Example sentences of "his [noun sg] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no point in asking him to practise on his parents or his sister as , although still in evidence , his stammer was far less noticeable with members of his own family . |
| 2 | At Penywaun , years later , he told me about John Evans and his sister as they were at the first two decades of this century : I sensed as a boy they were unusual but now I recognized how different they were . |
| 3 | Do you wish to compete or do you not ? ’ he grated , turning to keep his eyes on his sister as she circled him expertly . |
| 4 | Dad give me wha what he had in his truck as well . |
| 5 | The scoreline suggests Fraser Digby in the Town goal did his bit as well . |
| 6 | In the six years which followed his resignation as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster , Mosley himself had passed from Labour minister to Fascist leader . |
| 7 | Because of the likelihood that Russia 's reform could not proceed Grigory Yavlinsky , co-author of the Shatalin plan , had tendered his resignation as Russian Deputy Premier on Oct. 17 , and was relieved formally of his office on Nov. 22 . |
| 8 | When the congress opened on Feb. 19 Harilaos Florakis , appointed president of the central committee on his resignation as general secretary in July 1989 and the party 's leader since 1973 , had raised the reformists ' hopes with his unexpected announcement that he now wanted " to be a simple foot-soldier in the party " . |
| 9 | Dubcek faced calls from right-wing forces for his resignation as Assembly Chairman in view of his " practical support " for the opposition party Movement for a Democratic Slovakia ( HZDS ) , a group which had split from VPN in March 1991 [ see p. 38106 ] . |
| 10 | Dec. 20 : in a statement to the Congress of People 's Deputies Shevardnadze announced his resignation as Soviet Foreign Minister , warning of a drift to a new dictatorship and the danger of conservative forces bringing the policies of glasnost and perestroika to an end [ see p. 37903 ] . |
| 11 | The only US Senate seat at issue , in Pennsylvania , was won by the Democrat Harris Wofford , who overcame an early 44-point opinion poll deficit to take 55 per cent of the vote against Dick Thornburgh , a former two-term governor who had in June announced his resignation as Attorney General in order to enter the contest [ see p. 38279 ] . |
| 12 | The Prime Minister was also questioned once again about his role in the Recruit-Cosmos scandal which had forced his resignation as Finance Minister in 1988 [ see p. 36463 ] , but about which new questions had been raised in December 1991 . |
| 13 | He rejected calls for his resignation as DLP executive chairman , however , arguing that it was the government 's poor economic record rather than the DLP 's inadequate election campaign which had cost the party its legislative majority . |
| 14 | Despite his resignation as vice-president of the LDP , Kanemaru had continued to hold his powerful position as head of the Takeshita faction , the largest internal grouping within the LDP . |
| 15 | Following his defeat Kim Dae Jung on Dec. 21 announced his resignation as co-chairman of the DP and as a member of the National Assembly . |
| 16 | If the official view in the Church cared nothing about the bishop in his function as apostolic teacher , anyone who was trained to teach had a duty to join the bishop 's bench if he were asked . |
| 17 | Socrates is a teacher , but his function as he himself describes it is to uncover in the minds of those he teaches what they really know already , but have simply failed to recognise or make explicit . |
| 18 | ‘ The powers conferred by section 268 are powers directed to enabling the court to help a liquidator to discover the truth of the circumstances in connection with the affairs of the company , information of trading , dealings , and so forth , in order that the liquidator may be able , as effectively as possible , and , I think , with as little expense as possible … to complete his function as liquidator , to put the affairs of the company in order and to carry out the liquidation in all its various aspects , including , of course , the getting in of any assets of the company available in the liquidation . |
| 19 | For the man who enters the House at a later age who does not expect to get and perhaps does not want office , there is no point in continual exertions to catch the limelight and this is the kind of member who is particularly prone to regard his function as supporting his leaders . |
| 20 | It is also , perhaps , not without significance that Fahreddin Acemi is the first to be mentioned as receiving a salary specifically in respect of his function as Mufti , though it can not be shown beyond doubt that he was actually the first to have done so . |
| 21 | A peasant 's garden would have been an important additional source of food for him and his family and , in good years , any surplus could have been sold to augment his income as well . |
| 22 | Accordingly the man in our example may prefer to keep an additional fraction of his income as money balances in excess of his transactions demand , just in case something unexpected happens which necessitates immediate expenditure . |
| 23 | And after his elevation to the papacy , he built a colonnaded portico out of his income as cardinal . |
| 24 | He was close to tears when he started to read a statement in which he opened his heart as never before . |
| 25 | They were hardly his own yet sprang from his heart as though , in those exalted moments , it were itself a living vessel of the Christmas mystery . |
| 26 | Afterwards , she lay naked , warm and quiescent in the curve of his arm , listening to his laboured breathing , feeling the fast , steady beat of his heart as it thundered against her cheek , knowing that it could never have been so good , so satisfying for both of them if she had n't loved him . |
| 27 | He had felt distress and pity for the sufferings he had seen about him , but they had not struck home to his heart as seeing McAllister brought so low had done . |
| 28 | His black hair was well streaked with grey , and she could see white streaks in his beard as well , as his stubble grew thick and unkempt . |
| 29 | However , if an application is made to the court for an order requiring the trustee to summon a meeting to consider a resolution for his removal as trustee , the court may , if it thinks no sufficient cause has been shown for the application , dismiss it but not until after an ex parte hearing of the applicant ( r 6.132(2) ) . |
| 30 | The Far Eastern Economic Review of Sept. 20 commented that reports suggesting that Li Peng 's decision to step down reflected " political vulnerability " or presaged his removal as Premier " appear to be groundless " . |