Example sentences of "of his [noun sg] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The kidnapping of his friend 's son , the policy of intermittent , small-scale attacks , together with the persistent driving winds ( no hurricane had hit , but nevertheless the autumn gales had torn at the trees all night and blown his nerves to bits ) , and the impending birth of his child by the savage girl who 'd taken possession of him — all this harried Kit Everard in his sleep until more than once , he was ready to move on , find another island , preferably entirely uninhabited . |
| 2 | The statement of his position by the master was factually correct , and he had the backing of the law of the land , as enacted by Parliament . |
| 3 | Stirling , who arrived back bearing gifts of tobacco and rum , had made a lightning tour of headquarters , complaining of his treatment by the Eighth Army , and had managed to extract promises of greater cooperation in future . |
| 4 | The applicants , Coventry Newspapers Ltd. , ( ‘ C.N.L. ’ ) , defendants in a libel action brought against them by David Woodley and Roger Clifford , sought ( 1 ) a declaration that C.N.L. were at liberty to receive from Michael Thomas Bromell copies of all such witness statements , notes , notebooks and other documents which had come into existence in the course of an investigation by the Police Complaints Authority into the conduct of David Woodley and Roger Clifford as had been read to or by the Court of Appeal ( Criminal Division ) or had been referred to in open court during the hearing of Reg. v. Bromell ( unreported ) , 22 June 1992 , C.A. , on a reference , dated 10 May 1991 , of his case by the Home Secretary under section 17(1) ( a ) of the Criminal Appeal Act 1968 ; and/or ( 2 ) variation of the implied undertaking pursuant to which Michael Thomas Bromell had received the documents under the order of the Court of Appeal ( Criminal Division ) on 9 July 1991 , so as to permit him to disclose copies of all such documents described in ( 1 ) above to C.N.L. for the purpose of defending the libel action . |
| 5 | Prison Channing Wood was informed that , following consultations with the trial judge and Lord Lane C.J. , the Secretary of State had decided that the first review of his case by the local review committee would be in April 1995 at the nine-year point of his sentence . |
| 6 | Murray was flattered to the depths of his heart by the affection of this special creature ; he was an uncomplicated youth of shallow emotions who did not appreciate that Richard was investing their relationship with far more significance than he was . |
| 7 | Lancaster had not been allowed to say anything in his defence , but was dealt with according to martial law , under which the mere recognition of his offence by the king was sufficient to ensure his condemnation . |
| 8 | However , only D gives 7 October as the date of his consecration by the pope , and in 1023 D alone gives a lengthy , detailed and enthusiastic account of the translation of the relics of St Ælfheah from London to Canterbury ; it also adds material to E 's entry on Æthelnoth 's death in 1038 . |
| 9 | For the nation is only manifested in the national character , in the nationality of the individual ; and the nationality of the individual is only one aspect of his determination by the history of society , by the development of the conditions and techniques of labour . |
| 10 | Waiver of his lien by the seller may take the form of first an express agreement to forego the lien , or secondly an act clearly indicating an intention to forego it , or thirdly a wrongful act inconsistent with delivery to the buyer . |
| 11 | In Indochina matters were taken out of his control by the precipitancy of his own local commander , General Gracey , who involved his forces in a defence of French interests far beyond that envisaged in his instructions . |
| 12 | After the elections , Pannella resigned his seat in the Chamber of Deputies in protest against allegedly insufficient coverage of his candidacy by the media . |
| 13 | The conclusion might have been that Ealhfrith abdicated in a voluntary acceptance of the religious life were it not for Bede 's silence on the matter and his statement that Oswiu was attacked in the course of his reign by the Mercians , his nephew , Oethelwald , and by his own son , Ealhfrith ( HE III , 14 ) . |
| 14 | Ademar of Chabannes told of the murder of the duke of Aquitaine 's prévôt at St Jean d'Angély in 1026 , and the destruction of his house by the angry inhabitants of the town . |
| 15 | He was represented at the hearing of his Appeal by the Association and the Tribunal increased the assessment to 80% . |
| 16 | The Jews were caught in the war between Antiochus IV Epiphanes and Ptolemy VI Philometor in which Egypt was saved by Roman intervention in 168 B.C. Antiochus IV who was robbed of his victory by the Romans tried to cope with the consequent social and economic problems by interfering with indigenous sanctuaries and their finances . |
| 17 | Consisting of off-the-shelf commercial equipment that anyone might buy , it included the Sony video camera that was still signed out to him at the time of his arrest by the FBI in 1990 on a trumped-up passport charge . |
| 18 | Better to live in hope — and better to be shot cleanly through the head than be smashed by the surf and stripped of his flesh by the knife-sharp coral . |
| 19 | This is Cnut the caring Christian king and diplomat , vowing to amend what has hitherto been done amiss through negligence or the intemperance of youth , and stressing the generosity of his reception by the emperor to enhance his own prestige . |
| 20 | Royal agents were subject to stringent control as natural enemies of provincial liberties : the Viceroy of Navarre — the only viceroy outside the American Empire — was regarded as a constitutional monarch within his province , and reminded of his status by the meanness of his palace beside that of the Provincial Deputation . |
| 21 | 625–6 when Cwichelm , styled by Bede king of the West Saxons but perhaps more correctly thought of as a king in the upper Thames valley ( see above , pp. 48 ff. ) , sought to have Eadwine assassinated ; Eadwine 's retaliating attack , when he is said to have slain or subdued all those who had plotted against him ( HE 11 , 9 ) , confirms that he was reaching the height of his power by the mid-620s . |
| 22 | In 1773 he succeeded , with the backing of Maria Theresa , in resisting a proposal for the dilution of his power by the creation of a collegiate-type administration , such as that in Russia , for the conduct of foreign affairs . |
| 23 | The performance of his task by the employed valuer is the performance of his contract of employment . |
| 24 | Falkenhayn was relieved of his command by the Kaiser in August and replaced by Hindenburg and Ludendorff . |
| 25 | Mr Reid , who is prevented from taking part in one of the highlights of his season by the excellent displays on Saturday of Steve McMahon and Fitzroy Simpson in central midfield , knows that victories over the top three teams in the space of eight days — City travel to Hillsborough on Saturday — will raise hopes of his men claiming third place . |