Example sentences of "of [adj] of his " in BNC.
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| 1 | His captaincy suffered by having to succeed Brearley , for the Middlesex man 's wonderful understanding of the psychological needs of each of his players was something that Botham could never hope to emulate . |
| 2 | His feet were now stuck out in front of him and Nenna could read the word EXCELLA on the soles of each of his new shoes . |
| 3 | As though unaware of the many doubts in the minds of each of his listeners , Christian went on to explain the reasons behind his momentous decision . |
| 4 | He talked through the whole drama again with them , explaining the various problems their son had had , discussing the probable outcome of each of his injuries had he survived , and then , when there was no doubt left in their minds that he should have died , he gave them even more . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Salim 's outlook incorporates a version of that of his friend Indar , who teaches in the polytechnic for a while , and lends himself to the philanthropic white-liberal cultivation of the African experience , where some of the best comedy in the book is located . |
| 8 | Husameddin 's argument , moreover , ignores the facts that Shams al-Din is known to have been part of Molla Fenari 's name but not , so far as can be discovered , of that of his son and that the son was regularly referred to as Mehmed Sah whereas it is not known that Molla Fenari ever was . |
| 9 | In the main , Joseph 's work was a logical continuation of that of his mother and her ministers . |
| 10 | He knew and we knew that he was pretty hopeless at ball games , so we readily relinquished the bat to him in the hopes of another of his clowning sessions . |
| 11 | The arrest of Burke followed recent charges against his former Deputy Premier , David Parker , and came only three weeks after the imprisonment of another of his associates , bankrupt Western Australian tycoon Alan Bond [ see p. 38917 ] . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ There 's been nights of passionate love in this house that have left the lovers more depressed than ecstatic , ’ said Thomas , who found the neurotic sex-lives of some of his betters incomprehensible . |
| 14 | Here he began to crystallise the wisdom of some of his best poetry , writing and songs ; for it was here that he was reborn , where he truly began to find himself ; where , not least , the music of Greece entered his soul , evoking earlier memories and melodies , combining with them to suggest a new style , a new mystique . |
| 15 | His advocacy aroused the interests of some of his many friends in the gallery world , bringing several artists to wider notice . |
| 16 | The former Hungarian trick-rider , who has had some nostalgic moments watching members of his old troupe performing here this week , was also helped by the cautious approach of some of his opponents . |
| 17 | This will probably mean the return of some of his old lags when Australia play Tests in Strasbourg and Lille next month . |
| 18 | He could have followed in the footsteps of some of his more notorious predecessors , by gambling , drinking and scandalizing society . |
| 19 | ‘ Rational animal ’ had been suggested as a definition of the ‘ nature ’ of man ; but this appears to be no more than a specification of some of his properties . |
| 20 | As it is , he has gone down as a highly skilled bowler who , because he lacked the flamboyance of some of his colleagues , attracted less attention than many of them ; but who consistently , almost stealthily , got on with the job of collecting three or four wickets in innings after innings after innings . |
| 21 | It implies that in some way Wainwright himself was to blame for the outdatedness of some of his copious details . |
| 22 | It was , Mr Furbank comments , ‘ the inspiration of some of his most original and powerful writing ’ : the novels , Rameau 's Nephew and Jacques the Fatalist , neither published in his own lifetime ; also his art criticism , which seems to me to anticipate Proust . |
| 23 | Admittedly , he was not driven by the same devoutly mercenary ambitions of some of his colleagues and sought artistic satisfaction wherever possible . |
| 24 | His manner is both warm and friendly , with not a hint of the pretentiousness of some of his better known colleagues . |
| 25 | But whatever satisfaction Scott may have gained from the debate and the fact that he had been given six months to prepare a new design , it must have soon been dispelled by the public press and the action of some of his professional colleagues . |
| 26 | Give me that brutal honesty any day to the sleazy condescension of some of his colleagues in telling the well-intentioned churchmen to mind their own business . |
| 27 | When I was small , Uncle Fred was my hero and I listened in awe as he told Dad of some of his experiences as a Marine . |
| 28 | This does however help in identification of some of his paintings . |
| 29 | In particular the sharpened leading-notes ( a feature of some of his other editions ) are in this small space especially intrusive and seem stylistically odd , leading to a situation in the Credo where the plainchant itself has to be altered to accommodate the harmony , which I understood was against the commonly-accepted rules of musica ficta . |
| 30 | He drove past the parks and gardens where he had played as a child ; past the houses of some of his past mistresses ; past the apartment where Clara Delluc lived . |