Example sentences of "[prep] one [prep] his [noun sg] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | A man is under guard in hospital tonight while police wait to question him about the killing of one of his wife 's friends . |
| 2 | This gives the salesperson the opportunity to offer a solution to such problems by means of one of his company 's products . |
| 3 | If the auguries for Branwell Bronte were , at best , uncertain , the same could not have been said of the last leave-taking of one of his father 's predecessors at Haworth , the Rev. William Grimshaw ( 1508–63 ) , of whom John Wesley wrote : |
| 4 | However , it was his decision to marry the daughter of one of his father 's political rivals , and a defeated one at that , which brought into the open his unreliability from the clan 's point of view . |
| 5 | Ranulf and Dame Agatha were waiting for him near the Galilee Gate , the young nun apparently enjoying an account of one of his manservant 's many escapades in London . |
| 6 | A natural follow-up would be for him to make a model van , perhaps like one of his dad 's . |
| 7 | He died suddenly in France on 23 June 1324 , at or near one of his wife 's lordships ( Tours-en-Vimeu ) , while on his way to Paris to negotiate Anglo-French differences over Aquitaine . |
| 8 | William was in one of his father 's two dwellings on High Street , while Thomas had taken over one of the original Fountain Lane/Cowards Batch houses built by his forefather William a hundred years before . |
| 9 | A Guardian stalwart made a telling observation about him : ‘ While Ian Wolldridge might spend hours searching for the good line , Hugh will spend the time searching for the truth ’ — and suddenly I saw McIlvanney almost as if he were a bare-knuckle fighter in one of his brother 's novels . |
| 10 | If Ben Leggatt had earned his living , not as an odd job man at Weston Longville rectory but as a private soldier in one of His Majesty 's foot regiments billetted in Bungay , he would have found the shopkeepers overwilling to let him take away purchases on a promise to pay later — had it not been for the ‘ Crying Down The Credits ’ . |
| 11 | The press-gang gave politicians an effective method of giving a very real service to the parties more directly concerned , and it was one which should have created a lasting sense of obligation , for life before the mast in one of His Majesty 's ships was not likely to be easily forgotten . |
| 12 | When Pelops came from Asia Minor he found thirteen heads nailed on the palace front ; but he bribed Oenomaus 's groom Myrtilos ( with the promise of Hippodameia 's favours ) to take the lynch-pin from one of his master 's chariot-wheels and substitute one of wax . |
| 13 | ‘ Rain ’ , ‘ Trouble Town ’ and the poignant ‘ Nancy ’ affirm Stephenson as one of his generation 's finest songwriters . |
| 14 | United States President Bush stressed in a major televised speech to a joint session of Congress on March 6 that he regarded the drive for a settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict as one of his administration 's top priorities in the post-Gulf War period . |
| 15 | March 6 In a joint address to the US Congress Bush says that he regards the settlement of the Arab-Israeli dispute as one of his administration 's top priorities . |
| 16 | ‘ On one of His Majesty 's ships ? ’ |