Example sentences of "of his [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked at his eyes and his ears and his teeth and his droppings and the ends of his claws and he inquired what he had been eating . |
| 2 | And he 's such a hooligan , you know , he 's knackered one of his claws again ! |
| 3 | The designer who today shows so little emotion was devastated and he still keeps a mural of revered fashion figures ( Mary Quant and Vivienne Westwood are two of his heroines ) with Galeotti at the centre situated behind the enormous , clutter-free desk that 's one more powerful statement . |
| 4 | Dowd was not invited to occupy it , but stood at the end of the table , mildly discomfited by the stares of his interrogators . |
| 5 | One of his interrogators added a gloss to the story almost forty years later . |
| 6 | One of the highest scoring fighter pilots of the Battle of Britain , Bob Doe has written an interesting book that goes a good deal further than describing some of his exploits in the Battle . |
| 7 | Some of his exploits read like folk tales . |
| 8 | Darby was captured and gibbeted on the heath close to the scene of his exploits . |
| 9 | To learn about the story of his exploits in enemy territory it is necessary to dig out the cuttings of newspapers printed forty-five years ago . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | His deeds will be recounted in the warrior societies and the squaws will sing of his exploits . |
| 12 | Inspector Cotton has oversight of his cases . |
| 13 | Among the more fascinating of his cases is one of a woman ( whom I shall call Judith ) who , having regressed to being a young woman in a previous lifetime ( we 'll call her Alice ) , went on in a later session to regress to being Alice 's mother — who , it is interesting to note , had died at the precise moment her daughter was born . |
| 14 | To take one of his cases , there are some industries in which an increase in the size of factories or workshops reduces the cost of production . |
| 15 | However , the partner with whom I worked claimed to be a general practitioner , and the distribution of his cases supports this . |
| 16 | The headaches , which in Italy had been tolerable when eased by a siesta or a day or two 's absence from the office , or the circolo , where he picked up most of his cases , had become unbearable in New York . |
| 17 | The former Hungarian trick-rider , who has had some nostalgic moments watching members of his old troupe performing here this week , was also helped by the cautious approach of some of his opponents . |
| 18 | Is Mr Torode 's liberalism any less an absolute ideological position than the Islamic fundamentalism of his opponents ? |
| 19 | ‘ At no stage , though , did he look like knocking me out , like most of his opponents , ’ said Jacobs . |
| 20 | But the US appeared powerless to intervene as Gen Noriega persisted in the harassment and arrest of his opponents and the continued muzzling of the media . |
| 21 | The difference between them was that Louis-Napoleon had no intention of sliding down again and in this determination he was aided , not for the last time , by the actions of his opponents . |
| 22 | But before he stated his ‘ law ’ on this subject in his book he proceeded to examine the methodological basis of his opponents and in the process stated his own premises . |
| 23 | A throw forward occurs when a player carrying the ball throws or passes it in the direction of his opponents ' dead-ball line ’ . |
| 24 | He has halted most of his opponents in a 36-fight ring career , and his two defeats were to Michael Watson and Eubank . |
| 25 | But the antagonism of his opponents was the more bitter for the way in which the left felt that it was being robbed of victory in the country by the propaganda stunt of the Zinoviev letter . |
| 26 | Furthermore , the very censorship under which Galileo was operating increased the nervousness of his opponents . |
| 27 | He had a good speaking voice , he was persuasive , he could mostly secure the attention of his opponents . |
| 28 | One of his opponents had almost died , and he himself had a huge disfiguring scar … |
| 29 | The rendering of figures in action had been developed in pedimental sculpture , and perhaps extended occasionally to an independent group in the later sixth century : a fine marble torso from the Acropolis , under life-size , These us fighting one of his opponents , seems not to be from a pediment . |
| 30 | The talented left-hander did well with the bat in the World Cup , where he also managed to upset several of his opponents |