Example sentences of "[coord] [Wh det] his [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took me about quarter of an hour to sort it all out , and then she asked what train and said she 'd get her mum to agree to ‘ take in this ‘ Vern ’ or whatever his name is ’ and meet us at the station . |
| 2 | I ca n't believe that that young seaman , Achmed or whatever his name is , or either of the two girls can have anything to do with this . |
| 3 | I was really disgusted with this idiot native Balbindor or whatever his name was . |
| 4 | He 'll be stripping for action with Helmut or whatever his name is this week . |
| 5 | Mr Scum , or whatever his name was , is from Manc land . |
| 6 | this is Billy Crocker or whatever his name is |
| 7 | this is Billy Crocker or whatever his name is |
| 8 | er , there was a lad in a sketch with him , we saw the trailer and he looked like an older version of Macouly Maulkin , or whatever his name is , what 's his name ? |
| 9 | Haringey or whatever his name is |
| 10 | Whatever Gould 's personal opinion of Gilbert , or whatever his error , his qualifications as a naturalist were undisputed , and singled him out as the ideal candidate for sharing Gould 's exploration . |
| 11 | In the eighteenth century it was more and more usual for an ambassador accredited to any of the greatest European courts to be given it , irrespective of how long he stayed there or what his duties were . |
| 12 | And we still do n't know why this doctor advised us as he did or what his motive was . |
| 13 | In two further cases the role intention plays is the same sort of interpretative role which it can so easily assume in legacies : to consider what meaning the testator attached to the words he used ; or what his intention was in imposing a modality on a disposition . |
| 14 | The Profitboss does n't control punctuality nor what his people say to the press . |
| 15 | Then there was the element of fascination — I know practically nothing about him , nor what his business activities are or why he spends so much time in foreign countries . |
| 16 | His wide-spaced eyes were dark and brooding , but there was a softness in them which mirrored his nature and which his wife Carrie found to be comforting and reassuring . |
| 17 | Though apparently divorced from ‘ Cultural Progress ’ as related to the Basutu , which Eliot was also considering in 1936 , his idea of poetic drama was part of the same concern with embodying and strengthening what he had always associated with ideas of culture and community and which his dealings with the ‘ lower races ’ had helped to teach him : the need for art linked to religious ritual as a central value summing up and sustaining the social values of a culture . |
| 18 | The rampant inflation that followed Henry VIII 's currency speculations and which his successors could hardly limit hit them most of all . |
| 19 | Lancaster , Preston , where the Old Pretender 's advance had foundered , and which his son reached on 26 November , and Wigan all fell at the mere approach of the all-conquering young prince . |
| 20 | Eluard 's soaring ‘ lyricism ’ helped to perpetuate a tyranny , and is the kind of thing which led Kundera to employ the title The Lyric Age for the work which first came to him in the mid-Fifties , and which his publishers prevailed on him to retitle Life is elsewhere when it was completed in 1969 . |
| 21 | And that is exactly what Braudel doubts , and what his opponents would have to demonstrate . |
| 22 | We kept records of every client , including where he lived and what his preferences were . |
| 23 | I think you could 've , you could 've apacked that a bit , a bit more , to put in the er words of the day , to find out you know what was worrying him and , and what his problems were on that . |
| 24 | ‘ And what his idea was , in a way I suppose , was just to see the position which I had to get the horse into before he had the job with the mare ; and he wondered how the job was done with the harness I 'd got on . |
| 25 | True , we should distinguish between what a particular speaker means and what his statement means . |
| 26 | If you know someone like that , it 's worth observing and studying his or her use of language , manner , and what his body language says to you , even if it is someone you only ever see on television . |
| 27 | Or perhaps he was quite mistaken , and what his nature called for was both . |
| 28 | For example , analysing a transaction between two skilled negotiators requires the study of the overt interaction and the identification of what each one is thinking about what he himself is doing and what his opponent is probably thinking about in the context of what he is saying ( Singleton , 1983a ) . |
| 29 | Oh this is disappointing because I thought that with G P who 'll knows what he requires and what his patients require was going to have erm a pretty er erm |
| 30 | In this letter , we hear only of the liberty of his soul and what his soul 's health required , which was nothing else than being freed from his office as archbishop . |