Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had been in the process of dissolving , she realised dimly , ever since she 'd seen the light over her mother 's safety , then met his sister and the rest of his family and his friends last night . |
| 2 | Aenarion deflected the pulsing energy with his shield but the power of the daemon 's attack cast him from the saddle . |
| 3 | But farmer Ken Sawkins says that he will lose his livelihood if the biking is stopped . |
| 4 | Jester , his successor and the director they appointed , O.B . |
| 5 | Foreseeing the need to elect his successor when the time came , Omar designated a body of electors charged with the task . |
| 6 | A director was precluded from diverting to himself a maturing business opportunity which his company was actively pursuing even after his resignation where the resignation was prompted or influenced by a desire to acquire that opportunity for himself . |
| 7 | Thus the two and a half years between his resignation and the outbreak of the Second World War brought Baldwin , the epitome of a man looking forward to retirement , disappointment and anticlimax rather than satisfactory afterglow . |
| 8 | Modigliani disliked writing letters , but during the winter of 1919 he wrote several times to Zborowski in Paris on practical matters , asking urgently for money and canvases , thanking Zbo for sending money and , rather touchingly , explaining his progress or the lack of it to his dealer . |
| 9 | Slaven was thrilled over his progress and the prospect of playing against former teammate Gary Pallister for the first time . |
| 10 | One exemption not to be overlooked is the normal expenditure exemption under which a taxpayer who has a considerable amount of net income arising over the years is able to make gifts into a discretionary trust out of his income provided the expenditure is normal and that , after allowing for all transfers of value forming part of his normal expenditure , the transferor was left with sufficient income to maintain his normal standard of living ( IHTA 1984 , s21 ) . |
| 11 | Like Brampton , a stake should be driven through his heart and the cadaver buried at the crossroads . |
| 12 | I could hear his heart and the blood flow . |
| 13 | He was strung between a character which threatened to spoil his opportunity and an opportunity which threatened to shear away his character . |
| 14 | Supporters demanded his removal and the axing of manager Colin Murphy . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Whether he was feeling the cold neither McCrea nor Sam had thought to ask , but he had put on jeans , his new cashmere sweater over his shirt and a zip-up leather jacket . |
| 17 | He unbuttoned his shirt and the sun gleamed on the astrological medallion around his neck . |
| 18 | From my perch , I can see the effort going into it , the muscles starting out under his shirt and the sweat running down his face . |
| 19 | ‘ From my perch , I can see the effort going into it , the muscles starting out under his shirt and the sweat running down his face . |
| 20 | Her hands slid beneath his shirt and the reality of his flesh under her fingers made the blood sing in her veins . |
| 21 | Mahmud waved his shirt and the barge cut its engines for a moment for us to come alongside . |
| 22 | The carrier is relieved of his liability if the loss or damage was caused by negligence on behalf of the sender when issuing instructions . |
| 23 | David had this little compartment and used to spend his whole time in a Japanese kimono with his guitar and a bottle of this horrible Reisling wine that was full of alkaline and gave you splitting headaches , but it was all there was . |
| 24 | The position under this Act is that the buyer can recover his money but the court can deduct from that a sum towards expenses incurred by the seller in performing the contract . |
| 25 | He clenched his jaw as the pain barrier seemed to break with every passing second . |
| 26 | He always clenched his jaw and a nerve jumped to the side of his left eye . |
| 27 | It was n't that it was lined or rugged , it was the set of his jaw and the expression in his eyes . |
| 28 | He rubbed at his jaw and the back of his neck with the towel and said , ‘ I 'm not drunk , I was dog-tired , not that I owe you any explanation . |
| 29 | In order to arrive at his election and the election in passing of two other candidates , it was necessary to transfer 113 parcels of ballot papers , involving altogether 16,397 movements of votes . |
| 30 | There are tales from James Reeves , Margaret Mahy , Mary Calvert ( The Biggest Cream Bun In The World , baked by Big Fat Rosie , the farmer 's wife , with important sound effects ) among others , cheek by jowl with Kipling 's How The Rhinoceros Got His Skin and a story by the Brothers Grimm warning children not to trust anyone . |