Example sentences of "'s [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | The breach of duty consists not of allowing the conflict of interest to arise because that is often outside the control of the director , but of the director 's preferring his own personal interests to those of persons for whom he acts as fiduciary , or of taking advantage of such a position . |
| 2 | Not in day-to-day practice , perhaps , but by Trent 's accepting his relationship to the Colonel as an inevitable part of his life . |
| 3 | But it needs to be borne in mind that such connections are not an automatic or necessary consequence of the formal structure of the poetry ; they are the result of the reader 's bringing his own sensibility and experience to bear on the text , and interpreting it in the light of his own conscious or unconscious idea of the nature and function of literature . |
| 4 | Under the moon 's influence his mind had flown giddily on , like a witch straddling a broomstick . |
| 5 | No one at St. Paul 's shared his interest in natural history and ‘ the naturalists , whom these boys knew nothing of . |
| 6 | That Henry was now thinking of Richard 's keeping his duchy is suggested by the plans he was making to install John as King of Ireland , but what price would the Old King demand in return for this concession ? |
| 7 | It is the word which came up time and again in the story of Jacob 's tricking his dying father . |
| 8 | Claudia knew , instinctively , that if Roman were in Garry 's place his reactions would be very , very different . |
| 9 | Even the reported jealousy of John , which is the intratextual spur to Nicholas 's applying his wits to " " bigyle " " him ( 3294 – 00 ) , is left looking like a contrivance , validated by its function which is to excuse what is " really " a gratuitous trick . |
| 10 | And Bryan Burnett 's doned his cork hat to hear about life down under from the Aussie band Midnight Oil . |
| 11 | One recollection of Leonard 's concerns his reciting a prayer at Synagogue , which he got wrong . |
| 12 | Observation and assessment confirmed that Gary was indeed showing all these behaviours , but also revealed that they were being heavily reinforced by attention from his parents and by the fact that the shouting and temper tantrums usually resulted in Gary 's getting his own way . |
| 13 | I were n't gon na put myself out for them then he got up and stormed out and then he went back to his sister 's took his |
| 14 | There is nothing discreditable in a bailiff appropriating to his lord 's use his own products , e.g. to brew from his own barley , to make cloth and linen from his own wool and flax , feed his horses from his own produce . |
| 15 | Fearing King Henry 's anger his captors kept under the cover of woodland , moving stealthily from one secret hide-out to another , dragging William along with his wound unbandaged and still bleeding . |
| 16 | In its Working Paper , a majority of the Criminal Law Revision Committee took the view that , where a woman has knowingly consented to the defendant 's putting his penis into her vagina , this should not be rape . |
| 17 | The last time Ben had taken her there — on the quiet ; it was to be a secret Annie had done the clog dance to Ben 's playing his tin whistle . |