Example sentences of "either his " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I went along with him , and from time to time we shared a toothbrush , either his or mine . |
| 2 | On Sunday afternoons , Mr. Russ took the Church Sunday School and he would not brook any boy not attending either his or some other Sunday School of another denomination . |
| 3 | Yet no-one could ever have doubted either his sincerity or integrity in fighting for what he always felt was right for the game . |
| 4 | The man entrusted with the steering this year is Ray Cochrane , who proved that 20 days on the sidelines had not dulled either his skills or competitive edge when driving home a double at Wolverhampton on Monday , his first day back , and adding another winner yesterday . |
| 5 | Upon his release after 26 years in jail he will discover that he is more free than either his wife , Albertina , or his journalist son , Zwelakhe , who are both ‘ restricted ’ by the authorities under the long-standing state of emergency . |
| 6 | The perk backfired , however , for when he collected his bundle it was so heavily starched he could not break into either his trouser legs or jacket sleeves ! |
| 7 | For example , at the next table at the Exmoor Forest Hotel , he had overheard two people talking to each other , a ‘ very well bred looking old man with a dry peevish voice whom I took to be mentally deranged and a woman who was either his daughter or his nurse ’ . |
| 8 | No , it was either his Mum or Lee . |
| 9 | Bill Fair never forgot either his spiritual father , Mr Gallagher , or Edenderry Church and that summer evening of his conversation . |
| 10 | He had a lean face and dark eyes that might have come from either his Gaelic or Jewish ancestry . |
| 11 | This resulted in his becoming more distressed and unable to cope with either his work or looking after himself at home . |
| 12 | A tradition says that the Emperor 's wife was ill with a disease that baffled the native doctors but the letter which was carried by the Ambassador suggests the true reason ; the Emperor 's sexual ability seems to have been causing him more concern than either his own or his wife 's health as he asked that the physician should bring ‘ some medicines that would provoke the venery ( encourage sexual indulgence ) ’ , in other words , he wanted an aphrodisiac . |
| 13 | Beecham 's comments are worthy of repetition : ‘ these two Concertos have a refinement and distinction that never fails to fall fragrantly on the ear , and offers to the musical amateur , who may feel at times that the evolution of his art is becoming a little too much for either his understanding or enjoyment , a soothing retreat where he may effectively rally his shattered forces ’ . |
| 14 | As long as he operates within the law , nobody seems to suggest that an obstetrician or other medical practitioner should provide his services free , or that receiving a fee makes either his motives or his reliability suspect ; and clinics can legally be run for profit . |
| 15 | He was certain that Tamar had told no one about the attack on her , apart from him and Elizabeth , so could not broach the subject in front of either his father or Stephen . |
| 16 | Also they wo n't help if your debtor is short of cash — either his bank wo n't pay or he 'll cancel them . |
| 17 | Only the jumper is allowed to move for the ball with either his inside arm or with two arms . |
| 18 | One can not help but feel that one of the reasons why Edberg was beaten in his opening singles — without in any way detracting from Nestor 's fine achievement — was that he had so little time for either his body or his tennis to adjust after the journey to another time zone — and surface — from Australia . |
| 19 | Either his real name , or the name he answers to , is ‘ Colt ’ . |
| 20 | But for the rest , either his judgment was wildly at fault or his declaration mere rhetoric . |
| 21 | He was younger at entry than either his predecessor ( Bonar Law ) or his successor ( Neville Chamberlain ) as leader of the Conservative Party , but older , and in most cases significantly so , than any other Prime Minister , of any party , of the past two hundred years . |
| 22 | He had not washed merely a handkerchief either his underclothes , too , had a grey look , and so did his shirt , whose grey cuffs peeped from beneath the dirty , tattered sleeves of his morning coat . |
| 23 | Man 's place in these photographs is indicated , apart from the miles of clearcut ground , by tiny trucks and a speck-sized helicopter touched dawn in a clearing : Man seems like an adventurer who occurs somewhat late in geophysical history and his influence on the earth 's surface seems incommensurate with either his scale or his significance . |
| 24 | And whether he were not in this dilemma ; that either his estate might enure for life , at his option ; and then according to Lord Coke such an estate would , in legal contemplation , be an estate for life ; which could not be created by parol : or if not for life , being for no assignable period , it must operate as a tenancy from year to year ; in which case it would be inconsistent with , and repugnant to the nature of such an estate , that it should not be determinable at the pleasure of either party giving the regular notice . |
| 25 | As for my shower , only Marley looks like he might have talent , he seems capable of scoring goals with either his left or his right buttock . |
| 26 | ‘ It was hardly a refusal , ’ said Comfort , amused to see that the war had done nothing to reduce either his unfailing elegance or his vanity . |
| 27 | Rostov doubted if either his rank or his arguable status as both husband and father of members of the Royal Family would affect the outcome of such a discussion . |
| 28 | There were no forks , and everyone seemed to be using either his fingers or a knife . |
| 29 | How could the child he loved most have failed to inherit either his instincts or the opinions he had with such difficulty acquired ? |
| 30 | I know he 's not exactly God 's gift to forensic science , but he 's a conscientious plodder and you 're not going to stimulate either his brain or his speed by bullying the poor little beast . |