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 | Fiery itches tormented him — in his arse , below his armpits and inside his thighs where the fleas had bitten most . |
| 7 | The driver lost his legs when the vehicle hit a motorway bridge . |
| 8 | Theseus would still be blundering around in the labyrinth where he went to slay the Minotaur , if Ariadne had not given him a ball of thread so that he could retrace his steps when the deed was done . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And , Paul was working on his car out the front and I went to ask him if he knew who was getting married . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | The very thought had crossed his mind only the day before , when he contemplated giving up doctoring , as she kept telling him to . |
| 13 | Parking his Mercedes alongside the Jaguar , he got out . |
| 14 | But the words had hardly passed his lips when the shot struck him . |
| 15 | Under the heading ‘ Money-Lenders ’ Baits ' he showed his readers how the cormorants attempted to lure them into their net — advertisements from loan merchants hiding behind grand names like The Clerical and Medical Bank , in all parts of Britain , none of whom saw fit to mention the rates of interest they would charge , and some specifying Without Sureties . |
| 16 | In I Thessalonians 1:5 Paul reminds his readers how the gospel was first preached to them : ‘ it came not in word only , but in power and in the Holy Spirit and in full assurance . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ They could n't find a motive in Doug 's case , but they tested some of his clothing just the same . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The story about the dinner was a fantasy , but I envied Harvey his welcome just the same . |
| 23 | This saved Hoc from the beating that would inevitably have followed discovery of his shortcomings when the scowling overseers dipped their yardsticks into the cans at the collecting station . |
| 24 | The Mason climbed the spokes of the cart wheel , grunted with the exertion of climbing over the rim of the stage , and rose to his feet where the golden pavilion hid him from Gabriel 's view . |
| 25 | The official receiver or trustee can require the sheriff to tax his costs where the sheriff is entitled to costs as a result of insolvency overtaking an execution ( r 7.36 ) . |
| 26 | Now that David has decided he wants to stay and fight for his place , he will have made his job all the harder . |
| 27 | 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 . ’ |
| 28 | Then Keith Hopper came on to say that at his place too the price had gone up 3p . |
| 29 | Get his short his nose out the ! |
| 30 | Having assessed the nature and extent of the patient 's problems , she explains to the patient and his carers how the patient 's physical recovery will happen . |