Example sentences of "of his [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would love more people to be aware of the sometimes painfully beautiful music that Gál wrote , but ( and I do no injustice to his shade ) I would n't try to convince anyone of his stature on the basis of the music for mandolin and piano recorded here : it seems to have been composed for the sheer enjoyment of the players — well-tuned , amiable , and slightly unmemorable stuff . |
| 2 | Unlike , say , Lyndon Johnson , there was no chance of Reagan overwhelming or brow-beating legislators into submission ; nor was he likely to intimidate them as Jimmy Carter often did by dazzling but discomfiting displays of his mastery of the detail of policy-making . |
| 3 | One of the highest scoring fighter pilots of the Battle of Britain , Bob Doe has written an interesting book that goes a good deal further than describing some of his exploits in the Battle . |
| 4 | Though Larry does not ultimately succeed in reintegrating himself into the world , his efforts to come to terms with the consequences of his experience in the death world of his hallucination indicate a potential mode of interpersonal relation that would provide the basis for a more ‘ sane ’ existence . |
| 5 | At the same time , by virtue of his experience in the Secondary School sector of education he had a valuable contribution to make in how we can effectively communicate with young secondary school adults as potential members of the Catholic University parish . |
| 6 | Herodotus made Atossa advise Xerxes to conquer Greece ; Theopompus put the personality of Philip at the beginning of his history of the Macedonian conquest of Greece . |
| 7 | A long fragment of his history of the years 190–188 B.C. is preserved by Phlegon of Tralles , the freedman and secretary of Hadrian ( 257 , fr. 36 Jacoby ) . |
| 8 | But he could not see , not flung , sprawled , on the flat of his back over the pan and his head against the cistern . |
| 9 | The driver stiffened as he felt the gun muzzle jab him in the small of his back through the upholstery of the seat . |
| 10 | God knew , however , that without divine intervention and the presence of his glory in the depths of human life such a reversal was impossible . |
| 11 | For a moment , it appeared that his intransigence might pay off : many of his opponents in the MRP and Socialist Party were on the verge of losing their nerve and submitting to his ultimatum . |
| 12 | This is one example illustrating the hypothesis that , because of his inheritance of the capacity to experience the sensations of all life , man has acquired an appreciation of colourful things from evolutionary sources , this example being but a part of it . |
| 13 | Second , ‘ the wealth of the glory of his inheritance in the saints ’ , a deliberately ambiguous phrase which could mean that the saints have God as their inheritance — and what inexhaustible riches lie there ! |
| 14 | One of those kittenish creatures he remembered from the films of his childhood in the Fifties , clad in waist-high , baby-doll nightdresses , women who seemed to enjoy nothing more than lying back among the yellow nylon sheets and allowing themselves to be strangled . |
| 15 | Newton 's account of his discovery of the true nature of light and colour has , however , as Professor Hall comments in new biography , ‘ misled posterity down to recent times ’ . |
| 16 | He asks , explains Odd-Knut , why , should he want a picture of his hut on the wall when he can go outside and look at it ? |
| 17 | Today it had doubled , crossed from one side of his forehead to the other , and reinforced a series of furrows rather than wrinkles , that made his broad white forehead look like a new-ploughed field covered in snow . |
| 18 | CARTAGENA — The Colombian Supreme Court has upheld the extradition of drug traffickers , decreed by President Virgilio Barco as part of his offensive against the cocaine cartels , writes Simon Fisher . |
| 19 | Up to now , he had always competed in the skating events and had escorted one of his classmates to the Teens ' Square Dance , held well away from the elegant ball . |
| 20 | By way of illustration , he cited the case of his Preface to The Dark Side of the Moon , which , according to what he had been told by a Foreign Office official , would certainly be so taken ; but I felt that there would be infinitely more likelihood of the remarks of T. S. Eliot being heeded than those of E. W. F. Tomlin . |
| 21 | Unable to stop worrying about the fate of his dependents in The Hague , he decided to go on a trip down the canal on a peat barge ; anything to distract himself . |
| 22 | He probed me psychologically , whilst laying siege with the battering ram of his biro to the airy battlements of the beard . |
| 23 | W.H. Smith owed no small part of his fortune to the stalls he had placed on every station platform , many of which not only offered a full range of books and papers but operated lending libraries . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm so sorry , Delia , ’ Rosen said , and immediately thought : Blast , remembering her cold reception of his sympathy on the telephone the night before . |
| 25 | In those Thatcherite times , there was little mention of his sympathy for the one-nation Tory , Iain Mac-leod . |
| 26 | Badran 's resignation was reportedly precipitated by royal disapproval of his sympathy for the fundamentalist Moslem Brotherhood , whose members had held five seats in his government [ see p. 37976 ] . |
| 27 | Here you remember that Common Law would not recognize the assignment ; Equity in effect would , by compelling the assignor to lend the use of his name to the assignee for the purpose of suing the debtor , or , in the last resort , allowing the assignee to sue directly against the debtor , but requiring him , as a rule , to make the assignor a defendant . |
| 28 | When the Clerical Directory came to be planned , Cox 's professional ethics ( he was then recorder of Helston and Falmouth ) forbade the use of his name in the title . |
| 29 | The kidnapping of his friend 's son , the policy of intermittent , small-scale attacks , together with the persistent driving winds ( no hurricane had hit , but nevertheless the autumn gales had torn at the trees all night and blown his nerves to bits ) , and the impending birth of his child by the savage girl who 'd taken possession of him — all this harried Kit Everard in his sleep until more than once , he was ready to move on , find another island , preferably entirely uninhabited . |
| 30 | Political activity consists in bringing ‘ the social , political , legal and institutional inheritance of his society before the tribunal of his intellect ; the rest is rational administration ’ . |