Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] of his [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew it instinctively in spite of the curtness of his words . |
| 2 | In the late eleventh century , Osbern , the precentor of Christ Church Canterbury , wrote both a life of St Ælfheah , the archbishop killed by the Scandinavians in 1012 , and an account of the removal of his relics from London to Canterbury in 1023 . |
| 3 | In any case , Charles Henstock cared little for creature comforts , and had lived there for several years , alone , in appalling conditions of cold and discomfort , until his marriage to Dimity Dean , a few years before , had brought companionship and a slight mitigation of the hardship of his surroundings . |
| 4 | If anything , it enhanced it , made you aware of the broadness of his shoulders , the firmness of his muscles , the long , lean power of his legs … |
| 5 | Disgust shivered through her , and stepping out of the reach of his hands she hissed , ‘ Get out of my house , you mucky little sod ! |
| 6 | It is interesting to see a professional historian reminding the reader explicitly of the relevance of his facts , analysis and discussion . |
| 7 | He returned to work in September but , in the following month , was forced to have most of the remainder of his teeth extracted : he had now entered his sixtieth year , and was suffering some of the inconveniences of age . |
| 8 | His T-shirt was too small for him and came out of the waist of his pants . |
| 9 | His ‘ Dirty toys ’ , as he describes his arrangements of battered dolls and stuffed animals which he rescues from thrift shops , were included in last autumn 's ‘ Objects for the Ideal Home ’ at the Serpentine Gallery and in the Hayward Gallery 's recent ‘ Doubletake ’ , but neither occasion gave a complete or convincing account of the range of his interests . |
| 10 | Bisset protested that it was wrong to accuse Burke of inconsistency , because of the change of his arguments . |
| 11 | General Publius announced to his soldiers that they would soon get proof of the truthfulness of his prophecies : a red wolf would come and eat him up . |
| 12 | Having spoken , the monk undergoes a physical reaction to the utterance of his salacious thoughts of the wife being exercised , sexually , in bed : This response to his own thought and speech on the monk 's part creates another novelty within this fabliau : a character who assumes a role parallel to that of a real reader outside the text ; a listener to and responder to a text and its implications , and what is more a reader who indulges in an interpretation of the text of his thoughts as pornographic , i.e. capable of exciting vicarious , erotic sensation . |
| 13 | Aided by some of the ablest ministers possessed by any eighteenth-century ruler ( Pompeo Neri until his death in 1776 ; Francesco-Maria Gianni after that date ) he changed every aspect of the life of his dominions . |
| 14 | Then , at the edges of her consciousness , outside the explosive heat of the passage of his lips about her neck , of his fingers reaching into some recess of her costume to make her bare flesh tingle , she heard the faint echo of Hector 's bark . |
| 15 | Each is penal , and each deprives the member concerned of the enjoyment of his rights of membership or office . |
| 16 | Mallender , inordinately proud of the majority of his strokes , was 87 not out . |
| 17 | He shut his eyes again , but the sight of the inside of his eyelids was too much for him . |
| 18 | Will my hon. Friend call on the hon. Member for Livingston to make a similar admission of the error of his ways ? |
| 19 | It was built by Kaňka and shows some of the eccentricity of his designs . |
| 20 | When she was absent sympathetic nurses allowed Diana and Jane to see him but with Earl Spencer drifting in and out of consciousness he was never aware of the presence of his children . |
| 21 | ‘ That is what I can not understand , ’ the general had turned in upon himself again , hardly aware of the presence of his guests any more . |
| 22 | Stanley Baldwin was born in the house at Bewdley on 3 August 1867 , within a year of the marriage of his parents . |
| 23 | Such haste inevitably resulted in cursory recording being a characteristic of research at this time , which is particularly regrettable in Faussett 's case because of the scale of his activities in Kent . |
| 24 | Even more extraordinary was the fact that Nelson Mandela , the sixth and most eminent member of the group , appeared to have negotiated the terms of the release of his colleagues , who are expected to be freed this weekend . |
| 25 | Initially in awe of the craftsmanship of his predecessors Edward Hopkins arrived at this relatively simple design ( left and below ) . |
| 26 | His preaching was an outstanding success , and whatever exceptional divisions Joyce 's work may continue to provoke among his readers , and whatever perhaps less exceptional divisions George Craig 's lecture may create among some of the audience in respect of the substance of his arguments , and how could it not given the generous measure and richness of what he offered , there would be no division on the quality of his craftsmanship and the beguiling nature of his themes . |
| 27 | The analysis of a game is concerned precisely with the question of the expectations of the behaviour of his rivals it is rational for any one player to form . |
| 28 | Convinced of the rightness of his policies and fearful of the consequences of economic decline , Mosley became attracted to the forms of activist mass politics in an attempt to rejuvenate society . |
| 29 | The two , Marxist and Empirical Socialist , unite in their criticism of the utopian promise of his schemes and of the impracticability of his proposals for carrying them into effect . |
| 30 | I particularly like Hans Holbein from the drawing point of view ; I 'm a great admirer of the clarity of his drawings and paintings . |