Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Warrants , addressed to the High Court tipstaff or the county court registrar and bailiff , can be issued to arrest a bankrupt where there are reasonable grounds for believing that he may abscond with a view to avoiding or delaying payment of his debts or his appearance to a petition or to avoiding , delaying or disrupting any proceedings against him or any examination of his affairs ( s 364(1) and r 7.21 ) . |
| 2 | He had gone into his father 's firm of solicitors where his looks endeared him to wives in divorce cases , although his extreme reluctance to take decisions prevented them obtaining the best results . |
| 3 | Marlowe chooses to escape from his own Elizabethan society to a land of innocent pursuits where his shepherd asks a young lady , ‘ Come live with me and be my love ’ . |
| 4 | Though an individual pupil may be in his fourth-year class as far as the administration of the school goes , and as far as concerns his social activities or his out-of-school interests , the school must be prepared for him to go off and study the syllabus required for his graded tests alongside people who are not in his own year . |
| 5 | This is a small but important point at which geometers and M. C. Escher do go further ; as , for example , Escher 's Sphere Surface with Fishes or his Circle Limit series . |
| 6 | The Israeli Government maintains that Abie Nathan was prosecuted … not because of his political views or his expression of them , but as a consequence of his actions ’ . |
| 7 | He subsequently described this as merely a " rhetorical technique , " and underlined that these remarks did not represent Yelsin 's views or his own . |
| 8 | Either Jim 's ears or his imagination needs returning , for the fleet-footed midfield maestro hails from Chadderton , midway between those two pillars of the Midlands , Manchester and Oldham . |
| 9 | When it was over , the top of his head ached where it had been crammed up against the headboard and there were red marks just below his knees where his legs had gone over the footboard . |
| 10 | If there are some losses , or some media sniping about Mains or his methods or his selections or his results , then some of those old Mains frowns might re-appear . |
| 11 | A bank accountant was to be believed but not his clients or his clerks . |
| 12 | On Aug. 18 Ratsiraka declared Madagascar to be a federation of six states with himself as President , claiming to have the support of the five provinces where his ruling Arema party continued to hold majorities in the regional councils . |
| 13 | Seymour Clarke , General Manager of the Great Northern Railway , told the 1869 Parliamentary Select Committee on the transit of animals that his company sent meat from almost all the 197 stations on its lines . |
| 14 | I met him once , in the late 1980s , a year or so before his death , in a pub in Camden Town : he was a quick , if ageing , inquisitive and half-bolting creature : more for his thick spectacles than his literary associations , other drinkers in the pub called him ‘ The Professor ’ . |
| 15 | And there was such a look of stark relief in his eyes that his beloved cousin was safe , after all , that , just for a moment , to hide her own pain , Ronni had to drop her gaze away . |
| 16 | Manager Intikhab earned a severe reprimand for to journalists that his players had been ‘ insulted ’ by umpire Palmer 's handling of the sweater . |
| 17 | He set a course for Omsk and cut in the automatic pilot , settling back to cope with the chain of niggling worries that his blunder had triggered off . |
| 18 | Harry led our team by example — although perhaps what some of his colleagues needed was a skipper who could also drive or cajole them to better things — but it was a mark of the respect in which he was held by Palace supporters that his well-deserved Benefit in 1953–54 was so well attended . |
| 19 | But neither his words nor his tone betrayed impatience . |
| 20 | When he arrived in India in 1926 he told one of his private secretaries that his aim was to govern in such a way as ‘ to keep a contented India in the Commonwealth twenty-five years hence ’ . |
| 21 | Insufferably put , and probably not his own thought but something he has read , out of one of his damned French books that his father loathed seeing about the place — he had a phenomenal memory for things he had read . |
| 22 | Graham Taylor 's stand-in captain even missed an 89th-minute penalty , which denied him the place in the history books that his brilliant individual display deserved . |
| 23 | BBC television 's first Troubleshooter series featured Sir John Harvey-Jones telling the chairman of Apricot Computers that his company ought to dispose of its manufacturing operations . |
| 24 | Korda enjoyed the attentions that his relatively exotic origins attracted from the British press . |
| 25 | You know Paul has lent me some very clean but very ugly old fashioned trays of the sort that people have in restaurants that his mother lent him and they 're they 're a God send ! |
| 26 | He proved rather better at handling animals than his own family , who scattered in all directions — his wife to Israel , his younger son to America , and Wim to England . |
| 27 | He made such noisy protestations that his nervous owner fled back into the waiting-room . |
| 28 | Moreover , he could recover the known formulas for four , six and eight squares although his method was quite different . |
| 29 | He is determined to get authoritative results , and demands that his associates be similarly single-minded . |
| 30 | Few will doubt that the Great White Shark 's win in Canada is good for the game , but the manner in which he won his first tournament in almost 28 months did little to dispel those nagging doubts that his temperament is susceptible to pressure . |