Example sentences of "most [adj] [noun pl] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | After his show yesterday we asked Fluff to tell us about the most memorable records from his 32-year career . |
| 2 | Marshal Sergei Akhromeev , now Mr Gorbachev 's military adviser and , at the time , the man who organised the evacuation of Pripyat and entombed the stricken reactor , says that the two most memorable days in his life were the German invasion of his country in 1941 and the day of the Chernobyl explosion . |
| 3 | In Roy Vernon you had one of the best-balanced and most punishing strikers of his day . |
| 4 | Jonathan Sisson was one of the most celebrated instrument-makers of his time , fostering the pre-eminence of the London instrument-making trade in Europe during the eighteenth century , ably followed by John Bird , Jeremiah Sisson , John and Peter Dollond , Jesse Ramsden , and Edward Troughton [ qq.v . ] . |
| 5 | In these two prominent instances — perhaps the two most public acts of his career — Jesus behaves in a way which must provoke violence . |
| 6 | Out of this claim stem the most radical , and as far as our purposes are concerned , the most interesting aspects of his theory ; for it is its ‘ subjectless ’ character which makes it so uncompromisingly holistic . |
| 7 | Those who heard him lecture remarked on the way he seized on and illustrated the most interesting parts of his subject , so that he was intelligible to the novice and listened to with pleasure by even the best informed , generally leading his class unresistingly to the desired conclusion . |
| 8 | Among the most interesting episodes in his career was his employment as official artist to the Citroen Motor Company 's expeditions across Africa and Asia in 1924–25 and 1931–32 which resulted in elaborate pastels of subjects such as Ondorodiau , Chief Mombuti , a Congo Pygmy chief . |
| 9 | Holford began to collect works of art in 1839 and became one of the most distinguished collectors of his time , with an enthusiasm for the Italian Renaissance . |
| 10 | ALFRED BRENDEL IS WITHOUT doubt one of the most distinguished pianists of his generation . |
| 11 | Orchard was one of the most distinguished architects of his time and seems throughout to have dealt with works in Oxford and the neighbourhood . |
| 12 | Keating announced a major reshuffle of the Cabinet on Dec. 27 , which included the appointment as Treasurer of John Dawkins , one of Keating 's most staunch supporters in his leadership struggle with Hawke . |
| 13 | Unknown to Leopold , his son now faced one of the most serious crises of his life : Maria Anna had become dangerously ill and , after a fortnight , died on 3 July . |
| 14 | ‘ Tradition and the Individual Talent ’ is grounded on the idea that ‘ not only the best , but the most individual parts of his [ an author 's ] work may be those in which the dead poets , his ancestors , assert their immortality most vigorously ’ . |
| 15 | The preceding section has enabled the salesperson to choose the most appropriate product(s) from his range to meet customer requirements . |
| 16 | The death of Matthew Makepeace , the man who should have been lecturing that afternoon , ‘ one of the most promising scholars of his generation ’ , the old Professor used to tell us , was ‘ an inestimable loss to the department and the university as a whole ’ . |
| 17 | There are always children on the waiting list and each year Cizek chooses the most promising pupils for his class . |
| 18 | He produced one of the most remarkable designs of his day . |
| 19 | Shrewd yet naïve , tough yet appearing to be tottering on the verge of senility , tirelessly interested in people , helping them by stealth , histrionic in the highest degree , quick to spot the comic and to mock the pompous , the processor of a gargantuan ego that was directed almost entirely to good ends , he was one of the most remarkable dons of his day . |
| 20 | MONTY Finniston FRS was one of the most remarkable Scots of his generation . |
| 21 | She looked through the drawers of Bob 's desk , curious to explore even the most unconsidered corners of his life . |
| 22 | Almost inevitably , though , there is a tinge of regret to accompany the most satisfactory days of his career on and off the field . |
| 23 | In foreign affairs , 1966 and 1967 were perhaps the most hectic years of his presidency . |
| 24 | Orton wrote him letters , both serious and humorous , going into the most intimate details of his sexual encounters . |
| 25 | He had not mentioned it in all this week that Hotspur had spent with him at the abbey , had asked no questions but the most current politenesses about his stay and his journey , and had shown no interest at all in the ceremony from which he had come . |
| 26 | Suddenly he was reading the most terrible things about his own wife . |
| 27 | Dadd entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1837 , being regarded as one of the most talented students of his generation . |
| 28 | And Shaunagh was there to help him through one of the most embarrassing moments of his life . |
| 29 | Certainly , Lear chose the most charismatic subjects for his plates — the owls , eagles , cranes , pelicans , geese , swans and flamingos that became familiar in his nonsense rhymes — and left the less-dramatic little perching birds , such as the thrushes , robins , and wrens to Mrs Gould . |
| 30 | The Girls were so attractive that his relations were courting them and marrying the most beautiful ones behind his back . |