Example sentences of "[conj] his [noun sg] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first decisive blow struck by the Venetians was in AD 1000 , when the doge , Pietro Orseolo II , defeated the Croats and advanced to the mouth of the Neretva , where his fleet destroyed the nest of pirates , the Neretljani , who menaced the shipping routes in the southern Adriatic . |
| 2 | The goods were then taken back to Mansha 's home where his girlfriend heard the men and saw Randhawa throwing the stolen jewellery around the kitchen . |
| 3 | When the Philadelphia — now remember this name — when the Philadelphia put into Stornoway in Lewis , and gleaned young boys from the beach , and stowed them in the hold like trade-goods , what constable or what factor raised his arm or his stick to stop the slavers ? |
| 4 | Taking the case at its highest against the plaintiffs I assume for the purposes of considering this point that either Mr. Twycross or his secretary took the opportunity of the presence of the son in the office to hand the letters in their envelopes to him for the purpose of delivery to the parents . |
| 5 | The final mode eliminates all official involvement and permits the plaintiff or his agent to send the documents , with some appropriate means of obtaining confirmation of their delivery , by post . |
| 6 | Then he or his partner squeezes the tip of the penis . |
| 7 | He hated the dirt ; he wanted to touch nothing ; he lay on his side , trying not to let his ribs come against the inside of his shirt or his hand touch the blanket . |
| 8 | Neither Mark nor his mother want the dog destroyed either . |
| 9 | Although his voice rides the airwaves as fresh as it ever did , he admits that physically he is past his prime : arthritis brings him recurring pain in his legs although he has already lived 18 months longer than he was told a 60-a-day smoking habit would allow . |
| 10 | Molitor is not a furniture maker of the Ancien Régime whose name springs as readily to mind as many others Roentgen , BVRB or Jacob although his career spanned the period 1785 to the Bourbon Restoration . |
| 11 | This apparently more hardline stance of the SOC was reinforced by Hun Sen , when in a speech on Nov. 24 he indicated that his government rejected the Security Council 's peace plan and " will not agree to what is decided in Paris " . |
| 12 | The plaintiff will plead the most exaggerated meanings that his counsel considers the words will conceivably bear , in order to maximise the insult and humiliation ( and hence the damages ) . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , if his discovery is less original than he claimed , he rightly says that his novel analyses the mechanism of involuntary memory in unique detail . |
| 14 | He laughed so much that his laughter became the centre of attraction in the theatre . |
| 15 | And believe that his case highlights the failing of the criminal justice system . |
| 16 | And believe that his case highlights the failing of the criminal justice system . |
| 17 | The listeners turned to each other , each anxious to assure himself that his neighbour appreciated the speaker 's remarks and the wisdom of his approach . |
| 18 | The point , though , is not that his poetry exceeds the truth but that it fails to keep up with the truth , since it can not fully express the Friend 's merits : No one was ever taken in by Shakespeare 's disclaimers of ability , and few people will imagine that , whoever the Friend was — if indeed there was a real-life Friend — Shakespeare has failed to do justice to him ; if anything , rather the opposite . |
| 19 | Although Romania is a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty , Mr Ceausescu boasted earlier this year that his country had the capacity to produce nuclear weapons . |
| 20 | The turbulence was such that his head hit the ceiling and his headset came off and fell to the floor . |
| 21 | Does the Minister agree that his decision to retain the passport office in Belfast was a good one ? |
| 22 | A five-hour visit by US President George Bush on June 11 , intended , according to US political analysts , to demonstrate to US voters in an election year that his decision to launch the December 1989 military invasion of Panama [ see pp. 37112-13 ] had been vindicated and that peace and democracy had returned to the country , badly backfired when thousands of demonstrators disrupted his public appearances . |
| 23 | And Becker , who lost to Stich in the Wimbledon final two years ago , quickly acknowledged that his compatriot deserved the triumph . |
| 24 | Cliff — who now lives in a mansion in Surrey — says times were once so hard that his dad made the family furniture from packing cases . |
| 25 | In April 1945 Attlee prepared a memorandum for the Cabinet to the effect that his committee favoured the retention of compulsory military service after the war . |
| 26 | But Berkeley 's claims that his Immaterialism avoided the scepticism endemic in his predecessors , and restored philosophy to the beliefs of sound common sense , were not accepted . |
| 27 | Even so , King argues that his theory has the advantage of also explaining why a lump-sum grant has less of an impact on local spending than does an equal value-matching grant — another result evident in empirical work . |
| 28 | This account gives rise to two questions , both of them large and difficult : first , how do ideological state apparatuses ( ISAs ) constitute individuals ; and second , how can Althusser justify his claim that his theory escapes the tentacles of ideology and tells us how the world really is ? |
| 29 | For someone who takes his belief that p to be justified is surely close to taking it that his belief tracks the truth of p . |
| 30 | ‘ It would greatly help the case for the chapter if he were to indicate now that his party supported the Maastricht Treaty . ’ |