Example sentences of "and [conj] his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taking precipitously to his heels and hurriedly joining the Coldstream Guards , he eventually settled in East Anglia , where he married and where his literary son George was born in 1803 . |
| 2 | He had to be able to perform even though already ‘ at this young age he had a realistic approach to his future and with his ‘ banana feet ’ realized that he could not become a danseur noble and that his great interest was in choreography . |
| 3 | And then the largest of the Oaks moved forward and Tealtaoich saw that he had the high , domed forehead of a scholar and a thinker and that his ancient eyes held wisdom and knowledge . |
| 4 | The Divisional Court , on 27 March 1991 , on the applicant 's motion for judicial review by way of orders of certiorari and mandamus , had granted him a declaration that on the true construction of the statutes of the university the university had and had had no power to dismiss him by reason of redundancy and that his purported dismissal was without effect . |
| 5 | The assumption is that Rizzo 's appointment to the finance post is a short-term measure and that his key function will be to work out a new pricing strategy , which means that anything we have heard on pricing on the new ES/9000s and AS/400s due next month will be overtaken by events . |
| 6 | By the time morning came he was convinced he had been wide awake the whole night , though by that time he had remembered with the utmost clarity that the whole performance had taken place not in a television studio at all but in an enormous public lavatory , with Sir William and Lady Paice among the large crowd around the coffee table , and that his final humiliation was to discover at the end of the programme that he had been sitting on one of the lavatory seats throughout , with his trousers down around his ankles . |
| 7 | But when her father , the widely respected leader of the Welsh radicals in Parliament , died suddenly in 1892 she found to her horror that he had left a crippling burden of debt and that his principal business enterprise , the Dillwyn spelter works at Llansamlet , Swansea , was on the verge of bankruptcy . |
| 8 | The mystic claims that the reality which monotheists call ‘ God ’ is essentially unknowable , but these revealed religions claim that he has spoken very clearly to men and that his divine Word has been expressed and can be experienced in very tangible ways . |
| 9 | Colin Campbell , to whom Lord Milton directed his inquiry about the removal of Main , insisted that the watchman could be returned to his former station , and that his temporary appointment as a tidesman was not a punishment , but a favour . |
| 10 | It was argued that the sentencer has failed to give weight to the effect on the appellant 's wife and child if he were deported , and that his good behaviour while on bail indicated that he was not a threat to the country if he remained . |
| 11 | Defending Emmanuelli in a radio interview prior to his indictment , Prime Minister Pierre Bérégovoy said that Emmanuelli had been obliged to receive donations in his role as party treasurer and that his personal honesty was not in doubt . |
| 12 | Grant Fox , for instance , was sorely troubled by the allegations that he had been part of an Auckland spearhead which had had Shelford removed , and that his personal failings had been responsible for the indifferent play in Argentina and the loss of the Sydney Test to Australia . |
| 13 | For years it was believed that the ‘ fanatic ’ Toscanini conducted everything very fast , though it is an attested fact that his Bayreuth Parsifal was the slowest in the theatre 's history and that his famous Falstaff , not to mention a good deal of his Mozart and Brahms , was unusually broad in its pacing . |
| 14 | Boulestin 's writing still seems so fresh and original that it comes as a shock to realize that these happenings occurred over forty years ago , and that his first cookery book Simple French Cooking for English Homes appeared in 1923 . |
| 15 | But Rush is confident that any animosity has long-since faded and that his former boss is due for a hero 's welcome when he leads his side out at the ground he graced for 14 illustrious years as player and manager . |
| 16 | It does not help that Cherubini allows too little variety of pace , and that his lyrical gift is limited too . |
| 17 | It does not help that Cherubini allows too little variety of pace , and that his lyrical gift is limited too . |
| 18 | In 1983 he publicly , and embarrassingly , announced that he and Brightman were in love , and that his 12-year-old marriage was over . |
| 19 | I suggest that Mr Paul will feel better for having tried this on , and failed , and that his second book will be the one this could have been . |
| 20 | I am delighted that Mr Strachan has agreed to continue to serve as a Trustee , and that his long experience and wise counsel will continue to be available to the Library . |
| 21 | As I understand it , he is saying that it is the official policy of the Labour party not to build the fourth boat and that his only reservation arises from the fact that certain clauses in the contract might make cancellation commercially prohibitive . |
| 22 | Long enough for Paige to be aware of Travis 's still wet hair , and that his only covering was his jeans . |
| 23 | It is possible that a figure of the King was once part of the scene , and that his heroic intervention in the face of disaster was part of the cult iconography . |
| 24 | In retrospect , of course , it is clear that his creative powers were beginning to wane and that his real work had been done . |
| 25 | Certainly he believed that his inner feeling of being most alive , most engaged with real issues , in his contemplative experience , was a gift from God and that his whole integrity depended on his furthering a life-style which he believed enabled him to receive the gift , however strong the opposition he encountered : Above all else I have always longed to sit and concentrate on Christ , and him alone … |
| 26 | He says that somebody who experiences the fire of love will find that he is affected physically : he may find that he develops a stammer and is unable to speak quickly or clearly any more and that his whole body has slowed down : a job that once took half an hour will now take a whole morning . |
| 27 | He was conscious that his words creaked and grated like machinery in the wrong hands , and that his smiling glance upwards at the bunch of mistletoe was more of a leer , a leer that stayed , unnaturally fixed by confusion and rage , as he observed Clare 's hesitation . |
| 28 | An objection which has been raised by Jürgen Moltmann ( see chapter 7 ) and by others who have been concerned to set our present time in the light of the eschatological emphasis of the New Testament is that Barth and his allies in the 1920s who aimed to recover that emphasis in fact misinterpreted it by twisting it into the ‘ eternal moment ’ of the encounter between time and eternity , ; and that his mature theology distorted it in a-different but equally damaging fashion by swallowing up the whole of time and history in the central history of Jesus Christ , and by dissolving that away in turn in the eternal self-determination of God within the council of the Trinity to be ‘ God for man ’ . |
| 29 | Others argued , however , that the man was straining political toleration too far , and that his nominal adherence to the Government was becoming absurd . |
| 30 | When asked who would be welcome , Archer replied , ‘ La creme de la creme ’ , and that his lucky friends would be plied with Krug and shepherd 's pie . |