Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun pl] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | In After Strange Gods his own view of savage and city is defined against that of Lawrence . |
| 2 | He harps on our making guesses ‘ on the basis of probabilities in the world one knows ’ , but on the rich universe of subjective probabilities his silence is deafening . |
| 3 | In all the galaxy of great lords his comparatively junior status restricted him from proffering advice and suggestions . |
| 4 | It was filled with hundreds of exotic ornaments his grandfather had collected on trips to the continent . |
| 5 | A Thatcherite economist may despise the Keynesian clap-trap praised , indeed worshipped , by previous generations of lecturers , but if he strips the library of Keynesian texts his students will undoubtedly lose perspective . |
| 6 | But for obvious reasons his father had cut off the Young King 's allowance . |
| 7 | Beneath winged brows his deep-set eyes seemed to stare unnervingly into hers . |
| 8 | He does not pursue into modern times his lively thought about the connection between commerce and art ; wisely , perhaps . |
| 9 | It was not just the love for the Greeks that he acknowledged later , although certainly that was already present : an auto biographical essay of 1864 , for instance , expresses in warm tones his feeling for Greek poetry , including Sophocles and Aeschylus , and for Plato . |
| 10 | ‘ God works in mysterious ways His wonders to perform . |
| 11 | To be sure , he lacked the background appropriate to a british prime minister and even in American terms his credentials were open to question . |
| 12 | If , in addition , what he says and how he says it , in other words his style , provide further clues , all the better . |
| 13 | So we know that his er his five one six five allowance is fully used , in other words his , his tax allowance is fully used . |
| 14 | In other rooms his three children are also asleep . |
| 15 | And in recent months his behind-the-desk skills have been in demand from established acts such as The Psychedelic Furs , The Triffids , The Darling Buds and Danielle Dax . |
| 16 | In recent weeks his perky figure has turned up twice in the winners enclosure on Northern tracks and when Dance of Words went in for Mick O'Toole last Friday night at Downpatrick this was his seventh winner since his return to Ireland . |
| 17 | But in recent years his plays have been more about the paradoxical nature of dissidence itself : the emotional turbulence of the authority given the individual as a public spokesman , and about the fact that one of the worst features of any totalitarian system is the need to conform to other people 's expectations . |
| 18 | In recent years his ideas have been heavily criticised , and I would guess that his writings do not have great influence on young teachers of English . |
| 19 | It has been said that in recent years his allegiance shifted from Sisley to Monet ! ’ |
| 20 | Tesfaye Gebre Kidan continued to appeal for a ceasefire and to impress on foreign ambassadors his willingness to negotiate with the rebels . |
| 21 | Consequently while his secular music ( see the next chapter ) was set to German words his church music consists mainly of Latin motets and Masses . |
| 22 | According to the CIA report on the October 3 coup bid , when the dictator was imprisoned in his bedroom , he phoned his mistress , who passed on to loyal troops his message that the uprising could be thwarted . |
| 23 | In addition to original surveys his business in London maintained a steady production of general maps and atlases , notably plans of foreign towns , including Paris and Rome . |
| 24 | Lord Owen , the EC 's envoy to the area who pops up regularly on American television , has made a call for American troops his watchword . |
| 25 | I would have concluded Herr Bremann was suffering from some serious illness , but for certain remarks his lordship made at that time assuring me this was not so . |
| 26 | Miles Davis has already described Prince 's music as jazz ; his use of electronics can be a as minimal and futurist as Front 242 or DAF ; at other times his intentions are patently psychedelic . |
| 27 | At other times his need to go to her was awful , He wanted them to complete each other , to be made fully whole and created by her , instead of enduring the throes of his uncreated self . |