Example sentences of "[coord] [noun sg] in his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clive did n't want quality or experience in his teachers . |
| 2 | He took me down for many terrible half-hours beneath the floorboards , beneath the joists , with cord or cable in his questing hand ; the platonic darkness of this underworld became a figure for our nightlife , candle-lit , torchbeam-pierced ; our old existence I came to picture as a boundless cathedral of light . |
| 3 | After screening for some months on the surface of the mine , a boy would then link up with a collier who would take him as help-mate or butty in his stall . |
| 4 | ‘ I have just received your Portfolio of MS drawings quite safely , ’ wrote the former to the latter in January 1844 ; ‘ I quite agree with you that they are not to be compared in finish with Lear 's , though generally accurate , but then Lear was a Man both for manners in Society & Skill in his Profession not to be easily found or replaced . ’ |
| 5 | He always kept a clove or garlic in his mouth , incense in his ears , and a stalk of rue sticking out of each nostril . |
| 6 | He was already beginning to think of Jordan as a kind of spiritual weevil or mouse in his woodwork . |
| 7 | The logical structure admittedly is independent of the desires of the thinker , but the drive behind it is an enthusiasm , or an obsession to rid himself of an intolerable burden ; at the point when we notice there is no more joy or stress in his thinking , that it has become a routine , we begin to be afraid that his creative phase his passed . |
| 8 | There was no love or gentleness in his face . |
| 9 | ( 5 ) ( a ) Where one of the following specified events happens , to a member of or a beneficial owner of a share in a recognised body , that is to say : ( where such member or beneficial owner is a solicitor ) his name is struck off or removed from the roll or his practising certificate is suspended ( including automatic suspension on bankruptcy ) or withdrawn ; or ( where such a member or beneficial owner is a registered foreign lawyer ) his name is struck off the register or his registration is suspended ( including automatic suspension on bankruptcy , or on striking off or suspension in his own jurisdiction ) or cancelled ; or ( where such a member or beneficial owner is a recognised body ) its recognition is revoked or expires ( including automatic expiry on liquidation , making of an administration order or appointment of an administrative receiver ) ; |
| 10 | R.5 provides periods of grace within which matters must be rectified where a shareholder ( or a beneficial owner of shares ) is struck off or where his or her practising certificate is suspended ( including automatic suspension on bankruptcy ) or expires without being renewed ; or in the case of an RFL his or her name is struck off the register or his registration is suspended ( including automatic suspension on bankruptcy ) or cancelled or on striking off or suspension in his or her own jurisdiction ) . |
| 11 | ( 5 ) ( a ) Where one of the following specified events happens , to a member of or a beneficial owner of a share in a recognised body , that is to say : ( where such member or beneficial owner is a solicitor ) his name is stuck off or removed from the roll or his practising certificate is suspended ( including automatic suspension on bankruptcy ) or withdrawn ; or ( where such a member or beneficial owner is a registered foreign lawyer ) his name is struck off the register or his registration is suspended ( including automatic suspension on bankruptcy , or on striking off or suspension in his own jurisdiction ) or cancelled ; or ( where such a member or beneficial owner is a recognised body ) its recognition is revoked or expires ( including automatic expiry on liquidation , making of an administration order or appointment of an administrative receiver ) ; |
| 12 | But whether Hughes is right or wrong in his overall thesis is less an issue than the incidental , sacrificial cost of an undertaking which — by another twist of tragic irony — shunts aside that which it holds most dear . |
| 13 | I visited this nasty ailment — the one I have not got — upon Daniel Miller in order to show how the guilt or evil in his mind finds physical expression in and on his body . |
| 14 | Where a summons or other originating process has been served on a defendant by post or insertion in his letter-box under Ord 7 , 4 10(1) ( b ) or 4(a) or r 13(1) ( b ) or ( 4 ) and after judgment has been given or entered it appears to the court that the process did not come to the knowledge of the defendant in time , the court may of its own motion set aside the judgment and may give any direction or make any such order as the court may think just . |
| 15 | If there was one thing Chapman could n't stand , it was criticism or interference in his affairs . |
