Example sentences of "his [noun] [prep] a private " in BNC.
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| 1 | He asked his Chairman for a private chat they retired to the gents and Gould who had no contract said he was finished . |
| 2 | Later in the day , following a meeting in Dartford , Kent , with Tory MPs and members of the public protesting over the route of the planned Channel tunnel high-speed rail link , Mr Parkinson reiterated his faith in a private sector solution to the funding crisis . |
| 3 | A HIGH-flying romantic proposed to his girlfriend in a private plane , 2,000ft in the air . |
| 4 | After the sudden retirement of the previous postholder , we require a valet for duties at his home on a private island in the South China Sea . |
| 5 | Mr Reenan , 70 , was only glimpsed briefly yesterday , sneaking a glance out of the window of his home in a private road . |
| 6 | ‘ He wanted to develop his business on a private basis , and if he came into the glare of publicity as owner of Manchester United he would not be able to do that , ’ one of the negotiators said . |
| 7 | Occasionally his job as a private insurance investigator allowed him this privilege but there were occasions which called for him to dress more formally . |
| 8 | The European Court held the refusal was a breach of his right to a private and family life , since the file was the major record of his childhood , and there should have been an independent body which could override an improper refusal of consent . |
| 9 | In a strong judgment the Court also claimed that the ‘ dignity and freedom of an individual in a democratic society can not be ensured if his communications of a private nature , be they written or telephonic , are deliberately , consciously and unjustifiably intruded upon and interfered with ’ . |
| 10 | Keith makes a lot of entries in his Filofax in a private code . |
| 11 | He will also know that the General Synod is a creature of Parliament and that it is fully in his hands as a private Member to introduce a Bill to abolish the General Synod of the Church of England if he so wishes . |
| 12 | But her supper table was renowned ; it was likely to attract the right kind of dissolute young man , coming out of the theatre or on his way to a private gambling party . |
| 13 | Cavallo also revealed that he needed a minimum of US$10,000 a month to maintain his personal life style , the majority of his income coming from his involvement in a private thinktank , the Mediterranean Foundation , which was supported by large companies . |
| 14 | How does the Prime Minister justify sending his son to a private school where nearly £4,000 a year is spent on each child when at present half the children in Tory-run Cambridgeshire 's secondary schools receive only half that amount and when that authority is currently reducing its budget by almost £2 million ? |