Example sentences of "of [num] of his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Channel 4 are showing a season of eight of his films , starting tonight with the superb Oscar-nominated Cyrano de Bergerac ( 9pm , see Today 's Highlights and the Film Guide ) , and that kicks off with an hour-long look at the man , his private life and his celluloid career . |
| 2 | What was established beyond doubt was that Phar Lap , winner of thirty-seven of his fifty-one races , was one of the finest racehorses ever . |
| 3 | He commanded the government troops in Eritrea , and chaired the court martial in 1989 which disposed of 12 of his fellow-generals for plotting an anti-Mengistu coup . |
| 4 | Example : Male aged 25 retiring at 65 leaves his company pension scheme , ( which promises a pension of one-sixtieth of his final salary for every year of service ) after ten years service , that is , at age 35 , with a salary of £24,000 . |
| 5 | And in preparing for his own comfortable future , Robert Maxwell plundered £1 billion , which had been set aside to secure the future of hundreds of his workers . |
| 6 | Raymond Pearl , a Baltimore general practitioner , followed the health records of hundreds of his white male patients for many years and , in 1938 , published life tables for smokers ( ‘ moderate ’ and ‘ heavy ’ ) and non-smokers . |
| 7 | In a letter to Nannerl ( by then married and living in St Gilgen ) he wrote in wide-eyed appreciation of Wolfgang 's fine apartment ‘ with all the right furniture ’ — the Mozarts had moved the previous autumn to a fashionable address in the Schulerstrasse — and he attended a series of six of his son 's Lenten subscription concerts . |
| 8 | The author wishes to acknowledge the help of three of his colleagues in the preparation of this paper , Mr J.Eadie , Dr P.Newbould and Dr T.J.Maxwell . |
| 9 | The Greeks preferred to find their gospel example of the contemplative life in the story of the Transfiguration of Jesus on Mount Tabor , when his glory shone through his humanity and his garments became as white as snow to the astonishment and joy of three of his disciples who were privileged to see the vision . |
| 10 | Copies donated by Alfred Munnings of three of his pictures are the King 's charger ‘ Delhi ’ , a Friesian bull and an equestrian portrait of King Edward VIII as Prince of Wales which later hung in the Paris apartment of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor . |
| 11 | All that is known of Larkin 's domestic life derives from the parish registers of St Anne 's , Blackfriars , where between 1612 and 1615 the baptisms and burials of three of his children are recorded , and from his will , in which he mentioned his wife and young daughter , both named Mary . |
| 12 | Despite daily bombardment and the desertion on Dec. 28 of three of his most senior ministers , Gamsakhurdia insisted in a series of interviews that he would not engage in negotiations with " terrorists and bandits " or meet opposition demands that he resign . |
| 13 | On March 21st , a despatch from Falkenhayn admitted that Rupprecht had been right about the British not being able to take the offensive , and at the same time it ordered the withdrawal of three of his divisions for the general reserve . |
| 14 | In the following year a BBC man who came to Bishopthorpe to have a brains trust in the house was shocked to discover that there was no television set in the house and told him that he was cut off from the experience of millions of his countrymen . |
| 15 | However , Patil , although weak and partially paralysed , refused to accept Gandhi 's directive to resign , despite the resignation of 13 of his ministers . |
| 16 | A group of 38 of his paintings are on show at Ewan Mundy and Celia Philo 's Gallery ( top floor , 29 New Bond Street , W1 ) until 28 October , some on loan from his family and some for sale — mostly from £8,000 to £12,000 , but dipping as low as £3,000 and running as high as £40,000 . |
| 17 | The winner of five of his six races as a novice last season and probably an unlucky loser of the other , where he made mistakes at two consecutive hurdles , Morley Street was ridden with considerable discretion by Jimmy Frost , who brought him on the scene with a double handful between the last two flights , jumping to the front at the last , which he hit quite hard . |
| 18 | She is entrusted , on one occasion , with what might seem a rudimentary version of one of his own opinions . |
| 19 | That Agatha Christie 's reading was wide-ranging can not now be denied , but , even so , the source of one of Hercule Poirot 's favourite ploys — almost , it could be said , his trademark , the gathering together of the suspects at the climax of one of his investigations — is surprising . |
| 20 | The career of one of his Foreign Office contemporaries had been said to have foundered after he said ‘ Pepper and salt ’ to the wife of a diplomat with uncertainly coloured hair and a poor command of the English language . |
| 21 | ‘ As far as the involvement of one of his tutors is concerned , this is purely surmise on his part , and was always expressed as such . |
| 22 | This plan came to grief , however , when Waters , in an attempt to establish friendly relations , gave a prospective producer a copy of one of his books , which showed the idiosyncratic director palling up with one of Charles Manson 's gang — a gesture which was in even worse taste than it might sound , as the producer proved to have been a good friend of one of the gang 's victims . |
| 23 | Another crewman , Jim Nalepka , recalls bitter arguments over half a biscuit and confesses to having thoughts about slitting the throat of one of his friends . |
| 24 | He was a primitive misogynist whose hatred of the wife of one of his friends led him quite seriously to plan her murder . |
| 25 | Fortunately , Vivienne had argued Malcolm out of one of his crazier ideas . |
| 26 | Gradually he undermined the potential of one of his most profitable production centres . |
| 27 | The New Wave films that do work tend to be those built around a single , larger-than-life character , like Tom Jones or Alfie ( 1966 ) , in which Michael Caine plays a cockney Don Juan who ‘ do n't believe in making anyone unhappy , not if you do n't have to do it ’ but is forever breaking the hearts of young girls , until the sight of one of his middle-aged victims going through an abortion forces him into repentance . |
| 28 | The new Prime Minister was obliged , yesterday morning , to send a driver to find out the telephone number of one of his key ministers , before Mr Singh could pass on the good news of his appointment . |
| 29 | I also had fierce battles with Peter Rees , while Peter 's successor , John MacGregor , maintained that I was the only minister who almost walked out of one of his ‘ bilaterals ’ . |
| 30 | If the auguries for Branwell Bronte were , at best , uncertain , the same could not have been said of the last leave-taking of one of his father 's predecessors at Haworth , the Rev. William Grimshaw ( 1508–63 ) , of whom John Wesley wrote : |