Example sentences of "his [noun] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wolfgang and his sister Nannerl remained on close terms throughout his life : his early letters to her and to a Salzburg cousin , Anna Maria Thekla ( ‘ the Bäsle ’ , as he called her ) are full of juvenile high spirits , spiced with an earthy , often indelicate sense of humour , while his later letters to his sister show a touching solicitude for the state of her health and spirits . |
| 2 | As for Philip , the prospect of seeing the man who was supposed to marry his sister go off on crusade for an indefinite period seems to have been too much for him . |
| 3 | Reed and his sister Miss B.C. Reed for a one-day foursomes competition . |
| 4 | In a crumbling mansion on the edge of a lake from which a mist constantly rises , Roderick Usher and his sister live out their lives cut off from the rest of the world . |
| 5 | For all John Smith 's fluent fibs about ‘ fairness ’ and ‘ investment ’ , during this election campaign , his policies promise higher taxation , higher interest rates and a corresponding brake upon consumer spending which will delay recovery by months , perhaps years . |
| 6 | Why does he just sit there and do absolutely nothing to combat the recession that his policies have caused ? |
| 7 | THERE is no need for Mr Smith to impose taxes on capital or on financial institutions though : his policies look set to do their damage by knocking the most valuable asset owned by most voters — their homes . |
| 8 | His epithets include The One Who Dispels Darkness , a reference to his appearance as the light which preceded the sun as it rose . |
| 9 | Most of his meetings have been at Cadwell , a 150 mile round trip from his home . |
| 10 | His contemporaries remember him as ‘ Dear Randy ’ , the epitome of the slick student politician . |
| 11 | Even now his contemporaries raise their eyes and murmur ‘ Ssshh ’ because there are still alive those whose feelings might be hurt and the extent of it all is better buried under the marriages and the more undeniable liaisons . |
| 12 | Among them , she included the daughter of a law professor in Bologna , a certain Novella , who had been taught by her father , ‘ not quite sixty years ago ’ , because he disagreed with his contemporaries prejudice against women 's education . |
| 13 | It would hardly be an exaggeration to say that there is more variety of treatment , as well as a greater display of creative power , in Monteverdi 's ‘ madrigals ’ than in the similar compositions of all his contemporaries put together . |
| 14 | In 1988 Courage 's Head of Design disdainfully referred to such ramshackle , unplanned buildings as ‘ an abundance of licensed living rooms ’ ; many of his contemporaries have enthusiastically destroyed the internal room plan of such cosy and comfortable buildings in order to install in its place a series of short flights between ascending levels — an increasingly common solution originally devised by pub designer Roy Wilson-Smith in the 1970s . |
| 15 | And if so , would he and his contemporaries have recognised that in pursuing this consistency he was doing science , not art ? |
| 16 | But Gordillo and his contemporaries have had to come to terms with it the hard way , following directly in its path . |
| 17 | Several of his contemporaries describe him as tender and gentle , modest , ‘ shy ’ even . |
| 18 | The general and his lieutenant scurry around cravenly looking for escape , but they are captured , and the Liberation Army enters acrobatically , doing cartwheels , double somersaults , and spectacular sword-play with their bayonets . |
| 19 | His employers consider homosexuality a ‘ security threat ’ , and so he is interviewed here under a pseudonym . |
| 20 | His extravagant action , his grace , his poise and his enthusiasm combine to produce a perfect jumping machine , and people soon realise that they are watching something exceptional . |
| 21 | [ For Lee 's announcement in October 1989 of his retirement and his designation in January 1990 of Goh as his successor see pp. 36976 ; 37085 . ] |
| 22 | Once the patient is inside the ward several dimensions of his communicating have changed , for example the social dimensions . |
| 23 | Much has been written about Griffith and his contribution to the movies but the ingredients that made up his genius have never been better identified than in the review Heywood Broun wrote of Intolerance when it appeared in 1916 . |
| 24 | Slim informed him that ‘ he and his amy have no legal status ’ . |
| 25 | She could feel the tremors of his heart go from a steady pounding to something more erratic . |
| 26 | His views show how the proponents of national efficiency linked together a concern for a renewal of leadership qualities with the generation of a cultural mystique through education . |
| 27 | We therefore warmly invite all fellow members and students who are able to reach the venue to hear Anthony McDermott , the editor of the World Trade page of the Financial Times , give us his views form the ‘ pink ’ world of the most famous and possibly reputable financial publication in the world . |
| 28 | Many of his views categorize him as a wet — a European enthusiast ; against capital punishment ; and in favour of sensible abortion laws . |
| 29 | His views have been expressed in numerous speeches and newspaper articles and in two learned and witty books , Inside Right and Britain Can Work . |
| 30 | Although at the time he was ‘ not a great fan of industrial specialism' , his views have changed . |