Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Judicial review does lie to the visitor in cases where he has acted outside his jurisdiction in the sense that he did not have the power under the regulating documents to enter into the adjudication of the dispute , or has abused his power , or has acted in breach of the rules of natural justice ( post , pp. 1114F–G , G–H , 1125H , 1126C–D , 1129H — 1130A ) . |
| 2 | Last September the Hungarian-born American financier George Soros executed a financial coup that has made his humanitarian cup run over . |
| 3 | By then he should have fully recovered from the injured right thigh muscle that has delayed his eagerly awaited debut in Italian football . |
| 4 | And the particular incident that has aroused his fearsome wrath is the departure from Granada Television of Mr David Plowright , a man who knows about TV programmes , at the behest of Mr Gerry Robinson , a man who knows about balance sheets . |
| 5 | DAVID HIRST last night cleared Arsenal 's Steve Bould of blame for the challenge that has destroyed his England recall hopes . |
| 6 | But the cost of his doing so has been revealed in all its starkness in the unseemly scramble for the succession that has followed his departure . |
| 7 | We know nothing of his being or his nature , except that he is a created spirit that has lost his relationship to the Godhead . |
| 8 | Their change of mind came after the president 's aides had said that if denied a referendum he would carry out a non-binding plebiscite anyway to settle the power struggle that has paralysed his reform programme . |
| 9 | Coventry 0 , Arsenal 1 KEVIN CAMPBELL displayed the brand of finishing that has become his hallmark , to take Arsenal into fourth place and leave Coventry facing relegation worries , writes David Horridge . |
| 10 | In this case it represents Jeff 's ( James Stewart ) view of the windows around and across the courtyard that has become his world since being immobilized with a broken leg . |
| 11 | This is how almost all of his days have been spent , casting bait , checking behind him , moving on ; apart from odd nights in hostels where he can get a bath and about thirteen hours of near-coma to catch up , he 's been continuously on the road since the dawn that he stole the car and the cash that has become his fighting fund . |
| 12 | Here he describes the war fever that has gripped his country and lays the blame on the intellectuals |
| 13 | Tony announces that he is off for a crumble , an expression that has taken his fancy and replaced the computerese of going for a ‘ system dump . ’ |
| 14 | In any case , Allison , who discovered the joys of off-licence products and credit card abuse before Norman Lamont was knee high to the Mace , has spilled most of the gravy that has come his way in a life that has brought a different kind of riches . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , happiness is difficult to find , and it seems man is unable to remain happy even when he finds a way of living that seems to suit his psychic constitution — a combination of biological givens , and the consequences of the individual 's resolution of his conflicts during his personal development . |
| 16 | So often the preacher has an idea that he feels strongly about , and he then casts around for a scripture that seems to fit his message . |
| 17 | And since the central figure in all this was Vincent d'Indy , I shall go on to present evidence that appears to explain his motives both in ‘ improving ’ Rameau and in concealing what he had done . |
| 18 | So were as many as a hundred or so other females and now he lies surrounded by them , on guard and ready to do battle with any other male that tries to raid his harem . |
| 19 | I mean Southgate 's all the more pleasing when you think he 's somebody that 's worked his way up , right ? |
| 20 | Is it the one of the right or the left or one that 's got his finger in . |
| 21 | ‘ If A. be indicted and convicted of felony , but hath neither judgment of death , nor hath prayed his clergy , this is no bar of a new indictment for the same offence , if the first were insufficient … and it seems , though it were sufficient , yet it is no bar without clergy or judgment ; … |
| 22 | The issues of repentance and forgiveness feature here also — Rodolpho , even at the last moment , is prepared to accept the blame for what Eddie has done and offers to kiss his hand , and Beatrice also offers him an earlier chance of redemption by asking him and Catherine to make friends and Catherine agrees — but Eddie refuses . |
| 23 | ‘ Mr Punch doing penance for his error of 35 years ago , ’ — presumably around 1884 he had said something silly about women in Parliament — ‘ and begs to offer his respectful congratulations to Lady Astor ’ . |
| 24 | The trick does not work , but at least it leads to the hiding of Colas in Lise 's bedroom and the awful discovery of the two of them together just as Alain has received the key and goes to claim his bride . |
| 25 | She do n't put him down for a minute , oh he feels insecure and he 's left his mummy and goes love his granny and come on your granny , I think oh carry on ! |
| 26 | The 28-year-old Australian , men 's champion in 1987 , has been sidelined with a knee injury since last September and has lost his fitness battle . |
| 27 | He begins his account at the point where he is considering handing in his resignation and has invited his friends , the generals von Roon and von Moltke , to dine with him in order to discuss the situation . |
| 28 | On no account should he be allowed simply to get in his car and drive around before he has been pronounced competent to drive , and has organized his driving licence and insurance accordingly , if for no other reason than that his insurance would be invalid if he did have an accident . |
| 29 | To every man as trusts you and has tied his fortune to yours . |
| 30 | ’ That ‘ familiar in fiction ’ is deadly , suggesting as it does that the author has stopped looking at life and has purloined his Andre from the picaresque , in which rogues are invariably charming and whose advances are never rejected . |