Example sentences of "[coord] [Wh det] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Christmas present gives him one more chance to convert the family to the alleged delights of fly fishing or English cathedrals or war games — or whatever his confounded passion is ( Oxfam shops , however , are very grateful to him ) . |
| 2 | It took me about quarter of an hour to sort it all out , and then she asked what train and said she 'd get her mum to agree to ‘ take in this ‘ Vern ’ or whatever his name is ’ and meet us at the station . |
| 3 | I ca n't believe that that young seaman , Achmed or whatever his name is , or either of the two girls can have anything to do with this . |
| 4 | I was really disgusted with this idiot native Balbindor or whatever his name was . |
| 5 | Whatever Gould 's personal opinion of Gilbert , or whatever his error , his qualifications as a naturalist were undisputed , and singled him out as the ideal candidate for sharing Gould 's exploration . |
| 6 | He 'll be stripping for action with Helmut or whatever his name is this week . |
| 7 | Mr Scum , or whatever his name was , is from Manc land . |
| 8 | this is Billy Crocker or whatever his name is |
| 9 | this is Billy Crocker or whatever his name is |
| 10 | er , there was a lad in a sketch with him , we saw the trailer and he looked like an older version of Macouly Maulkin , or whatever his name is , what 's his name ? |
| 11 | Haringey or whatever his name is |
| 12 | In two further cases the role intention plays is the same sort of interpretative role which it can so easily assume in legacies : to consider what meaning the testator attached to the words he used ; or what his intention was in imposing a modality on a disposition . |
| 13 | God knows what Tavic would find to say to dear , homely Annie Templeman , or what his favourite ex-girl friend , Mina Beresford , had done to deserve the lugubrious Bill Templeman as a neighbour . |
| 14 | And we still do n't know why this doctor advised us as he did or what his motive was . |
| 15 | 6 The teacher should find out what his pupils are studying in other classes or what his mature students ' professions , jobs and intentions are , in order to integrate their language work ( cf Special Purposes English ) . |
| 16 | In the eighteenth century it was more and more usual for an ambassador accredited to any of the greatest European courts to be given it , irrespective of how long he stayed there or what his duties were . |
| 17 | Then there was the element of fascination — I know practically nothing about him , nor what his business activities are or why he spends so much time in foreign countries . |
| 18 | The Profitboss does n't control punctuality nor what his people say to the press . |
| 19 | Eluard 's soaring ‘ lyricism ’ helped to perpetuate a tyranny , and is the kind of thing which led Kundera to employ the title The Lyric Age for the work which first came to him in the mid-Fifties , and which his publishers prevailed on him to retitle Life is elsewhere when it was completed in 1969 . |
| 20 | Though apparently divorced from ‘ Cultural Progress ’ as related to the Basutu , which Eliot was also considering in 1936 , his idea of poetic drama was part of the same concern with embodying and strengthening what he had always associated with ideas of culture and community and which his dealings with the ‘ lower races ’ had helped to teach him : the need for art linked to religious ritual as a central value summing up and sustaining the social values of a culture . |
| 21 | Lancaster , Preston , where the Old Pretender 's advance had foundered , and which his son reached on 26 November , and Wigan all fell at the mere approach of the all-conquering young prince . |
| 22 | The rampant inflation that followed Henry VIII 's currency speculations and which his successors could hardly limit hit them most of all . |
| 23 | His wide-spaced eyes were dark and brooding , but there was a softness in them which mirrored his nature and which his wife Carrie found to be comforting and reassuring . |
| 24 | Prices of the new ranges fell foul of the haggling over the figure at which Nissan would sell its cars to Mr Botnar and what his Nissan UK would then charge buyers . |
| 25 | We saw in earlier chapters that there was a substantial disparity between Hitler 's actual expansionist aims and what his public image suggested he stood for . |
| 26 | His mother held him on her knee and explained for the hundredth time how big the ship would be and how many oceans it would cross and what his big brother would see from it . |
| 27 | Or perhaps he was quite mistaken , and what his nature called for was both . |
| 28 | If you know someone like that , it 's worth observing and studying his or her use of language , manner , and what his body language says to you , even if it is someone you only ever see on television . |
| 29 | In this letter , we hear only of the liberty of his soul and what his soul 's health required , which was nothing else than being freed from his office as archbishop . |
| 30 | For example , analysing a transaction between two skilled negotiators requires the study of the overt interaction and the identification of what each one is thinking about what he himself is doing and what his opponent is probably thinking about in the context of what he is saying ( Singleton , 1983a ) . |