Example sentences of "his [noun] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This could allow the court , as in the Goodwin case , to order a reporter to reveal his notes so the company whose information was leaked would know who to sue . |
| 2 | If only he had pushed his advantage home the night the Dorking brothers gave their party ( ‘ The Night of the Hundred Cans ' , as it was still known in Wimbledon ) . |
| 3 | He had finished his piece over an hour ago and the night was wearing away towards dawn . |
| 4 | I think a minister has the right to take his pleasure once a week in a football stadium . ’ |
| 5 | The kind of promises each party to the contract makes will vary , but one fairly typical example is for the teenager to promise to tidy his bedroom once a week , to let parents know when he will be late home from school or where he is and who he is with when he goes out . |
| 6 | They took command late in the game , and a heroic display by Paul Mathers was needed to give his side even a share of the points . |
| 7 | They took command late in the game , and a heroic display by Paul Mathers was needed to give his side even a share of the points . |
| 8 | The very thought had crossed his mind only the day before , when he contemplated giving up doctoring , as she kept telling him to . |
| 9 | Parking his Mercedes alongside the Jaguar , he got out . |
| 10 | Winning the world championship is one of the main ambitions of the season , but being No 1 is more important to me ; it shows a player for his performances over a year , as opposed to two weeks . ’ |
| 11 | If the reason for the buyer 's failure to pay is his insolvency then the breach is a repudiatory one , although in this case the seller must deliver those instalments which have actually been paid for . |
| 12 | The Court could look at the facts before the Minister and if those were insufficient in law to support his determination then the Court would deem that it must have been arbitrary . |
| 13 | John Tutchin , who produced his Observator twice a week from 1702 until his death in 1707 , worked for the Junto Whigs , as did for a while that indefatigable pamphleteer , Daniel Defoe . |
| 14 | The knight had to swerve at the last moment to avoid a head-on collision with his opponent , but at the same time he had to couch his lance to his side as tightly as possible with his hand and under his arm so that the lance blow was struck with all the weight and momentum of his horse behind it , for if in swerving aside he moved his hand or used his arm to thrust at his opponent then a blow delivered in this manner would have no effect whatever . |
| 15 | And there are scenes of great moral effectiveness , as when Ransom , plucking up his courage far the struggle with Weston , recalls that ‘ at that moment , far away on earth … men were at war , and white-faced subalterns and freckled corporals who had but lately begun to shave , stood in horrible gaps or crawled forward in deadly darkness , awakening like him to the preposterous truth that all really depended on their actions . ’ |
| 16 | Then Keith Hopper came on to say that at his place too the price had gone up 3p . |
| 17 | Sweetheart nor Buddie had spoken to him since he was called down from his room almost an hour ago . |
| 18 | Use his name once a performance : keep 'em waiting for it . |
| 19 | If it be a duty imposed by law upon a party regularly subpoenaed to attend from time to time to give his evidence then a promise to give him any remuneration for loss of time incurred in such attendance is a promise without consideration . |
| 20 | And some shopping , he bought his wife quite a lot of jewellery . ‘ |
| 21 | Chris only has to go to see his wife once a week in that cottage hospital and we 're able to meet quite often now . ’ |
| 22 | Across the street , sheltering as best he could from the blasts of wind down Park Avenue , Gentle — who 'd returned to his station barely a minute before — caught sight of the doorman scrabbling on the foyer floor . |
| 23 | He was a name , rank and number , his individuality merely an accident , irrelevant to the great machinery of a war between states , not persons . |
| 24 | And he had at his disposal almost an embarrassment rather than a shortage of political experience . |
| 25 | The Church , the vicar and the Archdeacon and the Bishop all weighed in on Gray 's side so it was quietly dropped and he got his parish here a year later . |
| 26 | Was his father really a war hero ? |
| 27 | He sees his trade once a week or once in two weeks , and covers three or four towns in a day . |
| 28 | So the ambassador recorded in his log merely the man 's most physical characteristic- " Moustachio " . |
| 29 | Li Po is leaving the world of men for a far more perfect world but there is in his poem nonetheless the idea that he might have wanted both of these worlds , but he has lost one of them ; thus he is chastened . |
| 30 | This enabled him to adjust his controls immediately the information had been captured . |