Example sentences of "of his [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coming out of his road end . |
| 2 | Waugh led the Ashes batting averages with 126.5 from eight Test innings including four unbeaten knocks , but bowled only sparingly in the series because of his back problem . |
| 3 | this is all out of his back window the views out of upstairs , out of his kitchen window . |
| 4 | Only now , after the sell-out success of his first one-man show at Glasgow 's Barbizon Gallery , is he moving out of his back bedroom into a studio proper . |
| 5 | By the encore the chubby middle-aged chap in front of me , like many in the hall , had lost all touch with decorum , and , during ‘ Summertime Blues ’ was standing on his seat , windmilling his arms over the strings of his air guitar . |
| 6 | In the case of a Claimant travelling alone and able to return to the U.K. on his own , if the return portion of his air ticket can be used to return to the U.K. , then no claim can be paid as no additional expenses have been incurred . |
| 7 | A smallholder , by virtue of his small scale , may often be able to farm successfully in a manner defying the commercial conventions of the district , but such success will depend upon his grasp of the principles of soils , crops , and animal husbandry and a wise assessment of his land potential . |
| 8 | The developer is also faced with the problem of determining the Optimum size of his land bank . |
| 9 | Gloucestershire 's top trainer David Nicholson was opening the doors of his Condicote yard for the very last time |
| 10 | Pooley pulled up in front of his apartment building and handed Amiss the keys and the newspapers . |
| 11 | He laughs , gazing out of his apartment window towards the dome of St Paul 's Cathedral , rising above the City of London 's grimy skyline . |
| 12 | He died 10 years later , on 20 June 1828 , in nearby Wellington Street — just two days short of his twenty-ninth wedding anniversary , and a mere two weeks after the death of his pauper uncle , John Titford , in Frome . |
| 13 | People like Keith Kirby , who lost thirty thousand pounds of his Nuffield Press pension have had nothing . |
| 14 | That 's why I 'm going to tell you my view of his phone call . |
| 15 | In the half-light of the room his eyes were scornful , the set of his jaw mocking and hard . |
| 16 | At the vital moment of explanation , Harry must have been selecting the England cricket team on the back of his exercise book . |
| 17 | Yesterday , as the country 's Constitutional Court weighed the legality of his weekend move in declaring emergency rule , Mr Yeltsin asserted control over the Russian media to safeguard it from a hardline takeover . |
| 18 | One is his novel , The Happy-Go-Lucky Morgans ; the other , an incomplete work entitled Fiction which Thomas conceived as a continuation of his Childhood autobiography . |
| 19 | She was Van 's piano teacher right up to the Moscow prize , and will tell at the drop of a hat the story of his childhood promise , which first manifested itself when Van was a tender lad of three . |
| 20 | Only later , as a reputation as the best hip hop photographer on either side of the Atlantic was developing , did the appropriateness of his childhood nickname , Normski , become evident — given that is , the abundance of ‘ skis ’ in the world of rap , from T-ski Valley and Joeski Love to Jamalski . |
| 21 | Because of his childhood experience he had never learnt to swim and , being early evening , there was no one else in sight . |
| 22 | Behind Sweeney Agonistes lies Rivers , but Eliot 's interpretation and use of Rivers owes much to the Stevensonian world of his childhood reading , where white men seek paradise with island wives arrayed in ‘ the scarlet flowers of the hibiscus ’ , only to find too often that they are condemned to a life of soul-destroying boredom where ‘ Night on the Beach ’ is followed monotonously by ‘ Morning on the Beach ’ . |
| 23 | Standing by the old timber ponds at Clapton , another of his childhood swimming holes , he had felt his tension being blown away by the eternal winds of the Severn . |
| 24 | He 's proud of his guitar style , he says , and he has every intention of showing it off . |
| 25 | His eyes were lack-lustre and bloodshot , the cheeks of his moon face had collapsed into wan saucers , and the generous tyre of flesh on which the face used to ride was little more than a slack tube . |
| 26 | Top of his shopping list is an infusion of yens to speed nuclear research in fusion , fast-breeder reactors and reactor safety . |
| 27 | He paused at the counter struggling with the straps of his shopping bag as he laid his self-regulated three weekly books on the counter . |
| 28 | The Scouse flicked over a page of his cowboy book and continued reading as the three Commandos chorused , ‘ You lying bastard ’ . |
| 29 | St Ives shouted , ‘ Can you hear me , mother ? ’ , and everyone laughed , and then Meredith pulled the hood of his duffle coat over his eyes and lay full length in the centre aisle and moaned . |
| 30 | A small boy laughs an unforgivable sin in such a sober and wary atmosphere , his grandad scolds him for destroying the unquiet silence which haunts the underground , he grabs the toy gun clasped in his grandson 's fist and confiscates it after letting it wave foolishly , causing several greatly disturbed heads to turn , he buries into the depths of his duffle coat pocket . |