Example sentences of "of his [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is in the music of his latter years that one can find him reliving an older manner that evokes the comfortable world which Humperdinck , wisely , never left . |
| 2 | His job at Selby , though it had none of the glamour of his former work , at least enabled him to provide for his family of two sons , Ken and Bruce , and daughters Mollie and Joyce . |
| 3 | Sourly he wondered who would be next to pop up out of his former life . |
| 4 | Comfortably installed at Manly , with five months to wait until the new Australian season , the coach 's reputation is enhanced with every sight of his former charges . |
| 5 | His dramatic evidence was given on the fourth day of the trial of his former common-law wife Shiela Stroud , 32 , and her lover Mark Evans , 31 . |
| 6 | The report also claimed that the current Presidency Minister , Antonio Lacayo Oyanguren , Chamorro 's chief adviser , bore legal and administrative responsibility for the actions of his former deputy and had " permitted robbery " . |
| 7 | He continues to hold the lease of his former premises but intends to present exhibitions there only at irregular intervals and has trimmed the list of artists whom he is able to represent accordingly . |
| 8 | Brian Smith , this season 's Oxford University captain who is looking to become a dual international by adding Irish caps to the six he has won already for Australia , plays against some of his former Wallaby team-mates on Sunday at Iffley Road . |
| 9 | The FDP chair in Brandenburg had resigned on Sept. 10 because of his former activities in the communist youth organization . |
| 10 | Yet almost 30 years after Indira Gandhi stripped the princes of their titles , the ex-Maharajah of Bharatpur continues to exert a regal influence over the affairs of his former state . |
| 11 | Australia is in uproar over allegations that one of his former executives organised the bugging of Robert Holmes a Court and leading Australian financial journalist , Terry McCrann . |
| 12 | Besides groups of bronze statuettes by Degas and Henry Moore , notable works include Miró 's ‘ Tëte ’ ( 1974 ) , ‘ Oedipus II ’ ( 1962 ) , a stone and bronze sculpture by William Turnbull , Kim Lim 's ‘ River-Stone ’ , a new standing block of Calacatta Siena marble , delicately decorated with incisions , a vast wall sculpture ( 1987 ) created by Mimmo Paladino from gold and encaustic and bronze , and Julian Schnabel 's ‘ Jacqueline ’ , a bronze bust of his former wife mounted on a steel platform and shown at his retrospective exhibition at the Whitney Museum in 1987 . |
| 13 | And the Beau Nash Room might just as well have been their luxury coach : twenty-three of them only for the minute , with Eddie Stratton now being held in custody by the New York Police , distanced by only a few yards , as it happened , from the mortal remains of his former wife ; and with Sam and Vera Kronquist , one of the three married couples originally listed on the tour , still in their room on the second floor of the hotel — Sam watching a mid-morning cartoon on ITV , and Vera , fully dressed , lying back lazily against the pillows of their double bed , reading the previous February 's issue of Country Life . |
| 14 | " Only one thing could open the French people 's eyes — fear , " he had told one of his former advisers shortly after resigning in 1946 . |
| 15 | He does not seem to have liked the personal and domestic habits of his former parishioners and also says " a dislike to continuous work prevails extensively among the working class " and " persons who live temporately have attained a good old age . " |
| 16 | He does not seem to have liked the personal and domestic habits of his former parishioners and also says " a dislike to continuous work prevails extensively among the working class " and " persons who live temporately have attained a good old age . " |
| 17 | His false allegations about the promiscuous behaviour of his former Minister for Foreign Affairs , Princess Elizabeth of Toro , won that worthy woman large damages from British newspapers which published them . |
| 18 | A forcible demonstration of Castro 's changed attitude was given on 21 October when he ordered the arrest of his former companion-in-arms , the charismatic Major Huber Matos , Commander of Camaguey Province ( an area where there was significant resistance to the new regime ) , who had resigned his commission in the Rebel Army in protest at the increasing Communist influence in the revolution . |
| 19 | Public subscriptions provided a replica of Davies 's statue in Barry Docks and his now stands at the end of Llandinam Bridge , in sight of his former home . |
| 20 | ‘ He was a shadow of his former self and a boxer can not go into the ring semi-fit . |
| 21 | In it is Louis Jourdan , once fabulous-looking but now not just a shadow of his former self . |
| 22 | One died leaving a small son , the other is back at work but very much a shadow of his former self . |
| 23 | Within two years a fine-looking , commanding man had become a shadow of his former self . |
| 24 | SHADOW OF HIS FORMER SELF |
| 25 | Always thin , Molland now looked a caricature of his former self : the flesh beneath the pale , almost yellow skin seemed to have wasted away , accentuating the prominent bones beneath . |
| 26 | Over the last few months he had become rather withdrawn and mistrustful ; a subdued version of his former self . |
| 27 | A man once famed for his intolerance , xenophobia and irrational rages has become a husk of his former self . |
| 28 | Even so , he had looked like a ghost of his former self , all his ch'i , his vital energy , drained from him . |
| 29 | Sir John Santerre stared , a ghost of his former self . |
| 30 | She reminded Fred of his former self — in the days before small talk . |