Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] of his " in BNC.
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| 1 | His face became that of his victim . |
| 2 | Interpreting Sydney Newman and Donald Wilson 's ideas literally , Whitaker asked each of his ‘ historical ’ authors to include sequences with famous figures of the past : Nero , Napoleon , Marco Polo and so on . |
| 3 | She saw that he had changed colour , and , always affected by other people 's feelings , she now experienced some of his embarrassment and wished she had not put him in this position . |
| 4 | He kicked off with a very comfortable success in Division One of the Restricted on Jim Papworth 's Melton Park , who made light of his 7lb. penalty in his fourth victory of the season , and followed up in Division Two on Paylins . |
| 5 | I walked up to the little animal but he took off at a speed which made light of his infirmity . |
| 6 | At McDiarmid Park on Saturday , the 22 year old made light of his excellent midweek showing for Scotland and played some football which was a delight to the eye . |
| 7 | As he weakened , Moran became afraid of his daughters . |
| 8 | It was at this time that Chapman made another of his ‘ discoveries ’ . |
| 9 | Nuadu could see that her fingers were gone now , and that she was trying to pull herself back into the heartwood , which would have been her dwelling and the place from which she drew sustenance and vitality , but the Robemaker made another of his sudden curt gestures and the slaves fell to their work again , sweat streaming from their half-clad bodies and Nuadu saw the heartwood splinter and fall apart . |
| 10 | He realized some of his best friends were among the men dead on the ground . |
| 11 | The book reached King Charles I in captivity , and its permissiveness so displeased him that he asked another of his chaplains , Dr Hammond , to refute it . |
| 12 | So that was where Spencer wasted some of his ill-gotten gains , was it ? |
| 13 | Having firmly put the militia officer in his place and redeemed some of his own wounded pride , Arnold Peck said to Noah , ‘ Do you agree to abide by the terms of the injunction I came here to serve upon you ? ’ |
| 14 | Antonio devoured half of his burger in one bite , whilst Susanna took a tiny morsel of lobster . |
| 15 | Despite his unhappy relationship with the suburban English , Pissarro produced some of his best-known landscapes in Norwood . |
| 16 | In fact , Wordsworth produced some of his greatest poetry ; the descriptive passages in the early books of The Prelude , and the ‘ Lucy ’ poems , which are significantly about the North of England . |
| 17 | Ken produced some of his standard characters that were to become as closely identified with him as was ‘ Stop messing about ’ — which did n't disappear totally from the airways . |
| 18 | The smell was so bad it made some of his children sick : |
| 19 | Clarkson sold some of his writings , including his history of abolition , through a system of subscriptions raised by acquaintances in religious networks , particularly Quakers . |
| 20 | In niches above the arcade are statues of St Augustine , to the left , and the fourth-century poet Ausino , who dedicated some of his most famous verses to the city . |
| 21 | On 1 December Cumberland moved some of his cavalry forward to Congleton , from which they withdrew after confirming the presence of Lord George Murray 's troops , but this intelligence left the Duke more undecided than ever about the Jacobites ' real objective , as his private secretary admitted in a letter , dated 2 December 1745 , to London : |
| 22 | He used another of his plastic cards to let himself in through the back door . |
| 23 | Instead , Cohen 's examination of Lautner 's career balances interviews and archival Wright footage with a close , deliberate scrutiny of space , materials and a stunning landscape on the outskirts of Los Angeles , where Lautner built some of his most ambitious projects . |
| 24 | One of his customers was Horace Walpole [ q.v. ] of Strawberry Hill , who described some of his purchases from ‘ the nurseryman at Fulham ’ in a letter of 8 November 1755 to George Montagu : ‘ I mention cedars [ of Lebanon ] first , because they are the most beautiful of the evergreen race , and because they are the dearest ; half a guinea apiece in baskets … |
| 25 | Maura caught some of his enthusiasm . |
| 26 | She , in turn , found some of his friends hard-going . |
| 27 | He used some of his text already published in his Sixty Etchings of 1814 and began early in 1816 to compile the Guide . |
| 28 | Williamson used some of his vast wealth to provide permanent evidence of his beneficence . |
| 29 | Although Hawke retained much of his former Cabinet following the general election , one notable absence was that of former Finance Minister Peter Walsh who retired from government because he felt that the Hawke administration lacked sufficient political will to tackle the country 's pressing financial problems [ see p. 37378 ] . |
| 30 | Thomas Lovell Beddoes ( 1803–49 ) had an obsession with death , and devoted much of his time to polishing his dramatic poem , Death 's Jest-Book , which was published after his death . |