Example sentences of "his [noun] [conj] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An unemployed engineer in Coventry , who joined the Labour Party after being made redundant , walks to all his meetings and reckons he wears out his shoes three times faster than when he was working . |
| 2 | Like Tanya , he has no bad feelings towards his employers and says his redundancy was handled well . |
| 3 | There are some 80 examples on show by nearly as many artists which reflect the development of the medium from the early Twenties to the zenith of Pop Art in the Sixties ; from the rather mundane Swans of Leopold Krumel to Roy Lichtenstein 's Sweet Dreams , Baby , which characterises his creativity and remains to this day an image in his art that bridges the gap between the commercial and the fine . |
| 4 | He begins his account at the point where he is considering handing in his resignation and has invited his friends , the generals von Roon and von Moltke , to dine with him in order to discuss the situation . |
| 5 | Advertising and its related arts are thus necessary to ‘ develop the kind of man the goals of the industrial system require — one that reliably spends his income and works reliably because he is always in need of more ’ . |
| 6 | Writing tops up his income and finances the rare fish projects . |
| 7 | This reads as follows : If a settlor who has taken a loan from his settlement and has been charged to tax under the legislation repays the loan the tax previously charged is not of course repaid . |
| 8 | Baxter expressed his views as follows : ‘ Justification is received by those who obey the law of the new covenant . |
| 9 | It slips out of his fingers and turns over . |
| 10 | The stones struck his fingers and knuckles with stinging force , but the pain made sweeter the success that now followed , as the speed and motion of the multifarious shapes and colours began to describe images in the air above the Bowl . |
| 11 | ‘ Because I 'm b aadd , ’ he clowns , but them holds up his shaking hand , spreads his fingers and says : ‘ It 's because of this . |
| 12 | At this moment of consummation ( and the image is surely sexual as well ) , and in the time of relief following , the poet gives up his struggle and allows the ‘ sacred river ’ to draw him to its ‘ lifeless ’ conclusion : to struggle for control in the river is to be controlled by it . |
| 13 | This man has been known to play guitar solos with the aid of a vibrator ; come to that , he sometimes unplugs his guitar and plays a solo directly through the jackplug . |
| 14 | For wandering on stage , Black Francis picks up his guitar and screams into ‘ Tame ’ . |
| 15 | For wandering on stage , Black Francis picks up his guitar and screams into ‘ Tame ’ . |
| 16 | ( He leaps up again , stamps his foot and shouts into the wing . ) |
| 17 | They were the organization , or company man ; the conformist who goes along with his superiors and finds balm for his conscience in additional comforts and security of his place in the corporate set-up . ’ |
| 18 | He looks like hell and sounds awful … the nascent Mancunian drawl is weak and strained , his hands shake , and there 's a muscle by his jaw that keeps twitching violently every time there 's a lull in the conversation |
| 19 | The nascent Mancunian drawl is weak and strained , his hands shake , and there 's a muscle by his jaw that keeps twitching violently every time there 's a lull in the conversation . |
| 20 | Nordenfalk starts his preface as follows . |
| 21 | We are made to share his view , and with it his plans and hopes to gain at the expense of good . |
| 22 | He wrote his plea as follows : if he had n't had a reply from her before noon on the last day of the week ( which meant return post ) he would trouble her no more . |
| 23 | Before we go our separate ways , Bernard opens up his case and pulls out his Les Paul for one last time today . |
| 24 | He is an " Oxbridge don " who gives a " somewhat fastidious impression " , a point which is almost immediately confirmed by the dramatic action when the stage directions tell us " ANDERSON dabs at his mouth with his napkin and puts it down " ( p. 43 ) . |
| 25 | Norman Lamont delivers his budget and tells the House he wants to spend more time with his family . |
| 26 | INSPECTOR Morse shelves his casebook and becomes a cross-Channel migrant when John Thaw and Lindsay Duncan , above , star in a TV version of Peter Mayle 's bestseller , A Year in Provence . |
| 27 | Nearby places to visit include the Lingholm Gardens , Carlisle Castle built in 1092 to watch over England 's border with Scotland , and Wordsworth 's house in Cockermouth which was his birthplace and houses some of his personal effects . |
| 28 | The OECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation , for whom Hoyle first wrote his paper , comes to his defence and expounds the relationship between school and the individual in the following way : |
| 29 | Prost has a clause in his contract that excludes Senna from joining the Williams team . |
| 30 | There was no doubt that Derbyshire would have preferred to re-register Mohammad Azharuddin this summer , to give the Trinidadian further time to recuperate , but Bishop insisted on returning to fulfil his contract and has fully justified his claim of full fitness with bowling of the highest calibre . |