Example sentences of "[Wh adv] his [noun sg] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He remembered how he had been taken by force from his home in the Lithuanian village of Akmeyon when he was sixteen ; how he was beaten and spat upon by the officers because he was a Jew ; how he was forced to eat treif , and how his life in the regiment had been such a hell that he decided to desert . |
| 2 | His career as a projector began in 1646 , when his scheme for the manufacture of saltpetre attracted attention , primarily on account of its value for gunpowder production . |
| 3 | He was disappointed in the same year when his application for the chair of botany at London University was unsuccessful . |
| 4 | By 1013 , when his arrival in the Danelaw implies a change of tactic consequent upon a change of purpose , this had happened . |
| 5 | He records a visit to the lead mines , carved stones , caves , Loch Finlaggan , and the duns where his description of the state of Dun Bhorairaig at that time is particularly valuable . |
| 6 | He records a visit to the lead mines , carved stones , caves , Loch Finlaggan , and the duns where his description of the state of Dun Bhorairaig at that time is particularly valuable . |
| 7 | One of a director 's fiduciary duties of particular relevance in management buy-outs is that he must not put himself in a position where his duty to the company may conflict with his personal interest . |