Example sentences of "of his [noun sg] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | He adds that at the other end of his society 's new building — a pink neo-classical palace — there are men in braces and loud shirts dealing on the Tokyo capital markets as they order pizzas . |
| 2 | Clinton Heylin , author of the latest biography , ‘ Dylan : Behind the Shades ’ * , ranks amongst the most assiduous , having co-founded the Telegraph , a quarterly magazine devoted to the study of Dylan 's life and work , and written an extraordinarily detailed chronology of his hero 's life . |
| 3 | In uncomplicated prose he steered his readers through the episodes of his hero 's life , repeating at intervals Hornblower 's mannerisms ( his repressive ‘ Ha-hm ’ , his almost unseemly giggle in moments of crisis ) , his physical attributes ( a homely appearance , an unfortunate tendency to seasickness ) and the deeper , clinching duality of his nature . |
| 4 | One of Leonard 's few memories of his father ( in addition to his monocle , his spats and his hair smelling of Vitalis ) is that of his reading , both privately and aloud , to him and his sister — precious moments that fired the young boy 's imagination and set him , although no one realised it at the time , in the direction of his life 's work . |
| 5 | In his lunch breaks Doisneau pored over books on photography , and at weekends he set off alone with a heavy wooden camera and tripod to capture the first of the ‘ personal ’ photographs that would be the basis of his life 's work . |
| 6 | It is difficult to pinpoint the source of his life 's inspiration . |
| 7 | It was no less a figure than Professor Derek de Solla Price , in his Little Science , Big Science , who expressed one perspective on science in the following terms : ‘ We may define a man 's solidness … as the logarithm of his life 's score of papers . |
| 8 | This is difficult to conceive , and it may be wrong , but some such hypothesis seemed called for to Freud 's mind at the end of his life 's work in psychoanalysis . |
| 9 | I was vividly aware of the far reaching and vast contribution that Basil had made to education , to values , to the good influences of the Authority on teachers and children , colleges , schools and students , and I am of the privileged few who were able to work with Basil in the early days of struggles , so I know how much , how very much he did — So I felt that at least he had fulfilled — as nearly as we can ever judge — so much of his life 's work even to the developments in his own personal creative medium — and this must be a comfort to you as well as to us who knew him as a friend and colleague . |
| 10 | The result was the crown of his life 's work and his lasting monument . |
| 11 | With the choking warm liquid continually bubbling at the back of his throat , it was as though his body was a seething volcano of agony , threatening to erupt and spill a lava flow of his life 's blood from the crater of his mouth . |
| 12 | Paris 's leading photographer launches exhibition of his life 's work . |
| 13 | Now a major exhibition of his life 's work has opened in Oxford ; the first time such a collection has been seen outside France . |
| 14 | Mr Hawke has embarked on a crusade to join the airlines in smashing the pilots ' claim , seeing it as a crucial challenge to the cornerstone of his government 's economic policy , the wages accord between government , employers and unions . |
| 15 | His worst mistake was at the Ministry of Labour , which , foreseeably , turned out to be the crucial sector of his Government 's battlefront . |
| 16 | The Minister gave a reasoned exposition of his government 's thinking . |
| 17 | I do not mean to be offensive to the hon. Member for Sherwood when I say that he has entertained us with his prepared briefs in many of our coal debates , but that it is a bit rich of him continually to criticise the contraction of the coal industry when he has supported many of his Government 's policies on the industry . |
| 18 | Failure of his government 's economic programme fully to embrace market principles was also criticized , and prompted a vote of no confidence by nationalist deputies which was defeated on Oct. 10 . |
| 19 | At a meeting of the Cabinet , Prime Minister Itzhak Shamir had won majority backing to retain the abortive May 1989 election plan [ see pp. 36599 ; 36670 ] as the foundation of his government 's strategy . |
| 20 | Derek Keys , chair of the mining corporation Gencor , was appointed Minister of Trade , Industry and Economic Co-ordination in a move seen as an effort to improve the credibility of his government 's economic policies . |
| 21 | However , he was largely unsuccessful in attempts to broaden the basis of his government 's political support . |
| 22 | In his speech to the Assembly , Drnovsek laid out the main themes of his government 's programme . |
| 23 | The General 's popularity soon rebounded , largely because voters tended not to associate unpopular aspects of his government 's domestic policy with him and because his foreign initiatives were generally well received . |
| 24 | Uncertainty over Mr Mulroney 's future has existed since the defeat in a referendum last October of his government 's proposals for constitutional reform aimed at solving the separatist dispute in French-speaking Quebec . |
| 25 | But when he asks why it is not cleaned out , he is told that the man of the house is in no humour for it , after the fourteen hours of his day 's labour , and that there is in any case no water for the purpose since the poor must pay to fetch it up the hill . |
| 26 | She knew something , though not all , of his day 's programme : she 'd rung The Randolph at 10.45 p.m. and learned from the tour leader that her husband had not turned up at any point during the day to fulfil his commitments — and that in itself was quite out of character . |
| 27 | The sound of his chainsaw started at dawn and did n't stop until dusk , at which point he started hauling the product of his day 's labour into the woodshed . |
| 28 | McLeish raised his eyebrows , taken aback by the transparency of his superior 's line of thought , and primly gave him Francesca 's projected timetable . |
| 29 | The skipper Lawrie Smith has decided that the 3,450-mile leg is too crucial to drop one of the regular crew of 16 in favour of his sponsor 's official photographer . |
| 30 | ‘ Still , ’ hissed another mask , ‘ it would have been a shame to lose so bold a partner in this enterprise of ours ; and of His Supremacy 's . |