Example sentences of "[subord] his [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For his work among those Times , Distances , Temperatures , Pressures and Energies , Senior Scientific Officer Bissett , Grade 8 , was paid less than his neighbour the plumber and his neighbour the tinned-food salesman . |
| 2 | By 1830 , however , membership had more than halved and it was thought prudent to change the rules to limit its functions more closely to those of a conventional benefit society , thereby earning the support of some local shipowners and a personage no less elevated than His Grace the Duke of Northumberland . |
| 3 | I can no more vouch for the loyalty of every one of my tenants than His Grace the King or my Lord Cardinal can guarantee the loyalty of every Englishman . |
| 4 | Roy Hankin of Sheffield won in 4 hours , 29 minutes and 31 seconds , 15 minutes faster than his time the previous year , beating Bradford 's Melvyn McCann into second place , but not breaking McCann 's record time of 4 hours , 25 minutes and 53 seconds set in 1984 . |
| 5 | None other than His Holiness the Pope . |
| 6 | John Hardyng , a mid fifteenth-century poet and chronicler , is the first to mention the story and quotes as his source the sixth-century Merlin of Caledonia , more commonly known as Merlin the Wizard . |
| 7 | Lawrence took as his theme the idea of change and cyclical recurrence in nature as a whole and in Job as representative of humanity . |
| 8 | Taking as his theme the great rivers of the world , the Ganges , the Jordan , the Mississippi , the Clyde — and of course the Boyne — he weaves a tapestry evoking both sorrow and joy . |
| 9 | One student took as his topic the study of public information documents issued by Ministries , for the benefit of ordinary citizens . |
| 10 | He takes as his starting-point the preconceptions of liberal legal and political theory , and suggests that they be pushed to their logical conclusion to fashion a programme for the reconstruction of the state and the rest of the large-scale institutional structure of society . |
| 11 | ‘ I am here , ’ Benjamin answered , ‘ as the official envoy of Cardinal Wolsey as well as His Majesty the King . |