Example sentences of "his [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sometimes thought it would be pleasant to lie in bed with his wife on Sunday mornings , now that there were no children to interrupt them , but Donna reckoned they should be through with all that kind of stupidity , so he was resigned to the sporadic consolation of his Métis up north . |
| 2 | Peter Verkhovensky ca n't be fitted into this picture because his raison d'être is outside it , manipulating . |
| 3 | It was almost as if he had found his raison d'être because beforehand he had shown little motivation to find conventional employment . |
| 4 | More than that , it is his raison d'être . |
| 5 | It is this conviction , this fervent hope , that constitutes his raison d'être . |
| 6 | More than that one pilot has blessed the ‘ safety culture ’ thinking of Fred E. Weick who , in 1936 , developed and patented a two-control system for his W-1 and W-1A designs submitted for the American CAA ( now FAA ) Safety Plane Competition . |
| 7 | In fact er Professor Lock in his hin in his own evidence er page five para four three refers to a rash of speculation alo along the A one M in the county , as to which locations the policy might be said to apply . |
| 8 | Mark generally uses the flesh of his r/hand thumb and first finger , plus occasionally his second ( do n't use your fingernails ) , and for support he tends to rest his palm on the bridge and his remaining fingers on the front of the guitar … |
| 9 | In 1767 one of these thinkers , Lemercier de la Rivière , in his L'Ordre naturel et essentiel des sociétés politiques ( 1767 ) , presented such a ruler as not legislating in any positive sense but merely declaring and applying fundamental laws which were immanent in the nature of things , in the structure of the world as it is and must be . |
| 10 | Well probably in his sa state |
| 11 | Now this is , Rocetta is the first campsite that Hannibal had when he went through the alps with his el elephants . |
| 12 | Which could be attached to passenger trains , and the er the actual er gentleman 's carriage , er horse-drawn carriage , could be loaded onto this flat truck , and er the er would be transported to be available er at his destin in his or her destination . |
| 13 | It predicts an eventuality the real President does not wish — that his successor will be his prime-minister-before-last and arch-rival , Michel Rocard . |
| 14 | He 's now building his pièce de résistance : a huge sports and leisure resort called Autopolis , set in a national park in Kyushu , Japan 's southernmost province . |
| 15 | That opportunity arrives with Pistol 's reckless threat to ‘ knock his leek about his pate/Upon Saint Davy 's day ’ ( IV.i.54f. ) , dutifully relayed to Fluellen by the King . |
| 16 | And there 'll be uproar in Wigan if the classy Phil Clarke has to give up his No.13 jersey for Hanley . |
| 17 | Oh I do n't think , no , no that was his att |
| 18 | that was his att that would have been his attitude |
| 19 | They 're his fir they 're |
| 20 | Yeah but it 's hardly his fir it 's hardly his forte , it 's hardly what he er |
| 21 | His savoir faire had vanished and he was prodding desperately at a pile of coal black spheres . |
| 22 | These data allow us to clarify important observations on the Hotteterres made by their contemporary Borjon de Scellery in his Traité de la musette , in which he cites a father and two sons of the Hotteterre family as the ‘ most esteemed ’ makers of woodwind instruments and in particular of musettes and flutes . |
| 23 | From his Anti-Machiavel ( 1741 ) to his Essai sur les formes de gouvernement ( 1781 ) he expressed a view of monarchy which was utilitarian , secular , antidynastic and untraditional . |
| 24 | A few military theorists — Saxe in his Rêveries ( 1757 ) , Justus Möser in his Patriotische Phantasien ( 1775–1804 ) , Guibert in his Essai générale de tactique ( 1772 ) — as well as political writers such as Montesquieu , Morellet and Mably , might advocate some form of extensive or even universal service ; but there was no serious possibility of their ideas being adopted by any government . |
| 25 | Here , in this outward symbol of his great-great-great-grandfather'sdf paranoia was the genesis of all that had followed . |
| 26 | Greg tries out his I-don't-know-any-different argument again : ‘ Most bands I know in Boston come from backgrounds that are n't radically different from mine . |
| 27 | At the outbreak of war Messiaen joined the army and it was whilst a prisoner in Silesia that he composed his Quatuor pour la fin du temps which combines the harmonic and rhythmic complexity with refinement of sound that characterizes his later works , notably the epic Vingt regards sur l'enfant Jésus for solo piano . |
| 28 | FERCHRISTSSAKE TALYOR … look at where his f*cking inspiration has got Forest — near the bottom of the 1st division . |
| 29 | At the time , he was equally renowned for his billets doux to Julie de Lespinasse . |
| 30 | In Stanley Kubrick 's film Dr Strangelove , US Air Force General Jack Ripper sends his B52s to bomb the USSR because he fears the Russians have polluted the drinking water of the West . |