Example sentences of "[adj] of [noun pl] [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hundreds of admirers visit his grave each year and in many parts of the county children still play on Peden 's Pulpits and hide in Peden 's Caves . |
| 2 | A City businessman who swindled investors out of millions of pounds to finance his search for a perfect gambling system was jailed for four years . |
| 3 | He uses a study of past periods of warming stretching back over several millions of years to confirm his view that more carbon dioxide to nourish plants , more warmth , more rainfall , more arable land as the frontiers of ice are pushed back will mean bigger harvests . |
| 4 | And millions of listeners heard his admission on the ‘ True Confessions ’ spot on Simon Mayo 's Radio One breakfast show . |
| 5 | It would have been of little comfort to investors to learn that Chairman John Wheeler had , according to former business colleagues , been living a luxury lifestyle , spending almost £70,000 on refitting his yacht , and thousands of pounds renovating his six-bedroom house . |
| 6 | A five-hour visit by US President George Bush on June 11 , intended , according to US political analysts , to demonstrate to US voters in an election year that his decision to launch the December 1989 military invasion of Panama [ see pp. 37112-13 ] had been vindicated and that peace and democracy had returned to the country , badly backfired when thousands of demonstrators disrupted his public appearances . |
| 7 | Dozens of journalists blocked his path , almost knocking him over at one stage , and firing non-stop questions at him . |