Example sentences of "[prep] his master 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | Learning of his master 's plight , the chanter hurried to the beach and sang the following mele : |
| 2 | When Pelops came from Asia Minor he found thirteen heads nailed on the palace front ; but he bribed Oenomaus 's groom Myrtilos ( with the promise of Hippodameia 's favours ) to take the lynch-pin from one of his master 's chariot-wheels and substitute one of wax . |
| 3 | He looked servile , Albert said happily to himself — not like a man of command passing on old clothes at all ; more like a foot-man waiting for an end of his master 's good-byes . |
| 4 | Again , a servant in custody of his master 's goods has not possession of them , for it is constructively in the master . |
| 5 | But he declared that he would be unable to recognize Roksanda , after having seen her for such a short time , and that only by the light of his master 's ring . |
| 6 | The elder of the body slaves gathered the braided ends of his master 's hair and bound them together with gold wire . |
| 7 | She wondered if fitzAlan had noticed that Chalon , taking advantage of his master 's unusual inattentiveness , had stopped and was investigating a bush by the side of the road . |
| 8 | Morton 's an irritant , he has many of his master 's vices without the virtues , but I can deal with that . |
| 9 | Now , in accepting Tully 's offer , the defendant was not protecting his master 's interests … [ he ] was placing himself in a position in which there was a conflict of interests between him and his principal and he was looking after his own interests to the detriment of his master 's interests . |
| 10 | ‘ He 's special , Master Venables , because he 's a murderer , a felon who has stolen over two hundred pounds of his master 's monies , and it looks as if he has got away scot free ! ’ |
| 11 | In Ashton 's version , as in the Russian staged version , the Tutor 's encounter with Katia , the servant girl , allows him momentarily to be back home amongst his master 's peasants . |
| 12 | Catherine explicitly denied the serf 's right to appeal to the State against his master 's treatment . |
| 13 | A light flicked off , and he knocked and disappeared into his master 's office , leaving McLeish and Catherine by his desk . |
| 14 | The seneschal stooped slightly as the under-cook borrowed a stool and stood on it to whisper something into his master 's ear . |
| 15 | He was soon overpowered with either sleep or cold , when his faithful defendant , who had closely attended to every step , scratched away the snow so as to throw up a sort of protecting wall around his helpless master ; then mounting upon the exposed body , rolled himself round and lay upon his master 's bosom , for which his shaggy coat proved a most seasonable covering and eventual protection during the dreadful severity of the night , the snow falling all the time . |
| 16 | The documents sometimes distinguish between a slave living in his master 's house and a slave with a cottage of his own , but not very often . |
| 17 | Another Lassus pupil at Munich , Leonhard Lechner ( c. 1553–1606 ) , later a convert to Protestantism , began his career with Latin church music in his master 's style , composed a great tri-choral , 24-part epithalamium , ‘ Quid chaos ’ ( 1582 ) in the Venetian manner , and bade farewell to life in an extraordinary set of fifteen Spruche von Leben und Tod — the dramatic power and profound emotion of which , however , he had already anticipated in ‘ O Tod , du bist ein bittre Gallen ’ , one of his Newe teutsche Lieder ( Nuremberg , 1582 ) . |
| 18 | Ranulf saw the seriousness in his master 's face . |
| 19 | However , the dividing line between what is and what is not permissible is often difficult to draw , as Maugham LJ illustrated in the Wessex Dairies case : … although the servant is not entitled to make use of information which he has obtained in confidence in his master 's service he is entitled to make use of the knowledge and skill which he acquired while in that service , including knowledge and skill directly obtained from the master in teaching him his business . |
| 20 | As a result , the labourer has no view down the vista of which , from his master 's point of view , he forms the conclusion , his windows being so arranged that he can not overlook it . |
| 21 | They can discharge a journeyman from service without his master 's content ; they can advance their wages , and in many instances , prevent the master taking more apprentices than they approve of , and such a number , as the nature of the work requires . |
| 22 | It was , he said , his job to cook and see to his master 's clothes and open the door and go marketing , not to be a spy . |
| 23 | Over a period of time , the dog was moulded to his master 's needs , calling on all the virtues of his ancestors : herding ability , speed , guarding ability , strength and power , but most of all intelligence . |
| 24 | Mr Chester 's valet who , after Chester 's death , ‘ true to his master 's creed , eloped with all the cash and movables he could lay his hands on , and started as a finished gentleman on his own account ’ . |
| 25 | Whatever the bodyservant picks up may be grist to his master 's mill . |
| 26 | She writes that , indeed , when there were balls or fêtes , there was sometimes a queue for the public lavatories , and then a rich bourgeois might pay a nobleman 's servant as much as four louis d'or to be conducted to his master 's privy . |
| 27 | After acceding to his master 's wishes Nine Turning Mirrors would , I am quite sure , make his own arrangements with a view to ensuring that one wanderer would not be allowed to return home bringing , perhaps , the disease of dissatisfaction . |
| 28 | It was all there in the way , in Czech , he called the dog off ; as the dog immediately obeyed , let go of her and went to his master 's side , the man , his charm of yesterday nowhere to be seen , blasted her in English with an angry , ‘ Have n't you any sense ? ’ |
| 29 | The beloved cross-terrier , found sitting next to his master 's dead body on Saturday afternoon in Woolfall Heath Avenue , Huyton , was judged to be too ill by animal experts . |
| 30 | The Harris 's hawk was brought out and took up his position on his master 's fist , coldly surveying the land . |