Example sentences of "his [noun] [adv] the " 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 | It was thus agreed that redemption , to the sun of £100 only ( 4 x £25 bonds ) , be drawn for and should a bondholder so drawn insist on taking his money then the Bolney Syndicate would , if necessary , buy the bonds so saving the Club 's strained resources . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | There is an appearance of debate , but increasingly Eudoxus asks rhetorical questions which allow Irenius to answer at length , and ( hardly surprisingly ) win Eudoxus over to see the sense of his proposals once the true horror of the Irish are recognised . |
| 5 | They 'd taken the plug out of his boiler just the same and let off his mill-dam without a thought for what it was going to cost him — and them , he 'd see to that — in the long run . |
| 6 | The very thought had crossed his mind only the day before , when he contemplated giving up doctoring , as she kept telling him to . |
| 7 | Parking his Mercedes alongside the Jaguar , he got out . |
| 8 | The imperialist attitude was accommodated in his books all the more easily because he put the emphasis on service and sacrifice rather than on nationalist domination or material gain : an approach that may seem hypocritical to present-day readers was sincere enough in a man who set out to be a philanthropist and reformer and became a best-seller . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ They could n't find a motive in Doug 's case , but they tested some of his clothing just the same . ’ |
| 11 | Cadfael went about his work all the more assiduously because a part of his mind was elsewhere , and he felt its absence as guilt , even though his concern was with a serious matter of justice , guilt and innocence . |
| 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 | The story about the dinner was a fantasy , but I envied Harvey his welcome just the same . |
| 14 | Now that David has decided he wants to stay and fight for his place , he will have made his job all the harder . |
| 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 | He then forced himself to get through the rest of the day without writing , so that the well would have replenished its juice by the time he took up his pencil again the next daybreak . |
| 18 | But it is equally ridiculous to assume he can conduct his life exactly the same after marriage as before . |
| 19 | So the ambassador recorded in his log merely the man 's most physical characteristic- " Moustachio " . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | This enabled him to adjust his controls immediately the information had been captured . |
| 22 | Oh aye that 's another lad he was on his road home the pony used to After a a drink in Kilray In Kerry the the ponies nearly took the men home . |
| 23 | He had bought his planes in dollars , so the falling value of the pound had made his repayments all the more expensive . |
| 24 | In his statement yesterday the Prime Minister emphasised that Charles and Diana are separating and have ‘ no plans to divorce ’ . |
| 25 | From his reign onwards the Romans reversed their view of beards as symbols of immature adulthood and apparently embraced the ethical values of late Classical and Hellenistic Greece . |
| 26 | Speedie has yet to score a goal this season and believes if he can break his duck tonight the offers might come flooding in . |
| 27 | At that very second that we call upon the Lord , just as this dying thief called on him , the Lord will hear us and make his answer instantly the same as he did for this man . |
| 28 | If one takes the not inconsiderable trouble of following his analysis right the way through , it is hard not to be impressed by the picture he draws of an intricate network of equivalences and contrasts , corresponding to the different possible metrical divisions in the poem , and layered one upon the other in a kind of elaborate verbal counterpoint . |
| 29 | On his way there the frigate taking him to Suez had called at Jidda to enable him to meet Sharif Husain , the father of Amir Faisal who was leading the Arab Revolt . |
| 30 | There was no response and the meeting continued on another tack until a man came from the back of the room with a story about how he had , in the pitch black night , walked straight into a lamp post on his way home the night before : hence the severe head pains . |