Example sentences of "[conj] his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ WORDSWORTH & HIS EXQUISITE SISTER ’ |
| 2 | He was filled with a passionate delight in the company of his friends , of Dorothy especially , and joyfully announced in a letter to Jose Cottle the news that ‘ Wordsworth & his exquisite Sister ’ had arrived : |
| 3 | Also , apparently Ndlovu ( ? ? ? ) was a Leeds fan as a kid & his favourite player was Eddie Gray … so there ! |
| 4 | It is always safer to transfer the person on the tail to the nose , where his extra weight can be more effective . |
| 5 | He let his mind wander down the twenty yards of landing and the three stairs to the back bedroom where his sixteen-year-old daughter lay . |
| 6 | It would be appropriate not simply as a true alternative to expulsion where the grounds for the latter exist but also where the circumstances make it difficult to identify some particular breach or failure by the partner served with notice , where the problem is more that his face no longer fits , where his general approach to the business of the firm is inconsistent with the policy which the other partners have decided to adopt , and so on . |
| 7 | Mr Reynolds is admitted directly from the surgical Outpatient Clinic where his General Practitioner referred him urgently because of his history of an alteration in bowel habit , rectal bleeding and constipation . |
| 8 | Laughton spent a childhood largely tormented by a glandular problem which made him constantly overweight and therefore unpopular at school and indeed at home , where his early determination to become an actor met severe parental opposition . |
| 9 | There , at Kemp 's home again I 'm guessing — a quarrel took place in which Kemp was struck over the head and sent stumbling in his own living room , where his right temple crashed against the kerb of the fire-place — and where he died . |
| 10 | where his right hand , he 's a very confident music reader and plays but his left hand he 's merely sort of hangs there like a claw and plays the odd chord |
| 11 | But that notion was dispelled by Hill-Wood , who wants the Swedish international — relegated to the subs ' bench for the last two matches — to extend his career with the Gunners , where his current contract expires in 18 months . |
| 12 | As she dashed out into the road , where his camouflaged truck was parked , she was relieved that the only thing pursuing her was his curses . |
| 13 | Cregeen died on Good Friday , 9 April 1841 , and was buried 13 April in Arbory churchyard , where his elegant box-tomb is still to be seen south-east of the church . |
| 14 | As a representative of non-Zionist Jews Wolf played an important role at the Paris peace conference of 1919 , where his close association with the British delegation helped to bring about the conclusion of the minority treaties . |
| 15 | On this particular Sunday afternoon , Celia 's husband , clad in shorts and T-shirt , bent over them carefully , snipping here and there , and occasionally looking towards the pram , parked in the shade a few feet away , where his nine-month-old son , propped up by pillows and securely strapped in , made contented unintelligible noises at him . |
| 16 | I could n't be entirely sure where his other arm was , but he just disappeared . |
| 17 | Then he was drafted into Laura 's studio where his technical expertise was critical in strengthening the developing team . |
| 18 | In 1938 he won a scholarship to Merton College , Oxford , where his influential tutor was Edmund Blunden [ q.v. ] , soldier-poet of an earlier war than that for which Douglas enlisted in 1940 . |
| 19 | There are , therefore , three kinds of consent that do not impose obligations on the agent : first , where his personal situation is not affected by the consent ; second , where his personal situation is favourably affected , for the consent is a condition of his possession of a right or of some other benefit ; third , where his personal situation is adversely affected , but by waiving a right rather than by undertaking an obligation . |
| 20 | There are , therefore , three kinds of consent that do not impose obligations on the agent : first , where his personal situation is not affected by the consent ; second , where his personal situation is favourably affected , for the consent is a condition of his possession of a right or of some other benefit ; third , where his personal situation is adversely affected , but by waiving a right rather than by undertaking an obligation . |
| 21 | There are , therefore , three kinds of consent that do not impose obligations on the agent : first , where his personal situation is not affected by the consent ; second , where his personal situation is favourably affected , for the consent is a condition of his possession of a right or of some other benefit ; third , where his personal situation is adversely affected , but by waiving a right rather than by undertaking an obligation . |
| 22 | When he does produce these propositions he does so through ironic positive politeness , more precisely through superficially observing the approbation maxim : Anderson 's irony here is much more successful than that which he uses when arguing with the captain in scene six ( where his ironic statements concerning human rights in Czechoslovakia actually prompt the captain to ask further awkward questions ( pp. 70 – 1 ) ) , because he exploits the potential ambiguity of the academic discourse appropriate to a lecture . |
| 23 | That will comprise a potentially exempt transfer regardless of where the life tenant resides or where his ordinary place of residence is or where he is domiciled . |
| 24 | But there was fierce hostility to the appointment within the Labour ranks ; Thomas instead accepted the Colonial Office , where his instinctive patriotism and robust utterances were more appreciated . |
| 25 | In it , the young Anglo- Asian hero , Karim , engages in some heavy petting with a white male school friend , then takes a breather in the garden , where his Asian father is making love to his friend 's single- breasted mother ( cancer has claimed the other breast ) . |
| 26 | Gabriele Bacquier 's Somarone , too , is a delight , where his opposite number , Jules Bastin , became quickly tiresome , a crudely blustering figure . |
| 27 | ‘ You really think you can play God with people 's lives , do n't you ? ’ she demanded shakily , rubbing her arm jerkily where his restraining grip seemed to have stopped the blood flow . |
| 28 | Strong and sturdy , Phil was a valuable player to have around in those 3rd Division days of hustle and bustle , where his competitive spirit was constantly driving the Palace forward to success . |
| 29 | Regrettably for the Palace , Alan found it difficult to adjust to 2nd and then 3rd Division football , where his undoubted skills were given short shrift by our opponents and , although he always gave of his best , he was equally always a heavily marked man . |
| 30 | We were trying to find out where his particular niches lay and the constant worry at that time was lack of money . |