Example sentences of "the [noun] [noun pl] [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | I personally use The Helios Pharmacy in Tunbridge Wells ( tel. 0892 537254 ) since the pharmacist is John Tomlinson whose article Dose , Dilution and the LM Potencies demonstrates his understanding of the preparation procedures . |
| 2 | Heath wants to use the promise of riches from the blood products to maintain his large-scale funding of research in British universities and to expand into mass production of the products of that research ( the job which Genentech wants to do for factor VIII ) . |
| 3 | The meeting came on the same day the latest casualty of the rent increases left his pub . |
| 4 | An errant neurotic , failing to keep up the maintenance payments to support his own creation . |
| 5 | His wrists up to his elbows were closely covered with coral bangles , so were his ankles … his breast was completely hidden from view by the coral beads encircling his neck . |
| 6 | His fate and whereabouts remained unknown until June 1991 , when the Kuwait authorities informed his family that he had been convicted of ‘ collaboration ’ and sentenced to 15 years ' imprisonment . |
| 7 | The ambulance men checked his clothes . ’ |
| 8 | And no middle peasant would have then had the investment resources to improve his own |
| 9 | As a Celtic-mad kid of 11 , Creaney stood wide-eyed on the Parkhead terraces to watch his heroes take on the best in Europe . |
| 10 | The husband of one of the club members had his camera handy to record the occasion of the Mayor 's visit . |
| 11 | The prominence of the duke of Norfolk in the Paston Letters reflects his local power , but the Oxfordshire of the Stonors seems to have been markedly less subject to the pre-eminence of a great man . |
| 12 | But ill-health led him to cash in his 22.6% stake for £70 million in late 1989 and he retired to the Yorkshire Dales to tend his Highland cattle . |
| 13 | The Controller of the Silver Mines laid his arms on the table in front of him and clasped his hands together , sinking his head . |
| 14 | The leading newspaper The Fiji Times echoed his call in its own editorial columns and has helped to bring the issue of the use and abuse of media to a wider public than ever before . |
| 15 | The leading newspaper The Fiji Times echoed his call in its own editorial columns and has helped to bring the issue of the use and abuse of media to a wider public than ever before . |
| 16 | Yet the editor of the Sunday Times explained his paper 's coverage and position in a way which begs more questions than it answers . |
| 17 | Here at Cabarave , east London 's black comedy club , the video monitors replaying his classic stage show Raw are turned down — displaced by the sound of jokes told in real time and laughter that 's live , spontaneous , uncanned . |
| 18 | The Parish Registers record his burial on 5th September 1597 , and both they and his will testify to his having been the Master . |
| 19 | Almost everyone on yearly wages in the opera houses owes his or her job to party pull and , once hired , the unions see to it that they are not sacked . |
| 20 | The first ( 1940 ) paper from the Oxford workers attracted his attention . |
| 21 | A date carved into one of the door lintels bears his initials and the date 1698 , although this stone is probably a replacement for an earlier one . |
| 22 | And he still practised sufficiently the ways of the Highland families to send his daughter to Inverness for as good an education as a girl could get within reach at that time . |
| 23 | The City aldermen accepted his resignation and appointed Samuel Barrett , a glover , in his place . |
| 24 | And a fat greasy lady fell to a dead position out of a flat storey while attempting to see just how one of the TV newsreaders did his hair at the back . |
| 25 | Whether or not Ray Wilkins is to stay with Rangers or return to one of the London clubs chasing his signature will be known on Monday . |
| 26 | In the sun , the gold flecks made his gaze even harder to read . |
| 27 | During his Welsh expedition , Coleridge had occasionally lapsed with self mocking enthusiasm into the prose style of the travel writers to express his feelings for mountains ‘ sublimely terrible ’ and other natural marvels . |
| 28 | They say that the Squidgy tapes indicated his supporting nature . |
| 29 | Dublin has certainly become the new hero on the terraces , as the travelling fans chanted his name at the end . |
| 30 | But , thanks to a power-packed ride from Pat Eddery , Eurolink Thunder capturing the Laburnum Conditions Stakes and Captain Horatius impressing in the Magnolia Stakes saw his third and fourth do the business . |