Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] his [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is for this reason that in so much of the literature and documentation dealing with the justification of a war emphasis was placed upon the enemy as a rebel who must be punished for his acts of infidelity or treason . |
| 2 | The porch was commissioned by Bishop John Jewel , and its design may have been influenced by the neo-classical architecture to which Jewel had been exposed during his years of exile in Mary 's reign . |
| 3 | Jovellanos , in his campaign for technical education and the useful arts as a means of raising living standards , may be forgiven for his attacks on the dead languages . |
| 4 | At another party , in the South of France , a reefer is placed between his lips by a girl whose trousers fall down . |
| 5 | He detests travelling alone , he is impossible to clip unless doped , he loathes vets and injections ( ‘ We can just about get a needle into a vein now he 's sixteen … ’ and he has to be sedated for his teeth to be rasped . |
| 6 | ‘ In most cases the auditor is best placed to conduct a thorough and expeditious investigation and need not be torn between his duties to two masters , ’ he adds . |
| 7 | The external economic relations commissioner , Sir Leon Brittan , welcomed Mr Clinton 's commitment to successful completion of the Uruguay Round , which he said he had expected after his talks with US officials in Washington last week . |
| 8 | I have looked after his books for forty years and that 's all I know , so he gave me the capital to start and here I am . ’ |
| 9 | His shoulders lifted towards his ears as if to help the grin along . |
| 10 | A few lines earlier ‘ wonder ’ has come into his eyes at the mention of Lothlórien . |
| 11 | He was caught with his clothes in tatters trying to flee in a taxi and owned up to police . |
| 12 | This work was summarized in his Studies on the Periodicity of Earthquakes ( 1938 ) . |
| 13 | He died in Battlesden 4 March 1687 and was succeeded in his estates by his son William ( c .1647–1704 ) whose undistinguished career in Parliament and administration was a paler shadow of his own . |
| 14 | The difference is that with the first type , the innocent party , though entitled to damages , must still perform his part of the bargain , whereas with a repudiatory breach he may , in addition to claiming damages , regard himself as discharged from his obligations under the contract . |
| 15 | John Piper was , at the time , a constable , but was to be discharged from his duties at the following session . |
| 16 | They said that if the expert departed from his instructions in a material respect , eg where he was called on to value shares in a company and he valued the wrong number of shares or shares in the wrong company , that would be sufficient . |
| 17 | ‘ However , it seems that Rob 's come to his senses at last and realised that Heather is the only person he wants . |
| 18 | The Crown 's case against L was that it could be inferred that the stolen property had come to his premises with his knowledge and by prior arrangement and therefore was in his control and possession ; and that he was therefore guilty of burglary or handling . |
| 19 | They are also being personally recommended to his clients by Nicholas Bonham , the Deputy Chairman of Bonhams Auctioneers . |
| 20 | The official version of John Main 's transformation from watchman to tidesman was that this was a great favour to Main and would be a temporary appointment until he could again be reappointed to his duties as watchman at Inverkeithing . |
| 21 | He belched loudly when the account was finished and picked at his teeth with a sliver of wood . |
| 22 | Charles sat among Charity 's glossy acquaintances , the only uniform in the whole peculiar set of imbibers , perhaps not so peculiar as the last time he 'd dropped in when the Aleister Crowley entourage gave sinister overtones to the entire pub , the ‘ Black Magician ’ himself in his wide black hat sat surrounded by his followers in equally curious clothes . |
| 23 | We follow him in treating these aspects of the life course as a moral career , since they are concerned with a person 's reputation , a kind of continuous summing up of his life in terms of what sort of person he is supposed by his fellows to be . |
| 24 | Before the next race , the Canadian Grand Prix , it was announced that Hunt had been stripped of his points from the British Grand Prix , Hunt , and the McLaren team , were incensed by the decision and went out and won the Canadian and US Grands Prix ( East ) in successive weeks . |
| 25 | And Mark Hateley , so named during his days in Italian football , believes Rangers are more than capable of taking on Europe 's best now they have reached the mini-league stage of the Champions Cup . |
| 26 | He was strong enough now to attribute the man 's parting shot about his drawings to sheer malice . |
| 27 | No word has been said about his fears for his sons . |
| 28 | A good deal has been said about his struggles on the greens in the last 28 months , but in Canada the situation was altogether different . |
| 29 | He has written about his experiences in the respected twice-yearly Darlington Postgraduate Journal which is put together by doctors at the Memorial Hospital . |
| 30 | He may also have been influenced by the favour shown by Parliament to his friend , Philip Herbert , fourth Earl of Pembroke [ q.v. ] , when it voted that he should be indemnified for his losses in the war . |