Example sentences of "of his [noun pl] [that] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a reference in a letter from one of his dependents that he eventually took a passage home from Corfu on a naval vessel in 1843 ; and that an 1851 census shows that he was living with his wife and two of his daughters at Longhorsley , his birthplace . |
| 2 | He suffered over evidence that he had links with former communists and the secret police ; over criticism of his ambiguous prescriptions for economic recovery ; and over ridicule of his claims that he had had mystical experiences . |
| 3 | But the fact that part of de Gaulle 's prediction seems , more than two decades later , to have been borne out by events is only a partial defence of his policies — unless one subscribes to the view of his critics that he was more interested in being vindicated by posterity than in achieving results in his lifetime . |
| 4 | This may help to explain the suspicion entertained by many of his friends that they were being placed in special compartments , never to mingle with those in other compartments , like cells in the honeycomb of his private life . |
| 5 | I mean which is the norm now more or less is n't it but he 's I think the third youngest in his class too most of his friends that he brings home are all nine already . |
| 6 | He kept in touch with one or two of his friends that he worked with at as a maltster . |
| 7 | It can be seen from the dares and sites of his drawings that he was an intrepid walker in regions where the only places of rest were shepherds ' cottages . |
| 8 | One aim is to make the familiar look unfamiliar and he says it was only when he referred back to his photographs after completing many of his drawings that he realised what he had missed . |
| 9 | Although Mr X was a director of the ‘ bank ’ , his defence was that he acted in good faith ; indeed , said the defence , such was his faith in the word of his associates that he had invested , and lost , his own money in the venture , always acting on the advice of his colleagues ' , without ever questioning it . |
| 10 | None of his designs that we now possess was built , and my first thought was of regret that this should be so , but on reflection I knew that it was right . |
| 11 | Wood indeed advocates three bedrooms , but it is clear from the majority of his designs that he does not expect his labourers to achieve them . |
| 12 | Was he really so unbelievably sure of his charms that he thought he had only to indicate his wishes for them to be fulfilled ? |
| 13 | But Cicero told one of his correspondents that he had been discouraged by his elders and betters from attending such a school : " continebar autem doctissimorum hominum auctoritate " ( Suet . |
| 14 | Such was the austerity of his habits that it never entered his head himself to have any kind of formal dinner in which I could join . |
| 15 | How could such a proud gentleman be so much in the power of one of his servants that he could not even punish her for trying to kill him ? |
| 16 | He revealed to one of his colleagues that he had spent the afternoon down by a near-by river struggling with the impulse to jump in . |
| 17 | She could tell by the tightening of his lips that he did n't take kindly to being given orders , but he could hardly back down now since he 'd been the one to insist they go to the office . |
| 18 | The Beggar claims it is by speaking of his troubles that he has himself been cured , after a severe change of fortune which has brought him from wealth to his present condition . |
| 19 | Sometimes she was so brought down by one of his pronouncements that she had to change completely . |
| 20 | Whether or not my father was happy , I could not and can not tell because that has always been difficult , but I suspect from his outbursts of temper and the frequency of his migraines that he was not . |
| 21 | The Swedish-based performer was so sickened by the brutal slaying of one of his bouncers that he immediately closed his plush hot spot , Alphabet Street , and vowed to stop club work . |