Example sentences of "his [det] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Compromises with his few but firmly held prejudices were only made when to hold out meant risking something irreplaceable . |
| 2 | The older man smiled widely , showing off his few but sound teeth . |
| 3 | On big match days such as today Croke Park becomes his stage , and he gives full range to his many and varied skills . |
| 4 | Crosby said : ‘ He 's got a dodgy knee yet he still gives it his all and wants to win . |
| 5 | Personally I 'd hate to see Hodge go , he gives his all and as has been mentioned on a number of occasions scores very important goals but I suppose their is really no place for sentiment with the way we 've started this season . |
| 6 | His more than usually lumpy appearance was accounted for by a variety of new bulges about his person , all promising delightful treats . |
| 7 | A person carrying on business in a name other than his own whether or not he is within the jurisdiction may be sued in his own name , followed by " trading as AB " , or in his business name followed by the words " a trading name " ( Ord 5 , r 10 ) . |
| 8 | That would leave Gerry Creaney up front on his own although Paul Byrne would be expected to push up wide on the right . |
| 9 | Mr Ford made the pilgrimage on his own after another officer , who was planning to return to Port-na-Blagh , died last year . |
| 10 | Mr de Klerk , while failing to offer any firm assurances , did say in a press conference of his own that the government would look at ‘ areas ’ where the state of emergency might be lifted . |
| 11 | He will not take a decision on his own that his team does not respect , so colleagues find him caring and tolerant . |
| 12 | Instead , he came back with such surprising ferocity of his own that by the bell at least one judge thought he 'd done enough to win the round . |
| 13 | Even when Victor Hugo came up here , in I 843 , he was still able to declare , on no known authority but his own that you could pile six cathedrals of Notre-Dame in Paris ( the subject of one of his novels ) one on top of the other ‘ before the balustrade on top of its towers would reach to the surface of the water ’ . |
| 14 | He was an unhappy personality , who had obviously grown up in the shadow of his father and had decided that the assumption of a totally aggressive demeanour was the only way of maintaining a personality of his own that would be distinct from that of his famous , indeed most famous — parent . |
| 15 | Its features , high , intellectual forehead , straight nose , long upper lip and fine-cut mouth , were so absolutely his own that he wondered others did n't remark on it . |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | Andy 's form is exceptional and he has waited such a long time to make the jersey his own that he will not want to miss a game . ’ |
| 18 | Twice the Nigerian failed to see team-mates better positioned to worry Goram and preferred to try shots of his own that were blocked . |
| 19 | Maybe they had no answer for how a little gymnast from Minsk , training through Russian winters in an unheated hall , could win more gold medals on his own than our 388 competitors between them . |
| 20 | Also , he would not wander through the corridors on his own unless it was absolutely necessary . |
| 21 | In the church of the new literary criticism , he has also prayed and mocked , publishing critical books of his own but satirising the gurus of metafictional inquiry in his novels : Nice Work 's laconic demolition of Lacan has survived to reach the BBC . |
| 22 | But , wrote Michael Ramsey in retrospect — it is his own but — ‘ he had wit and generosity and there were pupils who had deep affection for him . |
| 23 | Endill continued to search on his own but was becoming more and more tired . |
| 24 | With dependent work , the worker appears to work on his own but , in reality , he is dependent on a firm or group of firms for some vital part of his work , such as premises , equipment , supplies , or outlet . |
| 25 | He came up the week before on his own but he played two rounds every day . |
| 26 | Nails was always roaming about on his own but on a night like this there was not much attraction in it . |
| 27 | Stockwell hustled into the penalty area on his own but Ironside was off his line quickly and Stockwell hit a hurried shot over the bar . |
| 28 | His Cabinet was not his own but an inheritance front Law . |
| 29 | He passed her , holding his face away from every shouted word , interspersing them with his own but not loud enough to be heard : ‘ Stop it , ’ ‘ This is destructive , ’ ‘ Do n't say these things , ’ until in the middle of the hall he thrashed the coat repeatedly against the floor , yelling louder than he had ever done . |
| 30 | Horak forged ahead on his own but set too fast a pace and died at Elmbridge . |