Example sentences of "of his [noun sg] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I first knew Emerson , the days of his glory were in the past . |
| 2 | Reformed universities produced able clergy whom the school could attract to their staffs ; and the Victorian parent still wanted to feel that the principal educator of his child was in some way a man of God . |
| 3 | When I answer this in the affirmative , I am aware that a man 's marriage with the woman of his choice is in one sense a boon , and in that sense the reverse of a loss ; yet , as between the plaintiff and the party promising an income to support the marriage , it may be a loss . |
| 4 | But the two crucial relationships of his life were with his father and , later , with his wife . |
| 5 | The principal love affair of his life was with Adelaide Foltinowicz ( ‘ Missie ’ ) , who was twelve when he first met her serving in a restaurant , ‘ The Poland ’ , at Sherwood Street . |
| 6 | But his main preoccupation during the latter part of his life was in attempting to obtain the public recognition which he felt he had been denied . |
| 7 | Will the Prime Minister take this opportunity to tell us why over the last year the unemployment record of his Government is by far the worst of any in the European Commuity ? |
| 8 | Labour 's John Smith has said in the Commons that the Prime Minister 's authority and that of his Government is in tatters . |
| 9 | Within seconds of Kinnock completing the call a full recording of his conversation was on its way back to Fort Meade and , from there , back to GCHQ in Cheltenham . |
| 10 | The longed-for mistress of his heart was in his arms at last , soft and apparently willing , and if her lovemaking was as fiery as the rest of her , what delights might he not taste ? |
| 11 | Daniel adeptly and too obviously converted a reminiscence of his Mum 's about a joint of pork she had once cooked into a general conversation about Christmases past . |
| 12 | The heartiness of the latter part of his sentence was in response to a sudden visible stiffening on Hope 's part . |
| 13 | A large part of his wealth is in a country with which Britain does not have diplomatic relations . |
| 14 | Did you know the French master was fluent in Anglo-Saxon — part of his degree was in Old English -how about bringing him in on " The Coming of Christianity " with " The Lord 's Prayer " as it was spoken by Alfred the Great ? |
| 15 | The very essence of his character was against him , creating doubts and rumours which would always stand in his way . |
| 16 | He commits the offence if the ‘ victim ’ of his conduct is outside the door . |
| 17 | Loss of his money is like evisceration . |
| 18 | Knowledge of his locality was to be a great boon in 1749 when , as master of The American ( owned by Christopher Scott , a Hull merchant ) , he was able to recognize the coastline at Nantucket after a severe storm had blown the vessel off course . |
| 19 | He can honestly claim to have been a righteous servant of God ; in verse 16 he writes of his service being like that of a priest , who bridges the gap between God and man , and who presents a sacrifice to God as part of the priest 's duties and privileges . |
| 20 | A report of his address is on page 2 . |
| 21 | This much travelled man , with all of his promise was at best , a controversial figure , and at worst a family black sheep . |
| 22 | The fine red-gold of his hair was like an angel 's aureole against the street lamp . |
| 23 | Charles Dickens : the momentum of his fiction is towards ‘ a uniqueness of peculiarity ’ |
| 24 | David Malouf is a poet as well as a novelist , but the best of his poetry is in the prose of a novel like this . |
| 25 | The spokeswoman added : ‘ The man was found on the front doorstep and the body of his wife was on the floor of the living room . |
| 26 | But how much of his wife was in either ? |
| 27 | ‘ to provide the laws under which the object of his charity was to be governed and to be sole judge of the interpretation and application of those laws either by himself or by such person as he should appoint as a visitor … ’ |
| 28 | There was no formal power play there , it was just that the very fabric of his psyche was about being central , the central person , the interesting person and everybody collaborated in that . |
| 29 | Fine examples of his work are in the National Portrait Gallery and Tate Gallery , London . |
| 30 | Manager of P&O Roadtanks King 's Lynn depot , about 90 per cent of his work is with British Sugar . |