Example sentences of "[noun sg] the [noun] [conj] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a couple or family contract the patient and his partner , for example , may undertake to do things on a reciprocal basis ( e.g. a husband agrees to organize weekly social outings for he and his wife , while she agrees to tell him when she is feeling distressed , rather than keeping her feelings to herself ) . |
| 2 | ‘ Very overrated , ’ he kept saying , and soon they were laughing so much that they had to put their heads beneath the blankets to stifle the noise , in case the farmer and his wife wondered at their hilarity . |
| 3 | 210 In all cases between landlord and tenant , as often as it shall happen that one half year 's rent shall be in arrear , and the landlord or lessor , to whom the same is due , hath right by law to re-enter for the non-payment thereof , such landlord or lessor shall and may , without any formal demand or re-entry , serve a writ in ejectment for the recovery of the demised premises , which service shall stand in the place and stead of a demand and re-entry ; and in case of judgment against the defendant for non-appearance , if it shall be made appear to the court where the said action is depending , by affidavit , or be proved upon the trial in case the defendant appears , that half a year 's rent was due before the said writ was served , and that no sufficient distress was to be found on the demised premises , countervailing the arrears then due , and that the lessor had power to re-enter , then and in every such case the lessor shall recover judgment and execution , in the same manner as if the rent in arrear had been legally demanded , and a re-entry made ; and in case the lessee or his assignee , or other person claiming or deriving under the said lease , shall permit and suffer judgment to be had and recovered on such trial in ejectment , and execution to be executed thereon , without paying the rent and arrears , together with full costs , and without proceeding for relief in equity within six months after such execution executed , then and in such case the said lessee , his assignee , and all other persons claiming and deriving under the said lease , shall be barred and foreclosed from all relief or remedy in law or equity , other than by bringing error for reversal of such judgment , in case the same shall be erroneous , and the said landlord or lessor shall from thenceforth hold the said demised premises discharged from such lease ; provided that nothing herein contained shall extend to bar the right of any mortgagee of such lease , or any part thereof , who shall not be in possession , so as such mortgagee shall and do , within six months after such judgment obtained and execution executed pay all rent in arrear , and all costs and damages sustained by such lessor or person entitled to the remainder or reversion as aforesaid , and perform all the covenants and agreements which , on the part and behalf of the first lessee , are and ought to be performed . |
| 4 | In one instance the complainant and his witnesses each had to walk over three hundred kilometres back and forth from the court because the case was postponed several times . |
| 5 | Just for a change the Doctor and his party have been able to relax and unwind awhile after so many strenuous adventures . |
| 6 | With much difficulty the Doctor and his party escape , but only after surrendering the real core . |
| 7 | With due ceremony the Mayor and his entourage rode from London on 4th May to greet the new King , who was coming from Ludlow . |
| 8 | The hon. Gentleman might also bear in mind the fact that his party should take account of many of the dangers of what is proposed , for at the moment the Liberal Democrats seem prepared to sign up indiscriminately to what is proposed from anywhere within Europe . |
| 9 | In the case of a bridal couple the ideology is that during the initiatory phase of their marriage the groom and his bride are playing out the roles of a god and a goddess ; when they resume their life as ordinary mortals their dangerous divinity must be removed . ) |
| 10 | Behind a one-storey inn the Duke and his tribe of brothers and uncles lived in a cluster of rough stone houses , one built onto the end of the next as the family grew . |
| 11 | It sets the standard , welcomes the bride into a new hareem and displays the promise of wealth the groom and his family have to offer . |
| 12 | In less extreme cases of unauthorised use by a bailee the question whether his act amounts to conversion probably depends upon the degree of departure from the terms of the bailment . |
| 13 | Any single senior resident had to accept as part of his job the fact that his juniors were going to speculate constantly on his lack of a visible sex-life . |
| 14 | In the next room the nurse and his friend were playing with Manisha 's older child . |
| 15 | What importance is the colour of his attire when at the end of many a day the master and his bullying gang 's regalia will all doubtless be red with the blood of the helpless abused fox . |
| 16 | My right hon. Friend the Chancellor and his counterparts ably negotiated amendments in the documents on economic and monetary union . |
| 17 | The previous week the man and his wife had been found in bed , dead . |
| 18 | A subordinate clause which functions as an adverb : Of Comparison In John is taller than his brother was at that age the clause than his brother was at that age qualifies is . |
| 19 | Its contents seem to be lost to history , but one wonderfully inappropriate phrase survives : ‘ His Holiness the Imam and his Christian peace . ’ |
| 20 | I released a long , tense breath , flicked the stub of my cigarette into the lake , and turned to look back where Edward and Laura squatted before the smoking kiln , for all the world the alchemist and his mystic sister , except that the roles were powerfully reversed , and — I realized suddenly — they were arguing under their breath . |
| 21 | Now comes to the Embalmer the realisation that his work is not only of the greatest importance to his client ; to public health in the prevention of infection , but also to create a real attitude towards the job amongst his fellow workers that will mark his particular Funeral Service out from its competitors in the service it renders . |
| 22 | The court activity is then terminated and after two or three months spent busily drafting the report the commissioner and his assessors will present their report to the Secretary of State who in turn will order it to be published . |
| 23 | For his work among those Times , Distances , Temperatures , Pressures and Energies , Senior Scientific Officer Bissett , Grade 8 , was paid less than his neighbour the plumber and his neighbour the tinned-food salesman . |
| 24 | In this way the man and his sheep may linger in our minds , even if we do not remember the economic difficulties so clearly — ‘ The Last of the Flock ’ would make a good title for a Victorian narrative painting . |
| 25 | He gives as his reason for this sudden discouragement the feeling that his strength was failing him . |
| 26 | But to her surprise the patron and his very large , round-faced wife greeted him like a long-lost son . |
| 27 | In return for paying a small weekly contribution the contributor and his dependants acquired a presumption that they would be treated free without a means test though this was never a legal right . |
| 28 | It was going dark by the time the shepherd and his son shed their ragged leather milking jackets and carried two buckets each up the stone steps to the kitchen , followed by the two carabinieri . |
| 29 | When Charles invited her to dine at Buckingham Palace the Parker-Bowles or his skiing companions Charles and Patti Palmer-Tomkinson were always present . |
| 30 | In desperation the king and his advisers persuaded the Archbishops of Canterbury and Dublin and six other bishops to subscribe to a declaration that the article of the Great Charter regarding ‘ evil customs ’ was not to be construed as abolishing any customary laws essential to the continued existence of the forest . |