Example sentences of "of his [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an instant the cripple lurched up and with a powerful twist of his crutch sent the end of the log into the water . |
| 2 | One of his interrogators added a gloss to the story almost forty years later . |
| 3 | Some of his exploits read like folk tales . |
| 4 | He found fame in poetry and prose , he also has the reputation of being a supernatural Robin Hood and documentary evidence of his exploits attributed to him are legion . |
| 5 | But the after-effects of his experience remained with him far longer . |
| 6 | Scepticism about the value of his word has been laid to one side ; western governments want a respectable , and reasonably fast , way out for their troops in Kurdistan . |
| 7 | The French title of the first volume of his History sums up his preoccupation : La Volonté de savoir , ‘ The will to know ’ . |
| 8 | It was as though his mind was disposed only to preserve enough details of his history to make the present plausible . |
| 9 | The reason is that it is based , not on discernible facts , but on stories and writings that have been created by man himself in an era of his history obtaining long before he had learned that , if he were so minded , he could use his intellectual power to establish facts on which to build the structure , not only of his religion , but of the whole of his society . |
| 10 | Manville was aware of his back slamming against a wall . |
| 11 | A gentle pressure in the small of his back told him that the thruster pack had fired . |
| 12 | The tight , round buttocks ; the blond hairs on his shoulders backlit by the bedside lamp ; the curve of his back rising and falling ; the bony rib cage , hard and muscled ; the warmth of his breath scalding her neck . |
| 13 | Ali is so large I have to stand on my toes to reach over and across the huge expanse of his back to slip the tie under his collar . |
| 14 | However , the partner with whom I worked claimed to be a general practitioner , and the distribution of his cases supports this . |
| 15 | One morning , someone found his potato-storage pit on the corner of his land ransacked and emptied . |
| 16 | It adds a huge oddity to the history of cricket that while President Mugabe ( who once acknowledged that cricket civilises people ) snatches agricultural land from Zimbabwe 's whites for minimal compensation , and with the drought turning much of his land to dust , a former Test cricketer from the region , Jackie du Preez ( South Africa 1966–67 ) , says unequivocally : ‘ We are simply not good enough . |
| 17 | He was left in financial difficulties and knew that he would have to sell his home and most of his land to settle his affairs . |
| 18 | The only one to suffer the loss of his land seems to have been the queen 's cousin Richard Haute , who was among those arrested at Stony Stratford . |
| 19 | The only one to suffer the loss of his land seems to have been the queen 's cousin Richard Haute , who was among those arrested at Stony Stratford . |
| 20 | One young farmer , Shermani Yussef , said that for the first time in his life he had been forced to lease some of his land to cover his losses . |
| 21 | One of his opponents had almost died , and he himself had a huge disfiguring scar … |
| 22 | Numbers of his opponents had been captured or come over to him . |
| 23 | Gregory and others saw in certain happenings which took place at this time the workings of divine providence : on one occasion the boat carrying one of his opponents sank ; on another a supporter was miraculously freed from prison ; and throughout his trial the princess Rigunth fasted on his behalf . |
| 24 | Many of his opponents considered that the whole of the CIA was more crucial than that of the Almighty . |
| 25 | This may be the line recommended by Victor , but on Rachel it works like one of his cigar-ends hitting paraffin . |
| 26 | The estate and the house might both be high-value assets , but the conditions of his inheritance forced him to keep both intact and he got little currency out of them beyond the woodland leases and the shooting rights . |
| 27 | Arnold Leese , who was to become the undis-puted leader of the IFL in 1932 , was highly critical of Dell 's social credit views about Hitler as a supposed Jewish agent , but after Beamish 's death in 1948 he used part of his inheritance to revive the Britons . |
| 28 | A part of his inheritance has gone in a number of ventures ; his books make about two and six a year . |
| 29 | He struggled on and , with less than 50 per cent of his sight restored , took this year 's annual meeting of the NCC without betraying his difficulties except when he said when taking questions : ‘ I will ask my deputy to point you out for obvious reasons . ’ |
| 30 | He did n't break his stride or slow down , and she practically had to run to keep up with him , but something in the set of his jaw worried her . |