Example sentences of "his [noun] that [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A settlor had only to make sure that he chose a word which made clear an intention on his part that a trust obligation should arise in the trustee . |
| 2 | On seventeenth of August nineteen sixty seven object of defeating the option and having discovered through the result of his solicitors that the option had not been registered , sold and been paid the farm five hundred pounds and after the sale by registering the option under the land chartered act and on the sixth of October nineteen sixty seventeen could have exercised the option and neither or his wife complied with the notice and on March twenty eighth nineteen sixty eight wife died and on the twenty seventh of January nineteen seventy commenced proceedings against his father against his mother 's executors the declaration of the option was . |
| 3 | Employing his considerable powers of persuasion to the full , he convinced his superiors that the German Eighth Army should disengage from Rennenkampf 's First Army near Gumbinnen , leaving merely a cavalry screen , and strike with every available man at Samsonov 's advancing Second Army . |
| 4 | With the aid of a small capital thus amassed , he became first a pedlar in Lincolnshire , then a traveller — but it seems to sit on the surface of his story that the motive for his wider travels was not so much the search for gain as the love of travel itself , and the urge to pilgrimage . |
| 5 | Almost as soon as he arrived at Highbury Chapman persuaded his chairman that the team needed Charlie Buchan , the long-shining star of Sunderland who , at thirty-four , was seen as the man to inspire and lend experience to the faltering Arsenal attack . |
| 6 | Also to get the ball away quickly from the scrummage , the scrum-half can not convey to his opponents that the ball is out of the scrummage i.e. he can not dummy the ball . |
| 7 | These direct contacts with the people and with the maquis were intended to replicate the effect of his arrival in the capital , to demonstrate by his presence that the state had been restored . |
| 8 | A year ago he promised his creditors that the pound sterling would never be devalued , and six months ago he had to break his word to them . |
| 9 | It was his luck that the Colonel had that morning been sent a report prepared by the Ministry of Transport and Aviation in conjunction with the Ministry of Finance . |
| 10 | In making his assessment that a breach was likely to occur , the senior policeman was entitled to take into account not only the conduct of the appellants themselves , and that of the people by whom they were accompanied , but also what they had heard and seen on television and read in the newspapers about the way in which the miners ’ strike was conducted , ‘ and to exercise their common sense and judgment on that material ’ as well as what they saw with their own eyes . |
| 11 | Indeed , the style has its own charm , as when Whitelocke comments after the quaker , William Penn , had preached in his study that the congregation , although substantial , was ‘ the fewer because it was very wet ’ . |
| 12 | James Naughtie 's North British voice , heavy with East of Scotland rectitude — a characteristic he shared with both John Smith and Gordon Brown — warned his listeners that the road ahead for the Tories was a rocky one . |
| 13 | James was foiled mainly by the determination of the European powers , including the Warrior Pope Julius II , to fight one another instead , and certainly not by any substantial doubt on the part of his subjects that a king from Scotland was overreaching himself ; indeed , his popularity was to bring him an enormous Scottish army for the campaign against the English in 1513 which ended in the disaster of Flodden . |
| 14 | Bill concealed his disappointment that the man had failed to comment on the appearance of the pride of the yard . |
| 15 | It was on his recommendation that the guard-rail was rebuilt , and he constantly reminded everyone visiting the belvedere of the hazard . ’ |
| 16 | Within a few days , however , anxiety had set in and he was confiding in Rohde his fear that a book that crossed so many conventional demarcation lines might deter all his prospective specialist readers : " the philologists wo n't read it because of the music and the philology … " ; and regarding the classical readership in particular , Rohde would know " how offended the philologists are bound to be at anything not published by Teubner and without the paraphernalia of critical notes " . |
| 17 | Dr Richard Thorne whose practice is not fund holding says it reinforces his fear that the system is two-tier … |
| 18 | Tyndale was nervous , and , when Vaughan offered him the King 's promise of safety if he returned to England , he expressed his fear that the promise might be broken on the persuasion of the clergy , who would affirm that promises made with heretics need not be kept . |
| 19 | Mr Overbye chooses to begin and end his 50-year review of these fascinating realms with Allan Sandage , the anointed successor to Edwin Hubble , the man who , in the late 1920s , first convinced his peers that the universe was expanding . |
| 20 | Before I go on to deal with the other submissions which have been made , particularly those by Mr. Clough , who appears for the local authority , to support his submission that the order was wrong on the merits , there is one further aspect of the justices ' order and that is the second ground of appeal where it is said that the justices ought to have given the parties the opportunity of addressing them on the question as to whether prohibited steps orders rather than an interim care order , or rather than no order at all , should or could be made . |
| 21 | Mr. Lester presented us with what he termed a menu of choices in case we should be against his submission that the right to sue in malicious falsehood was a sufficient protection for the reputation of a corporate public authority . |
| 22 | His words came as the parliamentary chairman , Ruslan Khasbulatov , Mr Yeltsin 's arch-rival , appeared to retract his demands that the president be removed . |
| 23 | When Kit , informed by his scout that the enemy was present , gave the first order to fire , the soft promise of the light burst into flame ; the vanguard of the islanders fell back from the English muskets . |
| 24 | The pianist due to play a concerto in public spends many hours in practising the techniques of using his instrument that the piece requires . |
| 25 | He leaned against the hot metal of his car that the sun polished and with his mouth slightly open looked at his ripening field . |
| 26 | For all Henry 's faults , it was under his rule that the Reformation had been achieved ; in his grief Cranmer allowed his beard to grow unshaven for the rest of his life . |
| 27 | It crossed his mind that an hour earlier , receiving this news , he could have cut off Siward 's escape from the field and forced him to finish the battle . |
| 28 | But there is also no doubt in his mind that an alternative must be found for the smaller company . |
| 29 | In toddler terms , it was as if he confirmed the pattern etched in his mind that the part of him which needed to be loved exclusively , and which could throw tantrums if this need was thwarted , was simply not acceptable to others . |
| 30 | And Gooch would never get out of his mind that the car he drove was an instrument of death . |