Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adj] of his " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the age of 43 , Beethoven had completed eight of his nine symphonies , all of them performed and published ! |
| 2 | I must confess , my dear Fanny ( his sister ) , that I found your judgement of him was inadequate ; perhaps , too , he may not have been in the mood for playing when you heard him , which is probably often the case ; but I was again enchanted by his playing , and I am convinced that if you , and Father too , had heard some of his best things in the way he played them to me , you would say the same . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , to bolster his sagging fortunes , he has sacked 12 of his 22 ministers , including his brother , Mr Yusuf Ozal , and a cousin , Mr Husnu Dogan . |
| 4 | He believed she must have received some of his mailings by now as she was in an even worse temper than usual . |
| 5 | After the tragic murder of Harry Masterson in The Greek Key crisis , Tweed had shuffled some of his four sector chiefs . |
| 6 | He broke off and stepped back , for the King had broken free of his friends , and was running alone down the strand to the messenger . |
| 7 | She 'd been so certain that , as the years went by , she would at last have broken free of his spell . |
| 8 | He has been accused of indulging in fallacious argument , l of selecting data and omitting sources , and he has allegedly ignored the great accumulation of new studies in the 1970s and 1980s that might have refuted some of his arguments . |
| 9 | A man working on a theatrical seminar called ‘ Computers — Whither ? ’ was angry because the ape recordings had thieved some of his points about the place of computer speech in the new drama . |
| 10 | The merchant had regained some of his arrogance and Cranston could not stop himself . |
| 11 | Although the new ballet had occupied much of his time and energy , other aspects of life continued . |
| 12 | The mosaic occupied much of his consciousness so that he was only dimly aware — out of the corner of his eye , and mind 's eye — of Meh'Lindi , a flexible ebon statue of herself , yet still with an ivory face . |
| 13 | The original book had contained thirteen of his hymns : the supplement contained a further thirteen . |
| 14 | Fenech has won 26 of his 27 fights , the single blemish being the controversial draw with Nelson in Las Vegas last June . |
| 15 | Mill House had won three of his seven races but seemed to be in decline as his rival rose to yet greater heights . |
| 16 | He had won three of his four races as a two-year-old , including the Grand Criterium at Longchamp , and as a three-year-old had taken the Two Thousand Guineas Trial at Ascot before beating Petingo and Jimmy Reppin in the Two Thousand Guineas itself and then producing a telling burst of speed to win the Derby from Connaught . |
| 17 | Indeed , he has now won three of his last six tournaments , in two more of which he has been second . |
| 18 | Loughran , a distinguished amateur who landed a 1987 world junior championship silver medal , has won 21 of his 23 professional fights ( one draw and one defeat by disqualification ) , and successfully defended his Commonwealth crown against Michael Benjamin last month . |
| 19 | He himself did not claim to have originated many of his improvements , but his work is notable for the way in which many details of care and technique were combined to produce a dramatically improved outcome , and for the rigour with which he analysed his work . |
| 20 | David Profumo ( Daily Telegraph ) did not seem to take it very seriously : ‘ Unless your literary menu is gamier than most , it is rare to come across a novel in which the author-narrator claims to have sodomised one of his own female characters . |
| 21 | Not only that but Bates , in a period when the game in Britain has been at its lowest ebb , has won 16 of his 27 singles , 10 out of 17 in live rubbers , and 6 of his 11 doubles . |
| 22 | Former ABA light-heavyweight champion Piper , a member of Mensa , has won 16 of his 18 contests , including one of boxing 's quickest victories in 12 seconds against American John Ellis . |
| 23 | Former ABA light heavyweight champion Piper , a member of Mensa , has won 16 of his 18 contests , including one of boxing 's quickest victories in 12 seconds against American John Ellis . |
| 24 | Aethelheard returned to Canterbury and set about imposing his authority anew on the bishops of the southern province , and by 901 at the latest Coenwulf had installed one of his brothers , Cuthred , as king in Kent , to govern the territory more securely ( CS 303 : S 157 ) . |
| 25 | ‘ The art world has never had to deal with that populist level , ’ he continues — we 've obviously broached one of his favourite topics . |
| 26 | By then , however , Moore had won 107 of his 108 caps and had passed , with Ramsey , into the realm of football legend . |
| 27 | He telephoned Jean , who already knew the news and had cancelled several of his local appointments , including the one with Chief Inspector Salter who had been ‘ so anxious to see him ’ and who was probably even more anxious now , and told her he was preparing to leave for London and his meeting . |
| 28 | The Walthamstow-based flyer , which has won 14 of his last 19 races , scooping prize-money of £6,000 , will be chasing the Regal Stayers Trophy and a jackpot of £2,000 . |
| 29 | Norton 's Coin won four point-to-points out of ten runs over three seasons and then developed into a good chaser : by the time of his Gold Cup attempt he had won four of his fourteen races under Rules , including a valuable chase at Cheltenham the previous April . |
| 30 | Silver Buck , now eleven , had won four of his five races during the 1982–3 season but had been beaten in the King George by Wayward Lad , who had not run since and whose participation at Cheltenham had been in doubt until a searching gallop had proved his readiness . |