Example sentences of "[unc] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | That er any er public figure worth his salt could have achieved what Sir Edward has done , or do you think he 's brought something special to the negotiations , and why has Saddam done it ? |
| 2 | Madam Speaker I r the er honourable gentleman must have a rather er curious source for his statistics because what has actually happened is not merely that the government have protected the real value of the state retirement pension but the combination of our policies both in social security , in the pensions field and in the economic world have led to a position in which pensioners average real incomes have risen more than forty percent since this government took office . |
| 3 | Beyond the Czerny and Beethoven examples for quick Allegrettos I have cited above , Beethoven further gives us , in the 6/8 Allegretto agitato fourth movement of his F minor String Quartet , op.95 , a tempo of dotted crotchet = 92 , surely rather close to the dotted minim = 108 of the Menuetto of his Symphony no.1 . |
| 4 | The measure of a person 's total control over his native language . |
| 5 | But thanks to you , sir , ’ he leaned out and took Hope 's right hand between his palms and pressed it , ‘ thanks to you , I believe we are safe . ’ |
| 6 | And now , for the first time , he thought that he could smell the North Sea , that potent but half-illusory tang evoking nostalgic memories of childhood holidays , of solitary adolescent walks as he struggled with his first poems , of his aunt 's tall figure at his side , binoculars round her neck , striding towards the haunts of her beloved birds . |
| 7 | He needs more than one victory to win confidence in a town that has never much loved him ; and he can not afford even one more tiny slip if he is not to convince Washington that Mr Perot 's cruel judgment of his talents was right . |
| 8 | Unconvinced , Maxim gave a little shrug , then took Blagg 's Spanish revolver from his pocket . |
| 9 | But his output of madrigals between 1554 and 1603 — more than a thousand secular ones alone — is so overwhelming in bulk and seemingly so equable in accomplishment that even anthologists have generally recoiled from it although Alfred Einstein has published de Monte 's greatest success in his own day , ‘ Verament ’ in amore' in his Fifth Book a cinque voci ( Venice , 1574 ) . |
| 10 | There was no doubt that Paddy Byrne 's greatest gift to his daughter Sarah was the passing on of his irresistible Irish charm which enabled him to get his own way . |
| 11 | Finniston 's greatest disappointment during his time at British Steel was that he never succeeded in persuading the unions to form a single group to simplify negotiations . |
| 12 | Hank was delighted , though at the same time a little suspicious of his father 's prompt response to his friendly overture . |
| 13 | It had to be a British car , of course , since Pringle 's did so much business with the local automotive industry — not that Vic has ever driven a foreign car : foreign cars are anathema to him , their sudden invasion of British roads in the 1970s marked the beginning of the region 's economic ruin in his view — but he has to admit that you do n't have a lot of choice in British cars when it comes to matching the top-of-the-range Mercedes and BMWs . |
| 14 | Cohesion in the administration was also facilitated by a system of cabinet councils , introduced at the suggestion of Meese and a major feature of Reagan 's administrative strategy in his first term . |
| 15 | Pembroke was one of the ordainers of 1310 and his part in the death of Piers Gaveston hardly demonstrated his sympathy for Edward 's obsessive relationship with his favourite . |
| 16 | If case management is expected to improve the client 's QOL , then the client 's subjective assessment of his or her well-being is a crucial component in assessment and also in outcome measurement . |
| 17 | So did Arthur 's torn attitude to his weight . |
| 18 | None of the movements is less than very well done , but I do miss the blazing splendour of this conductor 's finest Bruckner with his old orchestra , none of which , alas , has made it on to CD . |
| 19 | The raising of additional enquiries is not encouraged , but may be necessary in order to fulfil the conveyancer 's professional duty to his or her buyer client . |
| 20 | In addition to being a family house it is Timothy 's working base for his painting and sculpture . |
| 21 | Wilson 's attempted clearance on his own 22 was charged down by centre Graeme Copeland who ran on unopposed to touch down , with Cullen adding the conversion . |
| 22 | The revolt was essentially Oldcastle 's attempted revenge for his arrest in the previous year , and the only economic motive which can be discerned among some of the rebels was a possible hope of seizing some ecclesiastical property . |
| 23 | The publication of Godwin 's Political Justice in 1793 prompted Thomas Malthus 's attempted refutation of his argument , that the cause of human misery was social institutions , in the famous Essay on Population . |
| 24 | Even the Director 's attempted intervention on his behalf , citing his past record of success , had on this occasion been over-ruled . |
| 25 | It was equally predictable that these contacts were liveliest with the West Frankish church ; and that it was Charles the Bald who responded most strongly , both positively , to papal appeals for help , and also aggressively , to what he saw as papal interference in the West Frankish church 's political concordat with his own regime . |
| 26 | The evidence for the years 838 – 40 scarcely ever allows us to differentiate Charles 's political activity from his father 's . |
| 27 | Laud encouraged the King 's high view of his own position by causing Convocation to declare that kings ruled by divine right and that those who resisted them would be damned . |
| 28 | This tells us about God 's compassionate relationship with his people . |
| 29 | Pearson 's enforced demotion within his own company , and the distaste shown by his partners for experiments that veered too sharply away from the comedies that had established Welsh-Pearson 's reputation , is generally taken as evidence of the conservatism inherent in the film industry . |
| 30 | Keith 's 11-year-old son from his first marriage could n't wait either . |