Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] his country 's [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Platt , scorer of his country 's last five goals , has been shackled into a more defensive role since his £6.5 million move from Bari to Juventus in the summer . |
| 2 | He made a successful first ascent of the south ridge of his country 's highest mountain , Mount Cook , before getting a taste of the European Alps in 1950 . |
| 3 | First , Mr Gorbachev knows that most of the West regards the prospect of a swift unravelling of his country 's front-line Warsaw Pact ally with almost equal alarm . |
| 4 | But the very fact that the French were the most intransigent as regards releasing Germany from the cruelties of the Versailles treaty made all the more imperative the need to bring to the gathering at Darlington Hall at least one French gentleman with unambiguous influence over his country 's foreign policy . |
| 5 | ONE OF the finest conductors of his generation , Witold Rowicki had the good fortune to play a central role in his country 's musical reconstruction after the Second World War . |
| 6 | For the non-combatant was not to be merely the quiet underwriter of his country 's military undertakings . |
| 7 | The Prime Minister of Fiji , Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara , blocked any discussion of his country 's new Constitution which had been promulgated earlier in July [ see pp. 37613-14 ] . |
| 8 | NEW YORK ( Reuter ) — El Salvador 's President , Alfredo Cristiani , announced in a speech to the UN that he would make a proposal for a ceasefire in his country 's 10-year-old civil war at a meeting with FMLN rebels in two weeks ' time . |
| 9 | Only a magnificent sand shot at the 72nd got Curtis Strange into a play-off for his country 's national title , although once in it he dominated . |
| 10 | Professor Dowd , as he liked to be called — and who cut his hair and trimmed his beard to look just like President Lincoln — probably never travelled to the Pacific , nor to very many other places outside America ; but he had an abiding interest in his country 's enormous and burgeoning railway system , and from that fascination grew a scheme which changed the world — and particularly the Pacific — for ever . |