Example sentences of "one [prep] his [noun sg] 's [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then his eyes saw one of his country 's rivers , his heart melted . |
| 2 | A man is under guard in hospital tonight while police wait to question him about the killing of one of his wife 's friends . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Her father , it should be noted , observed only one of his daughter 's friends , who appears in the poetry as ‘ Fidelia ’ [ see ML , 2 , p. xxx ] . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Hull magistrates heard the earrings were bought by Trading Standards Officer Lynne Howson a month after Mr Ratner told the Institute of Directors that one of his firm 's lines , a £4.99 sherry decanter , was ‘ total crap ’ . |
| 7 | He picked up one of his Dad 's cups and read the inscription . |
| 8 | This gives the salesperson the opportunity to offer a solution to such problems by means of one of his company 's products . |
| 9 | And the Tut was one of his nan 's specials . |
| 10 | When Clinger suggested that one of his lordship 's servants might like to do that , Dersingham said , what was Clinger if not just that . |
| 11 | He told me , some time after we were married , that when he was at school he used to show round a photograph one of his mother 's lovers had taken of part of Versailles , and say it was his grandfather 's rectory in Ireland . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ On one of His Majesty 's ships ? ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The young man scanned the paper , held it out , and as James 's fingers reached for it , dropped it , eyed him , and said in a carrying voice , ‘ I see you are mad , but does even a lunatic suppose that one of His Majesty 's officers would bind himself to oppose the law and refrain from arresting criminals ? ’ |
| 16 | Jacob nudged Judith ; this was one of his grandfather 's chestnuts — he told it at least once a year , unfailingly on his birthday . |
| 17 | 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 : |
| 18 | By 1740 he was one of his father 's workmen and , according to the French astronomer Joseph de Lalande , writing in 1763 , his father was so infirm in his last years that it was he , Jeremiah , who actually made the large mural quadrants for Bologna , Paris , Pisa , and George Parker , second Earl of Macclesfield [ q.v . ] . |
| 19 | He had gone to stay during the school holidays with the children of a farmer who was one of his father 's clients . |
| 20 | He shared only one of his father 's gifts : he was a mighty warrior . |