Example sentences of "his [noun pl] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This miraculous experience was far more appealing to many of his contemporaries than the sober , austere disciplines of the more conventional mystics . |
| 2 | His company , a family business , was recently sold against his wishes and the British Steel Challenge was announced at a time when he was looking for a complete change of direction . |
| 3 | Mr Freeman said some parishioners were upset by his views but the majority were supportive . |
| 4 | There was a gulf between the truculence of his views and the introversion of his behaviour . |
| 5 | He asked the forensic team leader for his views and the man shook his head . |
| 6 | He was refused entry to Kuwait and asked for asylum in France.President Giscard d'Estaing asked the Shah his views and the Shah made one of the worst mistakes in his reign by agreeing the Khomeini should go to France , He assumed that the obstreperous priest would be les of a threat to him in distant , Christian France than in neighbouring , radical , Islamic country . |
| 7 | Do the views expressed in it represent his views and the views of the whole of his party , or the views of only one part of his Front-Bench team ? |
| 8 | The hon. Gentleman 's hon. and learned Friend has as much right to express his views as the hon. Gentleman had . |
| 9 | There were no forks , and everyone seemed to be using either his fingers or a knife . |
| 10 | He had lost the feeling in his fingers and a rime of frost clung to his moustache and beard . |
| 11 | The crowd watched in fascinated silence as Mr Hellibore snapped his fingers and a small table appeared in his hand set with a white table-cloth , tea for three , and a huge plate of toast , crumpets and butter . |
| 12 | Algernon peered at the table , then snapped his fingers and a pot of honey appeared . |
| 13 | He tried to knock some aside but they clung to his fingers and a spider danced across his knuckles and disappeared up his sleeve . |
| 14 | He used his fingers and the stick , he scuffled food into his mouth from the pan which he held close by his mouth so that any pieces that fell from his fingers or lips would go back into the container , not onto the ground . |
| 15 | He clicked his fingers and the two Highlanders stepped forward . |
| 16 | To Ted 's consternation , the soil of the slope suddenly gave way and the halter shank ran through his fingers as the terrified horse slipped down towards the water . |
| 17 | On seventeenth of August nineteen sixty seven object of defeating the option and having discovered through the result of his solicitors that the option had not been registered , sold and been paid the farm five hundred pounds and after the sale by registering the option under the land chartered act and on the sixth of October nineteen sixty seventeen could have exercised the option and neither or his wife complied with the notice and on March twenty eighth nineteen sixty eight wife died and on the twenty seventh of January nineteen seventy commenced proceedings against his father against his mother 's executors the declaration of the option was . |
| 18 | Affidavits from the defendants ' solicitors established that the photocopy affidavit was supplied to them by the second defendant for the purposes of seeking legal advice in circumstances where litigation was contemplated , but did not indicate whether the photocopy sent was a photocopy which the second defendant made for the purpose of instructing his solicitors or a photocopy which had been sent to the second defendant by the employee himself , prepared for the employee 's own purposes which had nothing whatever to do with the defendants obtaining legal advice from their soliticors . |
| 19 | In a series of conversations with the Frenchman Didier Eribon published by Thames and Hudson this month , Sir Ernst Gombrich , former director of the Warburg Institute and one of the most distinguished academics of our time ( yet one of the most accessible because of his belief that it should be possible to explain everything in language that can be understood by a child ) , talks about the development of his ideas , his values and the events which contributed to their formation . |
| 20 | Both the scale of his operations and the degree of his specialization in financial business made him a unique figure in early Stuart England , though he did have a few other economic irons in the fire : among them , a share in the tobacco monopoly and the export of iron ordnance in the 1620s and huge purchases of East India Company pepper in 1623 and 1628 . |
| 21 | Employing his considerable powers of persuasion to the full , he convinced his superiors that the German Eighth Army should disengage from Rennenkampf 's First Army near Gumbinnen , leaving merely a cavalry screen , and strike with every available man at Samsonov 's advancing Second Army . |
| 22 | He made his gripe known to one of his superiors and the decision was changed , but only after he had , in his own words , ‘ kicked up a fuss ’ . |
| 23 | A noose was tied round his ankles and the free end led up over his back . |
| 24 | Worried friends alerted coastguards after Burnett told them his plans and a full-scale alert was broadcast to shipping . |
| 25 | The legatine visitation would provide Offa with an opportunity to acquaint the pope with his plans and the thinking behind them , but there can be no question about the opposition to them at Canterbury . |
| 26 | Perdita was settling down and had even hit a respectable forehand which only just missed the goal when Alejandro , out of some devilry , swopped one of his sons and a cousin for Luke and Angel . |
| 27 | The government 's assurances came amidst reports that US officials , meeting with the Crown Prince in March , had submitted evidence showing that one of his sons and a nephew had been responsible for the organization of anti-Palestinian " death squads " . |
| 28 | The obvious thing to do with such an important heiress was to betroth her to one of his sons and the fact that he chose his third son , Geoffrey , shows that Richard was still marked out as the future Duke of Aquitaine . |
| 29 | And there it was , in the late nineties , he was adding up his pence and his shillings and the odd pound or two here and there , these were his costs of making the pictures that he was making in those days , and then when you turned over and we came to nineteen hundred , nineteen hundred and one , nineteen hundred and two , erm the figures had broadened and under the pounds into three figures and then into four . |
| 30 | In a stand-up scenario , as the crazy newsagent , Merton was on form ( although rarely at his very best ) , but put him in one of his sketches and the limitations of his acting are obvious . |