Example sentences of "his contempt for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ms Johnston uses the world war as a springboard into other conflicts ; that between England and Ireland ; between Ireland north and south , and even within the south itself , as the English officers look down on the Irish men , and the northern Irish sergeant barely conceals his contempt for the southern Catholics in his ranks . |
| 2 | Alan had his own reasons for liking her desperate honesty ; reasons that went beyond his contempt for the other girlfriends of his youth . |
| 3 | At the time of his father 's death in April 1788 Sutton and his brothers were still ‘ very eminent in the practice ’ and in 1796 he published The Inoculator , in which he explained his method and displayed his contempt for the medical establishment . |
| 4 | The critical factor was the depth of his contempt for the Fourth Republic . |
| 5 | His height he tended to disguise with a slight stoop , and he made no secret of his contempt for the desk-bound staffs who had mushroomed far behind the lines . |
| 6 | While I wondered about his motives , he stoked up his contempt for the whole Jewish race , which had not had the decency to get itself wiped out , as rumoured . |