Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | He falls asleep with his head on her grave mound , to be taken away in spirit to a strange land where all his grief suddenly fades — and where to his utter delight he sees his lost child facing him , on the other side of a river . |
| 2 | The question which the jury must consider in this — would any fair man , however prejudiced he may be , however exaggerated or obstinate his views , have said that which this criticism has said ? " |
| 3 | In the last year or two his wicket-taking ability seemed to have deserted him , and his Test average crept up noticeably , a year later finishing after 60 Tests with 138 wickets at 37 . |
| 4 | For a second or two his eyes seemed to be searching her as he glanced at her dark , tightly fixed hair , her face , her shoulders and her long neck . |
| 5 | But his near-contemporary J. Chalmers , who had begun his apprenticeship in August 1900 , found himself still stuck at 14s in 1907 , when he was 21 years old , and over the next year or two his pay was usually between 23s and 27s a week : he seems never to have made it to 32s . |
| 6 | As soon as he sets foot on the elaborate stairway which rises three floors from the dark hall , itself leading off a gloomy cobbled courtyard , he has the feeling that he is leaving for a blessed hour or two his insubstantial world . |
| 7 | The Miller knows himself : He recognizes too how it is that that his tale may offend the Reeve , and responds to the Reeve in conciliatory terms : Most pertinently , he eschews the generalization of the fabliau image of the world : The Reeve , too , in his Prologue , speaks more in relative than in absolute terms . |
| 8 | The following night Mr Newman went to the address , but was ambushed as he left his car and attacked so violently that half his face was battered beyond recognition . |
| 9 | Although this his been the opposite of what was generally intended , there seems to be little sign of any reappraisal of rural planning controls which might result in a reversal of current trends . |
| 10 | Mr Carey told the jury it would have to decide whether the woman had made a ‘ wicked and false allegation ’ against a serving police officer or whether the officer had gone to the ‘ very depths of the pit of deceit ’ by claiming the woman , less than half his age , had encouraged and enjoyed sexual intercourse with him . |
| 11 | The proprietor 's brother was the only employee and , although a married man with a family , he seemed to spend more than half his time delivering orders on the almost universal tradesman 's bike , with its large wicker basket and the triangular sign carrying the owner 's name fixed to the frame . |
| 12 | But from what I 'eard she 's a bit of a thing little more than half his age . |
| 13 | Surely he had n't found it at last and with a girl less than half his age , intelligent but uneducated , promiscuous and burdened with an illegitimate child . |
| 14 | More than half his mail now is from women . |
| 15 | Laybacking had accounted for more than half his leader falls , and retreat did not bear thinking about . |
| 16 | He had come to France ( in which he spent more than half his life as king of England ) and had , as contemporaries recognised , achieved considerable conquests , something which his predecessors had never done on that scale or within so short a period of time . |
| 17 | But the stab man , and the man on piecework rates … has got to do it , possibly spending more than half his time in trying to decipher it . |
| 18 | But that was more than half his lifetime ago . |
| 19 | ‘ All change ! ’ and he had been ejected , despite his protests , on to the streaming pavements , with less than half his journey completed . |
| 20 | He was by origin a Londoner , but spent more than half his life in Bishop 's Castle and will be remembered with affection by many people in the district . |
| 21 | Edwin liked to pretend that the art business and the printing were his livelihood , in fact they probably represent less than half his assets . ’ |
| 22 | His report includes an interview with one man who 's spent more than half his adult life in prison . |
| 23 | ( 4 ) Each manager must hold at least one ordinary share in Newco and work for more than half his time in the " management or conduct of the company " or an associated company ; alternatively he must own more than 5% of the ordinary share capital of Newco ( the " material interest " test ) ; for these purposes , the shareholdings of any associate of an individual manager are aggregated with his holding ; " management or conduct of the company " ( rather than its business ) connotes the function of directors and senior managers , so other employees and middle management will not be able to obtain relief , since they are unlikely to have a sufficient holding in Newco to satisfy the material interest test . |
| 24 | But he feels let-down and disappointed that all his years of effort in building trade in the Harrow , a city-centre pub , count for nothing . |
| 25 | He thought and meditated ; filled them out by experience of pastoral care and by writing ; and came to such a unity that all his later life he had a coherence of outlook , in thought and devotion and ethic , which was an anchor to the Church of England in difficult days . |
| 26 | Mr Husseini insists that all his activities are peaceful . |
| 27 | Those who know Thomas well , like W. H. Hudson , were convinced that all his fictitious characters were dominated by recognizable traits of Thomas himself . |
| 28 | ‘ He told me that all his life he was such a shit , and he finally realized he could make someone as happy as he made me , ’ recalls Joey . |
| 29 | It was better to have him relaxed , confident , thinking that all his problems were solved ; he would be easier to manage that way . |
| 30 | Dr Schore says the most impressive statements he has read , inspiring him to investigate further the LM potencies , are the following , by Dr. Pierre Schmidt ‘ … but we must bear in mind that Hahnemann never says anything which has not been duly considered and thought out , and that all his words should be weighed with the utmost care . ’ |