Example sentences of "accord [prep] his [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he did n't like the bedroom furniture in his penthouse suite at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami he ordered his bodyguards to throw the offending furniture out , according to his former bodyguard Andy Celentano , who said , ‘ One time he took a dislike to the piano . |
| 2 | You see , an assassin is paid according to his own self-valuation . |
| 3 | Justin came from Nablus in Palestine to Ephesus where , according to his own account ( which may not be plain prose ) , he studied with teachers of several different schools — Stoic , Aristotelian , Pythagorean , Platonist — expecting from the last named not only clarity for his mind but light for his soul . |
| 4 | I am very desirous to get all the species of this genus which I can , and am making observations on their flowers and fruit : for Doctor Linnaeus has joined these to his genus of Rhus [ sumach ] , with which all the species of Toxicodendron , which I have yet examined , will by no means agree ; for these are either male and female in distinct plants , or have male flowers in separate parts from the fruit on the same plant , which , according to his own system , must remove them to a great distance from the Rhus . |
| 5 | Coleridge 's improbably romantic explanation and evident intelligence so impressed the man that he gave the remarkable child a subscription to the circulating library in Cheapside , where he began , according to his own not unlikely account , to read every book it contained . |
| 6 | ‘ It is of great importance that a child 's environment enables him to enlarge his living sphere , according to his own abilities and without being restrained by traffic , from his home surroundings to the neighbourhood and beyond . |
| 7 | On the contrary , ‘ Hinduism tells everyone to worship God according to his own faith or Dharma , and so it lives at peace with all the religions ’ . |
| 8 | After the Ascension of Christ , Luke , whom Paul had taken with him as an expert in the way ( teaching ) , wrote under his own name and according to his own understanding . |
| 9 | In it he asks her father 's help for one of the other prisoners , saying ‘ that he had helped him ‘ according to his own willing poverty ’ . |
| 10 | It would only be a matter of time before the strong-willed de Gaulle would seek to reshape the EEC according to his own conceptions . |
| 11 | The lesson was offered in the particular terms of the four years , from sixteen to twenty-one , which a youth would expect to spend as an apprentice working towards officer status ; it was to be interpreted by each of the readers according to his own aim in life . |
| 12 | He takes a broad view of this symphony and shapes it superbly according to his own very distinctive view of it . |
| 13 | According to his own testimony , when he was Chef de Cuisine at the Petit Moulin Rouge restaurant in the Champs Elysées in the mid 1870s he had had the idea of preserving tomatoes in such a way that they would replace fresh ones at any season . |
| 14 | Returning to the Maison Caressa at Nice , he persuaded the factory which had turned down the project fifteen years earlier to manufacture " a certain quantity " of 2 kilo cans of crushed tomato according to his own specification . |
| 15 | Given this result , it would seem that the inductivist , according to his own standpoint , is now obliged to indicate how the principle of induction can be derived from experience . |
| 16 | Tearing into the Instrument , some behave ‘ as if they had been in the schools , where each man had liberty to propose his own Utopia , and to frame commonwealths according to his own fancy … |
| 17 | or , Edmund ( 1627–1712 ) , magistrate , was born , according to his own account , 4 July 1627 , one of twenty-one children of Samuel Warcup of English , near Henley , Oxfordshire , and later bailiff of Southwark . |
| 18 | He was thus a particular target for the Tories , and according to his own account lost his seat at the 1702 election after a specific campaign against him inspired by the Tory leaders . |
| 19 | He worked as its honorary secretary until its demise in 1919 when , according to his own view in his Seventy Years among Savages ( 1921 ) , ‘ It ended as it began in its character of Forlorn Hope ; we had the good will of the free-lances , not of the public or the professors . ’ |
| 20 | According to his own account , as soon as he was brought to Rome as a hostage in 167 B.C. he became a friend of the two surviving sons of Aemilius Paulus by sharing some books with them . |
| 21 | The defendant , according to his own evidence , never believed that he was liable in law , but signed the notes in order to avoid being sued as Goble was . |
| 22 | The Whips had a difficult job and were as usual a good body of men , but the accounts sent in to me showed me that each man in conducting this inquiry adopted a different emphasis according to his own character . |
| 23 | De Man controls the response of his readers to controversial propositions about language in two ways : by attributing these propositions to his object texts , and by controlling the distance between reader and object text according to his own oscillation between uncritical proximity and critical distance to those texts . |
| 24 | He asks what each legislator might do , in the position he happens to occupy , to reduce the total number of incidents of injustice or unfairness according to his own views of what justice and fairness require . |