Example sentences of "his [noun sg] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He shared with his sister a dislike of the future Empress , a dislike which in his case was exacerbated by the fact that Eugénie , by producing an heir , effectively removed his hopes of succeeding to the throne . |
| 2 | Within a week the king had nominated as his successor a member of one of the greatest royal administrative families in England , Thomas II , a nephew of the Thomas who had consecrated Anselm . |
| 3 | And we just pulled his Shove a bit of bind back of his leg , tied it up together , stopped the bleeding , shoved him out . |
| 4 | To look at now , he is a spark of unreal ; his eyes a most violent green , his skin a shock of white beneath the moorish black of his hair , but to listen to him is to hear yet another city boy , a Dublin lad , sprung from a family of twelve , none of whom resemble him but speak exactly like him , even his sisters . |
| 5 | The badges of honour he sports on his veteran 's beret when he goes dining for the old soldiers ' vote gave his plea a sort of authority . |
| 6 | The reality represented the truth about movie-making itself , and a final shattering of all the illusions that had ever been presented to a cinema audience , for , seemingly , he had not realized that he had built into his masterpiece a piece of self-destruct mechanism . |
| 7 | He took out of his briefcase a sheaf of invitations . |
| 8 | Werewolf and I were numbers three and four in the queue and the Sergeant had to tap his watch a couple of times as Werewolf seemed to be requiring more help than the rest of us from Private Boyd in getting his belt on . |
| 9 | He wore nothing but a towel and although she tried to keep her eyes upon his chest a line of damp , curling hair drew them inexorably downwards . |
| 10 | He took us out in his boat a couple of times , and he offered to take us over to the Treshnish Isles , but the forecast was n't too good , so we never made it . |
| 11 | Alternatively , solicitors paying redemption money should send to the superior or his agent a form of receipt in the wording of Form 2 indicating how it should be executed . |
| 12 | In the dying seconds of the match Jason Murtagh grabbed his side a share of the spoils with a brilliant dipping volley which flew into the top corner of the Cookstown net . |
| 13 | He made his eighteenth-century reader aware of the travel difficulties , and how they were surmounted — on steep hills by precipices the Highlander and his horse go carefully , the rider sometimes walking , always with a guide : ‘ The horseman has always at his side a native of the place , who , by pursuing game , or tending cattle , or often being employed in messages or conduct , has learned where the ridge of the hill has breadth sufficient to allow a horse and his rider a passage , and where the moss or bog is hard enough to bear them . ’ |
| 14 | He included in his review a summary of eight characteristics which were consistently associated with successful school management and , in summing up , he pointed the way forward very clearly ( Clarkson 1988:273 ) : In schools , changes in legislation , organization and curriculum tend to attract considerable attention when they are first introduced . |
| 15 | Adam had not known he carried within his mind a directory of the forbidden . |
| 16 | Understood thus it avoids the questions ( and therefore the problems ) , which Leonard nowhere addresses : such as the historicity , canonicity and the like of the world-faiths — to his mind a species of academic involvement with which he was not interested and of which he was even disdainful . |
| 17 | This certainly helped to open up in his mind a sense of the gap between religious dogmas and the essentially religious attitude and awareness . |
| 18 | He constructs in his mind a sense of the overarching power and obdurateness of the ‘ system ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ If only they had n't scrapped the old grammar school , ’ muttered Dr Frome , and Pumfrey saw that he was beginning to erect in his mind a structure of excuses and evasions that would justify him to himself . |
| 20 | He developed in his mind a set of procedural reforms for implementation after the election . |
| 21 | Lord Dacre cast his great-uncle a glance of acute dislike . |
| 22 | ‘ He has many gifts , Medoc , and he has at his beck a wardrobe of enchantments . |
| 23 | I thought Martin Connelly might know , but I 've phoned his office and his home a couple of times and there 's never anyone there . |
| 24 | And his attitude a hell of a lot . |
| 25 | Now at the moment every doctor has in his desk a supply of what I call yellow cards , obviously because they 're yellow , which he 's asked to fill in if he thinks that a medicine which he has prescribed may have caused some nasty effect , for example to give the patient headaches , or to make them giddy , or to make them sick , or perhaps even something more serious than that . |
| 26 | Her surprise turned rapidly to wariness when she saw on his desk a number of daily papers , all with photographs of her and Ace in them . |
| 27 | The King 's neck was broken , his face almost unrecognisable , his body a mass of bruises . |
| 28 | Man must make his body a house of man pictures . |
| 29 | It was in his opinion a piece of architectural magic , suspended twenty feet above sea level . |
| 30 | Allen made his shop a centre of such activities , and also gave instruction in the use of instruments . |