Example sentences of "[noun] one of his " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told me , some time after we were married , that when he was at school he used to show round a photograph one of his mother 's lovers had taken of part of Versailles , and say it was his grandfather 's rectory in Ireland . |
| 2 | He makes a point of mentioning in The Rock one of his music-hall favourites , George Robey . |
| 3 | Thenceforward he made the study of architecture one of his chief pleasures . |
| 4 | His sister Mary helps run one of his hotels in Bundoran , the Great Northern , while daughter Catherine does likewise at The Southern in Sligo . |
| 5 | But hardly had General von Gallwitz arrived at Verdun before he was forcibly impressed by the potency of the French artillery ; it had just blown to pieces one of his divisional commanders in his car . |
| 6 | The first was simply a codeword one of his paid agents had stumbled upon : a single Mandarin character , the indentation of which had been left on a notepad Jan Mach had discarded . |
| 7 | When the party 's secretary-general , Ichiro Ozawa , resigned recently , Mr Takeshita placed in the job one of his most faithful lieutenants , Keizo Obuchi . |
| 8 | At this point one of his rich relations died and left him a lot of money in his will . |
| 9 | Mr Sugar revealed that at one point one of his children had tried to persuade him to ‘ throw in the towel ’ . |
| 10 | The Bookman showed Endill one of his favourite tricks . |
| 11 | In the Conservative leadership contest , Douglas Hurd , the foreign secretary , made reform of the hours kept by the Commons one of his themes . |
| 12 | You know , which is only day one of his inauguration . |
| 13 | When in 1947 he was invited to join the Dixielanders one of his fellow musicians was Wally Fawkes , the Daily Mail column-breaker and cartoonist , who came out to Camberwell once a week to attend Minton 's illustration classes . |
| 14 | In many ways one of his best books is one difficult to obtain , The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism , based on a visit to Russia in nineteen-twenty in which he had , amongst other things , a conversation with Lenin . |
| 15 | Matters did not improve when they got to Glenelg and found an appalling inn — although it did draw from Johnson one of his best remarks of the entire tour . |
| 16 | And here in the Sporting Life there 's the man who rode Gay Trip to Mackeson victory one of his Mackeson victories , Terry Biddlecombe . |
| 17 | Basil gave Jan one of his Art Nouveau ‘ business ’ cards , dismissing Queen Cherry Morello as just a little sideline . |
| 18 | The evening visit of Hilary Seymour-Strachey seemed to have taken on a very different character to the afternoon one of his brother and sister-in-law . |
| 19 | He spent the entire morning with his legs crossed , not daring to go to the loo in case one of his colleagues was in there at the same time and came to the wrong conclusion . ’ |
| 20 | Anyone from Paris was reassuring , and Survage was a congenial man , who offered Modigliani one of his two rooms to work in . |
| 21 | when we got the letters back from the Secretary of State one of his excuses if you like , for imposing such a savage tax was that it was save fuel and help the environment . |
| 22 | Before he gets any serious And er , er Fiona one of his tutors upstairs , she 's like er , the floor manager as well , yeah ? |
| 23 | This race gave McCallen one of his five wins last year , and looks his best bet for an action replay victory . |
| 24 | Strange he thought , there seems to be a current fad around about dinosaurs , there was one on top of a bottle of bath oil one of his grandsons had given to him for Christmas and another was perched on the handle of a nail brush in the bathroom . |
| 25 | Pinned to one wall was a large poster advertising one of his films : The Young Can Suffer . |
| 26 | The bowlers must hit a bull to claim a wicket ( centre bull counts as two ) , and if the batter hits the bull one of his team is run out . |
| 27 | After completing phase one of his project , mental health task force leader David King insisted this week that psychiatric hospital closures were on target even though far more money is still spend on institutional care . |
| 28 | Hard work … barefoot waterskier faces one of his toughest challenges . |
| 29 | It is the second time this year one of his drivers has been hijacked in protests at British exports and the Gatt world trade deal . |
| 30 | In the search for new initiatives one of his first moves was to seek the advice of the British ambassador , Sir Oliver Franks . |