Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | He never actually took the stuff or got his hands dirty in any way . ’ |
| 2 | None , not even literary men of distinction in their own right , like E. M. Forster , Ronald Duncan and William Polmer , showed him the way or disputed his paramountcy . |
| 3 | Their seniors attended Thorfinn , moving in rotation , so that he always had Osbern or Ansfred his son or Baldric or Hugh de Riveire or Flodwig or Salomon of the Val de Saire or some combination of these in his company , as was the rule with his mormaers and their leading men . |
| 4 | The knight had to swerve at the last moment to avoid a head-on collision with his opponent , but at the same time he had to couch his lance to his side as tightly as possible with his hand and under his arm so that the lance blow was struck with all the weight and momentum of his horse behind it , for if in swerving aside he moved his hand or used his arm to thrust at his opponent then a blow delivered in this manner would have no effect whatever . |
| 5 | You do n't think you 've killed him or severed his spine or anything but , if you have , that ca n't be helped . |
| 6 | So to say , ‘ Jesus is God ’ , does not imply or claim that we have made direct observation of a hidden ‘ divine nature ’ in him , or explored his relationship with the Father from the inside . |
| 7 | Peter did not read the newspapers , nor listen to the radio or watch television much ; he read books or played his games . |
| 8 | Perhaps he should extend it , for he had not yet taken Alice to the promised lunch at the Ritz , or been up to Leicestershire to see Mrs Appleby , or fulfilled his promise to Jenny to go down to Calking to see the shop and meet Jack and his family . |
| 9 | If only he had not caught nits and been sent home from school , fallen in the beck , lost his shoes , been attacked by Rosie or injured his hand just because he was too cowardly to follow Buddie 's instructions . |
| 10 | It is possible to argue that he wrote in the proportion to which each location claimed or received his spans of time and attention — and as he spent more than twice the length of time out on the islands as he did getting there , the greater part of his book addresses the west . |
| 11 | The Far Eastern Economic Review of Sept. 20 commented that reports suggesting that Li Peng 's decision to step down reflected " political vulnerability " or presaged his removal as Premier " appear to be groundless " . |
| 12 | She did not ask herself then under what compulsion he had made his plots or constructed his worlds ; she accepted them as one accepts fairy tales in childhood . |
| 13 | Hands clapped his back or held his hand or touched his shoulder briefly . |
| 14 | Judicial review does lie to the visitor in cases where he has acted outside his jurisdiction ( in the narrow sense ) or abused his powers or acted in breach of the rules of natural justice . |
| 15 | Nobody who had looked at the bald bullet-head and roly-poly self-confidence of the visitor , or heard his folksy repartee , could fail to have been reminded of an American grass roots politician on tour . |
| 16 | Already she opens my father 's letters , though so far she has not read them out loud or tied his tie for him . |
| 17 | Marek must have been interrupted or decided his confession was over . |
| 18 | DROP : A player drops a ball when he has hit out of bounds or lost his original ball . |
| 19 | Would I be away at any time , when was ill or needed his mummy ? |
| 20 | It was n't as if she wanted or needed his complete understanding . |
| 21 | From 12 October 1810 to St Patrick 's Day 1811 he either hunted or exercised his hounds every day , Sundays included . |
| 22 | Perhaps I heard a sound or saw his shadow moving , I do n't know . |
| 23 | This was n't like love at all , this was n't what she felt when they kissed , or when he put his mouth behind her ear , or rubbed his hands over her stomach , or when , alone in her own bed she had imagined he was there with her . |
| 24 | If he 's never caught his breath at the sight of your crooked smile , or felt his heart lurch with love at the sound of your voice , or watched you walk across a room and wanted you and finally found out that you return his feelings , then he 's a poor man and I 'm the richest man in the world . |
| 25 | Other old people flanked him expressionlessly and two younger women wearing indeterminate blue uniforms and faces of bleache sincerity underscored or punctuated his address with marching music from pipe and drum . |
| 26 | He never lifted whole sections of design from antique buildings as Wilkins did , and as some architects are doing again in our own day , or squeezed his buildings into medieval or Jacobean plan forms : it would never have occurred to him that he should . |
| 27 | 1 Where the person bringing an action to recover land , or some person through whom he claims , has been in possession of the land , and has while entitled to the land been dispossessed or discontinued his possession , the right of action shall be treated as having accrued on the date of the dispossession or discontinuance . |
| 28 | He would n't be allowed to fart or pick his nose or put his feet on the table . |
| 29 | Had he been a dunce at it or did his present situation , despite the opportunity it affords for the histrionics he so loves , make him feel like pawn ? |
| 30 | Or did his advice derive from the crooked workings of a twisted kind of covetousness — perhaps the kind prohibited by the Ninth Commandment , Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour 's wife , which had always seemed superfluous after the Sixth . |