Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | I was fired with his enthusiasm and on my reluctant return home ordered The Old Straight Track from the library . |
| 7 | We will discover that he was master of his technique and of his style very early on . |
| 8 | 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 … |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He went to live with his mistress and with the child born of that association . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Lucien found the torn edges of his shirt and with trembling fingers pulled it up over his shoulders . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his support and for his important observations about the retail industry in his constituency . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Gedge continued to reach for his guitar while at university and drifted in and out of various lineups . |
| 21 | No , she was not going along with his decision as to how they should spend their holiday . |
| 22 | It was his decision as to when he should take out the target . |
| 23 | That was when they had sent for Captain Freddie , and after what he described as a long , sometimes ‘ vair ackermonious diskussion ’ , and after a good deal of long distance telephoning , fax instructions had finally come through that allowed the Chileans to accept his decision as to what was required . |
| 24 | This requires him to prove that if the information had been given , his decision as to treatment would have been different . |
| 25 | Ferguson will delay his decision until after a light training session this morning . |
| 26 | When he published the Combattimento in 1638 , in his book of Madrigali guerrieri ed amorosi , Monteverdi claimed in his preface that with it he had created a new genus of music , the stile concitato ( excited ) , whereas earlier composers had been content to express the molle ( soft ) and temperato . |
| 27 | Seventhly , if within five years before his election or since his election he is convicted of an offence and has passed upon him a sentence of imprisonment ( whether suspended or not ) for a period of not less than three months without the option of a fine . |
| 28 | She came round to his chair and put her big arms around his neck , aware of what her flesh would feel like on his skin and at the same time ashamed to be self-conscious . |
| 29 | Birkenhead , who had written after the victory of 1924 of ‘ the tragedy that so great an Army should have so uninspiring a Commander in Chief ’ and was usually more sparing with his admiration than with his criticism , allowed some balancing increase of his own regard for Baldwin to occur . |
| 30 | A judicial inquiry has been initiated into his case but to AI 's knowledge , no progress has been made . |