Example sentences of "his [noun] the [det] " in BNC.

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1 ( f ) Indemnity Whilst it might readily be implied that where one partner 's breach of some provision in the partnership agreement leads to liability attaching to his co-partners the latter should have the right to an indemnity from their colleague , the better practice is to make that right express ( Clause 16.02 ) in the partnership agreement .
2 ‘ Just what 're you getting at , young Angel ? ’ he asked , narrowing his eyes the same way he did when he had a cigarette going and he was looking in a petrol tank .
3 Let's hope he 'll deliver his reply the same way . ’
4 His hands were large , his feet the same ,
5 At the same time he thought it desirable to submit to them a brief record of his work ( Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers , 1899 , pp. 3–11 ) , in view of what were in his opinion the less than adequate references to it in the 1899 James Forrest lecture on ‘ Magnetism ’ by J. A. Ewing [ q.v. ] , in the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers ( vol. cxxxviii , pp. 289–311 ) .
6 A man might get used to living this way ; might get to like his gut a little ample , his armpits sweaty , his balls the same .
7 You know very well you should accord the French governor and his officials the same respect you show to me and your grandfather .
8 In his memoirs the former president writes , ‘ At the beginning of my second term , Congress , the bureaucracy and the media were still working in concert to maintain the ideas and ideology of the traditional Eastern liberal establishment that had come down to 1973 through the New Deal , the New Frontier , and the Great Society . ’
9 Where documents of title are involved it will usually turn out that the buyer transfers to his sub-purchaser the same document of title which he received from his seller .
10 The more battles and the more kills an Orc has under his belt the more respect he earns from other Orcs , the more his enemies fear him , and the happier he will be .
11 Claire used to repeat his sentences the same way when they were kids and she wanted to wind him up .
12 and he had his beefburger the same as everybody else .
13 There was no reason for him to do so because the claims that he wished to make were quite simple ( they did not involve complex interactions of different speaker variables ) , and because in his analysis the same patterns were repeated for every variable studied , tending in the same direction in every case in terms of both class and style ( several classes and several styles ) .
14 John was invited to have dinner with Balanchine , and to his surprise the latter proposed to him the theme , music and designer to be used .
15 On his death the same year , the king had the elder of János 's sons beheaded and the other , Matthias , imprisoned in Prague by the Bohemian ruler , George Podiebrad .
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