Example sentences of "[vb -s] his [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 He who loves his dream of a community more than the Christian community itself becomes a destroyer of the latter , even though his personal intentions may be ever so honest and earnest and sacrificial .
2 Professionally ridden by Nicola Norman , the pony also loves his hunting with the Blackmore and Sparkford Vale .
3 He 's still very intense about the art , still loves his cricket with a passion .
4 do n't be silly he loves his dinner at night , do n't you darling ?
5 The clerk , realising from Mirsal 's uniform that I belong to the sacred official class , merely bows his head to the storm , pays up and looks pleasant .
6 If the decision maker exercises his powers outside the jurisdiction conferred , in a manner which is procedurally irregular or is Wednesbury unreasonable , he is acting ultra vires his powers and therefore unlawfully : see Wade , Administrative Law , 6th ed. ( 1988 ) , pp. 39 et seq .
7 The Purchasing Manager in charge of a purchasing department exercises his responsibilities in close collaboration with other colleagues .
8 When the seller exercises his right of resale — whether under subsection ( 3 ) or under subsection ( 4 ) , the contract with the first buyer is thereby rescinded .
9 He refines his argument in the light of evidence that nowadays the demand curve for a company 's stock is extremely elastic : ‘ [ t ] hus even large purchases of stock will not necessarily have an immediate and noticeable effect on its price since other stocks are seen as perfect substitutes . ’
10 The letter from the plaintiffs solicitors in respect of question of interest one causes , the letter of the twenty ninth of January of nineteen ninety two , asking Mr to confirm , that in addition to the settlement figure of forty two thousand pounds in respect of costs he 'd be paying interest until the date of payment , and er , there was never a mind that erm which find a reply to in , in thirtieth of March nineteen ninety two by Mr , there 's no unqualified agreement in figure of forty two thousand pounds , I do not wish to appear obstructive but your clients must recognise that there are effectively two issues to be resolved , namely the payment of their costs and the division of the parts of other property , surely in all parties interest that none of these are resolved , so it is surely in all party interest that those , those are resolved contemporary and then the letter goes on to dealing with questions of valuation , the bottom paragraph on page thirty two in the bundle says in answer to your letter therefore is that there is no agreement to pay interest , if there is then my client must be credited with interest on his costs , and then it says surgery and finally if ove if overall agreement can not be reached then my client reserves his rights on the issue of costs and I feel that this could lead to an acrimonious and protracted taxation , at the end of the day I suspect it would only be enforced the order for costs about taking a charge in my clients interest in the surgery premises , does that improve your clients position at all , as I say that was the position of the thirtieth of March nineteen ninety two and during the remainder of nineteen ninety two there were then further negotiations , some of them appeared to have been carried out er personally between er doctor and er doctor which seems to of been the partner , dealing with the plaintiffs position and er he says about his non negotiable offer at page forty one in the bundle apparently attached to a letter of the twenty first of December nineteen ninety two and er that had a time limit on , the twenty second of March , there was a reminder on the twenty second of February and erm the plaintiffs solicitors wrote on the fourteenth of April nineteen ninety three raising the question of costs erm say that erm we have now received your clients instructions , that they would be prepared to accept the sum of forty two thousand in respect of their standard basis costs which is inclusive of V A T and disbursements , you remember that our initial schedule of costs which I set part of my letter of the eighth of October total fifty thousand , nine hundred and ninety eight pounds , twenty six pence , in addition to this our client would require interest from the which is as of todays date at seven hundred and sixty days at seventeen pounds , twenty six a day totalling thirteen thousand , one hundred and seventeen pounds , sixty , in the circumstances I look forward to receiving your clients cheque for the sum of fifty five thousand , one hundred and seventeen pounds and sixty pence within the next seven days and then it says I believe you were certainly agreeing have been very patient concerning your clients costs , but now we wish these to be paid and that was responded to er Mr on the twenty second of April er but why he quite has not been directly involved in the conversation for some time and there was not reasonable expected response for seven days from him , er and then he goes on to say that although he appreciates his firm is still on the record , I shall seek instructions from my client , but it maybe he would wish to give notice of acting in person and indeed that is in fact what happened , what happened in this case .
11 I shall spend the next several years drinking decaffeinated coffee and swapping babygros with other NCT mothers while my partner bores his colleagues to death with intestinal flora between games of squash .
12 JACK THE LAD : British Bulldog flexes his muscles in his Union Jack tights
13 Buddhist monk covers his eyes amid tear gas fired by the security forces during a demonstration against the Indo-Sri Lanka accord in Colombo , 1987 .
14 SCENE FROM THE INFERNO : A stone-thrower covers his face against the backdrop of an overturned and burning car at the height of the Rostock rioting in which 65 police were hurt
15 He covers his conversion from croissants to communism while in France in the 1920s , but reserves the bulk of his pithy and precise political biography for the events since 1949 .
16 Yeb grips his brow in mockery of Rodin 's ‘ The Thinker ’ .
17 Thus Sya , who announces that ‘ one who believes in war believes in God ’ and who beats his sister with a khaki belt , is an inflexible symbol of a militaristic ethos .
18 DAGENHAM and Redbridge boss John Still will today relive the nightmare of his only League appearance when he pits his team against the club where his dreams were shattered 25 years ago .
19 An accurate description , to the extent that it highlights his lack of a cultural , familial tradition weighing him down .
20 Gloucestershire 's Richard Mainwaring is so good he walks on water … the British Barefoot Water ski-ing champion defends his title at the Cirencester Club in the Cotswold Water Park this weekend … he 's looking for his ninth win and that will be a world record …
21 West 's club-mate Mark Hudpith and Elswick 's Alan Johnson should be among the medal contenders in the 5,000 metres , while Newcastle security guard Peter Gordon defends his title in the discus .
22 Meanwhile , McMillan defends his title against tough Colombian Ruben Palacio at London 's Olympia on September 26 .
23 But he robustly defends his propensity for tabloid television .
24 Do n't miss our in-depth look at French ace The Fellow , who defends his crown against rising stars Bradbury Star and Tipping Tim in the King George at Kempton .
25 In economic policy , for instance , Britain is currently sovereign in that it is the Chancellor of the Exchequer who takes decisions given the circumstances of the day and defends his decisions before Parliament .
26 A harem stallion defends his mares against the attentions of other males .
27 FOLLOWING our report of an accident in which a young girl was injured in a road accident , the driver concerned , Patrick White , who lives in Jenner Way , Alton , has asked us to make clear that he defends his manner of driving and ‘ was not to blame ’ .
28 Devos defends his action in the liner note , speaking of ‘ the organic relationship between the tempos of the different changes of time-signature [ mesure ] , separated in the manuscript by a double-bar .
29 There are other elements in Campbell 's thought : he seems to think that the most perspicuous model of the mind to employ in understanding human knowledge sees the mind as embodying a structured hierarchy of functionally characterized capacities , each of which works in a way analogous to natural selection ; and he defends his view as part of a ( reductive ) explanation of how the capacities comprising human rationality have evolved .
30 In such rapid alternations of mood he rescues his hero from the risk of monotony in the way he has chosen to reveal his feelings .
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