Example sentences of "his [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her hand throbbed beneath his where he still trapped it on the table . |
| 2 | Is t his where it will all end — Armageddon ? |
| 3 | If she stretched out her hand just the tiniest bit , she would be able to touch his where it rested on his knee . |
| 4 | As a safeguard , they recommended that a magistrates ' court should be required to sanction any detention after twenty-four hours and that the suspect should be legally represented at this stage , so that his or her point of view could be put across . |
| 5 | Concurrent stimulation and therapy from professional staff — play therapists , speech therapists , nursery teachers — can encourage development within the child so that his or her behaviour changes and becomes more rewarding to the parent ( Linscheid and Rasnake 1985 ) . |
| 6 | Nobody lives up to his or her billing . |
| 7 | In approximately half of the cases , the parent found out more directly : either the user told his or her parents , usually at a crisis point in the user 's career , for example , when undergoing ‘ turkey ’ during a time of drought ; or the parent found direct evidence of drug use , such as burnt scraps of tin foil , and confronted the user with this . |
| 8 | In any situation , including the professional one , the social worker functions as a sexual creature , subject to his or her own sexual urges , needs , desires , hang-ups , inhibitions , fantasies and attitudes . |
| 9 | One adds nothing new to the theory of casework in Saying this ; nor in remarking that the caseworker is essentially part of the case with which he or she deals , so that his or her sexuality is as much a part of it as the client 's . |
| 10 | Conversely , the sufferer from addictive disease can not stop and denies the causal connection even up to his or her own death while blaming environmental pollution , an influenza epidemic , stress or any other external factor as the cause of his or her increasing disability . |
| 11 | In any case , others have doubted that this type of thinking would make worthwhile savings and have countered that ‘ … we should allocate resources according to the probability that a patient will benefit rather than his or her age ’ , and that ‘ physiology not age should determine care ’ . |
| 12 | There is no reason to suppose that the average Victorian member of the middle class , lower middle class or ‘ respectable ’ working class in , say , Victorian England and the United States failed to live up to his or her standards of sexual morality . |
| 13 | The remainder of section 44 governs the relationship between an appointed representative and his or its principal . |
| 14 | 5.1 If at any time before completion of the Lease the Tenant ( being an individual ) dies or has a receiving order made against him or is adjudicated bankrupt or ( being a company ) has a petition presented for its winding up or goes into liquidation or ( in either case ) enters into a composition with his or its creditors then the provisions of clause 5.4 shall have effect immediately |
| 15 | This is analogous to the 1970 decision of the House of Lords in Bushell v Faith [ 1970 ] 1 All ER 52 , in which a provision about voting rights , which had the effect of making a special resolution incapable of being passed if a particular shareholder or group of shareholders exercised his or their voting rights against a proposed alteration of articles , was held to be enforceable ; an article in terms that no alteration shall be made without the consent of a particular member would be invalid , as it would come into direct conflict with statute law . |
| 16 | 212 If the tenant or his assignee do or shall , at any time before the trial in such ejectment , pay or tender to the lessor or landlord , his executors or administrators , or his or their attorney in that cause , or pay into the court where the same cause is depending , all the rent and arrears , together with the costs , then and in such case all further proceedings on the said ejectment shall cease and be discontinued ; and if such lessee , his executors , administrators , or assigns , shall , upon such proceedings as aforesaid , be relieved in equity , he and they shall have , hold , and enjoy the demised lands , according to the lease thereof made , without any new lease . |
| 17 | With this policy rewards are seen to be under your control — not his or hers to manipulate . |
| 18 | Remember how you would gladly have given your life to have saved his or hers ? |
| 19 | A litigant who seeks redress for a public law wrong in a private action must establish , in order to have standing , that the public law wrong has invaded some legal right of his or hers , recognized in private law , or has caused him or her some special damage . |
| 20 | But there were also cases which held that the applicant for mandamus had to show that some legal right of his or hers had been infringed by the challenged decision . |
| 21 | What seems to the individual to be a free and spontaneous response can be seen from " outside " to be the product of social and ideological conditioning , or even in some instances of a concerted campaign to mould public opinion in such a way as to produce exactly the response which each individual feels and believes to be authentically his or hers alone . |
| 22 | The defendant must establish not only that the plaintiff consented to the risk but also that he or she agreed that if he or she was injured the loss should be his or hers and not the defendant 's . |
| 23 | He had gathered her closer in his arms , he was holding her so tightly that she could n't tell whose heartbeat it was she felt throbbing within her bones , his or hers . |
| 24 | He or she is the ‘ fairy godmother ’ of the force , the suspect 's friend , and the person the Act expects will stand up to his or her ( often more senior ) colleagues if there is anything amiss : a dramatic invitation to insubordinated heroics . |
| 25 | They have dismissed even the manifest economic growth generated by his policies , certain that any wealth created must have gone straight into his or his cronies ' pockets . |
| 26 | Not , she thought , that she needed his or anybody 's protection . |
| 27 | I like to make it so the viewer has an experience unto his or herself . |
| 28 | ‘ Please say that you will agree , will at least let me try to earn my own living , find out if I am strong enough to do so — not go back to being useless , merely a symbol of Papa 's wealth , not really his or your daughter . ’ |
| 29 | A large fish on his or my line was always an occasion for excitement for Edwy and he would jump into the water with his gaff if he thought it the only way to land it . |
| 30 | But I went along with him , and from time to time we shared a toothbrush , either his or mine . |