Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | This self-confessedly wilful boy always contrived to have a great deal of his own way and seemed able to follow his bent whenever the weather permitted . |
| 5 | And , Paul was working on his car out the front and I went to ask him if he knew who was getting married . |
| 6 | he said I 'll tell you what , all this messing about get in your car and I 'll come , so he got his car out the garage |
| 7 | The very thought had crossed his mind only the day before , when he contemplated giving up doctoring , as she kept telling him to . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ They could n't find a motive in Doug 's case , but they tested some of his clothing just the same . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The story about the dinner was a fantasy , but I envied Harvey his welcome just the same . |
| 13 | Now that David has decided he wants to stay and fight for his place , he will have made his job all the harder . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | Then Keith Hopper came on to say that at his place too the price had gone up 3p . |
| 16 | Get his short his nose out the ! |
| 17 | One of the main objects of the occasion being to enable the many supporters of the Link to learn first hand from Mr Jim Coffey and his team how the results of their fund raising efforts have provided much needed aid in Romania . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Two famous remarks of his mark out the dimensions of the question . |
| 20 | Dionysius , who lived in Rome , compiled a table for calculating the date of Easter , and in committing this to writing used as his datum not the regnal year of the pagan Emperor Diocletian , but the more appropriate Incarnation of Our Lord . |
| 21 | He was aware of Slater drawing in a breath and putting his head back the way he always did when he was rolling his eyes , but before Slater could say anything , Graham quickly nodded , switched his glass to the other hand , and took the woman 's small hand in his , shaking it formally . |
| 22 | lock the door with the fastener and run back down and he had his head out the window running in and |
| 23 | Athelstan asked hastily , and wished he could have bitten his tongue out the moment he spoke . |
| 24 | But it is equally ridiculous to assume he can conduct his life exactly the same after marriage as before . |
| 25 | So the ambassador recorded in his log merely the man 's most physical characteristic- " Moustachio " . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | In his statement yesterday the Prime Minister emphasised that Charles and Diana are separating and have ‘ no plans to divorce ’ . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | A lieutenant of Dragoons was so dismissive of any danger that he was eagerly telling his Sergeant how the new science of phrenology measured human aptitudes from the shape of a man 's skull . |