Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] his [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 15 ) If a tender offer is made in competition with an offer made under the Code , the Panel must be consulted and consideration will be given to extending the offer period of the Code offer , circulating the tender offer to all shareholders and requiring the buyer to disclose dealings of his and his associates in accordance with Rule 8. 4.8 What is the difference between a partial offer and a tender offer ? |
| 2 | He seemed to settle finally for us , us being the police , or at least the fact-seekers and , clearing his throat , he told me that his men with grappling irons and magnets had missed finding the floorboards the first time , probably because the floorboards were n't magnetic . |
| 3 | ( d ) Post-dissolution profits Section 42 of the Partnership Act is concerned with the rights of outgoing partners in certain cases to share profits made after dissolution : ( 1 ) Where any member of a firm has died or otherwise ceased to be a partner , and the surviving or continuing partners carry on the business of the firm with its capital or assets without any final settlement of accounts as between the firm and the outgoing partner or his estate , then , in the absence of any agreement to the contrary , the outgoing partner or his estate is entitled at the option of himself or his representatives to such share of the profits made since the dissolution as the Court may find to be attributable to the use of his share of the partnership assets , or to interest at the rate of five per cent per annum on the amount of his share of the partnership assets . |
| 4 | Her or his rights before the law are , for example , deemed to be equal to those of a company director . |
| 5 | And he had all these pictures of himself and his friends at university with oars crossed above them , and a coloured one of the Highlands with hairy cattle paddling in a lake , and one of his father with his dogs , and such a lovely picture of his wife — dead she was , poor soul — and another big picture of Venice with gondolas and a lot of foreigners in fancy dress , and a cartoon of Dr. Mac done by one of his friends , showing the friend lying dead , and Dr. Mac in his deerstalker hat looking for clues with his magnifying glass . |
| 6 | In the early days of aviation he made designs for aeroplanes and , later in life , he took up golf and planned houses for himself and his friends in Berkshire . |
| 7 | In a takeover campaign that has already seen vitriolic language , he responds to the charge that he is mounting the bid to enrich himself and his friends by saying : ‘ Nobody could take that as a criticism — this is an investor group . |
| 8 | The count of Toulouse was present to answer charges of heresy and so to protect himself and his lands against Simon de Montfort . |
| 9 | Cotton marketed himself and his talents in the same way . |
| 10 | He was using an elderly Austin A35 van to ferry himself and his sons around London . |
| 11 | Coleridge 's first meeting with Tom Poole lasted less than a day , but in that short time Coleridge was expansive both on the subject of himself and his plans for the future . |
| 12 | Thirdly , by agreeing to hold the duchy of Aquitaine as an hereditary fief from the crown of France , Henry III was putting both himself and his heirs into an untenable position since a king in his own right was to perform liege homage to another king . |
| 13 | Finally , in 1544 Stumpe consolidated his interest in the property by paying over £1,500 for a royal grant to himself and his heirs of the whole site of the abbey . |
| 14 | Ken , meanwhile , told the most outrageous tales about himself and his views on sex — occasionally with Lou present . |
| 15 | Farias had also manipulated government funds and contracts to benefit himself and his associates by an estimated US$1,000 million . |
| 16 | It was clear that Hitler was mentally preparing himself and his assistants for all possible configurations of alliance and animosity . |
| 17 | It barred the critics , but enabled him to premiere works by himself and his pupils to sympathetic ears . |
| 18 | It is a term which Carver would have used as a young man to dissociate himself and his peers from others , and its use here encourages the reader to share Carver 's memories of his own surprise and , perhaps , disappointment at Gardner 's appearance . |
| 19 | Oswald commended himself and his men to God and his victory over Cadwallon established a new Christian king over the northern Angles . |
| 20 | The policy of centralization and definition of royal rights adopted by the last Capetians exposed the incompatibility between the French insistence on the full rights of suzerainty and the English king 's desire for freedom of action for himself and his officials in the duchy . |
| 21 | He described himself and his colleagues as facilitators who would try to help create the climate for negotiations . |
| 22 | He explained the difference in approach between himself and his colleagues in the following words : His approach , based on ‘ the facts of social geography , the requirements of functional effectiveness and the conditions of democratic viability in relation to one another ’ ( Senior 1969:5 ) led him to adopt a two-tier structure with 35 directly elected regional authorities and 148 district authorities . |
| 23 | With my father , who was trying to protect me and his cigarettes at the same time , I jumped into a nearby ditch which ran parallel to the road . |
| 24 | One man who had got himself clear in that way drove in his own carriage by the very commissioners to whom he had but lately surrendered , and splashed both them and his creditors with the dirt of his chariot wheels . |
| 25 | A local farmer , with bags of dried turf in his link box had stopped , and carried them and his bags of turf , in the link box back to the Ponderosa . |
| 26 | Susan said that she had no intention of letting him into her life ; she did not trust him or his relationships with women , ‘ from what I observed of him , and I do n't think he felt very secure with me because of my straightforwardness ’ . |
| 27 | An expatriate Iranian satirist , Hadi Khorsandi , later claimed in fun to have had the ear of Rafsanjani , who told him that his discussions with McFarlane ‘ were meant only for him to practise the English language … all the contacts he had had with Americans over the past year had been made for the purpose of learning irregular verbs . ’ |
| 28 | She assured him that his apprehensions about her travelling late at night were quite unfounded : she and her sisters had been allowed to travel about unaccompanied in Southport and London since the age of twelve or thirteen . |
| 29 | It had given great anxiety to him and his collagues on the bench . |
| 30 | It had given great anxiety to him and his collagues on the bench . |