Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [to-vb] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gide was , at least at that time , the sexual tourist of which Said and others have written , his opportunity to come and go enhanced by what is aptly if euphemistically called independent means . |
| 2 | Gatsby uses his money to try and attract Daisy , whom he was in love with as a young man , although she later married someone else . |
| 3 | Mr Rundle took his case to Save & Prosper who issued his Visa card . |
| 4 | Despite the imperfections of the documents , he felt to the full his responsibility to preserve and hand over intact to his successor all the rights , privileges , and possessions of which he was the divinely constituted guardian . |
| 5 | Constitutionally the president is , without doubt , the chief executive , but what is seriously in question is his freedom to direct and control those who work in ‘ his ’ administration . |
| 6 | Farrar s sentimentality may be excessive but we may envy his freedom to recognize and express childhood affection as well as childhood aggression ( ‘ I 'll kill you for that , ’ said Barker , leaping at Eric , and seizing him by the hair' ( ibid . |
| 7 | In all , between 1773 and 1790 , he is reckoned to have spent £30,000 of his own money and to have devoted a third of his time to his crusade to record and improve prison conditions . |
| 8 | Rincewind opened his mouth to reply but felt the words huddle together in his throat , reluctant to emerge in a world that was rapidly going mad . |
| 9 | He looked at her , opened his mouth to reply and wished that he had an answer . |
| 10 | ( 4 ) The tenant shall upon reasonable notice permit the landlord or his agent to inspect and take copies of the tenant 's books of accounts or any other document or record which in the opinion of the landlord or such agent is relevant to the determination of the turnover rent and shall bear the costs of such inspection if there shall be any material discrepancy between the information supplied by the tenant under paragraph 3 above and the results of such inspection . |
| 11 | Example 4:6 Rent geared to subrents receivable YIELDING AND PAYING THEREFOR by equal quarterly payments in advance on 1 January 1 April 1 July and 1 October in each year per cent of the net rents which the tenant is entitled to receive for the whole or any part of the demised property and calculated in accordance with the schedule hereto SCHEDULE ( 1 ) In this schedule the following expressions have the following meanings : ( a ) " full rack rental value " means the best rent at which the demised property ( or as the case may be the part of the demised property in question ) might reasonably be expected to be let in the open market by a willing landlord to a willing tenant ( i ) in the case of property falling within paragraph ( 2 ) below on the terms ( other than as to rent or other pecuniary consideration ) upon which it is actually occupied ( ii ) in the case of property falling within paragraph ( 3 ) below on the terms ( other than as to rent or other pecuniary consideration ) of this lease ( iii ) in the case of property falling within paragraph ( 4 ) below on the terms ( other than as to rent or other pecuniary consideration ) upon which it was last occupied and in any case disregarding the matters set out in paragraphs ( a ) and ( b ) of section 34(1) of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 ( as amended ) and on the assumption that the rent so determined will be revised every five years ( b ) " qualified accountant " means a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales or the Association of Certified Accountants ( 2 ) If the tenant lets or permits to be occupied the whole or any part of the demised property in return for any pecuniary consideration other than the full rack rental value thereof as at the date of such letting or permission or in return for no pecuniary consideration then he shall be deemed for the purposes of this schedule to be entitled to receive the full rack rental value thereof determined as at the date of such letting or permission and redetermined as at every fifth anniversary thereof ( 3 ) If the tenant himself occupies the whole or any part of the demised property then he shall be deemed for the purposes of this schedule to be entitled to receive the full rack rental value thereof determined as at the date on which he went into occupation and redetermined as at every fifth anniversary thereof ( 4 ) If the whole or any part of the demised property remains vacant for three months or more then at the expiry of such period of three months the tenant shall until the same is next occupied be deemed to be entitled to receive the full rack rental value thereof determined as at the date upon which the said period expired and redetermined as at every fifth anniversary thereof ( 5 ) The tenant shall one month before the beginning of each quarter ( time being of the essence ) deliver to the landlord a certificate signed by a qualified accountant showing a true summary of : ( a ) the gross amount of all rents and licence fees which the tenant is entitled ( or deemed to be entitled ) to receive in respect of the demised