Example sentences of "[prep] his [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After his exploits the Northerns side adopted the nickname . |
| 2 | By studying the gospel references to the apocalyptic Jewish figure of the ‘ Son of Man ’ — whom Jesus sometimes appears to identify with himself , but sometimes not — Wrede had come to the conclusions that Jesus had not in fact applied the title to himself ; that after his resurrection the church had come to anticipate his return ; that it had then identified Jesus himself as the coming Son of Man ; and that the impression given in the gospels of a ‘ messianic secret ’ that Jesus in his lifetime conveyed only to his closest disciples , and charged them not to reveal to others until the proper time came , was a mere literary device to support that identification . |
| 3 | A few days after his consecration the new Archbishop conducted a formal enquiry and pronounced , as Convocation had already done , that the King 's first marriage was invalid because the Pope had no power to allow him to marry his deceased brother 's wife . |
| 4 | On the day after his inauguration the new President ordered at least 162 people — including his immediate predecessor Ertha Pascal-Trouillot and her entire Cabinet — not to attempt to leave the country for one month . |
| 5 | ‘ Mainly cooks and cripples , ’ he said cheerfully , and the family hoped that this would mean that he stayed in England , but when he returned to London after his leave the battalion was made up to strength and moved to Howick in Scotland . |
| 6 | After his release the fairly lucrative office of secretary and clerk of the Signet in Wales and the Marches was bestowed upon him in October 1671 . |
| 7 | After his death the standard was taken up by Serov , who still commanded 3,000 men as late as January 1922 . |
| 8 | After his death the Henderson family bought the estate and built model cottages designed by Ernest George and Peto in the village . |
| 9 | Yet three years after his death the heirs of his Islamic regime are engaged in a debate on food prices , economic policy and relations with the West . |
| 10 | After his death the Estate , including the hotel passed to his second cousin , Sir Winston Churchill . |
| 11 | And after his death the lord shall have his best ox or cow , and if there be neither he shall have 5s . |
| 12 | And on the third day after his death the human body of Jesus , still reposing in the sanctity of the divine presence , was quickened by the Spirit and the person of Jesus of Nazareth was restored to life . |
| 13 | His instinct was much better than his maths : some 13 years after his death the planet Pluto was discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh , using a mixture of perseverance and chance . |
| 14 | Long after his death The Pilgrim 's Progress so universally found its way into the childhood reading of all classes that it came to be regarded as part of the heritage of all Protestant Churches in the English-speaking world . |
| 15 | Under Edward IV the business of both Secretary and Signet increased , and after his death the office of Secretary was not suspended during the minority of Edward V , as it had been when Henry VI was a child . |
| 16 | After his speech the conference clapped and cheered as if he had announced the abolition of the income tax . |
| 17 | After his speech the night before in the Academy , Brown had become an extremely unpopular figure amongst the ruling elite . |
| 18 | Isi , a vizier of the late Fifth and early Sixth Dynasties , became after his retirement the nomarch or provincial governor at Edfu . |
| 19 | After his collapse the performance had to be cancelled . |
| 20 | Despite his drunkenness the man was still immensely strong , and there was a nasty moment when Jack could feel him gathering his strength , but then suddenly there was a dull thud and he went limp . |
| 21 | He stood watching beside the flower-beds ; and after a long minute of uninterrupted work , Orrie straightened his long , athlete 's back again , and turned towards his audience the massive , stony beauty of his face , flushed with exertion . |
| 22 | He noticed that in the photographs of his childhood the rooms looked a lot less furnished . |
| 23 | For this reason when the head teacher eventually excluded John permanently from school because of his behaviour the EP accepted that the school were acting reasonably in the circumstances and that they had made every effort with John . |
| 24 | To the King and most of his advisers the verdict was clear and , short of risking civil war , irresistible . |
| 25 | For most of his life the king has been haunted by the Arab-Israeli conflict . |
| 26 | In a West Country summer whose consequences were to stay with Coleridge for the rest of his life the most significant event was yet to come . |
| 27 | It took four years for Edouard to discover the one aspect of his life the columnists had never suspected : he was lonely . |
| 28 | Now at the end of his life the Danes send him back to the sea in an unmanned funeral barge laden with treasure . |
| 29 | On the way here this morning , the picture of the Carrie he had once known and played with … and loved , had been plain in his mind ; and the nearer he had come to the house where she now lived , he imagined the Carrie he expected to see would be merely an older replica of the one who had run out of his life the day his mother had hit him and knocked him out . |
| 30 | Branded a " police spy " by Thorez , Nizan was pilloried on two counts : first , for spreading the pernicious doctrine of " National Communism " , that is , communism in word and nationalism in deed " secondly , for enacting in the reality of his life the treachery and cowardice portrayed in the fiction of his literature . |