Example sentences of "of his [noun] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Even the most hard-hearted father could hardly bear to have them out of his sight for long . " |
| 2 | Anyone who watched the drubbing poor Neil Lyndon received for his attack on extreme feminism , No More Sex War , and has a taste for more of the same will relish Not Guilty : In Defence of the Modern Man ( Weidenfeld , February , £8.99 , 0 297 81216 5 ) , in which David Thomas reveals the fruits of his researches into how The Guys have been Really Hurting because of their treatment at the hands of women lately . |
| 3 | Daniel Stuart Mackenzie Chapman , 53 , of St Cuthbert 's Square , Norham , near Berwick died in the incident two miles east of his home at about 12.45pm . |
| 4 | Curtis , meanwhile , as the result of his meditations on how a federated empire might collectively discharge its duty to the backward races under British rule , had begun to reach the conclusion that the answer was to train them for eventual self-government . |
| 5 | They comprised his journal — a fairly detailed and animated account of his life during nearly forty years up to about 1890- and his letter books , with copies of his correspondence . |
| 6 | There was a celebrated individual who devoted a large part of his life to carefully recording everything that he observed ; upon his death , this complete set of observations was presented to the Royal Society in the hope that it would be of use to scientists . |
| 7 | Clifford Allen , who since 1934 had built up an all-Party group of experts committed to collective security and domestic reform , resisted pressures to take up the cause of the People 's Front , and , instead , devoted the last year of his life to actively assisting Chamberlain 's diplomacy . |
| 8 | Where Leopold was uninterested in territorial gains Joseph spent much of his life in often fruitless efforts to add to the Habsburg power in Germany , Italy , Poland or the Balkans . |
| 9 | was the claim that the right hon. Gentleman made on behalf of his Government in exactly the same week that , in response to a question , I used the figure of 20 per cent . ’ |
| 10 | In the following decade its collection of plants increased from about 3000 to nearly 6000 , largely as a result of his correspondence with more than fifty botanists throughout the world . |
| 11 | A legend in the power boat world , Shurdington signwriter , John has been in at the top of his sport for over 30 years . |
| 12 | Quick as a thief , Garvey raised it to his collar and was about to drop it down the inside of his shirt when the Mason took a hold of his collar from behind and twisted it . |
| 13 | An independent manager would have been fighting on behalf of his artist for just such a concession ; but for a manager who owned the record company , that meant arguing against himself . |
| 14 | Later , David talks of his relief at not having to listen any more to ‘ the music of the Parliamentary bagpipes ’ , though he recognizes ‘ the old drone ’ in the newspapers ( DC 48 ) . |
| 15 | Dentist Simon Allum of Hurworth village , near Darlington , who spoke of his fears in yesterday 's Northern Echo , said : ‘ I have no intention of watching people suffer if they come to me with toothache . ’ |
| 16 | John Lahr told me of his astonishment at how unpleasant he could be to waiters at the Indian restaurant they visited together . |
| 17 | After spending the whole day besieged by newsmen at her Putney home , she heard the news of his downfall at exactly 5.35pm . |
| 18 | In fact the actor , who reassures fans that he has no plans to quit 90210 now that his movie career is under way , has a more than healthy respect for the opposite sex — a lot of it born out of his admiration at how his mother struggled through during the dark early years of his life . |
| 19 | He believed she must have received some of his mailings by now as she was in an even worse temper than usual . |
| 20 | ‘ Come in , ’ she invited , knowing full well that he had no intention of delivering any of his remarks from where he stood anyhow . |
| 21 | It was , in fact , an early hint of his involvement in more serious misdemeanours which produced a crisis four years later . |
| 22 | To utilize this to the full , Brusilov resolved to launch all four of his armies at once over a wide front , rather than concentrating them as dictated by contemporary military thinking . |
| 23 | On the contrary , in the early part of his leadership at least , he was arguably too precipitous . |
| 24 | But Massingham had learned to discipline some of his prejudices since then , as he had the notorious Massingham temper . |
| 25 | He 'd been right when he told Alison that he was n't overlooked , because he could only see a narrow slice of his lounge from here ; but when he got down on his hands and knees and peered through the wrought ironwork the angle improved and he could see almost half of the room . |
| 26 | Mr Stein was unable to take much comfort from the performance of the rest of his company with only the racing division performing well . |
| 27 | Nilsson forced Sharpe into switching inside to do much of his damage until late on when injury made him struggle — and the winger went past to create two goals . |
| 28 | In saying these things one is , of course , not ‘ blaming ’ Jesus — any more than one is blaming , as individuals , any of his contemporaries for not comprehending the ethical necessity of human equality . |
| 29 | The interesting thing is that Lord Leverhulme , who was so far ahead of his contemporaries in so many ways , missed two essential elements in the situation . |
| 30 | She climbed down after him , her gaze drawn to the way his back tapered beneath the stretchy material of his T-shirt from heavily muscled shoulders to the narrow waist and lean hips of a man in peak physical condition . |