Example sentences of "of his [noun pl] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was first introduced to his etchings in the very printing studios in London to which Green sent many of his plates to be editioned . |
| 2 | Temperamental , moody , and irascible , he appeared to many of his critics to be culpably inconsistent in the attitudes he took to some of the contentious issues of his day . |
| 3 | He was not scholastically talented , and was said by some of his students to be a poor lecturer : ‘ Never was there a more irregular course of lectures , so that we scarcely knew what he was talking about ’ . |
| 4 | His father was a small Nottinghamshire landlord who was glad for one of his sons to be quartered on the Church . |
| 5 | The rules of the Gold Dragon Triad being that he had the unquestionable right , as Controller of the New York area of operations , to sentence any of his subordinates to be executed for a serious failure or breach of discipline . |
| 6 | She slipped out for a cup of coffee with Charley in his studio next to Belmodes ; it was one of his days to be there . |
| 7 | After his wife died , Howard again took to travelling ; but Cardington was now firmly established as his base and he had sufficient esteem in the eyes of his neighbours to be appointed High Sheriff of Bedfordshire in 1773 . |
| 8 | Each had to rely on the support and goodwill of his partners to be able to spend their entire time on the case of the South Ronaldsay children . |