Example sentences of "[num] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | The royal commission on awards to inventors awarded him £12,000 in 1948 for his work on the bridge . |
| 2 | He finished last of the Europeans , two behind David Feherty , who had a 70 for his best round of the tournament . |
| 3 | Yet he waited until 1986 for his first official race on the dirt and began his tarmac career just a year later . |
| 4 | That true doctrine was to be handed down by Pius XII through his speeches and writings . |
| 5 | He had the unusual distinction of being decorated by the emperor of Japan with the Order of the Rising Sun ( class iv ) in 1891 for his work on the magnetic survey of Japan . |
| 6 | The catalogue has the additional interest of a memoir by Silvio Berthoud , who had sat as a boy between five and eight for his uncle : |
| 7 | Chipenda had earlier resigned as election organizer for the MPLA [ see p. 38949 for his election to MPLA central committee and political bureau ] , saying that he had not been given sufficient funds for the campaign and citing a " lack of the necessary trust and openness " in the party . |
| 8 | We had spent a week at La Bérade — that little unspoilt mountain hamlet deep within the Dauphiné massif where Eric shipton stayed in 1925 for his first alpine season ; and though we 'd found the mountains bathed in light and little snow around as we drove slowly up the battered but stupendous road from St Christoph through Les Etages , his words about the view he had from the bus exactly mirrored our mood as we peered up through a windscreen at the hills : |
| 9 | Graham Gooch , averaging 70 during his years as England skipper , had another solid summer — with successful Essex too — but he has competition from the likes of Alec Stewart and David Gower . |
| 10 | Graham Gooch , averaging 70 during his years as England skipper , had another solid summer — with successful Essex too — but he has plenty of competition from the likes of Alec Stewart and the graceful David Gower . |
| 11 | James won by six shots with a 13-under-par total of 275 after his Irish rivals Eamonn Darcy and Christy O'Connor , jun , suffered a last-round collapse . |
| 12 | The turn of the century marks the real change in Freud 's work , which had been developing from 1895 through his self-analysis . |
| 13 | When Captain Owen commissioned Leven , a ship-sloop , and the brig Barracouta in 1821 for his survey of the east coast of Africa , Vidal was appointed first lieutenant in Leven . |
| 14 | His father gave him a white convertible Mercedes 300 for his eighteenth birthday . |
| 15 | That same stupid person got a Master System 2 for his birthday and went out and bought two £33 games for the Mega Drive . |
| 16 | Had he been less brilliant or sure of himself , he would have been easier to dismiss , but Cooper selected his victims with care , knowing precisely where their weaknesses were , and always aimed to draw blood , each review increasing his enemies within the international art establishment ( see The Art Newspaper , No. 17 , April 1992 , p. 2 for his dealings with John Rothenstein ) . |
| 17 | The EC Commissioner for the Environment , Carlo Ripa di Meana , refused to attend UNCED in protest at the Community 's failure to agree a joint policy programme on the key summit issues and especially a carbon tax [ see p. 38943 for his resignation on becoming Italian Environment Minister ] . |
| 18 | An assizes court in Paris on June 15 , 1990 , sentenced Rolf Dobbertin , a German-born nuclear physicist who had worked for the French National Council for Scientific Research ( CNRS ) , to 12 years ' imprisonment for espionage for East Germany during the 10 years to January 1979 [ see p. 29786 for his arrest in 1979 and p. 33867 for his release in 1983 ] . |
| 19 | Following accession to office on Nov. 2 after his October election victory [ see p. 38515 ] President Frederick Chiluba of the Movement for Multiparty Democracy ( MMD ) announced that the " era of dictators , of hypocrisy and lies " was over . |
| 20 | Waldemar Pawlak , appointed Prime Minister after the fall of the Olszewski government on June 5 [ see p. 38972 ] , offered his resignation to the Sejm on July 2 after his failure to form a government . |
| 21 | The fastest Farnham Road Club pairing of A. Lloyd-Langston and B. Robinson recorded a time of 54 mins. 18 seconds , although the result may have been different , with M. Barrett finishing solo in a time of 54–47 after his partner , D. Wright , had to retire with mechanical trouble . |
| 22 | His remark comes from book 67 of his commentary on the edict , and palingenesia shows that he was discussing an interdict , most likely the interdict quod legatorum which was available to the bonorum possessor to recover property which a possessor was purporting to hold under a legacy . |
| 23 | Yesterday as 390 of his old workmates were thrown on to the dole with him , Mike said : ‘ It 's like somebody kicked you in the guts . |
| 24 | By May 1925 , the District owed Pateman £115 in salary arrears which amounted to almost one-half of his salary for the year and owed an even larger sum elsewhere . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | in his fascination with ‘ the diversity of the contexts in which the French pursued science ’ has put together 12 of his own papers ( all published elsewhere between 1968 and 1985 ) that describe the changing nature of government influence , scientific institutions and the approach to scientific discovery between 1700 and 1900 . |
| 27 | In paragraph 12 of his affidavit , the coroner doubts whether it is now possible to hold a fair and useful inquest . |
| 28 | The forced abdication of King Moshoeshoe II by the ruling Military Council was effectively completed with the swearing-in on Nov. 12 of his 27-year-old eldest son , Prince Mohato Bereng Seeisa , as King Letsie III . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , to bolster his sagging fortunes , he has sacked 12 of his 22 ministers , including his brother , Mr Yusuf Ozal , and a cousin , Mr Husnu Dogan . |
| 30 | If a man may publish anything which 12 of his countrymen think is not blameable , it is impossible that the Crown or the Ministry should exert any stringent control over writings in the press … |