Example sentences of "the [noun] [prep] his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Used carefully , however , over an extended period , Indian patronage could permit a politician to capitalise upon feelings of gratitude aroused by acts of seemingly disinterested friendship several years earlier , acts which would in fact be quietly brought to mind by a shrewd politician 's regular enquiries about the activities of his young friend in India . |
| 2 | Well , I think it is high time that we gave an award for valour in professional conduct , and I nominate as the first recipient , Keith Holdsworth of Bournemouth , Employed by the New Forest District Council , Keith Holdsworth risked his career , his livelihood and his life savings in the defence of his professional integrity , when it would have been so easy to take an easier route . |
| 3 | Richard hurried back to the defence of his north-eastern frontier . |
| 4 | But Palace assistant manager Alan Smith yesterday jumped to the defence of his young side and hit out at Souness — who is particularly angry at a Gareth Southgate challenge on David Burrows which left the full-back with ligament and cartilage damage . |
| 5 | RONAN RAFFERTY today begins the defence of his Portuguese Open title against a battery of English champions and Scotland 's redoubtable Sam Torrance , the only golfer in the last 20 years to have twice won this well-established national championship . |
| 6 | In the full flush of eager planning , in the excitement of disciplining intuition by stern reasoning , he is warned by the response of his subordinate to his behaviour : |
| 7 | The comedian Dudley Moore is in England for the premier of his new film . |
| 8 | There was a lovely mongrel dog Judy , a yard where the washing was laboriously done with much boiling , quidging and squelching , an oven lit by the fire , outings and picnics and dominoes with Uncle Fred in the park with his old cronies . |
| 9 | But Haig , ever the optimist , intent on winning the war with the BEF , now had the opportunity for his long-cherished campaign in Flanders . |
| 10 | Although his faith in the combined system was not shared during his lifetime by the majority of his fellow teachers in Great Britain , he was nevertheless held in great respect , and the editorship of the journal of the British Association of Teachers of the Deaf — The Teacher of the Deaf — was entrusted to him for many years . |
| 11 | All the same he left her the majority of his considerable fortune when he died — but with one stipulation : |
| 12 | A student can expect to spend the majority of his study-time involved in an activity that not only provides historical knowledge but also serves as a basis for other activities : writing essays , making notes and , of course , thinking about the subject . |
| 13 | He glanced at the head , which was resting in the crook of his right arm . |
| 14 | His hard hat , held in the crook of his right arm , fell out from between his arm and his side and hit the floor , rolling briefly , Steven stooped quickly and retrieved it , banging his head sharply on the front edge of Mr Smith 's desk as he straightened . |
| 15 | However , Fforde 's acceptance of Dicey 's basic agenda reveals the weakness of his central argument , a weakness which is confirmed by his comment that the LPDL , an organization with which Dicey had close links , ‘ espoused the pure milk of Conservative orthodoxy ’ . |
| 16 | Rostov 's left arm ached and he realised that Alexei was trying to exploit the weakness of his healed injury to make an early touch . |
| 17 | Whilst the process of jury selection was still under way , Barry made a television address on June 13 in which he announced that he would not stand for re-election for a fourth term in November 1990 , but would serve the remainder of his current four-year term , due to expire on Jan. 2 , 1991 . |
| 18 | He was sent to Kilo 8 Prison in Pinar del Río Province to complete the remainder of his three-year sentence . |
| 19 | He accused Mr Lamont of ignoring the rules governing gifts to ministers after the remainder of his legal billwas met from Tory party funds . |
| 20 | Barring mishaps , he can expect to see out the remainder of his two-year term as prime minister . |
| 21 | For the remainder of his free time , he had an established circle of good friends , whom he saw regularly . |
| 22 | This does not follow , however , from Simmel 's approach ; for him , the Walbiri 's intimate relation to the objective forms taken by their social products , and their classifications of the landscape , might well have appeared more ‘ cultured ’ than the attitudes of his German contemporaries , who , in spite of having at their disposal the enormous possibilities of mass culture , did not possess the means for assimilating these into the development of person or group . |
| 23 | In 1848 Prince Windischgrätz turned it into the headquarters of his General Staff ; it then became a special school for the Communist Party and is now being restored as the Academy of Music . |
| 24 | Donald Powley rides herd on the splash and the drip in his new works at Rubinstein/Diacono ( 13 March until 10 April ) while Charles Cowles features new work by two veteran abstractionists , Tom Holland and Charles Arnoldi , from 6 March until the end of the month . |
| 25 | Or : ‘ The swift blinking of his eyes and the trembling of his sensitive hands … aroused feelings in him that he had not ever owned up to even to himself ’ ? |
| 26 | The link between his emerging depression and his violent behaviour , the latter defending him from the former , made sense to him . |
| 27 | After a while , the villagers suspected that their priest must have stumbled across some sort of treasure , for how else could the funding of his good works be explained ? |
| 28 | Since 1846 his faithful companion had been a Miss Howard , formerly of Brighton and London , who had discreetly accompanied the Prince through his various adventures . |
| 29 | Thereafter we witness Rose being guided by the Fool towards Pagoda-land , where she finds the salamander , then back to the court where her kindness to both the salamander and her persecuted old father is rewarded by the transformation of the Prince to his real shape and his victory over all contenders to win Rose , rescue her father and banish Epine . |
| 30 | His lean , muscular body was tanned , presumably from his years in Australia , and while the hair on his legs had turned to gold the triangle of hair on his chest was dark and tapered away to a point at the base of his flat stomach , disappearing beneath the band of his black swimming-trunks . |