Example sentences of "[prep] his [noun sg] [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Initially the king was unsympathetic to Hopton 's petition , claiming that at the material time he had not been acting as a justice owing to a bureaucratic muddle over his appointment , but by December 1290 he had agreed that the money Hopton had already paid towards his fine should count instead towards a fine he had made to secure the wardship of the lands of his late wife . |
| 2 | Alternatively , a client who has been treated as an expert investor on the grounds of his experience may claim that , in fact , he was a private investor , that he should have received warnings as to the risks and that , had he received them , he would not have entered into this type of transaction at all . |
| 3 | It was hard to stop the sudden rush of emotion just the mention of his name could provoke , but she did her best . |
| 4 | At the same time it is implied that when Re takes his eternal position in the sky , the power of his name will remain on earth , invested in the living Horus , the king . |
| 5 | This week Les Bence and two of his squad will take on a team of religious fundamentalists from the local mosque . |
| 6 | In one of these , K.192 , he first introduced the famous four-note ‘ tag ’ ( C , D , F , E ) associated with the word credo ( I believe ) , which near the end of his life would supply the finale of his last symphony , the ‘ Jupiter ’ . |
| 7 | There is a danger that the rest of his life will seem like an anti-climax after his sensational start on the experimental wicket at Southampton . |
| 8 | A drowning man escaping from the wreck of his marriage would drag me down . |
| 9 | Mr Saunders has already been charged with the theft of the £5.2m , raising the possibility that this part of his trial may have to be delayed until Mr Ward is extradited . |
| 10 | No coffin-maker or funeral furnisher worthy of his reputation would have failed to dress a corpse , no matter how lowly his subject might have been . |
| 11 | However , that part of his brain may have been damaged and unable to give an accurate reading . |
| 12 | It was always the same wherever he went — people were drawn inexorably to him , as though some of his charisma could rub off on them if they could just get close enough . |
| 13 | He was a wealthy man , and although some of his wealth may have come from the profits of war , he benefited substantially from Edward 's patronage . |
| 14 | The rooms were over a former shop now used by a small-time printer , and the clacking and rumbling of his press would underscore the activities of the squad . |
| 15 | It is proof enough that Tom Jones is not going to take the easy path that most of his generation would choose . |
| 16 | There are many such instances where secrecy was maintained so that the leader or members of his entourage could remain in office , irrespective of potential or actual damage to government . |
| 17 | Furthermore , if two parties ( usually , but not necessarily , husband and wife ) make ‘ mutual wills ’ , with identical ultimate beneficiaries , the death of one of the parties without alteration of his will may have the effect of binding the survivor to make no alteration , in the sense that a trust will arise , under which the terms of the will must be fulfilled . |
| 18 | Ten more years of his pontificate might have set both the church and the statesmanship of western Europe in a different direction . |
| 19 | Edward had seen the confusions into which the administration of his duchy might fall through ignorance of vassalic obligations and regional customs . |
| 20 | ( b ) Contributory negligence This defence will apply in actions under the Act , and a visitor who has failed to use reasonable care for his own safety and that failure was a cause of his damage will have his damages reduced . |
| 21 | It gave the European plan anonymity by not identifying the author of the plan , while his own copy under his own initials and those of his secretary would tell Mueller and his Detroit colleagues that he had a hand in its formulation , which is what Mueller and Muldoon wanted people to think . |
| 22 | The blow to the back of his head might lay him senseless a short while , but certainly had not broken his skull , and could not have killed him . |
| 23 | To follow the logic of his thought would mean banning any form of contact between men and women where women have authority over men . |
| 24 | The chief effect of his Bill would have been the banning of almost all images of homosexuality from the small screen . |
| 25 | Therefore , only so long as a woman is in labour shall he give up Israel ; and then those that survive of his race shall rejoin their brethren . |
| 26 | His alcoholism apparently alienated his former writing partner ; his admirable disinclination to offer any public denial of his homosexuality may have compromised his potential as a solo performer ; and he battled for several years with the throat cancer which finally killed him . |
| 27 | His rapping is assuredly excellent ( and he 's a rapper , right , not Bernie Clifton at the Wimbledon Playhouse ) , his mail-order independence is a real shot in the arm , some of his homespun original prankster rhymes are refreshing , and the sheer ebullient power of his music can knock you flat . |
| 28 | His antics and those of his wife would have the environmental health officer round at the drop of a hat . |
| 29 | Indeed , despite his disillusion with the present reality and underneath the modest ambition he communicated to Rohde , he cherished an almost missionary hope that if and when he was himself in a position to exert influence , the future of his subject might look altogether different . |
| 30 | Molyneux , like Richmond , won his freedom as a result of his boxing and it was he , more than any other early black sportsman , who ‘ showed how prize fighting could be the means by which a man of his colour might gain prominence and a certain undeniable importance akin to a theatrical star ’ ( Farr , 1964 , p.3 ) . |