Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach . |
| 2 | Everyone has his own story of being ignored when requesting information and of being left uncertain what to do when things have gone wrong , such as connections lost . |
| 3 | So everyone , everyone has his own |
| 4 | An arrangement whereby a limited partner invests a capital sum in the business which he is not permitted to withdraw until dissolution of the partnership ( which will not automatically occur on death or bankruptcy etc ) and which represents his maximum liability in respect of the firm 's debts and obligations , who is given a profit share but who is excluded from the management of the firm , is doubtless seen as too restrictive . |
| 5 | In the morass of detail Mills brings forward to describe his ‘ power elite ’ , it is easy to ignore this fundamental assumption which precedes his empirical work : ‘ In so far as the power elite is composed of men of similar origin and education , in so far as their careers and their styles of life are similar , there are psychological and social bases for their unity , resting upon the fact that they are of similar social type and leading to the fact of their easy intermingling ’ . |
| 6 | But if the Piper operas and , in another way , the Church Parables , are special categories within Britten 's chorus of operas — what about the rest of his output , which contains his better-known creations ? |
| 7 | His Messerschmidt Overtaking a Tram was not bought by the War Office , being a bit close to the truth ; but his Escape of the Zebra from the Zoo is an endearing , surreal narrative work which foreshadows his later direction as a painter of the ethereal and unexpected . |
| 8 | His Messerschmidt Overtaking a Tram was not bought by the War Office , being a bit close to the truth ; but his Escape of the Zebra from the Zoo is an endearing , surreal narrative work which foreshadows his later direction as a painter of the ethereal and unexpected . |
| 9 | ‘ Even at night time the chronic itching is no better and Graham has to wear a specially made sleep suit which covers his entire body , ’ says Kathleen . |
| 10 | His thinking is reflected in his later autobiography , which incorporates his Historical Note on the Various Projects of Descent on England . |
| 11 | Thus the reasons put forward for the present rule are first , that it preserves the constitutional proprieties leaving Parliament to legislate in words and the courts ( not Parliamentary speakers ) , to construe the meaning of the words finally enacted ; second , the practical difficulty of the expense of researching Parliamentary material which would arise if the material could be looked at ; third , the need for the citizen to have access to a known defined text which regulates his legal rights ; fourth , the improbability of finding helpful guidance from Hansard . |
| 12 | Lewis here repeats the belief of the fourteenth-century friar Uhtred of Boldon , that each dying person has a ‘ clear vision ’ or clara visio of God , on his reaction to which depends his ultimate fate . |
| 13 | The only relevant ancient work is The Method of Archimedes which describes his mechanical analogy for finding areas and volumes . |
| 14 | The wish to evoke a Jewish resistance to Nazism relates to a history which comprehends his own writings and example . |
| 15 | Collins is the amorous object of a football referee 's fantasy which affects his professional life on the field . |
| 16 | If there is a change in the individual 's wealth which affects his present and/or future income . |
| 17 | Wilson 's autobiography contains a vivid account of his experiences and his successes in this heartland of the union , which includes his first meeting with Walter Runciman , a shipowner in a small way in South Shields , whose name and that of his son , will appear again in this history . |
| 18 | Nevertheless Todorov 's study is interesting for the principle which guides his whole enterprise , and which he sums up in his conclusion . |
| 19 | The art of vituperation comes naturally to Busi , and , although the picture of Northern Italian provincial life ( in the vicinity of Brescia ) which the author paints occupies only a small part of the novel , which takes his picaresque hero on to greater things in Milan , Paris and London , it is a memorable picture , and provides the necessary underpinning to a writing that spares no effort to make the reader understand the nature of the social and sexual domination . |
| 20 | Thus to the expository lesson , the period of exercise and drill , the set readings from the class textbook , the tests of memory and comprehension , and all the other useful ploys of the good teacher , have now been added sessions when the student is placed in direct confrontation with a variety of information sources , print.form , audio visual and three-dimensional , in small groups or on his own , in a situation which requires his active involvement and which can to a greater or lesser extent be tailored to meet his individual needs . |
| 21 | ‘ Technology ’ , for Robbins as for Pynchon , becomes a short-hand term for the conditioning and patterning pressures in American life ; pressures to be resisted whether in his comic struggle with his Remington type-writer which frames his next novel , Still Life with Woodpecker ( 1980 ) , or , more importantly , through his disruption of narrative illusion and orderly sequence . |
| 22 | In addition , Ambrose 's ( 1974 ) classification is interesting because of its emphasis on transport availability and tenure which distinguishes his seven groups outlined in chapter 4 . |
| 23 | ‘ But I think that people were in contact all over the world , and that that there are hints of contact with Easter Island and with the Indus Valley , ’ Mr Savoy continued , warming to his controversial theme in a way which unsettles his academic admirers . |
| 24 | It is appropriate timing , though doubtless coincidental , that this sale of manuscript and printed Americana should feature a previously unknown autograph leaf by Abraham Lincoln which preserves his earliest formulation of the ‘ house divided ’ doctrine . |
| 25 | The persona of ‘ the Watcher ’ , which dominates his best writing , was already being formed : his way forward lay somewhere between social openness and egotistical restlessness . |
| 26 | In the case of mythology the saga teller will always produce a version of the story which puts his own ancestors in a particularly favourable light . |
| 27 | Souness ' patience with Wimbledon is running out , which explains his sudden links with Ruddock . |
| 28 | As son of the king 's tutor and brother of Patrick Young [ q.v. ] , the royal librarian , Young enjoyed excellent court connections , which explains his steady preferment after 1611 . |
| 29 | He seemed to imply in this that even if the covenantor had not previously enjoyed a certain freedom then the restraint of trade doctrine might still apply if he is , as a result of the restraint , under a positive duty to do something which restricts his current freedom . |
| 30 | Later , Antonio himself declares his sexual indifference to the others at the trial in Act 4 , Scene 1 , lines 114–115 — |