Example sentences of "part with " in BNC.

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1 Whitaker may well have parted with a horse of remarkable talent four years ago when he sold U2 to the Edwards family in Shropshire .
2 Yesterday , Lord Justice Slade , sitting with Lord Justice Mann and Sir David Croom-Johnson , said Mrs Luxmoore-May deserved sympathy , as did anyone who had unwittingly parted with a ‘ sleeper ’ — an item of hitherto unrecognised value .
3 It would not allow it to be enforced against the promisor ; and if property had been transferred , the recipient was treated as holding it for the benefit of the person who had parted with it , and as bound to restore it .
4 In none of these cases do we think of the owner as having parted with the right of ownership , though it may be that the contract between the parties creates rights in favour of the bailee which the owner can not use his right of ownership to override .
5 Mr Sinclair said the gun had only been fired once , but two entry wounds had been made in Mr Jowett 's back because the the bullet had parted with its jacket .
6 ‘ Having parted with my dear flock ’ , he says , ‘ I need not say without mutual sense and tears , I left Mr. Baldwin to live privately among them and oversee them in my stead , and visit them from home to home ; advising them , notwithstanding all the injuries they had received and all the failings of the ministers that preached to them and the defects of the present way of worship , that yet they should keep to the public assemblies and make use of such helps as might be had in public , together with this private help … ‘ ( i.e. r.Baldwin ) .
7 Because of this she never had any time for her own parents : my mother could n't think it was right that they 'd parted with two of their children . ’
8 Even quite small companies parted with large sums to ensure that at the end of the line the fare-paying public would be greeted by an imposing terminal .
9 For the time he has parted with the nobler characteristics of his humanity for the sake of a planetary power of locomotion .
10 Below me the clouds parted with alarming speed , revealing the glen below in astonishing clarity .
11 Maidstone had not parted with it but held it firmly in his left fist .
12 Philip refused and the stubborn men parted with harsh words .
13 In the second the situation is that the debtor has voluntarily parted with the property as security for a loan .
14 At the time it was worth five shillings , no mean sum for a Gorbals kid , but had this promise been honoured I would not have parted with the note .
15 It 's only common sense , but I 've seen a lot of hard-earned cash parted with in the pursuit of instrument-enhanced choppery and there just ai n't no such thing .
16 Savory argued that a stranger to whom money had been paid in breach of trust could only be held liable as a constructive trustee to account for the money after he had parted with it , if it could be shown that he knew the money misapplied was trust money .
17 Several small practitioners in the same area as the original complainant also said they had been approached by the company , but only one had parted with any money .
18 Here 's money for my meat ; I would have left it on the board , so soon As I had made my meal ; and parted With prayers for the provider
19 The little dumpling stands to attention with its arms stiffly by its sides , as if being told off by a parent ; the shroud appears to be a shift with separate head-cloth but in actuality is nothing more than the usual loosely gathered linen , parted with greater than usual emphasis to show the entire face .
20 If ever yow 've parted with that , I warn yer , I 'll kill yer ! ’
21 But when the bridal pair returned home to Grantham , Lincs , from their Kenya honeymoon , they discovered that Angela 's parents had not parted with a penny .
22 He thanked them all but told them that ‘ his determination was to spend his life and time and talent in his own family , for whose benefit he had now parted with all his worldly estate among them ’ .
23 The original plan had been to leave all the top posts open , with a promise to find people as soon as the investors had parted with their cash .
24 I know she would never have parted with them .
25 Black in turn , after substantially advancing the project , parted with it to Historic Aircraft Collection Ltd and continued to oversee the project management for the current owners .
26 When much later in the afternoon she got up to get the tea a tearing sound was heard as her nice blue overall parted with the gummy chair — she let out a burst of laughter .
27 By half past ten , Deirdre ( Molloy ) Kavanagh had parted with all her little triangles of tricoloured pastry , taken off her apron , drunk a few glasses of champagne , told several guests that broccoli was out of fashion , and was busily engaged in conversation with a television journalist who had just returned from making a programme for Charles in Iran .
28 If , in reliance on the transfer , the building society accepted the legal charge executed by the Hammonds and parted with the £15,000 , an estoppel by representation would , as it seems to me , bar Mr. Steed from denying that the transaction completed by the transfer was a sale .
29 ‘ shall be unenforceable against the other party [ i.e. the investor ] ; and that party shall be entitled to recover any money or other property paid or transferred by him under the agreement , together with compensation for any loss sustained by him as a result of having parted with it .
30 Similarly in Re New Mashonaland Exploration Company Vaughan Williams J commented , obiter , that where a company has resolved to lend money on security , to have parted with the money before the security had been created would have been negligent .
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