| 16 | On Harper 's behalf it was said that although he 'd been reckless , dangerous and stupid by starting the fire , there 'd been no evil or mischief in his mind . |
| 17 | There is no need to tell everyone all the details , any more than Peter makes any mention or testimony in his letters about the day he messed it up . |
| 18 | possess any secret official code word , or password , or sketch , plan , model , article , note , document or information which relates to or is used in a prohibited place or anything in such a place , or which has been made or obtained in contravention of this Act , or which has been entrusted in confidence to him by any person holding office under Her Majesty or which he has obtained or to which he has had access owing to his position as a person who is or has been employed under a person who holds or has held such an office or contract — [ and who ] ( a ) communicates the code word , pass word , sketch , plan , model , article , note , document , or information to any person other than a person to whom he is authorised to communicate it , or a person to whom it is in the interest of the State his duty to communicate it , or ( aa ) uses the information in his possession for the benefit of any foreign power or in any other manner prejudicial to the safety or interests of the State , or ( b ) retains the sketch , plan , model , article , note , or document in his possession or control when he has no right to retain it or when it is contrary to his duty to retain it , or fails to comply with all directions issued by lawful authority with regard to the return or disposal thereof , or … |
| 19 | There was no effort or affectation in his ease with old people , or in his good manners . |
| 20 | Sir , — Doug McRoberts , media relations manager for Nuclear Electric , is either disingenuous or ill-informed in his attacks ( EADT , March 11 ) on David Ridley 's well-balanced feature on energy of March 9 . |
| 21 | This point is normally proved by the police officer examining the vehicles concerned or person , animal or property involved and recording the details of damage or injury in his pocket book or accident booklet . |
| 22 | The male courts the female by singing and posturing , often with a small twig or leaf in his bill . |
| 23 | Yet the emperor 's daring , and faith in his men , surely deserved to succeed . |
| 24 | Although Burn showed both originality and ingenuity in his initial designs for the Edinburgh Academy , giving a two-storey building a single-storey façade and an unfluted portico to save on façading costs , others made the Greek revival their own : Thomas Hamilton who developed the basic arrangement of the final design of Burn 's Academy into the Royal High School , and William Henry Playfair , Burn 's contemporary at Smirke 's , whose work showed awareness of the latest developments in Germany . |
| 25 | The observations at Greenwich had been made by different observers at different times , using techniques that depended , to some degree , on the observer 's skill and expertise in his chosen technique . |
| 26 | Chris Cutler 's theoretical alignment with the Benjamin tradition , like Wicke 's , is implicit rather than explicit.4 Nevertheless , he clearly echoes Benjamin and Enzensberger in his stress on the democratic potential of electronic media , and on the leading role played by technological developments in general within the changing practice of cultural production . |
| 27 | For a ducal wedding in Mantua the following year Monteverdi wrote a second opera , Arianna , to a text by Rinuccini , and a dramatic ballet Il Ballo dell' ingrate , but nothing remains of Arianna except the heroine 's justly famous lament which survives not only in its original form but in the composer 's arrangements of it as a five-part madrigal in his Sixth Book ( 1614 ) and as a ‘ Pianto della Madonna ’ for solo voice and continuo in his Selva Morale ( 1640 ) ; it set a remarkable and long-lasting fashion for lamenti . |
| 28 | It is ironic , therefore , that Freud , the anti-religious father of psychoanalysis , should have chosen to use the term aggression as implicitly synonymous with evil and wickedness in his well-known and passionate indictment of his own species : |
| 29 | On his way to the trophy he met and defeated in the quarter finals an up and coming English youngster , one Michael Bonallack , now secretary of the game 's ruling body , the Royal & Ancient , and present in his official capacity at Royal Portrush this week . |
| 30 | He had a curious mixture of enthusiasm and impracticability in his approach to some everyday things , as for instance studying a most complicated recipe from one of his cookery books ( they included Mrs Beeton and Elizabeth David ) , then going out to buy not only the ingredients but equipment too . |