Example sentences of "his lordship 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his Lordship 's view , the wife should receive the full sum and in due course account to the Revenue for any tax due . |
| 2 | His Lordship 's orders . ’ |
| 3 | That Nature form 'd me for his Lordship 's Slave . |
| 4 | His Lordship 's Sister … |
| 5 | ‘ Was it his lordship 's wish that the Chinaman on the upstairs landing should be exchanged with the one outside this door ? ’ |
| 6 | His clothes became increasingly impoverished , his frame thinner ; a hunted look appeared in his eyes , and on his last visits , he would spend long periods staring into space , oblivious of his lordship 's presence or , sometimes , even of having been addressed . |
| 7 | But in his lordship 's day , that room was regularly required , as was the long table that occupied it , to seat thirty or more guests for dinner ; in fact , the banqueting hall is so spacious that when necessity demanded it , further tables were added to the existing one to enable almost fifty to be seated . |
| 8 | But on that particular winter 's night I am recollecting the dining room was for some reason out of use , and Lord Darlington was dining with a solitary guest — I believe it was Sir Richard Fox , a colleague from his lordship 's Foreign Office days — in the vastness of the banqueting hall . |
| 9 | Whatever complications arose in his lordship 's course over subsequent years , I for one will never doubt that a desire to see ‘ justice in this world ’ lay at the heart of all his actions . |
| 10 | Our Prime Minister of that time , Mr Lloyd George , had called for another great conference to be held in Italy in the spring of 1922 , and initially his lordship 's aim was to organize a gathering at Darlington Hall with a view to ensuring a satisfactory outcome to this event . |
| 11 | However , Mr Lewis 's engagingly informal manner , and his statement at dinner that the United States ‘ would always stand on the side of justice and did n't mind admitting mistakes had been made at Versailles ’ seemed to do much to win the confidence of his lordship 's ‘ home team' ; as dinner progressed , the conversation had slowly but surely turned from topics such as the merits of Mr Lewis 's native Pennsylvania back to the conference ahead , and by the time the gentlemen were lighting their cigars , some of the speculations being offered appeared to be as intimate as those exchanged prior to Mr Lewis 's arrival . |
| 12 | This was a little unfortunate , the topic being one close to his lordship 's heart and one he was inclined to explicate at some length . |
| 13 | On the third day I was allowed down to dinner , and we were very appreciative of the good meal , and His Lordship 's well-made coffee . |
| 14 | His decision in favour of Kilpatrick indicated his Lordship 's opinion as to where the wickedness lay . |
| 15 | I do not wish you to violate your oath of secrecy or your conscience but , ’ and he tuned to look eagerly at the Bishop , ‘ with His Lordship 's permission , I would like to take you aside and quietly ask you one question ? |
| 16 | The Vice-Chancellor , Sir Donald Nicholls , said that the section gave the Court discretion in the widest sense , and in His Lordship 's view , the case was one in which a sale should be directed , even though there would be a deficiency . |
| 17 | But , oh ! respect his lordship 's taste , |
| 18 | Ramsay explained that his lordship 's goodbrother , the Earl of Moray , had desired to see his sister the Countess whilst in the vicinity , as was but natural ; and while there , they had learned that the defences of the castle were being strengthened , in view of possible attack by the English , and they had offered such small help as they could in this excellent work in the realm 's interest . |
| 19 | His Lordship 's estate would , the directors hoped , benefit ultimately from the prosecution of the plan . |
| 20 | They agreed to limit the whole to 23 acres , 13 of which were on his Lordship 's land , and offered 40 years ' purchase of the actual rent — an offer which ‘ we flatter ourselves will preclude the unpleasant necessity of having recourse to the decision of a jury ’ . |
| 21 | A funeral procession from the workhouse had had the temerity to pass through his Lordship 's private grounds , thereby producing feelings of outrage . |
| 22 | For this reason , the Colonel pointed out , he could not ‘ consistent with my wounded feelings support his Lordship 's friend at the late General Election … ’ |
| 23 | The member for Berwickshire went immediately to the head of the Administration and ‘ desired the D[uke] of Newcastle to refresh his Lordship 's memory ’ , but Lord Anson was a master of diplomatic procrastination , never refusing an important supporter of Government , yet delaying performance of his undertakings . |
| 24 | When Lord Hawke in 1925 made his famous remark about the undesirability of a professional ever captaining England , Fender responded in the socialist Daily Herald by calling his lordship 's comments ‘ a gratuitous insult ’ to professional cricketers . |
| 25 | A shaggy red monster catapulted from the interior , appeared briefly in the narrow passage then emerged at about fifty miles an hour from the other end with portions of his lordship 's creation dangling from its horns and neck . |
| 26 | Morris 's role appears to have been both that of a clerk of works , responsible to a greater or lesser degree for the erection of the buildings , and that of an architectural amanuensis employed to make ‘ Drawings and Explanations of his Lordship 's Directions ’ ; but to what extent he was involved in the actual process of design is not certain . |
| 27 | Bolton , Brittain and Mahony formed the cornerstone of his Lordship 's reasoning . |
| 28 | The jury under his Lordship 's direction found that the appellant had paid all the sums which by the agreement of December 21 , 1876 , he undertook to pay and within the times therein specified . |
| 29 | When Clinger suggested that one of his lordship 's servants might like to do that , Dersingham said , what was Clinger if not just that . |
| 30 | He had n't the heart to say he did n't want to be his lordship 's servant or , indeed , anyone 's servant . |