Example sentences of "[prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he called off his fast a week later , a pro-government newspaper headlined its story ‘ Maquio ends his diet ’ . |
| 2 | I was banned , however , not because I am a convicted criminal , I think — like the unfortunate Simon Hayward — but because I wanted to wear a false nose out of consideration for the feeling of my associate , Mark Chapman , who , as I explained last week , has just had an inch and a half lopped off his . |
| 3 | He shrugged the shirt off his ludicrously broad shoulders . |
| 4 | He said ’ We 've got a life sentence , whe should he get anything off his ? ’ |
| 5 | There would be men enough left with them to ensure their safe withdrawal , not enough to make it worth his while disabling them . |
| 6 | From the point of view of the experiencing subject , the meaningfulness is not something of which he is conscious ; all he experiences is , first the word ‘ red ’ , then a mental image : there is nothing that could count as his internally and introspectably associating them which does not reintroduce the mysterious generality of thought . |
| 7 | Conran acknowledges that in the face of-City rumour it is important for a group such as his to communicate to the outside world what its overall strategy is and to spell out the logic of its master plan — something he feels Storehouse might have done to better effect prior to becoming besieged by unwelcome take-over bids . |
| 8 | Why should a hut in which someone lives count as his ? |
| 9 | A hairdresser believes he sees the ghost of a fellow-soldier ; spends some years in a mental hospital ; on his release is rejected by his wife who he believes is ‘ denying him his existence ’ ; begins to think that everyone else is denying him his existence , perhaps because he was once shot at by a German and they all think he is dead ; spends his Sundays looking into the river for the bullet which missed him ; after his death , his wife discovers she is pregnant ; she lets it be known that the hairdresser has spoken to her by night and told her ‘ he was very happy that she had recognized the child as his , because that way she had stopped denying him his existence ’ ; when eventually she moves away from Piacenza , the hairdresser stops speaking to her by night . |
| 10 | The commoners , who had everything to lose from undertakings such as his , were firing an opening shot . |
| 11 | Later , Hexam finds Radfoot 's body , which owing to his likeness to Harmon and the fact that he is dressed in Harmon 's clothes is identified as his . |
| 12 | A love such as his could never be ‘ untimely ’ and ‘ indelicate ’ . |
| 13 | On the night , he bought himself a ticket , watched Dinah from the stalls — how could she remain so cool , so competent , when her heart must be torn , as his , by reason of their separation ? |
| 14 | In the intricate weave of the universe , his was the golden strand , and his sisters ' was dross , part of the vast lumpen-knot of the ordinary , the confined mortal mass that bred and died on a million worlds like some foetid yeast in order to ferment a spirit such as his , a spirit which a God-Emperor could sip . |
| 15 | Burgess certainly has the highest profile , he dominates the playground and probably sees the crown as his . |
| 16 | Shostakovich 's Fourth was conceived explicitly as his symphonic credo ; it ended up , implicitly , as his de profundis clamavi . |
| 17 | Goodness and integrity such as his will not pass without widespread grief . |
| 18 | One potter names Ergotimos as his father ; and Tleson , who signed the cup in fig. 50 as well as many of the best others , names Nearchos as his . |
| 19 | Throwing the pillow back , her aim not nearly so good as his , she sighed . |
| 20 | I look forward to hearing thoughtful and far-reaching speeches such as that made by the hon. Member for Chichester when these matters are discussed at Maastricht , and I hope that views such as his will be reflected in Maastricht — a subject to which I may return in due course . |
| 21 | " The common duty of care does not impose upon an occupier any obligation willingly accepted as his by the visitor . " |
| 22 | If the trustees have power to pay or do in fact pay capital transfer tax due on assets which the settlor puts into the settlement the Revenue have taken the view that the settlor has thereby an interest in the income or property of the settlement , and that the income of the settlement should be treated as his for income tax purposes under [ TA 1988 Part XV ] . |
| 23 | ‘ Neither do I. Nor will I allow Haraldsen to claim him as his . ’ |
| 24 | While the numbers of young people had dropped as the overall population grew older , in County Durham , 50% of over 16s were staying on at sixth forms or colleges such as his . |
| 25 | Of the approximate one and a half thousand pounds from the sale of the Volvo , minus expenses , that he regarded legitimately as his , added to the four thousand in he and Zoe 's joint account , there remained one hundred and seventy pounds . |
| 26 | The first Mr Bond knew of the successful move by the National Australia Bank to put his brewery businesses into receivership , was through a radio news bulletin aboard his A$3.5million maxi-yacht , Drumbeat . |
| 27 | Aboard his recently acquired Aprilia , the Whitehall rider gave the best expert class performance in the Waterlooville Club trial , which was contested on a very difficult course at Budden 's Bank , near Chalton on Saturday . |
| 28 | Diego Dobrilla of the 287 a Squadriglia R.M. had taken off from his base at Elmas with a Naval tenente aboard his Z.506B as observer . |
| 29 | Below : Little John Kocinski took tighter lines and looked masterful aboard his YZR500 Yamaha |
| 30 | During his nearly three years as effective day-to-day leader of the Cultural Revolution , Chen , along with Jiang Qing and Mao 's security chief Kang Sheng , helped orchestrate campaigns of vilification and persecution against thousands of party cadres , including the then head of state Liu Shaoqi , who later died alone in a bank vault used as a cell . |