Example sentences of "[prep] his [noun] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inevitably a few omissions occur ; Cecil Aldin , for example , whose reproductive prints after his paintings of horses , carriages and sportsmen have graced many an English home . |
| 2 | A LORRY driver told the High Court in Inverness yesterday of the night he had been masked , bound and abducted by two men who had threatened to shoot him after his load of spirits , tobacco and foodstuffs had been stolen from Inverness . |
| 3 | He knew next to nothing about chemicals and crops , but established Israel 's first aerial crop-spraying service — and , despite his ignorance of cattle , its first beef cattle ranch . |
| 4 | Despite his paucity of years , he has experienced enough to fill a lifetime . |
| 5 | despite his string of conquests [ he ] had one big hang-up . |
| 6 | They were constantly critical , when Tony Quayle was running Compass , of his choice of directors . |
| 7 | And from a yellow door issued a man in a white coat , and the eyes of his harem of suppliants went to him , the click of knitting needles hesitated and pages of rustling magazines halted . |
| 8 | Because of his knowledge of languages Blake was recommended for a commission and was sent on to an officers ' training course at HMS King Alfred which in the spring of 1944 he passed and was appointed a sub-lieutenant in the RNVR . |
| 9 | The offering had to cost him something — one of his herd of cattle or flock of sheep and goats ( a bird was permitted for the poor ) , and it had to be of the best — a male without blemish . |
| 10 | Held , allowing the appeal , that although ‘ action ’ in section 69 of the Solicitors Act 1974 was to be construed liberally it could extend only to forms of legal process and did not embrace a statutory demand , the service of which was merely part of the statutorily prescribed procedure for obtaining remedies afforded to creditors by a bankruptcy order and did not of itself initiate legal proceedings ; that a solicitor was therefore not debarred by section 69(1) from serving a statutory demand for payment of his costs before the expiration of one month from the date of delivery of his bill of costs ; and that , accordingly , since the statutory demand and petition were valid , they would be remitted to the district judge for hearing ( post , pp. 1029E–F , G — 1030A , 1031E ) . |
| 11 | As part of his programme of visits to the regions of the Russian Federation , Yeltsin on July 22-24 visited the Krasnodar region , the Kalmyk Republic and Omsk . |
| 12 | That 's why in the back of his Book of Hours , he scribbled those prayers to Julian the Hospitaller . ’ |
| 13 | In the preface of his book of etchings 78 Studies ( 1809 ) he says ‘ He has always considered fidelity of imitation is the first improvement in the fine arts . ’ |
| 14 | In the same year Giovanni Animuccia ( C. 1500–1571 ) , who succeeded Palestrina as master of the Cappella Giuliana in 1555 and was succeeded by him in 1571 , described his First Book of Masses as composed ‘ seconda la forma del Concilio di Trento ’ , and Vincenzo Ruffo ( c. 1510–1587 ) of Milan Cathedral explained in the dedication of his book of Masses ‘ according to the Milan rite ’ ( 1570 ) that he had composed them on Borromeo 's instructions ‘ ex sancti tridentini Concilii decreto ’ . |
| 15 | Show the transport manager with one of his fleet of lorries or talking to a driver , the canteen manageress in the kitchen or the sales director at a briefing session . |
| 16 | A REGIONAL councillor , Terry Penny , was stripped of his membership of committees , sub-committees and working parties for three months by a meeting of the full council yesterday because of unruly behaviour and remarks about the Grampian convener , Bob Middleton , and the policy and resources chairman , Morag Morrell . |
| 17 | On page 37 of his volume of reminiscences [ Burton was to write in an article on rugby ] , Mr Williams is kind enough to suggest that I had distinct possibilities as a player were it not for the lure of tinsel and paint and money and fame and so on . |
| 18 | If the court adjourns the hearing of an application in accordance with regulation 143 but does not refer it for inquiry and report , then — ( a ) within 21 days of the adjournment , the unassisted party shall file an affidavit of costs and resources together with original exhibits and any other documents necessary to support the affidavit ; and ( b ) not less than 21 days before the adjourned hearing , the unassisted party shall serve notice on the area director of the date and time of the adjourned hearing together with a copy of his affidavit of costs and resources ( and of any exhibits and supporting documents ) . |
| 19 | BELOW In a small Zimbabwean church built of straw a minister of God attempts to unravel the mysteries of the cosmos for the benefit of his congregation of women and children . |
| 20 | As an author , the name of Ernest Bramah first came to public notice with The Wallet of Kai Lung ( 1900 ) , the first of his collection of stories told by a wandering Chinaman in the manner of the Arabian Nights ' tales and in an elaborate Mandarin style ostensibly of Chinese translated into flowery English language . |
| 21 | Sadly , the rest of his collection of paintings and furniture had been badly charred or destroyed . |
| 22 | The daftie struggled to keep hold of his armful of implements . |
| 23 | There was great pride in his stance and he had a strange and frightening way of pulling his head right back over his body when he made one of his series of calls . |
| 24 | Bernard Jacobson is showing ten landscape paintings dating from 1940–60 ( to 1 April ) as part of his series of exhibitions devoted to modern and contemporary landscape art , and there is a more widely ranging survey of his long and prolific career at Waddington ( 3 March-3 April ) . |
| 25 | The solitary willow , the gutted brook : these were the things which Clare picked out as the climax of his catalogue of casualties in this , one of his finest poems . |
| 26 | Finally , in the second edition of his journal of Researches , the observation emerged fully fledged as testimony to Darwin 's theory of convergent behavioural evolution . |
| 27 | ‘ I never once saw him get upset or angry ’ , said Ken Bradshaw , one of his circle of disciples . |
| 28 | MacIver denies assaulting and abducting a 46-year-old Ross-shire man , Donald Beaton , while acting with others , by hooding , binding and threatening to shoot him and robbing him of his load of spirits , tobacco and foodstuffs . |
| 29 | However , some modern composers have deliberately wished to recall the past — Stravinsky wrote a double fugue as the slow movement of his Symphony of Psalms , while the other movements recall Medieval and Renaissance styles . |
| 30 | Example 77 shows part of the score of his Symphony of Psalms ( some instrumental parts are omitted for the sake of clarity ) : This passage is based on a four-note ostinato : E♭ , B♭ , F , B♭ ; as will be seen , the choral parts and ostinato come close to , but never quite reach , conventional triadic usage . |