Example sentences of "that his [noun] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where steps are not taken to avoid such holding out , the salaried partner has the same professional responsibilities as a full partner to ensure that his firm complies with the Indemnity Insurance Rules ( under which salaried partners are treated as principals ) and the Accounts Rules ( see Chapter 12 ) ; and in theory the Inland Revenue could look to a salaried partner who is held out as a member of the firm for payment of income tax payable in respect of its profits , though in practice such a claim is unlikely . |
| 2 | In Luke 's story an angel came and comforted Jesus , as he prayed so earnestly that his sweat fell to the ground like drops of blood ( Luke 22:43–44 ) . |
| 3 | His failure before the English courts led him directly to Strasburg where he successfully claimed that his rights guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights had been violated . |
| 4 | ‘ The heaviest pig ever recorded was a Poland-China hog named ‘ Big Bill ’ , who was so obese that his belly dragged along the ground . |
| 5 | Cave 's departure from progressive humanism , with Its belief in individual and social transformation , is so extreme that his worldview verges on the Mediaeval : the language of curses , bad seed , the worm in the bud . |
| 6 | We are now so close that his knife tangles in the material of my jacket and he loses it . |
| 7 | He says he can remember he was burnt in the fire and that his sister died in the fire . |
| 8 | So real was the sensation that his fingers slipped on the handle of the tea cup and when the tea spilt into the saucer he exclaimed , ‘ Oh ! |
| 9 | My attention had been so far away and the dog had timed his jump to a split second so that his bark came at the highest point , his teeth only inches from my face . |
| 10 | He landed on his feet , hitting the narrow pavement outside the yard with such jarring impact that his teeth bit into the edge of his tongue . |
| 11 | They went for him then , Alexander and Donald McLaggan , the Duke 's two sons , dragged him from his father 's side so that his head bounced on the steps , lifted him bleeding , like foresters keeping a dying deer clear of the hounds , and started to carry him down to the river ‘ just to cool him off ’ but Cameron ran and gripped Donald 's shoulder and shouted , ‘ If you injure an officer it is treason on top of sedition , ’ so they carried him back and laid him carefully at his father 's feet . |
| 12 | He was well pleased with the fruits that his Technique bore at the school . |
| 13 | bangs him upstairs so that his boots bang against the stairs at every step , he has n't time to put his feet down ! |
| 14 | For the bluff , reticent Arthur such wit suggests the Christmas spirit has already got to him but he added realistically that his decision depends on the state of the ground : ‘ If it 's bottomless he wo n't run . ’ |
| 15 | He used the occasion to inform the public that his decision to withdraw from the campaign in July had been in response to a Republican dirty tricks campaign which had included a plan to smear his daughter through manufactured photographs and to disrupt her forthcoming wedding . |
| 16 | None the less the emperor decides against the hopeful beneficiary , and he asserts that his decision rests on the testator 's intention . |
| 17 | In a family business ( such as a tea-room , cafe , small guest-house or hotel ) where those working for the business are simply the husband and wife , if the enterprise is run on a sole trader basis , the husband , as the proprietor , may claim that his wife works in the business as an employee and so she may make use of her married woman 's earned income allowance against any income she may earn . |
| 18 | Abbess Aelfflaed 's question to Cuthbert , bishop of Lindisfarne , as to who would succeed the childless Ecgfrith need not imply that she had otherwise forgotten about Aldfrith 's existence , but rather that she was testing Cuthbert to ascertain that his loyalties lay in the right place . |
| 19 | Miller was quite used to finding that his work fitted into the elusive category of ‘ UnAmericanism ’ . |
| 20 | The problems that his paradoxes raise concerning the mathematical structure of space and time are still being discussed today . |
| 21 | It may be that his gifts lay in the thrill and risk of live performance , losing their savour in aspic ; or , more likely , that his genius was always over-rated . |
| 22 | It may be that his gifts lay in the thrill and risk of live performance , losing their savour in aspic ; or , more likely , that his genius was always overrated . |
| 23 | Leopold had already written to Padre Martini urging him to send a letter of recommendation to the Elector and , since Munich was on Mozart 's route from Paris to Salzburg , he suggested that his son intimate to the Elector , or to a close associate , that he had been offered a post at Salzburg with a salary of 700 or 800 gulden ( the actual salary was only 450 ) in the hope that a more rewarding appointment might be offered . |
| 24 | The Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) together with the Shiv Sena conducted a walkout , with BJP leader L. K. Advani claiming that his party objected to the bill on the grounds that it would provoke increased violence . |
| 25 | There is no surviving record that Vial , or indeed anyone concerned , had made a detailed study of what would be needed to establish a College with adequate ensured finance , premises and staff , nor is there any indication that his interest extended beyond the horse , to include other domesticated animals . |
| 26 | Dong , sensing his brother 's fear , reached quietly behind him in the darkness with his free hand until his fingers brushed against the face of the malaria victim ; the clammy flesh , already growing cold , was slippery with rain and the sweat of the fatal climatic fever , and in the moment that his hand recoiled from the contact Dong knew that they would not be able to avoid the horror of a burial this time . |
| 27 | The Feldwebel bounced up and down with laughter so that his hat fell off the back of his head and even the officer allowed himself a smile . |
| 28 | One reading of Quine is that his practice conforms to the Wittgensteinian teaching : only questions that can be resolved arise for him . |
| 29 | ‘ Dr Neil ? ’ she said , turning and bobbing at him like a proper servant , a manoeuvre which amused him , so that his lips twitched at the unlikely sight — it was so much at odds with her determined personality . |
| 30 | On his arrival , he knew instead that his destiny lay with the movies . |