Example sentences of "[conj] his [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They came to a wonderful peak towards the end of his life where his love of the countryside , its changing weather , lights and moods brought forth a series of remarkable , free-spirited watercolours . |
| 2 | The care which Bailey lavished on his " treasures " within the National Trust was at least equalled by his work as activist and propagandist for the " eternal values " of poetry through the Association and in the pages of the Newbolt Report where his contribution to the section on the universities was particularly notable . |
| 3 | The salaried partner will rarely agree to accept full responsibility for the debts of the firm along with the equity partners where his share of the profits is finite and his involvement in management restricted . |
| 4 | In social research , perhaps the most famous example is that of Elton Mayo 's study of American girls in a factory , where his observations of the importance of the creation of social groups led to the development of a whole school of thought in social psychology . |
| 5 | Diaper 's best poetry is contained in Nereides and the translation of Oppian , where his descriptions of the ocean and of aquatic life are startling and individual . |
| 6 | His influence can clearly be seen in both Fabianism , where his analysis of the unearned increment reached a receptive audience , and New Liberalism , which developed his later concerns about distributive justice . |
| 7 | Gratitude to him has always been greater in the Orthodox churches of the East than in the West , where his domination of the church has often not been regarded as an altogether unmitigated good , at least in its consequences . |
| 8 | Her or his rights before the law are , for example , deemed to be equal to those of a company director . |
| 9 | His breadth of interest will be noted by those who have read his interesting Men-at-Arms book on Henry VIII 's army , or his work on the firearms of the Chinese Nationalist forces 1937–45 in the IWM Review . |
| 10 | Every document concerned his office as constable or his service in the retinue of John of Gaunt . |
| 11 | The captain , Phil Carrick , last month put the cat among the pigeons , or his head upon the block ( depending upon each Yorkshireman 's point of view on his county 's cricket , without which no Tyke is properly dressed ) by writing a letter , with his players ' support , in which he advocated the abandonment of the holy writ , the birth qualification . |
| 12 | Most meditatively — remember Drury Lane , he murmured , and , his favourite whip and spur , ‘ Attack , boy , attack ! ’ — so meditatively that no one could fail to be impressed by the inner preoccupation of the handsome gentleman in Hessian boots who ruminated across the turf , he paced a slow , measured entrance to the very central point of the circle without once raising his gaze from the earth or his head from the cusp of a hand which supported its pensive load . |
| 13 | The receiver will be obliged at the end of his receivership to hand over to the company any documents belonging to the company but not those brought into existence for the discharge of his own professional duties or his duties to the chargee . |
| 14 | These wars were inspired by a belief that Louis XIV of France hoped to become the overlord of Europe , and that he wanted to restore the Catholic James II or his descendants to the throne . |
| 15 | These grass-smoking disciples flocked to his open house like moths to hear him reciting his life story , or his predictions with the tarot cards , or discussing Camus , or analysing Jean-Paul Sartre . |
| 16 | For example , if his company has unwelcome suitors who want to take over , or his activities in the Third World are threatening home sales . |
| 17 | It allows a direct approach by the plaintiff or his agent to the competent local official in that state . |
| 18 | What have we overlooked in blaming the man or his bugs for the cold ? |
| 19 | This will be done : ( 1 ) annually in accordance with Revenue requirements ( see Chapter 10 ) ( Clause 12.01 ) ; and ( 2 ) extraordinarily upon the departure of one of the partners in connection with the payment out to him or his estate of the value of his partnership share ( Clause 20.02.1 ) . |
| 20 | It may be said at once that the doctrine of tenure , as developed in England , made it difficult , if not impossible to regard either [ the tenant ] or his lord as the owner of the land itself . |
| 21 | But as far as the Birmingham 18-year-old was concerned , securing his place in Britain 's European championship squad was more important either than the record or his victory in the Mycil ASA national championship final . |
| 22 | There is no doubt about Yuasa 's sincerity , or his commitment to the music — he did not choose the programme , — but this New World sounded worn and weary . |
| 23 | Next , and perhaps most importantly , the user has a flexible easy to use system , so when inevitably his requirements change , he can change the system or his use of the system . |
| 24 | Additionally this clause forbids the seller to use the order or his connection with the buyer as a reference sale or generally for advertising or publicity purposes . |
| 25 | Or his feeling about the opposite , remembering . |
| 26 | He was not the clear favourite for the Oval Office , for there were other men whose achievements were more palpable than George Crowninshield 's , but he looked good , sounded better and no journalist had ever discovered him with his fingers in the till or his legs in the wrong bed . |
| 27 | Thus all discretionary powers to benefit persons should be clearly drafted so that there is no inclusion of the settlor or his spouse among the discretionary class . |
| 28 | It was nothing to do with Slozil 's coaching quality or his dedication to the task . |
| 29 | Mr Chadwin said there was no evidence to put either Nichol or his car in the area at the time of the attack and there was no forensic evidence . |
| 30 | Not surprisingly , neither Law 's relations with Baldwin nor his authority in the Government ever fully recovered from these incidents . |