Example sentences of "[adj] men of his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Albert Spanswick had been right on that and the hard men of his committee quite wrong . |
| 2 | He was acquainted with many great men of his age , including Sir Joshua Reynolds , John Zoffany , Thomas Gainsborough ( who painted his portrait ) , Charles Burney [ qq.v . ] , |
| 3 | He had been one of the most respected and admired deaf men of his time , and he was missed not only within the ranks of the BDDA but also of the NID , on whose executive committee he had served since its reorganisation in 1924 . |
| 4 | Like most young men of his background he excelled in outdoor activities — deer-stalking , mountaineering and shooting . |
| 5 | As an adult , he ran a class in religious education for the young men of his neighbourhood , held in his home or on the open muir , as dictated by the weather or the presence of the Dragoons in the district . |
| 6 | Other young men of his type passed their matriculation exam at schools for which their parents paid the fees . |
| 7 | He had been a bit of a gay dog before that , he remembered , enjoying himself freely like all young men of his age and class . |
| 8 | She had known that , beyond a doubt , Havvie must have formed liaisons , had mistresses — few young men of his rank and class arrived at the age of thirty innocent . |
| 9 | Seventy-two , and getting filthier by the minute , Reg Butler had sex like other men of his age spent Sundays digging their vegetable patch down at the allotment . |
| 10 | The father had not applied for a Medjay to guard his house , giving as his reason that he had efficient men of his own to do the job . |
| 11 | The articles opened with the comprehensively damning statement that the king ‘ is not sufficient to govern ’ because throughout his reign he had been led and governed by others who had given him evil counsel , to the dishonour of himself and the destruction of Holy Church and his people , and he had refused to provide any remedy , or to allow one to be made , when he was asked to do so by the great and wise men of his realm . |