property and each part thereof for that quarter and ( b ) the amount of any sum included in ( a ) above which the tenant is entitled to recover from any subtenant or occupier of the whole or any part of the demised property either by way of VAT or by way of service charge in respect of services or works performed or to be performed ( 6 ) Subject to paragraph ( 7 ) below the net rents shall be the difference between the two amounts shown in the said certificate ( 7 ) The net rents shall be determined by a single arbitrator to be appointed by the President for the time being of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors if : ( a ) the tenant fails to deliver a certificate in accordance with paragraph ( 5 ) above ( in which case the tenant shall pay interest on the net rents at the rate of … per cent from the quarter day in question until payment ) or ( b ) any dispute or difference arises between the parties in connection with the calculation of the net rents ( in which case the arbitrator shall determine the amount of interest if any to be paid by the tenant ) ( 8 ) The tenant shall permit the landlord or his agent to inspect and take copies of the tenant 's books or account or any other document or record ( and if necessary the tenant shall procure any computer print-out ) which in the opinion of the landlord or such agent is relevant to the calculation of the net rents and shall bear the costs of such inspection if there shall be any material discrepancy between the certificate delivered by the tenant under paragraph 5 above and the results of such inspection . |
| 12 | Then he returned to his cell to sweep and mop it . |
| 13 | Silas needed her help at the barbecue and she — not Doreen — would be at his side to turn and serve the sizzling food . |
| 14 | For Dennis Awori , the chairman of the KENYA Rugby Union and one of the talented group of players to have put Kenyan rugby on the seven-a-side map , the inability of his side to concentrate and play consistently well must have been nerve-wrecking . |
| 15 | The teacher claims his professional status , and demonstrates it by his readiness to adapt and change . |
| 16 | Perhaps the pause is only long enough for his mind to find and form a new , fresh and appropriate body in which to continue on the mental outworking of the karmic dance . |
| 17 | Even Francis Fairlie , the man they all joke about because he can never make up his mind to marry or to start a serious career or to buy a house or to do anything else that may define and announce his character to the world — even Francis Fairlie has managed to get himself here ! |
| 18 | ‘ Launch ’ is an apt term : it was never his intention to control or manipulate the Council , for it was a sovereign body under his presidency ; his duty was to see that it was heading in the right direction . |
| 19 | An act of bankruptcy must be proved , and under this term are included various acts , which show the debtor 's insolvency or his intention to delay or defraud his creditors . |
| 20 | The term abandoned is not defined in the Act but it will clearly apply where a person caring for a child has left without indicating his intention to return or making arrangements for the child 's care in his absence . |
| 21 | Ace had spoken of his intention to try and pull strings on her behalf , but she had n't thought he 'd have that much clout with a multi-national the size of IMP . |
| 22 | Lermontov left his seat to go and neck with Tsvetaeva , and Solzhenitsyn gave up his place at the front to go back and chat to Gogol and Pushkin . |
| 23 | The worker , in contrast , has only his labour to sell and receives only wages in return . |
| 24 | He had spent in promoting the scheme money that could have been used in establishing it , and I was both impatient and critical of his capacity to launch and support a large new artistic organisation , particularly as his ideas of who would give him money were hopelessly unrealistic . |
| 25 | Robert actually trembled in his longing to protect and to keep all trouble from her . |
| 26 | Georgiades had a man on that route , too , but there was only one of him and when he saw the man coming he did not risk leaving his post to run and tell them but watched the man until he was safely inside the shop . |
| 27 | The DSS has been arguing successfully for years that if a claimant was ignorant of his entitlement , that did not justify his failure to claim or justify his having a back payment . |
| 28 | Following his failure to buy or seize Socotra , Haines convinced the government of Bombay that Aden could be made into both a strategic and a great commercial centre . |
| 29 | In the preface to his Hortus Britanno-Americanus ( written in 1749 but not published until 1763 ) Mark Catesby [ q.v. ] , the pioneer naturalist of the south-eastern states of America , said that ‘ Mr. Gray at Fulham has for many years made it his business to raise and cultivate the plants of America ( from whence he has annually fresh supplies ) in order to furnish the curious with what they want … |
| 30 | And then , because it was inherent in his nature to question and appraise and assess , he continued his exploration of the threads of knowledge he possessed about the Prison . |