Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [coord] his " in BNC.

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1 The honourable calling of a councillor must be of the highest worth for no councillor must lower himself or his calling by obtaining any illegal financial gain from his activities as a councillor .
2 This , coupled with the notion of the magistrate as being responsible for enforcement of the judgments handed down by himself or his deputy , would surely suggest that he could give judgment for performance and enforce it specifically .
3 However , by s 6 of the 1907 Act , a limited partner may by himself or his agent at any time inspect the books of the firm and look into the state and prospects of the partnership business , and may advise with the partners thereon .
4 This belief not only increases the beneficial effects of the specific therapy but also helps him to become more confident in general as well as in his ability to change anything about himself or his life that he does not like .
5 The artist accuses Mr Debbasch , who is also Rector of the University of Aix-Marseille III , of selling off works from the Fondation Vasarely , created in 1976 , without the permission of either himself or his family .
6 If the situation requires quick action , there being no time to seek higher authority , the receptionist at an inn may detain the guest 's luggage ( not the guest himself or his vehicle ) and exercise the innkeeper 's lien over the guest 's property until the bill is paid in full .
7 It was as if he were still competing for Martha : every return to harbour became a race between his ketch and Sam 's ; every catch had to be compared for weight and quality , and every new little luxury Harry purchased for himself or his wife had to be announced that evening in the Russell alehouse as further proof of his superiority .
8 There was no form of words he could quote to define himself or his purpose , like a lodestar or a motto an ancient family would bear on its coat of arms .
9 They apply in cases of ( a ) inadvertence , ( b ) misadventure and ( c ) death , and empower licences to be granted to the parties in possession of the premises and objections to be considered whereby an objector himself or his representatives if he is deceased in such cases at an adjourned meeting .
10 ‘ Brother Hopkins was a man not at peace with himself or his order .
11 Rune drove well , with the confidence of a man who knew he had nothing to prove about the potential of either himself or his car , Gina conceded as she tried to relax , the soft background music taking the edge off her immediate anxieties about Suzie 's whereabouts and safety .
12 I could not stand another hour of the man himself or his bleating sheep of a wife , ’ she said tartly .
13 An independent source in the West Country in 1739 thought it " rare " to find a clothier who paid ready cash unless he also obliged his workers to lay it out again with himself or his friends .
14 Ruthven had his cat with him , stroking it and muttering something — I could not tell whether he was talking to himself or his pet .
15 The partners for the time being should not exclude the possibility of negotiation to take account of the particular circumstances of a partner 's departure , eg where to delay payment for his share could result in hardship for himself or his family , or where to insist on strict observance of restraint covenants might stand in the way of a young solicitor wishing to develop a specialised practice in a field of work rarely undertaken by the firm .
16 ( d ) Post-dissolution profits Section 42 of the Partnership Act is concerned with the rights of outgoing partners in certain cases to share profits made after dissolution : ( 1 ) Where any member of a firm has died or otherwise ceased to be a partner , and the surviving or continuing partners carry on the business of the firm with its capital or assets without any final settlement of accounts as between the firm and the outgoing partner or his estate , then , in the absence of any agreement to the contrary , the outgoing partner or his estate is entitled at the option of himself or his representatives to such share of the profits made since the dissolution as the Court may find to be attributable to the use of his share of the partnership assets , or to interest at the rate of five per cent per annum on the amount of his share of the partnership assets .
17 Queen 's Bench Masters ' Practice Direction of 25 March , 1988 requires that where an order is made transferring an action from the Queen 's Bench Division to a county court , the party having carriage of the order by himself or his solicitor shall forthwith produce at the Filing Department of the Central Office the order transferring the action and shall file : ( 1 ) a copy of the order transferring the action ; ( 2 ) a statement of the names and addresses of the parties and of their solicitors ; ( 3 ) copies of any pleadings served ; ( 4 ) if he is the plaintiff and has not served a statement of claim , particulars of his claim together with a copy for each defendant ; ( 5 ) if he is the defendant and only a counterclaim is transferred and no counterclaim has been served , particulars of the counterclaim together with a copy for the plaintiff ; ( 6 ) where money has been paid into court , a copy of the notice of payment into court ; ( 7 ) a statement of the index numbers of any affidavits filed .
18 ‘ I asked if it was for himself or his mother .
19 Clearly neither Paul Black himself nor his committee could have read the book : otherwise they would surely have paused for thought before designing a system with such awful possibilities .
20 The author was keen that neither himself nor his readership should be considered prejudiced .
21 Yet , faced with the harsh fact that saving will benefit neither himself nor his family and frugality be of profit to none of his prospective beneficiaries , a rich man who has been generous in life will be encouraged to a prodigal standard of living .
22 He is among the least ego-bound of book-writers , the least ego-bound of autobiographers , at all times able to look beyond himself and his community .
23 Although it may not have been related , within a month he had crashed on a bad weather approach , killing himself and his friend .
24 The boy 's way of appearing to guide his girl just in front of him in all travelling steps affects the carrige of both himself and his partner .
25 On one occasion , lashing about for reasons after the event , Raskolnikov cries out ‘ I simply wanted to dare , Sonya , that was my only motive ’ ; and next to ‘ I just did it ’ this must be reckoned his least untrue account of himself and his deed .
26 In a takeover campaign that has already seen vitriolic language , he responds to the charge that he is mounting the bid to enrich himself and his friends by saying : ‘ Nobody could take that as a criticism — this is an investor group .
27 He described himself and his colleagues as facilitators who would try to help create the climate for negotiations .
28 He admits that he is a hard task master , on himself and his cast .
29 But in his interview with The Independent , Mr Heseltine staked out the areas of difference between himself and his front-bench colleagues .
30 It will be interesting to see whether Mr de Klerk has the courage to lift the state of emergency , unban the ANC and unleash against himself and his government the full might of the Sisulu family .
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