Example sentences of "of his " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yet the treatment of his characters is not exactly what that prefatory article of his might have led one to expect . |
| 2 | He too , dies the early death of romance — en poète , as the poet Burns put it with reference to his own fate — and his end is enveloped in the consequences of his supposing that he has lit upon some Chatterton manuscripts . |
| 3 | In Ackroyd 's life of Eliot we read about a major poet who was a good ventriloquist ; a man of multiple personality who swore by a principle of impersonality in art which he was later to unswear by locating The Waste Land in the stresses of a domestic life , and whose art bears the indelible signature of that distinctive protean character of his ; a man who was often miserable and tormented . |
| 4 | Klima may perhaps be a common name in Czechoslovakia , and Kundera has become a common name in the conversation of Western readers , who are drawn to these reciprocal concerns of his . |
| 5 | In 1975 , the year after the fall of Haile Selassie , and four years before the fall of the Shah , the witness of revolutions turned up in Angola for the abandonment of their colony by the Portuguese : the subject of the third of these books of his . |
| 6 | There is a sense in which each novel of his is an opinion of his , coextensive with the work itself and rather hard , as a rule , to read off in summary . |
| 7 | There is a sense in which each novel of his is an opinion of his , coextensive with the work itself and rather hard , as a rule , to read off in summary . |
| 8 | She takes exception to a story of his about a Jewish Communist , an inhabitant of the camps , who fasts there on Yom Kippur . |
| 9 | These words of his , in The Periodic Table , refer to some words of the past . |
| 10 | ‘ Eh bien , my friends , ’ he said , brushing a crumb of cheese straw from the lapel of his immaculately pressed suit , ‘ it is time to make the beginning . |
| 11 | Waiting in the wings , there was a young colleague of his from his museum days , Paul Spence , a sculpture man . |
| 12 | If the opponent 's attack is a face punch , then hit his extended arm with your forearm , glancing your punch over the top of his and into the target . |
| 13 | The dedication was a gesture of pained sorrow at his father 's death as much as an act of filial piety , and the natural way to do it was to reproduce the style and character of his essentially Edwardian father . |
| 14 | Once within range , parts of her body could not be prevented from touching parts of his . |
| 15 | Which is why , for this On the Rock , I climbed Eastern Terrace alone in the rain , and with every bright flower glowing out through the dismal weather in that majestic place , as I struggled to identify it , in my memory Evan was there behind me , as he always will be now , nodding with that peculiar wise grace of his , smiling , showing the way , ‘ … as when our days were a joy , and our paths through flowers . ’ |
| 16 | Marmeladov projects the Christian Revelation on the church-slavonic plane of his and every Russian 's Bible and liturgy , remoter from everyday usage than the English Authorized Version ; and he indulges a maundering drunken account of himself . |
| 17 | What he really wants is a business of the inside and outside of his head , in this case of his ‘ alone ’ juxtaposed with the authorial ‘ loneliness and estrangement ’ : a rich relationship , not a flat contradiction or dead end , a relationship which evokes and nurses a distinction established as far back as The Double , between false solitude ( ‘ loneliness and estrangement ’ ) and true solitude which is the obverse of true society and meaningless without it . |
| 18 | On many a winter morning I jumped out of bed and put a letter of his in the fire , feeling it would be wrong to allow it to survive ; and when some years ago I was asked by a distinguished man of letters if I could help him to write an account of Maurice |
| 19 | But what , then , are we to make of it when , in 1939 , writing an obituary of Ford , Pound lumped together two old associates of his , Fred Manning and Henry Newbolt , and excoriated them for continuing to use the ‘ poetical ’ diction from which Ford 's timely polemics had weaned Pound himself ? |
| 20 | The consummate silliness of Beerbohm 's sneer , quite apart from showing just how brittle and thin was that famous ‘ wit ’ of his , has alas a representative significance also , as we see when we put beside it Maurice Bowra , another famous ‘ wit ’ , saying of Pound that he was , not just a bore , but an American bore' . |
| 21 | The Teutonic mind , he said quickly , was no favourite of his : Mussolini , he implied , did not particularly dislike the Jews . |
| 22 | The same phrase had been translated and mordantly placed by Dante in Canto XXX of the Purgatorio ; and so , when Hardy in these poems confronts the shade of his recently deceased and estranged wife Emma , not only does Aeneas in Aeneid 6 confront the reproachfully haughty ghost of Dido , but Dante 's pilgrim confronts for the first time the shade or apparition of his lost Beatrice . |
| 23 | When The Waste Land appeared , Untermeyer had become more irate : ‘ The Dial 's award to Mr T. S. Eliot and the subsequent bookpublication of his The Waste Land have occasioned a display of some of the most enthusiastically naive superlatives that have ever issued from publicly sophisticated iconoclasts ’ . |
| 24 | Well , so we might , but we might also think that ‘ literary promotion ’ is an inadequate description of Pound 's sustained and inventive activities on behalf of his notably non-reciprocating Irish colleague . |
| 25 | One of Crossman 's cardinal convictions was that Britain was run not as a democracy but as an oligarchy — and that view of his was perhaps partially reflected in my own youthful outburst against the essentially incestuous relationship between politicians and journalists that I thought I had discovered even within the people 's party . |
| 26 | The scene as the game was adjourned on Thursday night told the whole story : Yusupov , head buried in hands , glumly contemplated the ruins of his previously wonderful position ; Karpov stood impassively behind his own chair , surveying the battleground with quiet authority . |
| 27 | After the opening of his much acclaimed film of Henry V , Kenneth Branagh said he was worried that his high media profile could lead to a ‘ Branagh backlash ’ , and that people might get ‘ bored rigid ’ reading about him . |
| 28 | She began her last book with these lines of his : When you say law , I say God . |
| 29 | ‘ His former students will within a few years of graduation be earning a salary twice that of his , ’ the report says . |
| 30 | I found him in his trench enjoying a mug of tea and in deep conversation with a Commando friend of his . |