Example sentences of "[coord] [conj] [pron] [vb past] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a defence , however , if the defendant can satisfy the court that it was not known or suspected that drug trafficking was involved , or that he disclosed his knowledge or suspicion to the relevant authorities . |
| 2 | Because he was hurt , or because she needed his protection ? |
| 3 | ‘ Before or after he lost his fortune ? ’ asked Dr Neil wickedly . |
| 4 | Some know not that each Person in the Trinity is God ; nor that Christ is God and man ; nor that he took his human nature with him into heaven ; nor many the like necessary principles of our faith . |
| 5 | In 1906 he made over Cliveden to his newly married elder son , and bought Hever Castle in Kent , which he reconstructed and where he housed his collection of pictures and artefacts . |
| 6 | By September 1938 it was clear that Carl Burckhardt , the Swiss League of Nations High Commissioner , was not prepared to do anything to prevent the drive to Nazify the city , and that he saw his position to be that of ‘ observer ’ or , at most , intermediary . |
| 7 | The authors argue that this too was an act of desperation , not part of a grand design ; and that he construed his famous interview with the American ambassador , April Glaspie , as a ‘ green light ’ . |
| 8 | I believe he continued to treat her long after he needed to , that he misled her into believing such treatment was necessary and that he faked his file notes accordingly . ’ |
| 9 | I saw that he probably encountered his own body as worthless and warped and that he identified his body as his self , but he was wrong . |
| 10 | It may be that he took new insignia after the subjugation of Norway , and that he left his old crown in Winchester , in much the same way that Henry II of Germany had , at his imperial coronation in 1014 , hung his former crown above the altar of St Peter 's , where Cnut would almost certainly have seen it thirteen years later . |
| 11 | We may find that the writer was completely biased in his views and that he falsified his evidence , in which case he is a perjurer and we should hold him in contempt . |
| 12 | He remembers Mr Lamont using a gold Access card and that he signed his name simply Norman Lamont . |
| 13 | And that he bequeathed his carp pond to the local Boy Scouts ? |
| 14 | One is that he led a wretched existence since MacQuillan took over and that he lost his temper when he found his office taken over by someone else . |
| 15 | At the same time she doubted that Silas was the type of man who would stand listening outside a doorway , and although she recalled his firm declaration of having no intention of marrying Doreen it gave her small comfort . |
| 16 | If Amaranth was not going to be accepted as the candidate , and if she refused to co-operate with him over the new motorway , and if she rejected his amorous advances , what was the point of pursuing her ? |
| 17 | Christabel says , ‘ And if he regretted his armoury of spines and his quick wild wits , history does not relate , for we must go no further , having reached the happy end . ’ |
| 18 | Stalin was usually cautious and calculating in his foreign policy and if he bided his time , Korea would almost certainly fall into the Soviet orbit . |
| 19 | Well it was on the settee and cos he had his blue hat on . |
| 20 | He loved it because of the colours and because it needed his nimble fingers . |
| 21 | Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia refused the German Crown offered him by the Frankfurt Assembly because it was offered by ‘ Liberals and Jews ’ and because he felt his cousin in Vienna had a better claim . |
| 22 | His moods , as reflected in her letters , remained volatile and while he continued his triple tasks — preparation for the examination , deciding the final shape of his first book , and producing a spate of articles , many of which were published — there are continuous references in her letters to his indifferent health and to his repeated determination to live chastely with her until circumstances alter . |
| 23 | But , to her great delight , Ven not only heard her husky words , but understood , and , with a kind of discreet gentility , he laid his mouth gently on hers , and while she returned his kiss and started to burn and ache inside for him , he discarded more of his clothing . |
| 24 | Lord Aldington said his earlier statements that he left the area between 25 and 29 May were made before he had properly researched the matter and before he realised his departure date was crucial . |
| 25 | And when they reached his bank , she thought , she 'd broach the subject of the safety-deposit box . |
| 26 | He must have known that it was bound to come out , and when it did his case would appear that much blacker . |
| 27 | Then when we went on the train to Italy and all the way through France and Switzerland he chatted up one of the Marias , and when I tipped his minestrone soup over his head on Milan station he said : ‘ You 'll have to excuse my wife , she 's just an ignorant peasant . ’ |
| 28 | And when I asked his orchestra 's publicist if Daniel Barenboim would really want to be interviewed immediately after such a lengthy spell of high-altitude incarceration , she said : ‘ He came in by Concorde , he 's just been on a two-week skiing trip with his family in Switzerland — believe me , he 'll be just fine . ’ |
| 29 | Somebody 'd poked him along here with a punt-pole ; and when I arrived his body — his naked , semi-waterlogged body — was nudging against the side of the bank — just here — just in front of the changing cubicles , face down , his head washed clean of blood — much blood , methinks , Morse ! — his hair rising and falling — ’ |
| 30 | He was almost in tears when he took her to the station , and when he said his farewells his reedy voice was quite unsteady . |