Example sentences of "[coord] his [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last weekend , as you will know by now , we briefly overlapped with a bevy of V.C.s from British Universities and the Director-General of the British council & his wife before we left Sian . |
| 2 | My cousins , & his wife , , sailed from Victoria , via Vancouver to spend a day with us in Seattle ( we had already met them at an all-family-reunion wedding in Cheltenham in August . ) . |
| 3 | ‘ Having spent the Vigour of my Youth and Genius under the Oppression of Sir Joshua & his Gang of Cunning Hired Knaves Without Employment & as much as could possibly be Without Bread , the Reader must Expect to Read in all my Remarks on these Books Nothing but Indignation and Resentment . ’ |
| 4 | THE PRINCE & HIS PAVILION |
| 5 | We liked him & his family . |
| 6 | Mrs Beuys had invoked the German law regarding droit de suite whereby a percentage of the sum realised by the sale of a work of art goes to the artist or his heirs ( The Art Newspaper , No.12 , November 1991 ) . |
| 7 | If your painting or other work of art has ever been the subject of a theft in the past then you may not now be the true owner even if you bought it in good faith ; you may be forced to hand it back to the original owner , or his heirs , depending on the relevant jurisdiction . |
| 8 | This provides that if any religious houses alienate tenements given to them by the king or other founders , those tenements shall be recoverable by the donor or his heirs , the buyer losing both the tenement and the purchase price . |
| 9 | Similarly , tenements given for maintaining a chantry or lights in some church or chapel , or given for some other alms , if they were alienated , were also to be recoverable by the donor or his heirs . |
| 10 | Even more striking is the provision that if such a tenement is not alienated , but the alms for which it was originally given are neglected over a period of two years , then the property shall again be recoverable at law by the donor or his heirs . |
| 11 | Most Tories — whatever the Whigs might charge — were not Jacobites , and could genuinely continue to remain Tories after the Glorious Revolution without wishing to see James II or his heirs restored to the throne . |
| 12 | He has no reason to fear the imminent collapse either of his administration or his country . |
| 13 | Not as part of his enquiry , or on behalf of Hamnett , or his country , but for himself . |
| 14 | He cited a Daily Mail article , rather curiously signed Editor , which had attacked him for presiding over the disappearance of ‘ an immense fortune ’ left hint by his father , and had concluded : ‘ It is difficult to see how the leader of a party who has lost his own fortune can hope to restore those of anyone else , or his country . |
| 15 | ‘ Please tell the King , ’ I answered warmly , ‘ that I am ready to give my life to save him or his country . ’ |
| 16 | He did n't do much for his king or his country . |
| 17 | Or his dad has . |
| 18 | Despite his immense forces ( though Bede or his sources may have exaggerated Cadwallon 's numerical superiority for dramatic effect ) , it was Cadwallon who proved the more vulnerable , far from home and by now an isolated member of the alliance which had conspired to defeat Eadwine . |
| 19 | I had met Chris and Nick at Bush House to be interviewed about the anniversary for the World Service ; it was important because of the possibility that John or his kidnappers might be listening and I was very nervous , even more so when I arrived late to discover that the interview was live . |
| 20 | There were about twenty passengers ( this was no passenger ship ) and we slept in the mess , on benches and deckchairs , much resented by the crew , each of us with his possessions , or his secret , crushed like a lover in his arms and whispered to in all the languages of Europe … |
| 21 | This was one of the voyages in which the men of science were in charge , in that the point of the expedition was scientific ; often there had been frustration among scientists on voyages because the captain 's instructions , or his interpretation of them , did not let him stay at interesting places as long as they would have liked , or put enough boats and crews at their disposal . |
| 22 | Eldest daughter Carol , 18 , tells us : ‘ Even though there are 12 of us , he is always there for each of us when we need him or his shoulder to cry on . |
| 23 | Eldest daughter Carol , 18 , tells us : ‘ Even though there are 12 of us , he is always there for each of us when we need him or his shoulder to cry on . |
| 24 | This latter approach does avoid any problems which may arise when , for example following a public liability claim , the contractor 's insurance company claims reimbursement from either the sub-contractor or his insurance company . |
| 25 | 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 ’ . |
| 26 | Souvenir hunters could bid for Maxwell 's engraved 18ct gold Parker fountain pen , estimated at £220 , or his gold dress watch and alarm calendar watch , a snip at £1,000 . |
| 27 | She was not afraid of him or his threats . |
| 28 | ‘ And was the Duke on his feet or his back ? ’ |
| 29 | In fact , his intense interest , an interest which he passed on to Engels and other revolutionary Marxists , is neither accidental nor peripheral : it is one indication of the difference between Marx 's thought and that of other revolutionaries , whether his predecessors or his contemporaries . |
| 30 | As I grew more proficient he leaned on the rail , sucked at his long clay pipe and reminisced about his days in sail or his experiences in ports from Aden to Hong Kong . |