Example sentences of "his [noun sg] was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got the impression that Jean-Claude had been so certain that his relationship with his sister was the most singular she would ever make , that the mere fact of their not living under the same roof would do nothing to erode what they had together . |
| 2 | His sister was the philanthropist Eglantyne Jebb [ q.v. ] and his uncle the classical scholar Sir Richard Jebb [ q.v . ] . |
| 3 | On his shield was the rune of Slaanesh whose patronage he claimed from his mother 's side . |
| 4 | Hence , when he died , he became Osiris , archetypal dead ruler , and his successor was the next Horus . |
| 5 | His favourite was the telephone directory — all the Smiths or all the Joneses . ’ |
| 6 | His favourite was the making of a copper coinage for England , with which he approached successive lord treasurers between 1579 and 1613 . |
| 7 | The work dearest to his heart was the development of the Retreat House at Wydale Hall near Scarborough , for which he made money available , encouraged the nuns , Sisters of the Holy Paraclete , who ran it , and was grateful when he saw more and more people go there to say their prayers . |
| 8 | His shirt was the same one as the previous night , only his newspaper was different . |
| 9 | David Owen , who , though he could not save his two remaining SDP MPs , came out for John Major and confounded those who said his support was the kiss of Dr Death . |
| 10 | He was dominant in the air , tough in the tackle and a feature of his play was the stream of stylish , sweeping passes he delivered to his wingers after he had won the ball , so that it was no surprise at all when he was chosen to represent the Southern League . |
| 11 | He came from Ethiopia , and his skin was the colour of glistening wet coal except for the palms of his hands , which were sandy pale , and the whites of his eyes , which twinkled like sunshine on fresh clean snow . |
| 12 | The Tramway Engineer , Mr. Freddie Field , was responsible for the display , and his centre-piece was the creation of an illuminated Venetian Gondola from the remains of car 28 , which had been replaced by a new Standard car of the same number . |
| 13 | In 1983 the jockey would found the Bob Champion Cancer Trust , and four years later Aldaniti himself ( who fell at the first fence in the 1982 National ) would play his part in the Trust 's fund-raising activities by undertaking a 250-mile charity walk from London to Liverpool , arriving at the course to massive acclaim on the day of the Grand National : among the riders who partnered the 1981 hero on his trek was the Princess Royal . |
| 14 | Some chairmen , notably Randall of the London Board , created considerable surpluses and reserves , and his Board was the only one never to make a loss . |
| 15 | His birthplace was the town castle , a stronghold of the Borromeo family that held most of the western shoreline , as well as the castle of Angera on the opposite shore . |
| 16 | ‘ Yes , ’ one of the philanthropists chipped in , ‘ but you 'll be making money out of it , ’ to which his response was the chilling , ‘ Yes , well ? ’ |
| 17 | His response was the great ode , ‘ The Wreck of the Deutschland ’ , a masterpiece reflecting all the thinking he had done about poetry , pain , and redemption during his years of silence . |
| 18 | It has been suggested that the ambush on William Black at his cottage was the work of an MRF unit which had been placed under the charge of the SAS specialist from Hereford . |
| 19 | His sentence was the maximum a court would give . |
| 20 | His son-in-law was the least spontaneous person he 'd ever met . |
| 21 | Maybe , Charles reflected , his son-in-law was the result of some cloning experiment , by which creatures from another planet had created something that looked like a human being , but lacked the essential circuitry of humanity . |
| 22 | His pulpit was the only source of news in Danu . |
| 23 | George was ever-present for nearly three seasons , became only our second post-war goalkeeper to put together a run of 100 consecutive League games ( John Jackson was the first ) , while his hundred appearances straight from his debut was the first achieved by a Palace player for over a quarter of a century . |
| 24 | His glory was the late cut , rated by C.L.R. James as ‘ one of the great strokes of our time ’ , but apart from the hook , which he did not play , all the other strokes were there , elegant , graceful , polished , a joy to watch . |
| 25 | The same uneasy feeling he 'd experienced that morning returned , and he realized now why it came : of all the people of Dynmouth this boy in his adolescence was the single exception . |
| 26 | His hair was the one major battle that Jazz had failed to win with his parents ; Jazz wanted to cut it , but uncut hair was a dogma of the Sikh religion and Jazz could n't win . |
| 27 | His hair was the colour of spun gold , and two body slaves were doing their best to comb it out so that it could be braided . |
| 28 | The crux of his research was the discovery of a circle of churches which included that of Rennes-le-Chateau . |
| 29 | Detective Constable Potter would have benefited from a similar facility in the office , but his bulk was the subject of severe official disapproval and there was a parallel concern for his health and fitness . |
| 30 | What decided Saad Rashid to steal half a million dollars and seek a life of exile in a country reviled by his homeland was the telephone call from his cousin 's wife . |