Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] of his " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand he would have a much enlarged Aquitaine , to be held in sovereignty , the ‘ perpetual liberty ’ which he had instructed the Black Prince to demand of his royal prisoner in 1357 , and which would remove at a stroke the threat of confiscation . |
| 2 | She was riding around town looking for George on his Bay Horse to hear of his encounter with the Dragon . |
| 3 | He could be relied upon in all circumstances to give of his best for us , even though , in all honesty , we were seldom more than a pretty poor bunch throughout the period he was with us . |
| 4 | Tyson , meanwhile , has four years to serve of his sentence , but with his good prison behaviour , could be out of jail in a year and back in the ring within 18 months . |
| 5 | The men who had marched north with Duncan to dispose of his dangerous half-brother at Tarbatness had mostly died in that battle . |
| 6 | The tireless charity worker , who had been suffering from a long illness , had overcome his own difficulties to talk of his hopes and plans for others . |
| 7 | Would it be etiquette to talk of his business ? |
| 8 | He liked on occasion to talk of his earlier days at his parents ' cottage in Scotland , and it amused him to remember that his sensitive mother could never bring herself to pronounce or write the word ‘ toilet paper ’ which was always , either in speech or on shopping lists , abbreviated simply to T.P. |
| 9 | The Community of the Glorious Ascension was horrified last night to hear of his arrest . |
| 10 | He had things to ask , things to learn of his father , things to tell him . |
| 11 | Travel writer Mark Wallington had stories to tell of his south London-born dog Boogie , ‘ a cross between a whippet and a Morris 1000 ’ , star of Five Hundred Mile Walkies , and how at a promising sounding signing session at Harrods , John Julius Norwich and Jilly Cooper were led into the Books Department while he and Boogie were ushered into the Pet Department . |
| 12 | I could almost see him ticking me off the list of people to inform of his change of address . |
| 13 | And in the era of John Major 's classlessness , it was not wise of Waldegrave in complimenting the new Speaker to speak of his ancestors having been dragged to that very chair at the time of the Black Death . |
| 14 | Much less , when he wanted the world to know of his love , would she allow him to introduce her to his parents . |
| 15 | He said , ‘ Your boy obviously has the ability to give of his best when his best is required . |
| 16 | His friend Dr Burney , not a Cambridge man , expressed similar concern at Smart 's lack of discretion : ‘ While he was the pride of Cambridge and the chief poetical ornament of that University , he ruined himself by returning the tavern treats of strangers who had invited him as a wit and an extraordinary personage , in order to boast of his acquaintance ’ . |
| 17 | The untrammelled right of the individual to dispose of his own property as he saw fit was the essential foundation of a liberal economy and a bourgeois society . |
| 18 | The driver , who is stuck with a truckload of oranges , called his company to tell of his ordeal . |
| 19 | In January 1982 he came back to Stockport to speak of his mountaineering experiences ; so many wanted to hear him that the venue had to be changed from School to the Town Hall . |
| 20 | Neither John nor I have any objection to use of his history , especially if the information is of benefit to someone else . |
| 21 | It gave him little time to think of his own problems . |
| 22 | Before 1926 a tenant in tail had no power to dispose of his estate by will ; but a tenant in tail in possession could in his lifetime , and still can , bar the entail by a deed , i.e. he can turn it into a fee simple estate . |