Example sentences of "his [noun] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Penywaun , years later , he told me about John Evans and his sister as they were at the first two decades of this century : I sensed as a boy they were unusual but now I recognized how different they were . |
| 2 | Hearing from that individual , to his great concern , of the impending calamity , Captain Cuttle , in his delicacy , sheered off again confounded ; merely handing in the nosegay as a small mark of his solicitude , and leaving his respectful compliments for the family in general , which he accompanied with an expression of his hope that they would lay their heads well to the wind under existing circumstances , and a friendly intimation that he would " look up again " tomorrow(2) . |
| 3 | He expressed his hope that they would set up a national assembly and leadership council in exile to focus efforts around a single opposition leadership . |
| 4 | They certainly express viewpoints which find echoes among his contemporaries and they are not out of key with what we know of his character and of his piety , which was manifested in his crusading enthusiasm , the expulsion of the Jews , the Eleanor crosses , the foundation of Vale Royal abbey and his almsgiving . |
| 5 | Mary was his lieutenant and they worked together wonderfully well . |
| 6 | Their tangible presence passing over glazed tiles to where Francis had made his dive and they looked over , as the others had done , only they were n't laughing . |
| 7 | ‘ I ignored his calls and they finally stopped . ’ |
| 8 | The tour of the castle over , Oyston seated his NoS guests in the draughty baronial hall and explained his views as they sipped some of his own-label champagne . |
| 9 | There must have been some magic in his fingers because they made her head tingle . |
| 10 | With one , one man said I used to put , in the cold mornings I used to put my other hand at the bottom to see if I could get heat , but he could n't touch his fingers because they were so tender . |
| 11 | A few days before the hearing of the father 's application , the local authority informed his solicitors that they would not be opposing the application . |
| 12 | The office gossip was that his wife insisted that he wore his suits until they fell apart . |
| 13 | Three hooded gunmen wearing Lebanese Army fatigues entered his apartment where they killed him , his wife and their two small sons . |
| 14 | They replied that Edmund left no claim to his brothers and had wanted Cnut to support and protect his sons until they were old enough to rule , and they also swore that they wished to elect Cnut king , humbly obey him , and pay tribute to his army . |
| 15 | Florence further says that witnesses of the agreement later declared that Edmund left no portion of the kingdom to his brothers should he die , and agreed that Cnut should be the protector of his sons until they came of age . |
| 16 | The police did not get his name and address or make enquiries at his workplace to check out his story before they arrested him . |
| 17 | The nonconformists noted that he did not unchurch them but were not happy with his plea that they recognize bishops to be essential to the Church . |
| 18 | It was n't his case and they were n't suspects , and they must have known that he was no cheerful extrovert , flattered to be the centre of attraction while they bombarded him with questions about Chief Inspector Rickards 's likely methods , the chance of catching the Whistler , his theories about psychopathic killers , his own experience of serial murder . |
| 19 | At the heart of Sir Ian 's complaint was Mr Samuel 's alleged deliberate concealment of his activities after they had been partially unearthed . |
| 20 | At this stage of his development the karateka seems to be able to sense the movements of his opponents before they occur , enabling him to react with blinding speed and absolute control . |
| 21 | Hywel looks after his sheep because they are here . |
| 22 | He surveyed the two women , who were oblivious of his presence as they tore verbally at each other . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , what did you think of it ? ’ said his Mum as they drove off . |
| 24 | A person is insolvent ( whether or not he is bankrupt ) ‘ if he has either ceased to pay his debts in the ordinary course of business or he can not pay his debts as they become due , ’ section 61(4) . |
| 25 | Well because he suppose there was a personality clash between erm Sugar and the Board at Spurs and er a dirty tic tricks campaign against Terry Venables by Sugar and his associates and they 've blackened his name now so that er I do n't think he 'll ever get the England job , but he 's the ideal candidate for it |
| 26 | The ‘ development risks ’ defence is available where the defendant shows ‘ that the state of scientific and technical knowledge at the relevant time was not such that a producer of products of the same description as the product in question might be expected to have discovered the defect if it had existed in his products while they were under his control . ’ |
| 27 | ( c ) Where the defendant can show that : " the state of scientific and technical knowledge at the relevant time was not such that a producer of products of the same description as the product in question might be expected to have discovered the defect if it had existed in his products while they were under his control " ( s. 4(1) ( e ) ) . |
| 28 | Section 4(1) ( e ) states as follows : ( e ) that the state of scientific and technical knowledge at the relevant time was not such that a producer of products of the same description as the product in question might be expected to have discovered the defect if it had existed in his products while they were under his control … |
| 29 | HFS Loans League BISHOP Auckland manager Harry Dunn will give another player his debut when they take on Southport at Kingsway today . |
| 30 | And the man was er , accepted Christ as his saviour and they went down and Philip baptized in there , in in in the river . |