Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] of his " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was badly wounded in Dublin during the troubles of 1919–21 , in which he admired the technical skills of his Irish guerrilla opponents . |
| 2 | Gustave used to look back on his summer holidays at Trouville — spent between Captain Barbey 's parrot and Mme Schlesinger 's dog — as among the few tranquil times of his life . |
| 3 | The determination and remarkable technical expertise of Lord Cockfield and the dynamism and tough political skills of his successor , Martin Bangemann , have been crucial in the implementation of the programme . |
| 4 | ‘ Washington , D.C. Last night , President North fielded tough questions concerning the controversial economic policies of his administration . |
| 5 | The Kaluga committee included three one-time Decembrists and a member of the Petrashevskii circle , none of whom had abjured the political opinions of his youth . |
| 6 | Gareth Jenkins possessed one of the outstanding talents of his Seventies ' generation but injury prevented it demonstration at the very highest level and it is as a Scarlet , the epitome of Llanelli as player and coach , that he has always been seen and highly regarded . |
| 7 | In the autumn of 1936 Franco set about preparing the political foundations of his " New State " , in anticipation of what he thought was his imminent entry to Madrid . |
| 8 | The most consistent reports were of a disturbance at a football match on March 25 in Kavaje ( close to Tirana , the capital ) where members of the crowd chanted slogans expressing support for President Ramiz Alia but attacking the repressive policies of his predecessor Enver Hoxha and the " Hoxha dynasty " . |
| 9 | It also took her a step nearer to Douglas Fairbanks , a former student of a mining school who had strong views of his own on how the movies should depict American society . |
| 10 | president F W de Klerk had also gambled by overthrowing the entrenched attitudes of his white countrymen . |
| 11 | The surviving accounts of his triumph dwell on the size of the booty , but of greater interest to us is its dispersal : statues were dedicated in Italian and even in Spanish towns , where Mummius had earlier served as praetor ( judicial magistrate ) and provincial governor . |
| 12 | Now there was nothing left to him but the conflicting passions of his terror and his furious pride , knotted together in inextricable warfare in his bowels . |
| 13 | It also carried all the security-conscious aspects of his onerous post . |
| 14 | The urgency which imbued the comings and goings of the party men and , particularly , the rapidity with which Franco acted in the week following the San Sebastian meetings , certainly suggest that there existed a serious potential threat to the latter 's military and political plans , emanating from the political sectors of his own camp . |
| 15 | In order to escape the gaze of the doctor 's large , black eyes , he studied the rather grubby lapels of his suit . |
| 16 | His regime had enjoyed almost universal support in the poor , largely agrarian north , his home area , but was widely unpopular in the more heavily populated south where the repressive methods of his 18-year rule had been most keenly felt . |
| 17 | The thousand odd fans of his current career who crammed into aisles to see him , were not disappointed . |
| 18 | It was one of the less pleasant aspects of his present occupation that the Didier School of Cuisine was constantly mentioned in the same breath as Mrs Marshall 's nearby School of Cookery . |
| 19 | While he did n't envy Frobisher his job , William Bird could cope well enough with the less salubrious demands of his own . |
| 20 | In Meditatio the Christian monk committed the divine words of his Lectio to memory as he pondered their meaning and , as he did so , he recited them aloud . |
| 21 | As we have seen , ardent friendship and commitment to the monastic life were the most frequently intertwining subjects of his years at Bec . |
| 22 | In the half-fictional The Happy-Go-Lucky Morgans , and in the pruned record of The Childhood , Thomas has left detailed accounts of his extending interest in ‘ Butterflies , Moths and Pigeons ’ , in fishing , in birdnesting of all kinds , with the skills and making of implements that accompanied these activities . |
| 23 | Charles wondered whether this was true or whether Paul Lexington was once again using delaying tactics for devious reasons of his own . |
| 24 | His private emotions and idiosyncracies , and difficulties he experiences in internalizing the social norms of his community are his business . |
| 25 | It has not taken into account the evident disjuncture between the cultural norms of his home and community and those of the school . |
| 26 | The wooden fingers of his false left hand were bent and damaged and he turned it slowly under the light . |
| 27 | It would seem fair to conclude that while for the bulk of the population Hitler 's image was no doubt related in an abstract fashion to finding a ‘ solution to the Jewish Question ’ , this was an issue which people either gave little thought to or deliberately turned their minds from , and that , correspondingly , Hitler 's public attacks on the Jews were something absorbed with little deliberation , forming no central part in explaining either the high peaks of his popularity or the collapse of the ‘ Führer myth ’ in the last years of the war . |
| 28 | In these two prominent instances — perhaps the two most public acts of his career — Jesus behaves in a way which must provoke violence . |
| 29 | Tolkien took different views of his own work 's religious content at different times . |
| 30 | As one follows Lévi-Strauss , or any of his leading adherents , down the misty corridors of thought , each offering access to a new and more profound level of structure , successive mysteries are revealed until , within the inner sanctum of the ‘ deep structure ’ , we encounter ‘ the human mind ’ ( the usual translation offered by Lévi-Strauss 's English supporters of his esprit humain ) . |