Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | This causes purchase intentions to fall , only to be followed by an increase as the salesperson overcomes the objection or substantiates his claim . |
| 2 | ( ii ) If the wife becomes entitled to the whole house and requests that the matrimonial home be conveyed or transferred to herself and her " new husband " ( to whom she is not married ) , is the wife making a gift for inheritance tax purposes to the " new husband " ? ( iii ) The Inland Revenue capital gains tax concession mentioned in Chapter 2 may not be available ( on a strict interpretation of its wording ) to the former husband if he conveys or transfers his interest in his former principal private residence to someone other than his spouse or ex-spouse. ( iv ) A conveyance to someone other than a party to the marriage will not attract the stamp duty relief of s83 of the Finance Act 1985 , ( see p22 ) but if it is a voluntary disposition , exemption L of The Stamp Duty ( Exempt Instruments ) Regulations 1987 ( SI No 516 ) ( Chapter 2 ) will apply . |
| 3 | The child now turns the paper over , or covers his first attempt , if it was right , and writes it again from memory . |
| 4 | Consideration means not so much that one party is profited as that the other abandons some legal right in the present , or limits his legal freedom of action in the future , as an inducement for the promise of the first . |
| 5 | Use ‘ time out ’ if the child becomes aggressive or loses his or her temper . |
| 6 | A worthwhile person is always competent : he never makes mistakes , slips of the tongue , errors of judgement or loses his thread halfway through a lesson or a meeting . |
| 7 | The irony is that Angus Wilson is , in the best sense , an experimental writer , by which I do not mean that he makes holes in the page or shuffles his paragraphs around . |
| 8 | When he pulls himself up or corrects his placing or step he beams on the audience as , for example , when he finishes with his back after a pirouette and hastily turns to face them . |
| 9 | A ‘ smack in the mouth ’ will usually be sufficient , especially if the opponent then backs down or buttons his lip . |
| 10 | The most obvious example is when a competitor raises or lowers his prices . |
| 11 | ‘ I just hope we can catch up with him before he gets knocked down by a car or finds his way off the roads into open countryside or woodland where it will be harder to find him . ’ |
| 12 | Sometimes Paul puts a tick next to Keith 's name , and then Keith remembers a meeting or changes his mind or something . |
| 13 | When the driver pushes the throttle button or puts his foot on the pedal , there is none of the usual mechanical linkage there to swing into action . |
| 14 | It is questionable whether the accused has entered if he inserts a key into a lock or puts his hand through a window . |
| 15 | Whilst the husband and wife as owners of the legal estate can make a conveyance or transfer as trustees to the wife alone as discussed in the previous section , there seems no good reason , when the husband conveys or releases his beneficial interest to the wife , why she should not receive the benefit of the " beneficial owner " covenants ( see Chapter 3 ) . |
| 16 | The way he frames a shot or moves his camera and the pace he establishes through editing amount , in the end , to his own view of the world . |
| 17 | The fact that the life tenant is domiciled in the United Kingdom when he dies or gives his life interest away is irrelevant . |
| 18 | As each name is recited by the Lord Chancellor , the recipient steps forward , bows slightly , and kneels or inclines his head to receive the award . |
| 19 | Defoe in 1730 had considered a poor man in constant work could earn from 4s to 5s ( 20-25p ) a week , " which will barely purchase bread and cheese and clothes for his family , so that if he falls sick or dies his wife and children infallibly come to the parish for relief , who allow them a small pittance or confine them in a workhouse " . |
| 20 | The orthodox Jew touches his fingers to his lips , then to the mezuzah each time he enters or leaves his home . |
| 21 | Over these erm past couple of weeks we 've been looking at er some of the questions in the New Testament , we thought a couple of weeks back of the question that Jesus asked his disciples , do you think I 'm able to do this and then last week we looked at a question that the disciples put to Jesus , that time when they came down from the mountain and they found the re , three of them came down with Jesus from the mountain of transfiguration and they found the other disciples with a man who and a , whose son was demon possessed and er they had been unable to help him and the man or brings his son to Jesus and Jesus delivers him and afterwards the disciples who had been so helpless put the question to Jesus , why could we not cast out this demon and this morning I 'd like us to look at another question , we 've got another one today and one God willing next week , er and the question is , is found in Luke chapter thirteen , let me just read a few verses , because of course it 's , it 's not just the questions , it 's the answers that are important as well in Luke chapter thirteen , gon na read from verse twenty two it says in Jesus was passing through from one city and village to another , teaching and proceeding on his way to Jerusalem now that gives us a clue in that , because Jesus only ever went to Jerusalem apart from when he was a boy , he only ever went to Jerusalem once and that , after since that time , and that was when he was crucified , so Jesus was now on his way to Jerusalem , it was the latter days , the latter weeks of the life of Jesus , he was making his way now to Jerusalem and someone said to him Lord are there just a few who are being saved and Jesus said to hi , to them , strive to enter by the narrow door for many I tell you will seek to enter and will not be able , once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door and you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying Lord open to us , then he will answer and say to you I do not know where you are from , then you will begin to say we ate and drank in your presence and you taught in our streets , and he will say I tell you I do not know where you are from , depart from me all you evil doers , there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth there , when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the profits in the kingdom of God , but yourselves being cast out and they will come from East and West and from North and South and will recline at the table in the Kingdom of God , and behold some ar some are last who will be first and some are first who will be last , so it 's just that question then , let's remind ourselves that is put to Jesus Lord are there just a few who are being saved |
| 22 | Does n't the apostle say , he that taketh his stand , take heed lest yee fall ! |
| 23 | Only 14 days for the seven years to be increased to the sentence that fits his crimes and his evil — life . |
| 24 | In too many cases the draughtsman finds it quicker to design a new part than to search through hundreds of drawings for one that fits his task . |
| 25 | His humour constantly breaks through in asides and anecdotes , as does a delightful and mastering smile that transforms his face like Aegean sunlight on a frowning sea . |
| 26 | His captaincy is partly due to his quiet , controlled manner and a confidence and authority that unnerves his opponents — on and off the competition mat . |
| 27 | Certainly the taste for parody has n't deserted him ( witness the piano pieces in homage to Scarlatti , Medtner , Alkan , late Liszt et al ) ; nor has his taste for rum titles ( such as the choral work Oil or petrol Marks on a Wet Road are Sometimes held to be Spots where a Rainbow Stood ) . |
| 28 | Nor has his influence always been entirely healthy : he resembles Nietzsche and Schopenhauer in that it has sometimes been the more morbid and pathological features of his thought that have exercised the strongest fascination on his readers . |
| 29 | Are you the chap that has his bike ? ’ |
| 30 | The reformulated law makes it plain that an offence is committed if the defendant conducts himself in a way that causes his victim to anticipate that the defendant is about to use unlawful violence . |