Example sentences of "[verb] his [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Tottenham teenager beat his stepfather to death with a cricket bat after an argument about mess caused by his puppies . |
| 2 | Mauve proposed his name for membership of the Pulchri Art Club , where Vincent could draw the models available without extra expense . |
| 3 | Lin Foh jerked his head in acknowledgement of the courtesy , his princely bearing enabling him to do nothing else . |
| 4 | Although the first issue for 1858 welcomed the Nazimov Rescript with a banner headline , and although Herzen freely acknowledged that Alexander II had earned his place in history by setting the process of emancipation in train , by May 1858 The Bell had restarted its pressure for emancipation with land and soon it was insisting that much remained to be done before the process of reform bore fruit . |
| 5 | This was an obvious attempt to secure his silence in return for a plea-bargain and suspended sentence on the passport charge . |
| 6 | He retained his position of Director of the Africa Literature Centre in Kitwe until 31 March , and the Centre is now looking for a successor . |
| 7 | Responsibility for Housing and Works was taken on by Adriaan Vlok , who retained his position as Minister of Correctional Services but relinquished the Ministry for the Budget to Org Marais . |
| 8 | In 1164 , Rainald was deprived of the chancellery , but retained his position as Arch-chancellor for Italy . |
| 9 | Pius XII was trained as a diplomat , and retained his faith in diplomacy despite its obvious failure in the case of Germany . |
| 10 | If the meticulous Davis was the last player one would expect to lose in such a manner , the six-times Masters champion retained his reputation for sportsmanship by the grace with which he accepted the verdict . |
| 11 | Paul Robertson was appointed Public Service Minister , replacing Kenneth McNeil ; Robertson retained his post as Minister of Information . |
| 12 | A Moslem Brotherhood deputy , Abdel-Latif Arabiyat , retained his post as Speaker of the House of Representatives . |
| 13 | Nim retained his post as Vice-Minister of National Defence . |
| 14 | António Hama Thai ( who retained his post as Chief of General Staff of the Armed Forces ) , and Maj.-Gen. |
| 15 | Hiroshi Mitsuzuka became chairman of the LDP 's policy affairs research council , while Koko Sato retained his post as chairman of the executive council . |
| 16 | Heng Samrin retained his post as President of the State Council and was appointed as the party 's " honorary president " . |
| 17 | But such was the genuine power of his personality that his persistent contention that these fasts were undertaken with the object of assisting his opponents to accept his point of view on its merits always received respectful attention , even as it became more and more evident , with the passage of time , that their success depended in actuality on the personal capital he had built up : he was too special , too revered , and eventually too important in the political consciousness of the Indian masses , to be allowed to die . |
| 18 | By May of 1184 Barbarossa was taking further steps against southern Italy , consolidating his hold by negotiation with the new pope , Lucius III . |
| 19 | Williams continued to gather public support throughout 1954 , ( also the year that Learie Constantine returned after 30 years in England ) , and it seems that he was now consolidating his position in preparation for a decisive political move , but while he was still involved with the Caribbean Commission in an apolitical capacity , this move would be put on hold . |
| 20 | Yeb grips his brow in mockery of Rodin 's ‘ The Thinker ’ . |
| 21 | There are other elements in Campbell 's thought : he seems to think that the most perspicuous model of the mind to employ in understanding human knowledge sees the mind as embodying a structured hierarchy of functionally characterized capacities , each of which works in a way analogous to natural selection ; and he defends his view as part of a ( reductive ) explanation of how the capacities comprising human rationality have evolved . |
| 22 | The new government was immediately beset with problems , with Samir Geagea , leader of the Phalangist Lebanese Forces ( LF ) , announcing his resignation as Minister of State within two hours . |
| 23 | One man described his experience of depression in this way : ‘ Early in the crisis I became deeply aware that God was my ally . |
| 24 | Speaking after his acquittal , Darren Nichol described his time under suspicion as a ‘ dreadful ordeal ’ . |
| 25 | The jury has been told that both prosecution and defence will be calling expert witnesses to establish his state of mind at the time of the killing . |
| 26 | In the swim : Sir Thomas Thomson practises the art of keeping his head above water during his regular swimming session in Glasgow |
| 27 | But it is Weede who really makes this worth hearing , keeping his balance with ease between sympathy and schmaltz . |
| 28 | She realized she had almost forgotten his offer of marriage on Norcombe Hill . |
| 29 | Two speechless simian Servitors attended him , one to ingest his waste and cleanse him , the other to nourish him with its own enriched blood and shift his cart from window to window — from which he gazed out , praying for an exploration vessel of his Chapter to pass this way . |
| 30 | His character was as bankrupt as his purse ; he had nothing with which to meet his debt of obligation to John and Nora . |