Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | If after the contract is formed one party refuses to perform unless the contract is amended to include his terms , it is unlikely that the terms will apply even if the other agrees : even if there is consideration for the other 's promise , the threat to break the contract amounts to economic duress ( see Atlas Express Ltd v Kafco ( Importers and Distributors ) Ltd [ 1989 ] 1 All ER 641 ) . |
| 2 | Bradford Northern coach Peter Fox has delayed naming his side for tomorrow 's Trophy quarter-final against Widnes but Great Britain scrum-half Deryck Fox is definitely out . |
| 3 | My son Jonathan , who turns two on Christmas Day , was fascinated to see his own image when I captured him on home video . |
| 4 | But he had stopped trusting his thoughts . |
| 5 | He had stopped using his legs . |
| 6 | I looked at her with affection and Tremayne patted my shoulder and told them I would be staying on as arranged to write his book . |
| 7 | Her eyes had flown to meet his , then dropped at his sarcastic comment as her cheeks became stained with an ugly red . |
| 8 | He should have arranged to meet his friend Billy in the pub instead of in the cold street by the river , but Billy had insisted . |
| 9 | He drove down the main street of Habane , the capital of Zimbala , and turned into the basement carpark where he had arranged to meet his informant . |
| 10 | The Secretary of State would , at that time ( 1981/82 ) , not have considered using his default powers if , for example , a school failed to offer a modern language ( other than English ) . |
| 11 | The patient is in hospital for treatment of disease , and obviously care is designed to promote his or her comfort and well-being . |
| 12 | He then sent a deputation to the queen-dowager , requiring that Prince Richard be permitted to attend his brother and assist at his coronation . |
| 13 | Later , ladies were forbidden to attend his lectures because of his shocking views and he resigned ( though it is not recorded if he missed the ladies or just their fees ) . |
| 14 | At the same time the manufacturer is expected to support his product with adequate promotional expenditure . |
| 15 | The son 's arrival makes the tenants think that the owner is dead and that the son has come to claim his inheritance . |
| 16 | TONY Benn , the veteran darling of Labour 's left wing , is expected to lose his seat on the party 's ruling National Executive today . |
| 17 | He had expected to lose his life on the track , but he passed away peacefully in his bed . |
| 18 | Donald had forgotten to reset his alarm clock for Daylight Savings Time , and was out in the street at 5.30am : prime drug-dealing time . |
| 19 | The Collector had sat a good deal in this chair over the past few days and it had come to affect his habits of thought . |
| 20 | He had been added to confirm his father 's hold on power : if the Congress would passively accept such a nomination then there could be no threat to Nicolae Ceauşescu 's authority from within , or so it must have seemed . |
| 21 | It was only from looking at film of the first episode that everyone remembered Frank had forgotten to wear his famous beret and raincoat . |
| 22 | For the average funeral the pall-bearer was expected to perform his duties en route as well as within the church ; whereas at the funerals of the great , the pall-bearers were only called into service once the coffin was at the church and ready to proceed up the nave . |
| 23 | He manifested such reluctance to get up that Theodora felt constrained to recharge his glass . |
| 24 | The later crimes duplicate those committed by Dyer , who has wished to baptise his churches with the blood of young victims . |
| 25 | The men around this table had come to accept his leadership also , more and more as if he were the President . |
| 26 | He is expected to increase his offer to £5m , but both Hirst and Wednesday are adamant he will not leave . |
| 27 | Easy Doncaster winner Forest Tiger is expected to consolidate his 2,000 Guineas claims in the Craven Stakes ( 3.40 ) and Jack Berry 's Heather Bank may make all in the Ladbrokes Boldboy Sprint Handicap ( 4.10 ) . |
| 28 | And as regards modern philosophy , in 1868 , before the summons to Basle , he had actually considered writing his doctoral dissertation on Kant , although he subsequently rejected the subject as unsuitable . |
| 29 | If Offa thought he could attempt ‘ to deal on equal terms ’ with Charlemagne , therefore , he was mistaken , and the likelihood is that the Frankish court had come to view his ascendancy in southern England with misgivings , destroying as it had done the traditional shape of political power in the south-east . |
| 30 | But the taxidermy process would have been an expensive business and would have included soaking his skin in tan pits for 14 days , scraping and sandpapering his body , paying the barber for shaving him and cutting his toe nails and one final payment of a shilling for a strong cork . |