Example sentences of "[subord] [art] [adj] [noun] [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was , like Wellington , well over six feet tall but where the New Zealander emphasised his height with his erect bearing , De Gaulle stooped slightly . |
| 2 | Where the local ombudsman exceeded his jurisdiction when reporting on a complaint against a local authority the Court of Appeal granted a declaration to that effect . |
| 3 | The German-Jewish family moved back to London in 1931 , where the 18-year-old Goodman took his first job as an apprentice to the leading commercial photographer of the day , Shaw Wildman . |
| 4 | I am not sure where the hon. Gentleman gets his figures from — perhaps from the same Labour party briefing on which the hon. Member for Blackburn ( Mr. Straw ) relies . |
| 5 | In Hoffman v Sofaer [ 1982 ] 1 WLR 1350 Talbot J held that where a foreign plaintiff suffered his injuries in Britain , his damages should be assessed in the currency most closely linked with the loss , namely the currency in which the loss was suffered or the expense incurred , with the exception of damages for pain , suffering and loss of amenity which should be assessed in sterling . |
| 6 | This thought had no sooner crossed his mind than the good dame noticed his bloodstained sleeve . |
| 7 | He is labelled a criminal because of his extra-marital affair , although the legal system sanctions his wife taking a lover . |
| 8 | When the Emperor Khai Dinh offered his slim , feminine hand to Joseph it felt limp and damp , and although the American boy murmured his farewell politely in French , the sovereign did n't raise his head to look at him . |
| 9 | He was clean-shaven , although a faint darkness marked his jaw at this hour ; inevitable with his colouring , she knew , her eyes moving upwards to his jet-black hair and then — a betrayal of herself — down to where the open neck of his shirt provided tantalising glimpses of subtly gleaming flesh shadowed by softly curling dark hair , all so emphatically masculine . |
| 10 | It seemed likely that his desire to get into space was a personal one , rather than a blind urge to serve his motherland . |
| 11 | Old Foresters , a team of former Public Schoolboys , won three years running from 1885 to 87 and Ilford repeated the act between 1988 and 1990 when the manager had no more than a large village to select his players from . |
| 12 | This is a village of wide gabled houses , every one with window boxes full of colourful flowers ; of streets where you are more likely to come across a lumbering hay cart in no hurry at all , rather than an impatient motorist blasting his horn at everything in his way , and of friendly locals . |
| 13 | By then the satraps in Asia Minor ( which is the best-attested cluster of satrapies ) allow the poleis to grant citizenship and tax exemption on their own initiative , provided the Great King gets his tribute ( Mausolus M 5 , 8 , 13 , with formulae anticipating hellenistic grants ) . |
| 14 | until the big time fills his head . |
| 15 | Capital gains tax will not become payable until the original shareholder sells his shares in B ; and if B is formed in a tax haven in which there are no restrictions on loans to directors , he can in fact enjoy the proceeds of the original shares in Company A free of tax until he dies or takes up permanent residence outside the jurisdiction . |
| 16 | Once a package has been submitted for approval , no further work can be performed on the package until the nominated approver renders his decision . |
| 17 | Part of the proceeds of a Credit is transferred to a second beneficiary ( or to more than one second beneficiary ) who presents his documents to the advising bank whereupon the first beneficiary substitutes his invoices and claims a larger amount thus ensuring he receives his share of the proceeds . |
| 18 | If the accused person recounts his childhood experiences and relates them to his commission of the crime , is the entire discussion ‘ regarding such crime ’ ? |
| 19 | Only if the chief constable expressed his order in terms such as that he considered any injury to his men to constitute serious public disorder might the courts be prepared to intervene . |
| 20 | If the hon. Gentleman had his way and we had an independent Scotland , we would have four votes instead of 10 and our influence in being able to fight for the interests of Scotland 's farmers would be less . |
| 21 | It will be a fine thing if the Conservative chairman loses his seat whatever the outcome of the election . |
| 22 | The chant was so beautiful Athelstan stopped , closing his eyes to listen , until a rough-mouthed carter flicked his whip , bellowing how some men had to work and could n't laze around like stupid priests . |
| 23 | And if a Palestinian Arab fled his or her home during the 1948 fighting for an area controlled by Arab forces — even though the individual did not in any way participate in the war — Israeli law effectively deprived the owners of their homes and lands . |
| 24 | If a first baiter knew his job , as soon as a man had ploughed a stetch he 'd drop his stick across the furrows . |
| 25 | Where such supplies are made to recipients in other EC states , UK suppliers must charge standard-rated VAT unless the overseas customer discloses his VAT number . |
| 26 | Henry chose England , but because the imperial promise to preserve his territories was broken , he returned to fight for his hereditary claim in 1189 . |
| 27 | because the educational professional using his trained judgement is |
| 28 | I am upset because the big man gets his money first . |
| 29 | Seven members of the Maguire family were sentenced to prison in 1976 on terrorism charges because a forensic scientist said his tests had shown traces of nitroglycerine on their hands . |
| 30 | Well , for instance ; one night Stella went crazy and assaulted a visitor who had called Stella II a skinny black bitch right in the middle of her rendition of ‘ Te Amo ’ , and he meant it , right there in the middle of his number — well Madame not only showed her approval of the assault by conspicuously buying Stella drinks every night for the whole of the following week ; as soon as she saw the fight starting she got off her stool , yanked out the plug on the sound system , hitched up that frock , got straight up on the stage while they were still on the floor ( she knew Stella would sort him out ) and she went into an unforgettable aria of abuse against this stranger which culminated in her eschewing all her usual magnificence of phrasing and just standing there shouting fuck off at him , screaming fuck off , if you do n't like it you can fuck off , E , X , I , T , there it is , you came in through it and now you can fuck off out of it , fuck off out of it why do n't you you stupid bastard ( and by now of course someone had dragged Stella off and we were all up on our chairs cheering while the disgraced stranger made his slow and humiliating exit through the parting crowd ) why do n't you just piss off and insult someone who does n't have the balls to answer back because you 've picked the wrong girls here darling , fuck off that 's it , fucking fuck off , fucking fuck off right through my front door and do n't you ever , do n't you ever , do n't you ever step on my fucking frock again . |