Example sentences of "[verb] his master 's [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The view from the picture window showed a carefully landscaped garden , a swimming pool , a tennis court , and a field where a wiry old gardener in baggy peasant clothing and a felt hat was tending his master 's vines and olives . |
| 3 | Nick is the man with the baseball glove who can stand at the end of the practice range and catch his master 's ball no matter whether it has been struck with a sand-iron or a driver . |
| 4 | When Cassio has been attacked by Iago , apparently murdered , Othello lauds his master 's example : The murder scene , with its marvellously wrought language , a ceremony that Othello thinks of as a sacrifice , is the most deluded , most fictitious scene in Shakespeare — not a word in it that Othello says is true . |
| 5 | Herr Gottwald died still dogging his master 's heels |
| 6 | When going on leave , Cecil sent his servant with all his baggage to the station , but the servant forgot his master 's railway pass ( the servant forgot it , note ) , so |
| 7 | In the summer of 1987 , while outwardly researching his master 's thesis on Lebanese narcotics trafficking , Coleman met several newsmen of a less trusting nature , among them Brian Ross of NBC and his producer Ira Silverman . |
| 8 | However his teachers recognised his exceptional qualities and he was given junior teaching posts which enabled him to register at the University of Pennsylvania , where he obtained his Master 's degree and began to work towards a PhD , specialising in philosophy . |
| 9 | Lewis had backed the car a few feet down the ramp and was about to turn towards the Cherwell Arms when he heard his master 's voice — a single hissed and incredulous blasphemy : |
| 10 | This heritage gave and still attributes to him the ability to move fast , avoiding all obstacles , to do his master 's bidding . |
| 11 | Havers J accepted this but said : … there was a duty on the defendant at all times during the subsistence of [ the employment ] agreement to protect his master 's interests , especially to do his best to retain Mr Tully as a client of his master … |
| 12 | He was transferred in 1853 to the prefectorate of the Department of the Seine , which included Paris , and he remained there until 1870 ; for the whole of this period he remained the Emperor 's man , charged with executing his master 's projects and doing them quickly . |
| 13 | While they were in the travelling coach , she put on an outward appearance of sadness for a loyal employee , killed in an attempt to save his master 's horse . |
| 14 | A sensible dog soon learns that barking is not enough and will attract his master 's attention in some other way . |
| 15 | And then er he took his Master 's degree here in London and er two two degrees in India when he He is you know he is erm orthopaedic surgeon . |
| 16 | He has the right , which he should exercise to the full , of reading his master 's papers and accompanying him to court . |
| 17 | Face has been caught in the act using his master 's house a house as a brothel and er |
| 18 | Colbeck was apprenticed under sail in 1886 and passed his master 's ticket in 1894 with the aid of private tuition from Zebedee Scaping , headmaster of the Trinity House Navigation School . |
| 19 | It is he who taunts Elvira with the famous ‘ Catalogue ’ aria , listing his master 's conquests : 640 in Italy , 231 in Germany , 100 in France , 91 in Turkey , and 1,003 ( so far ) in Spain . |
| 20 | John followed the fairly common practice of marrying his master 's daughter . |
| 21 | At Christmas William Marshal , loudly protesting his innocence , left his master 's service and rode off in search of fresh tournaments . |
| 22 | Ogden 's craft was carried on by Christopher Caygill , who made brass-faced clocks with minute hands , and one of his apprentices , who married his master 's daughter , took over the business and made clocks with painted faces . |
| 23 | He married his master 's daughter , Sarah Bowen , in 1739 , and secondly Jane , daughter of the Baptist minister Joseph Burroughs [ q.v. ] , in 1762 . |
| 24 | He really took the matter to heart and finally wrote his Master 's thesis on the subject . |
| 25 | Always an independent spirit , Chicherin had been particularly irritated in 1853 and 1854 by the fact that neither Moscow nor St Petersburg Universities would examine his Master 's dissertation on the provincial institutions of seventeenth-century Muscovy . |