Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the impressive things about all this is that everyone agrees about his modesty , his lack of show . |
| 2 | That possibility was handled by Bob Beckman , an American economist-writer who has settled in this country and has built a reputation for the uncanny accuracy of his predictions , though it is fair to say that not everyone agrees with his views of his predictions . |
| 3 | ‘ Yet nothing goes to his head — and he just does n't seem to have any nerves . ’ |
| 4 | In addition Mr. and Mrs. O'Brien 's son , who also worked in the company , was to provide certain security , but nothing turns on his involvement and I need not go into the details . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , by the way , Sergeant Pooley , give my regards to his Lordship . |
| 6 | When someone protests at his callousness he says ‘ Would you rather my hand shook ? ’ . |
| 7 | The book ends with a conclusion which points to his aforementioned radical solution . |
| 8 | An employee who , in the course of his employment , has made an invention which belongs to his employer may be awarded compensation to be paid by the employer if the patent is of outstanding benefit to the employer ( section 40 ) . |
| 9 | It would appear from the judgment of Vinelott J. that this opinion is one which corresponds with his own . |
| 10 | A ‘ high ’ Christology is one which emphasizes Christ 's divinity , a ‘ low ’ Christology his humanity , and a ‘ message ’ type Christology one which looks to his words rather than to the nature of his person . |
| 11 | The plaintiff 's failure to take care for his own safety may be a cause of the accident which results in his damage . |
| 12 | He himself says in his 2nd Edition of the Perambulation of Kent , which he revised whilst living here , " At this place of the Bishop in Halling I am drawing on the last scene of my life , where God has given me Liberorum Ouadrigam , all the fruit that I ever had " . |
| 13 | Repton himself comments in his Enquiry that ‘ the ‘ antiquated cot ’ , whose chimney is choked with ivy , may perhaps yield a residence for squalid misery and want ’ ; and an awareness develops that cottages do not have to be ruinous to be picturesque . |
| 14 | Mr Day was threatened with an injunction last year when he completed the final draft of his book , most of which deals with his career in the Royal Marines and as a civil servant during the Emergency in Malaya . |
| 15 | For Goldmann , any claim to ‘ scientificity ’ in sociology resides in its reflexive awareness of its own social determination which leads to his interest in the sociology of knowledge . |
| 16 | We would advise the beginner never to write his cello and bass parts on the same stave : if he does , he will almost surely fall into the error of over-using the double bass , his mind 's ear , which acts through his eye , being almost certain to fail to register the lower octave . |
| 17 | The head can then also decide whether the plan which exists in his or her mind is being realized . |
| 18 | Jerry has a natural edge to him , a wit which darts behind his eyes , and more distrust too , than Willie . |
| 19 | He had a quick sense of humour , with a Victorian weakness for outrageous puns , little of which shows in his mature poetry except in his play with language . |
| 20 | Mr MacConachie , of Ashcroft Road , says he is highly honoured by the Royal appointment , which stems from his involvement in many community projects and charities . |
| 21 | I do not intend to say much about how he proposes to do this , or about the background in nineteenth-century intellectual history which accounts for his finding the picture attractive . |
| 22 | More significant still , Cnut 's crown in the New Minster drawing is a lily crown , very similar to that which appears on his first Quatrefoil coin type , but with an additional arched bar spanning its centre . |
| 23 | On the site of a Celtic ring fort and at the crossing point of several ley lines , Turrell is building seven skyspaces which will be completed in 1995 , well ahead of the Roden Crater , which competes for his energy and financial resources . |
| 24 | All of which contrasts with his definition of the law of value , which was seen as a spontaneous phenomenon or mechanism , which acts ‘ behind the backs of the participants ’ , where there are market controls , rather than being controlled . |
| 25 | During his long life , Eric Jones-Evans built up an impressive collection , much of which relates to his idol , Henry Irving . |
| 26 | No okay , so you just have the appropriate page which relates to his savings for the future . |
| 27 | Just as Marlowe can choose to enter into purely fantastical land of his own making , which caters for his own desires and ignores that which he is unable to cope with in the real world , Marvell can slip into his garden and is free , for a period , from the ball and chain of the world he flees from . |
| 28 | In this view the ‘ grammar ’ of the text is more evident in readers ' accounts of literature than in the actual literary works — unless , as Culler himself does in his study of Flaubert , one chooses to read a text as a sort of allegory of the reading process itself ( see Culler 1974 ) . |
| 29 | Note the lack of direct empirical support and the abstract character of the argument ; Shils himself admits to his approach being ‘ tentative and provisional … an attempt to elucidate things … of great importance but which are very obscure ’ . |
| 30 | Here Rousseau himself demonstrates in his oscillating interpretations a history that can not be linear , nor operate according to a single temporality , disturbing instead , the time of the line or the line of time ’ : |