Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ex-England midfielder Paul Bracewell is set for only his third start in a black and white shirt after injury problems . |
| 2 | Forgotten-man Pavel emerges from the shadows for only his second League appearance for the Geordies in 13 months and just three weeks after coming off the transfer list . |
| 3 | Neil Jenkins switches from outside-half to centre to allow Adrian Davies to reclaim the number ten jersey and Ian Jones comes in on the right wing for only his second tour outing . |
| 4 | The experienced Wall , an accurate seam bowler , comes in for only his second league game of the season after suffering a back injury . |
| 5 | Stung to the quick , Kammerer retorted that : ‘ Boulenger was lucky for apparently his eggs developed normally for as long as 5 days before they died . |
| 6 | His samples were small , unscientifically selected and , in all probability , representative of only his own friends and acquaintances . |
| 7 | It also reminds him of possibly his darkest day in the game . |
| 8 | But , though it is heartening to find an Iranian writer bravely grappling with the problems of exile and turning a critical eye on the values of both his native and adopted countries , Mr Ataie will write better plays when he admits the theatrical importance of contradiction and argument . |
| 9 | In the light of this catalogue of achievements it was almost inevitable that Geoff should gain his second Player of the Year award from out discerning supporters , while the fact that he earned it in Palace 's most successful season of all time is a clear demonstration of both his immense value and huge contribution to our club . |
| 10 | Alexei was amazed that Jotan had seen fit to risk the lives of both his wife and daughter on an escapade such as this , and he wondered if either of them had been warned about what was to happen . |
| 11 | Like many other master masons , Grumbold worked as an executant of both his own and others ' designs . |
| 12 | He was ordained deacon in 1870 , and priest in 1872 , but in his first curacy he fell foul of both his vicar and his bishop for his heterodox beliefs ; the former asked him to leave the parish and the latter delayed his ordination . |
| 13 | The death of both his father and the prince of Wales in 1612 left Cranborne , now Earl of Salisbury , to his own resources . |
| 14 | Husband took off his blue-tinted glasses and polished them on a silk handkerchief chosen to pick up the colours of both his suit and his tie . |
| 15 | The implications of the vicariate of Christ and Innocent 's conception of his office are at the heart of an understanding of both his view of the past and his view of his role . |
| 16 | He discovered that Bob was twenty-five , four years his junior , and realised that it was the first time since his brother Joe 's marriage , when they were seventeen and twenty , that he had had a companion of roughly his own age . |
| 17 | As minister for finance for two years from 1987 , he rescued the tottering Irish economy with a ruthlessness that earned the admiration of even his political opponents . |
| 18 | He then repeated the question with variations , as his custom was , as if unable to rely on the understanding of even his most intelligent listener . |
| 19 | At the very end of his lite , writing again of the importance of how his experience as a homosexual had pushed him along the path of revolt , and recalling joyfully one of his lovers , Mala , Gide adds : |
| 20 | He kept thinking of how his Mum and Dad would be when they found out he was n't back , that he had n't come home with either of them . |
| 21 | It was , however , reported by his personal staff that he did manage a smirk when he had been told the story of how his arch rival and competitor had been conned by his countrymen on a flag-flying visit to the auld counthrie . |
| 22 | His grandfather had been a master baker and , in one of the many family stories Mark had heard at his grandfather 's knee , he had been told of how his great-grandfather had served Benjamin Disraeli with a standing daily order of twelve French loaves , burnt and rasped . |
| 23 | The photographer nearly always says , irregardless of how his subjects are feeling : ‘ Smile ! |
| 24 | And there was nothing apocryphal about what her undutiful son was to say , half a century later , in his book Basilikon Doron , when he wrote of how his grandfather had been punished by God for his immorality , for his infant sons had predeceased him , and he died ‘ leaving a double curse behind him to the land , both a Woman of sex , and a new borne babe of age to reign over them ’ . |
| 25 | From Rome Leopold related the now famous story of how his son wrote out Allegri 's Miserere , having heard it just once in the Sistine Chapel ; on 8 July Pope Clement XIV conferred upon Mozart the Order of the Golden Spur . |
| 26 | In this chapter , I want to examine some sites which hold a particular attraction for me and , remembering Allen Watkins ' account of how his father had classified sites according to the four elements , I have chosen representatives of three of these — earth , water and air . |
| 27 | AFTER The Graduate finished shooting , Dustin returned to New York to live quietly with Anne and her daughter Karina in his small Greenwich Village apartment on West 11th Street , having absolutely no conception of how his performance or the film would be received and not fully realising that the long days of anonymity would soon be over for ever . |
| 28 | To this day Lewis had a picture in his mind of how his son had looked walking into the dining room ( or dining area of the living room really ) wearing jeans of course , jeans with ragged hems , and a collarless tunic garment , tie-dyed with coloured inks . |
| 29 | It contrasts the blood-thirsty dynasty of Michael Corleone as he builds up his gambling empire from a base in Nevada in the '50s with the story of how his father Vito ( Robert De Niro , playing Brando 's original role ) left Sicily to become the protector of poor Italians in a New York neighbourhood at the start of the century . |
| 30 | ‘ Turmoil and Triumph ’ is Mr Shultz 's account of how his — and Mr Reagan 's — persistence ultimately paid off . |