Example sentences of "his [noun] [vb -s] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our first Secretary of State for National Heritage had spent his Easter hols at the Lucerne festival , where the London Symphony Orchestra ( last year 's Arts Council grants : over £1 million ) proved its world-class rank with a ‘ peerless ’ Mahler One . |
| 2 | He will stay on in a consultancy role for a few months until his successor settles into the job . |
| 3 | So , in Danger Rock , the practical knowledge of small ships and heavy seas belonging to the sailor known as Shelty is available to the apprentice of eighteen , Jim Naylor , who for his part rises to the challenge of danger ( when he and his fellow apprentices land on an uninhabited island off the Newfoundland coast after their ship has been holed by ice ) because he has been trained with command in mind . |
| 4 | If he committed the crime under an insane delusion , his liability depends on the question whether he would have been liable had the facts been as he imagined them to be . |
| 5 | I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his kind remarks about the work of the Select Committee on European legislation made during the debate on 21 November . |
| 6 | Firstly , mat modules can come apart , and if the referee fails to notice this the competitor may be injured when his foot slips into the gap . |
| 7 | His statue stands in the delightful Place Royale , above the possessive caption of ‘ Lou Nouste Henric ’ , or ‘ Our Henry ’ in the local Gas con patois . |
| 8 | His text hints at the periods and utterances of Gloriana 's England , but it quite avoids the " half-timbered " . |
| 9 | For the bluff , reticent Arthur such wit suggests the Christmas spirit has already got to him but he added realistically that his decision depends on the state of the ground : ‘ If it 's bottomless he wo n't run . ’ |
| 10 | None the less the emperor decides against the hopeful beneficiary , and he asserts that his decision rests on the testator 's intention . |
| 11 | Jews and the ‘ Jewish Question , were mentioned as such neither in Hitler 's New Year exhortation to his Party at the beginning of 1932 , nor in his notorious speech to the Düsseldorfer Industrieklub in January , nor in his ‘ Appeal to the Nation ’ , sold as a record in July and typical of his election addresses in the first half of the year . |
| 12 | She realized this openly and laughed at him in the sun , saying that the Afghans could n't manage it either , and her blatant flirtatiousness fuelled him to perform one of his music-hall leaps over the back of the car into the bucket seat . |
| 13 | His story tells of the brave men of the New Zealand Shipping Co Tekoa . |
| 14 | Eddie Browning says he wants to apply for bail before his case goes before the Appeal Court later this year . |
| 15 | His case depends on the constraints placed upon any enterprise attempting to survive in the market : |
| 16 | His lack of knowledge of McKendrick and his field implicates to the reader that his praise is superficial , McKendrick 's work being , as far as Anderson is concerned , both uninteresting and unimportant . |
| 17 | He and Kendall will meet for further discussions but if they are not fruitful , the player will become a free agent when his contract expires at the end of the month , although any transfer will command a fee . |
| 18 | Ironically , the only Hibs player who appeared to have any kind of conviction going forward was Pat McGinlay , who has taken up the attention of Celtic 's manager , Liam Brady , and will be the object of a move from that quarter when his contract expires in the summer . |
| 19 | Despite calls for his head , Taylor yesterday pledged to stay on until his contract expires after the World Cup in 1994 . |
| 20 | In other words , Lyons , a man who preferred and prefers to make his bargaining points through the media , was prepared to disrupt vital supplies , inflicting untold damage to the economy , without having had any direct discussion with us as to our plans or policies . |
| 21 | Nobody but a fool who believes his luck lies around the corner could be similarly influenced by the likes of Frankie . |
| 22 | But his trial continues on the sole charge alleging manslaughter . |
| 23 | But his trial continues on the sole charge alleging manslaughter . |
| 24 | His briefcase bulges on the table , full of slides and biopsy reports , medical histories and letters from Dr McKenzie and Professor Sikora , as well as his own carefully compiled notes . |
| 25 | Sean Connery grows lustier as he grows crustier , and his acting grows the more his hair stays on the pillow . |
| 26 | His scepticism goes to the extent of even denying the existence of ‘ society ’ or ‘ the nation ’ as such ( II , 24 , 61 ) — the very totalities which his own general argument for totalization requires . |
| 27 | A particularly important element of his study relates to the indigenous population of the region , who have land rights . |
| 28 | His research focuses on the social insects , especially bees as pollinators . |
| 29 | Michael Mashelle , regional agriculture and livestock development officer , says that although his department knows about the giant cassava , it has no funds for research . |
| 30 | By his recommendation he implies that a reasonable investigation has been made and that his recommendation rests on the conclusions based on that investigation . |