Example sentences of "with his [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He over-valued the pound when we went into the ERM and , coupled with his insistence of achieving zero inflation , that is destroying industry , jobs , homes , families and any chance of rebuilding Britain for a better future . |
| 2 | It had to do with his insistence on using ‘ real ’ people , which was seen as a daunting prospect by many of the crew . |
| 3 | Hall does , indeed , seem to he touching on some very important issues with his insistence on a relatively separate sphere of discourse and communication . |
| 4 | Noting a coincidence between the ‘ open structure ’ of adolescence , in which the subject , ‘ in the aftermath of the oedipal stabilisation of subjective identity , … again questions his identifications , along with his capacities for speech and symbolisation ’ ( p. 9 ) , and the ‘ open structure ’ of the novel which explores a similar fluidity , negotiating the ‘ frontiers between differences of sex or identity , reality and fantasy , act and discourse ’ , Kristeva suggests that some form of literary history , that of novelistic discourse , might contribute to the fundamental project of psychoanalysis , that is , ‘ how to understand perversion in a way that is at once faithful and noncomplacent ’ ( p. 22 ) . |
| 5 | Mr Hill , a former supervisor at British Nuclear Fuels in Preston , Lancs , will be presented with his cheque in London today by Arthur Daley actor George Cole . |
| 6 | A former supervisor at British Nuclear Fuels in Preston , he will be presented with his cheque in London today by Arthur Daley actor George Cole . |
| 7 | standing terrified by the door , I saw an officer lean forward on his horse and hit a neighbour with his truncheon above the eyes , heard the blow like the thump of wood on a swede turnip . |
| 8 | PC Brown struck him on the head with his truncheon in a bid to restrain him . |
| 9 | In 1907 ‘ Mouse ’ went with his Governess to Littlehampton , his parents to Falmouth and then back to Fowey . |
| 10 | So he steels himself and starts on about Ireland and exile , beginning with his journey from Dublin to work as a navvy in London in the ‘ 70s . |
| 11 | A Scottish lord told King James that Andrewes ‘ did play with his text as a jackanapes does , who takes up a thing and tosses and plays with it and then takes up another and plays with it . |
| 12 | They were spectacular efforts often launched some distance from the target , who would be dillying and dallying with his foot on the ball when , suddenly and without warning , he would end up in a twisted heap at the bottom of our wall amid a terrible noise of stud on bone . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm going tonight , ’ he said , scuffing the paragraph in The Stage hard with his foot as if he were rubbing cigarette ash into the carpet . |
| 14 | ( GUIL walks half the distance towards the PLAYER , stops with his foot over the coin . ) |
| 15 | Still in his pyjamas and with his foot in plaster , he would hobble 500 metres or so across some fields until he reached a track , then carry on for another 500 metres or so until he reached a proper road . |
| 16 | He pushed the box with his foot behind the chair . |
| 17 | Mandeville shouted again and , losing his poise , hammered with his fists against the metal-studded door . |
| 18 | That was a time when the proudest moment of Denis 's young life had been being brought by his mother to Fitzgerald 's Park to see his father , brave and bold and handsome in his dress uniform , standing firmly to attention with his company as His Majesty King Edward VII — who seemed to Denis like a huge teapot with his cigar puffing steam like a spout — and Queen Alexandra moved sedately among the flower displays at the Great Cork Exhibition . |
| 19 | Barker let it be known that his ( Tissington 's ) company sold out well before 1760 , passing all Coniston accounts with his company to Mr. Hall , who was Roe 's man-on-the-spot , getting a receipt from the same , in full , free of all demands , for thirteen twenty-fourths belonging to Anthony Tissington . |
| 20 | He has probably been with his company for 13 years and in his present job for four . |
| 21 | Probably it would be far more sensible to insist on being taken home , instead of torturing herself with his company with his nearness like this , but she could n't summon the will to argue it out , as she knew he would . |
| 22 | Monks went off with his money to the other side of the world , where he spent it quickly and was soon in prison for another act of fraud . |
| 23 | Matthew was so careful with his money in most things . ’ |
| 24 | Sir Hugh Casson had helped Charles and encouraged him with his painting for many years , and is impressed by his skill . |
| 25 | The close affinities between Henry III 's and Louis IX 's view of kingship were exemplified in Louis 's arbitration of Henry 's dispute with his baronage in January 1264 . |
| 26 | Goaded beyond endurance , she took a wild swing that connected with his shield with such force that it nearly wrenched her arms out of their sockets . |
| 27 | Secondly , his pre-match preparation was excellent with his faith in the Queen 's Gambit Declined rewarded by a solid score with black . |
| 28 | This culminated with his transfer to the Rolls Wood Group in 1990 . |
| 29 | ‘ So in he stumped with his leg in plaster , sort of roaring . |
| 30 | Edward had watched over her for hours , even refusing to go down to the lock with his friends for days , though he loved to play there . |