tingle , she heard the faint echo of Hector 's bark . |
| 25 | Each is penal , and each deprives the member concerned of the enjoyment of his rights of membership or office . |
| 26 | Mallender , inordinately proud of the majority of his strokes , was 87 not out . |
| 27 | What Smith 's conflation effectively conceals is the authority of the capitalist over his employees , who are ‘ merely the members of a total mechanism which belongs to him ’ ( p. 477 ) . |
| 28 | The Prophet drew back and watched his quarry through the trellis work of the platform at his feet . |
| 29 | Geoffrey Haynes , his red features as furious as ever , stood on the opposite side of the square with his hands in his raincoat pockets and glowering at anyone who had the temerity to walk in front of him . |
| 30 | He shut his eyes again , but the sight of the inside of his eyelids was too much for him . |