Example sentences of "his [noun] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is his hope that with a return to what he calls principles law may yet recover its hortatory function . |
| 2 | And he added his hope that in about two years he would have a more straightforward kind of book ready , developing his published studies on Diogenes Laertius , and possibly also an edition of Aeschylus ' Libation Bearers ( on which he had been lecturing earlier in the year ) Without any direct reference to this last suggestions Ritschl , in his reply a few weeks later , implicitly endorsed it . |
| 3 | He rapidly achieved prominence among his contemporaries and in the winter of 1865 was one of the founders of a University Classical Society , the Philologischer Verein . |
| 4 | Indeed , Shakespeare is not always the major focus of some parts of the book which concentrates as much on his contemporaries as on Shakespeare himself . |
| 5 | Several others , however , including one individual who testified that he had suffered discriminatory treatment from his employers because of views he had expressed in public about the political situation , requested that their names be withheld from the final report , because they felt that their jobs and perhaps even their very lives would be at risk . |
| 6 | It was held that Materia had breached his fiduciary duty to his employers and to his employer 's clients , and had therefore , violated Rule 10b-5 . |
| 7 | The war made severe inroads into his livelihood and at times he would be forced onto the hills to join the gangs doing the walling , but he hated being away from his family and they too suffered from the separation and besides the wages were not enough for all seven of them . |
| 8 | From that time on he improved in leaps and bounds and eventually , after about seven months , I started gingerly walking him around the small paddock next to his box with a bridle and a lunge rein threaded through his bit and over his head . |
| 9 | It was very well presented and that whilst Billy Connolly freely admitted he was not in fact a culture vulture , it was his enthusiasm that in a sense having his own that make the programme apparently a complete and utter joy and in a sense that 's what sponsorship should do , it should do for art , music , ballet and opera what Cousteau and Bellamy have done for the environment and Attenborough |
| 10 | I was fired with his enthusiasm and on my reluctant return home ordered The Old Straight Track from the library . |
| 11 | Having ensured that Argyll 's deputy had been made aware of his wishes and of his loyalty to the duke 's interest , Drummond did not neglect to advise Lord Milton that he had been approached by Captain Haldane , another candidate seeking the votes of the freeholders of Perthshire . |
| 12 | The informer believed he had come under suspicion by his commanders but in fact the UDA/UFF leadership suspected another member of setting up the team . |
| 13 | Whatever the strictures from his commanders and from the virtuous , local middle class , and newspapers on enforcing the law , a constable with his wits about him recognized the expediency of a ‘ live-and-let-live ’ policy . |
| 14 | We will discover that he was master of his technique and of his style very early on . |
| 15 | It means little for this child to perform with the greatest precision the most difficult pieces , with hands that can hardly stretch a sixth ; but what is really incredible is to see him improvise for an hour on end and in doing so give rein to the inspiration of his genius and to a mass of enchanting ideas … |
| 16 | Angry at his ineffectiveness and at the way Rohmer had made him a bystander in this nightmare , Cardiff followed them back through the savage whirlwinds towards the office block . |
| 17 | And already he knew in his heart that to be a vicar or a curate was not his vocation as a priest for the rest of his life . |
| 18 | At Monaco , that is particularly vital and by then Niki knew in his heart that in the majority of cases he was probably going to start behind Alain . |
| 19 | He posed the question whether the disadvantage of a judge speaking on matters which in one form or another — such as unfair dismissal from employment or from a trade union — might well come before him when he was on the bench was outweighed by the advantage of hearing his views or by the argument that he should not be prevented , by convention or otherwise , from speaking in Parliament on such a matter . |
| 20 | Vulnerable to the attacks of his enemies because of his religion , he publicly said little of the role of Catholics in the colony and urged them not to put themselves forward prominently . |
| 21 | He went to live with his mistress and with the child born of that association . |
| 22 | If none the less there is no question of déjà entendu but a sense of compelling actuality , it is because the unique partnership appears to inspire every one of these outstanding players to feel responsible not only for his part but for the reading as a whole . |
| 23 | Lucien found the torn edges of his shirt and with trembling fingers pulled it up over his shoulders . |
| 24 | The light from a standard lamp caught the hair bubbling up through the open neck of his shirt and on the backs of his arms . |
| 25 | So if you approach a sympathetic , but so far neutral , person and start telling him that he ought to give his support because of x , y and z policies he is likely to be bored and irritated . |
| 26 | It had been Burn , even when on his sick bed , who had sent for Sir George Gilbert Scott and given him his support when in professional difficulty . |
| 27 | I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his support and for his important observations about the retail industry in his constituency . |
| 28 | During the 1140s he wavered in his political allegiance , hoping to find a king who was both worthy of his support and in need of episcopal guidance . |
| 29 | Gedge continued to reach for his guitar while at university and drifted in and out of various lineups . |
| 30 | No , she was not going along with his decision as to how they should spend their holiday . |