Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Long or short range headers above or below the keeper , inside the box or outside , on the volley or off his backside — he 's scored the lot at Cambridge and Alex Ferguson thinks that 's what United need . ’ |
| 2 | As another example of his skill at miniaturisation , he displays his portable 15-cm ( 6-inch ) reflecting telescope , which weighs a mere two-thirds of a kilogram and can fold flat to go in his jacket pocket or between his clothes in a suitcase . |
| 3 | He recognizes this , and indicates the contradiction that must exist between a man 's ideals and his practice , or between his beliefs and his actions . |
| 4 | He may have been influenced by his early days as a teenager in Cairo with his uncle or during his time in Hamburg . |
| 5 | It is not clear whether he was recruited as a Soviet agent at Cambridge or during his trip to Moscow in the summer of 1934 . |
| 6 | It could hardly be healthy for him or for his children . |
| 7 | Where God has spoken and spoken clearly , rationality comes into its own ; where God has not spoken , or for his own reasons has not spoken clearly , there is the area of mystery . |
| 8 | Liberal education for those who could afford to pay for it was unlikely to be required by the son of a bootmaker in Northampton , or for his daughter who was destined to spend her days ‘ in service ’ . |
| 9 | At the beginning of the century , Dudo of St Quentin produced the argument that , since the homage of Duke Rollo of Normandy in 911 had been purely in gratitude for his baptism , it did not mean , either for himself or for his successors , that Normandy was a fief . |
| 10 | The listeners tuned in to the German wavelengths because they found Joyce amusing unintentionally or for his anecdotes , or else because they wished to hear both sides of the argument , or even because they did not trust their own authorities to tell them the whole truth . |
| 11 | If he had testified the alternatives would have been either for the judge to cross-examine him or for his evidence to remain untested and unchallenged . |
| 12 | If , for instance , he is on the common law side , the case that he is asked to consider may turn on the Landlord and Tenant Acts , the Rent Acts , the Consumer Protection Act , the Food and Drugs Act , the Town and Country Planning Acts , the Arbitration Act , tax law , separation , bankruptcy , conflict of laws , carriage of goods , insurance , and many other topics that he may never have studied at the University or for his Bar examinations He will not be expected , and will not need , to have every detail of all these subjects in his mind . |
| 13 | The Khan of the Merkuts did not fear for his position or for his influence . |
| 14 | When Cecil Beaton went to photograph the Royal Family in 1960 , he found the eleven-year-old Prince Charles overawed by the atmosphere , ‘ as if awaiting a clout from behind , or for his father to tweak his ear or pull the tuft of hair at the crown of his head ’ . |
| 15 | From time to time he wriggled them , whether in obedience to some medical instruction or for his own private satisfaction , it was impossible to say . |
| 16 | Or for his own twisted amusement . |
| 17 | Newry defender Errol Lutton , called into the 20-strong Irish training panel earlier this week , has a chance to impress coach Cees Koppelaar , but it 's not clear yet whether he will line out for Ireland or for his club ! |
| 18 | However an agent often holds no money or property for his principal unlike a trustee ; if he does receive money from or for his principal he is merely in a position of debtor to his principal in respect of it and if he receives goods he may hold them as bailee only ( see Lister v Stubbs [ 1890 ] 45 Ch 1 ) . |
| 19 | ( b ) Increase in value of asset The receipt or accrual of the income operates to increase the value to the individual of any assets held by him or for his benefit . |
| 20 | For the sake of his usefulness he might , or for his own honour he might , but if I were de Guichet I 'd never feel sure of it . |
| 21 | But there are no signs that either the phrase or the policy which it expressed ever became part of his own thinking either about the Church as a whole or about his own duties as archbishop . |
| 22 | If , as a result , he rejects the statement , then it will not satisfy us if he tells us all about his feelings of doubt or about his feelings of conviction as to his perceptions . |
| 23 | The boy who brought him food in the morning was a young fellow he had never seen before , and not one of the men-at-arms , but by the look of him one who belonged behind Isambard 's chair in his great hall , or about his wardrobe to help him to dress . |
| 24 | Women with HIV can also infect their male partners through unprotected penetrative sex , if infected vaginal juices get into his body through tiny cuts or tears on the skin of his penis or through his urethra . |
| 25 | Either in his own right , or through his links with other lords , Gloucester dominated the entire north east and the north-western counties of Cumberland and Westmorland . |
| 26 | ‘ that , on general principles , an injury transmitted from the actor to a person through his own organic substance , or through his mother , before he became a person , stands on the same footing as an injury transmitted to an existing person through other intervening substances outside him … |
| 27 | Merceron was not reappointed as a justice of the peace , but in other respects he was as much in control ( either directly or through his brother-in-law , who became vestry clerk ) as he had been before 1809 . |
| 28 | I can not get in touch with him at his office , or his home , or through his daughter . |
| 29 | Either in his own right , or through his links with other lords , Gloucester dominated the entire north east and the north-western counties of Cumberland and Westmorland . |
| 30 | By Ord 29 , r 1A , a copy of the peremptory order should be served , that is handed , to the recalcitrant party before he leaves the court building , or else posted to him , or through his solicitor — by the " proper officer " ; if delivery can not be effected in one or other of these ways , the order is to be delivered to the party for whose benefit the order has been made , and he should then have it served personally . |