Example sentences of "[conj] his [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Having spent the Vigour of my Youth and Genius under the Oppression of Sir Joshua & his Gang of Cunning Hired Knaves Without Employment & as much as could possibly be Without Bread , the Reader must Expect to Read in all my Remarks on these Books Nothing but Indignation and Resentment . ’ |
| 2 | They came to a wonderful peak towards the end of his life where his love of the countryside , its changing weather , lights and moods brought forth a series of remarkable , free-spirited watercolours . |
| 3 | The case was heard by an exceptionally unconventional judge , but one of sound common sense , Mr Justice Caulfield , who more recently found fame in his unorthodox but equally commonsensical summing-up in the Jeffrey Archer action , where his description of Mrs Archer as ‘ fragrant ’ , no doubt causing great embarrassment to the lady , will go down in the history of judicial extravagance . |
| 4 | The care which Bailey lavished on his " treasures " within the National Trust was at least equalled by his work as activist and propagandist for the " eternal values " of poetry through the Association and in the pages of the Newbolt Report where his contribution to the section on the universities was particularly notable . |
| 5 | Big Mel Blyth joined the Palace from Scunthorpe in the summer of 1968 as a wing half-back , but a case could easily be made to justify dubbing him as Manager Bert Head 's most important signing , for Mel developed into a magnificent back-four man , where his stature of 6ft 1 inch and nearly 12 stones made him a natural central defender . |
| 6 | The salaried partner will rarely agree to accept full responsibility for the debts of the firm along with the equity partners where his share of the profits is finite and his involvement in management restricted . |
| 7 | Of contracts for the benefit of the infant , so far as they do not coincide with contracts for necessaries , a contract for the employment of the infant , where his position in life makes employment desirable for him , is a typical case . |
| 8 | The adapter , Andy de la Tour , used to be one of the unfunniest comedians on the alternative cabaret circuit , a chap with a black hole where his sense of humour ought to be . |
| 9 | Minton took him upstairs to his studio , where his portrait of Nevile Wallis was in progress , and set to work on a small canvas . |
| 10 | The detail recorded on his maps was extended into his writings , where his conclusions about many geological relationships , later taken for granted but then original and often fundamental , were hidden in a mass of detailed evidence and justification . |
| 11 | The F minor Fantaisie also suggest that Cortot never compromised where his intensity of vision was concerned , aiming for speeds which other more stable pianists would never dare consider , and achieving in the process truly demonic force rather than the heroics of received custom or taste . |
| 12 | In social research , perhaps the most famous example is that of Elton Mayo 's study of American girls in a factory , where his observations of the importance of the creation of social groups led to the development of a whole school of thought in social psychology . |
| 13 | what is the point of asking a middle ranking executive about his greatest achievement at work in the past 10 years when he has probably been locked into office procedures laid down by senior management and where his scope for initiative has been restricted . |
| 14 | Diaper 's best poetry is contained in Nereides and the translation of Oppian , where his descriptions of the ocean and of aquatic life are startling and individual . |
| 15 | Certainly he never made any secret of his Conservative past , having twice stood unsuccessfully for parliament among the miners of County Durham , where his air of a slightly lost rural dean can hardly have been an asset . |
| 16 | He created an amicabilis concordia with Queen Mary College , London ( evacuated to King 's during the war ) , and another with Berkeley College , Yale , where his contemporary at King 's , Charles Seymour , was president . |
| 17 | His influence can clearly be seen in both Fabianism , where his analysis of the unearned increment reached a receptive audience , and New Liberalism , which developed his later concerns about distributive justice . |
| 18 | Arguably they are more apparent in the early books of Histories than in the later ones , where his commentary on events was constrained by political circumstances . |
| 19 | At the age of 21 , he joined Hampstead , where his impact on cricket was immediate — 906 runs in four innings , spread over 10 days — F.B. Wilson declaring him ‘ one of the most tireless men who every lived ’ . |
| 20 | Gratitude to him has always been greater in the Orthodox churches of the East than in the West , where his domination of the church has often not been regarded as an altogether unmitigated good , at least in its consequences . |
| 21 | Eventually he is sent to a liberal English school where his emergence into adulthood converges with an increasing political awareness and realization that it is up to the individual to rake responsibility for altering the world around him . |
| 22 | This was one of the voyages in which the men of science were in charge , in that the point of the expedition was scientific ; often there had been frustration among scientists on voyages because the captain 's instructions , or his interpretation of them , did not let him stay at interesting places as long as they would have liked , or put enough boats and crews at their disposal . |
| 23 | The Israeli Government maintains that Abie Nathan was prosecuted … not because of his political views or his expression of them , but as a consequence of his actions ’ . |
| 24 | As I grew more proficient he leaned on the rail , sucked at his long clay pipe and reminisced about his days in sail or his experiences in ports from Aden to Hong Kong . |
| 25 | If it did so in respect of limiting transfers as well , it might see an author contracted to stay with her or his publisher for , say , a minimum of three books . |
| 26 | Laura 's sensitivities to her husband 's needs had prevented her , as a teenager , from scolding him or his gang for drinking or smoking ; she merely laughed . |
| 27 | Her or his rights before the law are , for example , deemed to be equal to those of a company director . |
| 28 | LEFT The relationship between a child and both its parents , especially in the early years , seems to have a dominant effect on how well the child will be able to exploit her or his intelligence in later life . |
| 29 | He is disposed to show his love , or his love of truth , in verse , but ‘ fain ’ also acknowledges a ( at least potential ) feigning of this condition in verse . |
| 30 | locally er there is no as far as I know no , no requirement that it should happen except the desire of the Home Secretary to strengthen his control or his influence in , in these bodies . |