Example sentences of "his [noun] which " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Because , ’ I replied , ‘ there was always a danger that Hopkins , who confided in so few people , may have said something to his sister which could have threatened her .
2 But it was the moral pretensions of Dulles and his policies which lost most credibility .
3 And , the way things had been going for Gerhard Berger , it was perhaps no surprise that it should be his McLaren which would suffer that fate .
4 That hundred pounds represents one fifth of his income which the agency thinks is fair but he does n't .
5 Most of the work on the land was done by the villa slaves under the eagle eye of the owner , and it was the way he organised his labourers which produced the better results .
6 So I think that what he has done is to try and meet the concerns which your Lordships have have expressed er i in second reading My Lords er I did think if I might say so with the greatest of respect for the Noble Lord , Lord Harris of Greenwich whom I admire en enormously and not for er only for his views which erm depending upon what the views are er that it depends upon my extended admiration
7 By dismissing him the Respondent left a cloud over his honesty which can be removed only by full vindication in respect of that .
8 It was his support which perhaps influenced both Wilson rackets and View From clothing to sponsor her .
9 A girl ran out with his buns which he 'd forgotten .
10 They all seek declarations to the following effect : ( a ) that as a matter of law in the case of a prisoner serving a mandatory life sentence the Secretary of State is required to set a period for retribution and deterrence which does not exceed the tariff recommended by the judiciary ; ( b ) that the Secretary of State is required by law to tell the prisoner what period the judiciary have recommended , and the reasons for that recommendation , and also if he has departed from that recommendation to tell the prisoner his reason for doing so ; ( c ) that the prisoner is entitled to be given the opportunity to make representations to the Secretary of State before the tariff is set , and for this purpose to be told of any information upon which the Secretary of State will make his decision which is not in his , the prisoner 's , possession .
11 Two bullets hit him in the left arm , and numerous metal fragments flew into his face , including a piece in his jaw which could never be extracted .
12 I 'd been applying a special cream to his ankles which was supposed to harden the skin , but it did n't seem to do much good .
13 There was a subtle lemon-musk fragrance to his skin which made her head swim .
14 Vitor seemed to have something beneath his skin which had connected with something beneath hers , and her breathing was quickening , her pulses raced , she no longer felt as if she was standing on solid ground .
15 For the next three years , Mr Hart searched for his story which has now reached the screen with Robin Williams and Dustin Hoffman .
16 Mr Onanuga admits that there are aspects of his story which do not appear to add up .
17 Smoking the first of five cigarettes from his case which had been undamaged in his rear pocket ( matches from escape kit ) Harry made up his mind to head for a port , walking north-westerly to avoid Potsdam .
18 Interrogatories are questions put by one party to the other about his case which that other party must answer : discovery is a process by which both parties must disclose to each other all documents relevant to the issues , except for documents containing legal advice on the case .
19 KENNY DALGLISH last night laid into his defence which threw away his hopes of closing the gap on Premier League leaders Norwich .
20 JOHN MORRIS , Derbyshire 's 28-year-old vice-captain , has ended speculation about his cricketing future by signing a two-year extension to his contract which will keep him at the Recreation Ground until 1996 .
21 He has inserted a clause into his contract which bans screenwriter Joel Silver from the set while he is working .
22 Sinqe , who holds his country 's national record of 2hr 8min 4sec , was due to run his first marathon outside the republic in the NutraSweet-sponsored event on 18 April but London organisers were left fuming when they discovered he had run a marathon in Japan a fortnight ago in defiance of his contract which stipulated that he should not run a competitive marathon within 90 days of the big race .
23 While not exactly false , this simple version of his spiritual growth gives no picture of the tremendous vacillations in his faith which he confided to Arthur Greeves during this period .
24 How appropriate that it was his try which sealed Ireland 's glorious victory over England at Lansdowne Road last Saturday .
25 When he had gone the Feldwebel imitated his accent which he said was a thick Austrian one which he could hardly understand .
26 What makes us greet the man is not an albeit swift chain of inference , it is his presence which commands the acknowledgement while the presence of the tree does no such thing .
27 He stood up , almost overturning his easel which , Robbie noticed now , held an incredibly competent and beautifully detailed study of a species of thistle .
28 Harry nodded , or perhaps it was the threatening clatter of his teeth which caused his head to simulate assent .
29 Without his salary from Pressed Steel in Oxford , he and his family saw no hope of clearing his debts which had mounted to £8,000 .
30 It was rather as if the author — for all the breadth of his experience which he was constantly insisting upon — had never quite grown up .
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