Example sentences of "his [noun pl] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could look back down on her twenty-two years and see a tall handsome man , and she recalled his words a few minutes ago , ‘ Sorrow does n't last . ’ |
| 2 | his words no less |
| 3 | ( 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 . |
| 4 | Lifted and dropped his shoulders a few times , he 'd seen people do it when they tried on clothes in stores . |
| 5 | The little boy was settled into a continuous breath-jerking crying , his eyes no more than slits now . |
| 6 | It took his eyes a few seconds to get accustomed to the gloom then he darted inside and ducked down behind a rusty skip close to the door . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | After Diana 's marriage to Charles , her father , Earl Spencer , always created a festival of fun for his grandchildren a few days early . |
| 9 | I have to confess that we failed to keep the secret until the day of publication : the sharp observation of sensed that ‘ something was going on ’ among his co-authors a few months before the book was published ! |
| 10 | His hands were large , his feet the same , |
| 11 | An early prophet like David claims that when he delivers his oracles no less than ‘ the Spirit of the Lord speaks ’ ( 2 Sam . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | You know very well you should accord the French governor and his officials the same respect you show to me and your grandfather . |
| 14 | During my short conversation with the Colonel , I was being observed rather suspiciously by three of his Officers a few feet away , sitting on top of their slit trenches performing their ablutions . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Now if the defendants were bound to charge the plaintiff for the carriage of his goods a less sum , and they refused to carry them except upon payment of a greater sum , as he was compelled to pay the amount demanded , and could not otherwise have his goods carried , the case falls within the principle of several decided cases , in which it has been held that money which a party has been wrongfully compelled to pay under circumstances in which he was unable to resist the imposition , may be recovered back in an action for money had and received . |
| 17 | Claire used to repeat his sentences the same way when they were kids and she wanted to wind him up . |
| 18 | Even the goods manager at King 's Cross station , a salaried employee , left his children no more than some bedroom furniture . |
| 19 | Despite being normally mesmerised by the subject of the early Renaissance artists , on this occasion I was grateful to see the professor stacking up his papers a few minutes before the lecture was scheduled to end . |