Example sentences of "[conj] the [noun sg] [vb pp] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the appearance in 1789 of a second edition with an extra plate , and of six plates signed ‘ Hepplewhite ’ or ‘ Heppelwhite ’ dated October , November , and December 1792 , and May 1793 , in The Cabinet-Makers ' London Book of Prices of 1793 suggests that the firm designed after his death . |
| 2 | He capitalizes on this discovery by observing that certain editions of the English Primers from C.1530 onwards also contain Savonarola 's soliloquy on Psalm 1 , ‘ Infelix ego , thus supplying Byrd ( directly or indirectly ) both with his words and with an English ambience to an ostensibly purely foreign text that the composer exploited in his chosen manner of setting . |
| 3 | He lifted Gazzer 's head slightly and then rammed it down again so that the bar chopped into his neck . |
| 4 | The next day 's headline — Youth denies sex attack — told how the teenager maintained that he took the schoolgirl behind a shop for a goodnight kiss , alleging that the girl consented to his advances . |
| 5 | They alleged that the product marketed by his company could only have been made by his wrongful use of their business secrets . |
| 6 | The supposed author of the first episode is Samuel Beckett , and the hero hopes that the storyline devised by his fellow-countryman will restore his dignity . |
| 7 | ‘ A little , ’ she admitted reluctantly , but it had only just begun to do so , and she suspected that the tension induced by his presence at the end of an unusually demanding day was more responsible than the bump . |
| 8 | ‘ No will shall be valid unless — ( a ) it is in writing , and signed by the testator , or by some other person in his presence and by his direction ; and ( b ) it appears that the testator intended by his signature to give effect to the will ; and ( c ) the signature is made or acknowledged by the testator in the presence of two or more witnesses present at the same time ; and ( d ) each witness either — ( i ) attests and signs the will ; or ( ii ) acknowledges his signature , in the presence of the testator ( but not necessarily in the presence of any other witness ) , but no form of attestation shall be necessary . |
| 9 | In C. S. Lewis ' quest for joy , we can clearly see that the void left by his mother 's death was never replaced in his childhood , nor indeed perhaps ever in his whole life . |
| 10 | That Bukharin was capable of ‘ imagining ’ that capitalist consumption would grow , along with c and v , is stated explicitly two pages later ( In the English text ) than the reference cited by his critics : |
| 11 | Lieutenant Whitby of the Cameronians confirmed that laxness had been rife , although he was more worried at the lack of respect meted to the prisoner than the damage done to his self-esteem . |
| 12 | They said that if the expert departed from his instructions in a material respect , eg where he was called on to value shares in a company and he valued the wrong number of shares or shares in the wrong company , that would be sufficient . |
| 13 | If the student demonstrated by his choices that he did not fully understand a particular point then the programme could send him round an additional explanatory loop . |
| 14 | So now he could be caught behind the safety of the fence , and the rope attached to his headstall was no longer needed . |
| 15 | His financial transactions extended throughout the eastern counties , and although the bulk of his fortune almost certainly came from moneylending , his six houses in King 's Lynn and the quay attached to his own stone house in Norwich suggest that he also had interests in trade . |
| 16 | He is both rudderless and becalmed , and the futurity conjured by his letter blends the metaphysical frustration of a brilliant unhoused intellectual torpor with human impossibility : you ca n't cross a river on a chip of wood . |
| 17 | ‘ That 's it , then , ’ Joe said , and he lay back on the bed with the receiver to his ear and the handset held on his chest . |
| 18 | God , you did hate her , reflected Dexter , and the thought fired through his brain that perhaps Jane Pargeter had foreseen Nicola 's murder after all . |
| 19 | Zack studied Quinn and the assembly strapped to his chest over his shirt , and swore softly but violently . |
| 20 | This undertaking was given to the High Court in London but in March last year Vice Chancellor Sir Nicolas Browne-Wilkinson found Raper and the man described as his ‘ sidekick ’ , Douglas Allen , guilty of the ‘ most deliberate and serious ’ contempts . |
| 21 | ‘ Sold , and the money put with his other assets and distributed . ’ |
| 22 | Roman 's eyes narrowed and the colour drained from his face , leaving him cold and withdrawn . |
| 23 | He sat down next to her and the sofa dipped under his weight so that it was an effort to keep her body erect . |
| 24 | Benjamin Truman , who was knighted in 1761 , died in 1780 , and the brewery passed to his grandsons , William and Henry Truman Read . |
| 25 | Pearson 's enforced demotion within his own company , and the distaste shown by his partners for experiments that veered too sharply away from the comedies that had established Welsh-Pearson 's reputation , is generally taken as evidence of the conservatism inherent in the film industry . |
| 26 | Abruptly , his fist tightened and the tankard crumpled in his grip like clay . |
| 27 | The question was Yuan 's , and the technician bowed from his chair . |
| 28 | Later in the night she would discover the scars , the knife wound across his shoulder-blades where he 'd been slashed in a Belfast bar , and the bullet wound above his right knee that had never healed properly , a legacy from when he was on border patrol and one of his own men had panicked and opened fire on him . |
| 29 | His assailant brought a boot down on his hand , and the sword twisted from his grasp . |
| 30 | No new midnight raids to organise ? ’ she said a touch sarkily , and the amusement faded from his eyes , to be replaced by irritation . |