Example sentences of "which [pers pn] [vb -s] his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wyatt answers the charge that he alters his device ( his project and designs but also his heraldic sign — the symbolic means by which he announces his public identity ) by using the analogy of changing seasons to suggest mutability is an inevitable and indeed appropriate condition . |
| 2 | Yes , but unlike Eliot and Empson , Pound — by the abrupt , brusque and aphoristic way in which he delivers his critical judgements — insists that we understand them as immediately spun off from the imaginative work , thrown over his shoulder , as it were , as he hurries from one part of the workshop to another . |
| 3 | The example in terms of which he expounds his Cartesian theory of perception is that of eating manna . |
| 4 | Morrissey is ‘ half a person ’ , his very being constituted around lack , maladjustment — this is the vantage point from which he launches his impossible demands on life , his denial of the reality principle . |
| 5 | The paper also reports on the role of the police , talks to people who make a living out of trivia question machines and has an exclusive interview with Lenny Henry , in which he reveals his top jokes . |
| 6 | When confronted by Sir Humphrey Stafford and other representatives of law and order , in order to challenge legitimacy at its own level Cade ‘ knights ’ himself , and ascends to verse : But he can not sustain his usurped style for very long , soon relapsing to prose , in which he conducts his grotesque inquisition of Lord Say : Say responds in verse , as a true humanist : ‘ Kent , in the Commentaries Caesar writ , /Is term 'd the civill'st place of all this isle ’ ( 60ff . ) . |
| 7 | The freedom of creation is equally important for Coleridge ; as he remarks to his son , lying beside him , ‘ but thou , my babe ! shalt wander like a breeze ’ , is a further indication of the poet 's personal response to his own ordered Christian upbringing , and the manner in which he wants his own offspring to be free in terms of imagination , and therefore have the freedom of creative thought . |
| 8 | These include the requirement that on cessation of a business an employer shall pay any Class 1A contribution in respect of the current year within 14 days after the income tax month in which he makes his final payment of earnings to employees . |