Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Macmillan was thus able to pursue his own policies during his second term in office rather than having to concentrate on damage limitation forced upon him by Anthony Eden 's Suez disaster . |
| 2 | Despite an advertisement in his novel , ‘ Romany Rye ’ for a forthcoming book on Cornwall , none was produced , so we have to depend on his notes for his impressions of the county . |
| 3 | She kissed Mike and Sally ; he was sitting in a huge armchair , looking through the notes for his radical teachers group meeting , Sally sitting quietly on his lap . |
| 4 | Michael Parnell presented his research notes for his biography of Eric Linklater , 1984 . |
| 5 | Babur makes notes for his letter . |
| 6 | But there are further reasons for his choice of qualifier , and they involve Davie in cultural as well as literary criticism . |
| 7 | In the Lonrho case , the Law Lords in effect decided that the Secretary of State had no duty to give reasons for his decision not to refer the takeover of Harrods by the Al-Fayeds to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission . |
| 8 | He then gave a couple of reasons for his spectacular performance , which included 11 birdies . |
| 9 | Throughout Prisoner Genet again insists that his reasons for his identifications across race and culture were incorrigibly personal . |
| 10 | There may be similar reasons for his love of gardening . |
| 11 | Asked about the reasons for his apparent about face , Hahn said : ‘ You 're always learning and I think in the past our view was wrong . |
| 12 | One of the reasons for his having such innovative ideas was that he was almost untrained , some would say untrainable , and laughed ( extremely annoyingly at the time ) at his elders and betters and their obsessions with sketching and learning the orders . |
| 13 | Kingsley Amis , who wrote an adventure for Bond as well as creating Jim Dixon , reflects aptly on the reasons for his : ‘ What happened was that we came in at the tail end of the literary tradition to the effect that no decent girl enjoys sex — only tarts were supposed to do that . |
| 14 | WHEN John Boorman took on the job of co-editing this anthology , which is intended to be an annual event , and writing the chronicle of 1991 which comprises almost half its contents , he can not have imagined that he would be revealing so much about the reasons for his own creative decline . |
| 15 | He gives three main reasons for his doubts : — |
| 16 | It is interesting to speculate on the possible reasons for his total obscurity during the intervening years of the Restoration . |
| 17 | No doubt he had many reasons for his ambition to make good the kingship of Italy ; and one stares us in the face as we inspect what survives of the twelfth century in them . |
| 18 | There were certainly other reasons for his rejection of belief at that age . |
| 19 | Look for the reasons for his behaviour . |
| 20 | This was not a man who was capable of being serious about the devolution of power , and we must seek the reasons for his adoption and promotion of Indirect Rule elsewhere . |
| 21 | His sense of identity with his fellow men may be interpreted as one of the reasons for his participation in social , political and economic affairs . |
| 22 | On the question of giving an employee reasons for his dismissal , reasons need only be given if specifically requested by the employee ( Section 58 of the 1978 Act ) . |
| 23 | Gower was even more stung to learn one of the reasons for his omission was that England play eight one-day internationals on tour . |
| 24 | Horsley 's CND activities went back to his days at Oxford , when the time he spent on demonstrations was one of the reasons for his third-class degree . |
| 25 | A re-assessment noting the effective use to which the child has put the low vision aid or the reasons for his inability to do so should be made at regular intervals , so that adjustments can be made or more intensive training given . |
| 26 | But there were other reasons for his apparent pop treason besides the financial benefits of a one-night stand in North London . |
| 27 | Leo had refused to give reasons for his belief . |
| 28 | But there was no written record of his life or death , or of the reasons for his resistance ; and there was no one in the community who still remembered him . |
| 29 | Perhaps one of the reasons for his impact — as a man — on so many varied people was this great and lordly carelessness about where he was ‘ going ’ : as if a mapped-out course was just a waste of precious time . |
| 30 | And perhaps the reasons for his quasi-retirement are not so mysterious after all . |