Example sentences of "[conj] his [adj] [noun] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( His Section 's Mediterranean operations , where his cheerful courage discomforted the Germans and Italians , are dealt with in later chapters . ) |
| 2 | In experimental line-out changes that will be reviewed after a year , a jumper must use both hands or his inside arm to catch the ball , and the 50 centimetre space between the lines will be doubled . |
| 3 | Although his head office sent the branch all the goods sold by the branch in Year 41 , Mr Messy did not record how much was sent and kept no records at the branch other than branch sales . |
| 4 | Thus Castro was demonstrating not only that he was serious in his commitment to social reform but also , more importantly — in terms of how Soviet analysts assess the viability of a regime — that his revolutionary government had the power to implement the measures that it chose . |
| 5 | In conversation Bertin remarked that his young wife played the piano well and was particularly fond of Ravel . |
| 6 | Despite the fact that his previous attempts to draw the western democracies away from the Soviet Union had borne no fruit , Franco wrote to Churchill on 18 October 1944 to propose an anti-Bolshevik alliance and to state his belief that Spain should take part in any post-war peace conference . |
| 7 | The claim that his fiscal precautions netted the Birt household just £810 in 1990-91 , for example , might be opened to question if the mystery secretary turned out to be Mrs Birt . |
| 8 | Doetsch found that his synthetic analogue prevented the normal development of the viral infection within the cells , prompting him to suggest that it might have therapeutic potential ( Proceedings of the US National Academy of Sciences , 1981 , vol 78 , p 6699 ) . |
| 9 | And his foster mother told the court he was now ’ learning to fix cars , not steal them . ’ |
| 10 | But six minutes into the second half their central defender Vickers , who appeared to be standing several yards offside , received a pass from Bishop and his close-range shot levelled the score . |
| 11 | He stood up , and his great voice filled the room . |
| 12 | His marriage had suffered , and his total exhaustion left the father-of-three unable to even cuddle his young children . |
| 13 | His famous series of posters of the distraught zookeeper and his mischievous animals carried the line — My Goodness , — My Guinness — and scored another smash hit with Guinness fanciers . |
| 14 | His great burning blade cut down foes with every stroke , and his shining mail turned the swords of his desperate foes . |
| 15 | She started to get up but he said , ‘ Do n't go , do n't go , ’ and hurried out of the bar , running with his body crouched and his right hand holding the newspaper low down , like a soldier carrying a slung rifle running in to the attack . |
| 16 | Cassowary did look decidedly odd with his short wings flailing like paddles to keep his heavy body aloft , and his long legs treading the air beneath him . |
| 17 | His operetta The Singing Dream ( 1934 ) was a great success in Vienna , and his other works included the operetta Old Chelsea ( 1943 ) and an orchestral Sunshine Suite . |
| 18 | Denis and his new gang had the first and the last laugh … only 11 minutes had gone when Cusack set Chrissy Allen up for a prize goal … |
| 19 | According to the old man , the Phalangists first forced Tony and his young wife to watch the shooting of their baby . |
| 20 | His name was G Clifford Trout Jnr and his self-appointed task took the form of a crusade for animal and human welfare , by imposing morally acceptable standards for the nation 's livestock . |
| 21 | He made a deal in 1948 with the communist authorities that , if he could get passports for himself and his entire family to leave the country , he would make over his lands to the state . |
| 22 | I refer to Julia Kristeva 's somewhat obscure remarks about ‘ the role that the pervert , with his invincible belief in the maternal phallus and his obstinate refusal to recognise the existence of the other sex , has been able to play in anti-semitism and the totalitarian movements that embrace it , . |
| 23 | I sat up late last night and read the Geste as far as to where Beren and his gnomish allies defeat the patrol of orcs above the sources of the Narog and disguise themselves in the reaf [ Old English : ‘ garments , weapons taken from the slain ’ ] . |
| 24 | He seemed to sense her distaste for he shot a glance back over one lumpy shoulder and his blue gaze sent the blood rushing into her face . |
| 25 | Before he was allowed to escape , the Editor had muttered his agreement , and his heartfelt wish to supplant the ‘ Jottings ’ with a regular feature on ethnic cooking , written by his live-in companion , was once again postponed . |
| 26 | His Time and Modality ( 1957 ) , which came out of the John Locke lectures , established tense logic as a serious discipline , and his subsequent publications elaborated the technical and philosophical implications of his approach . |
| 27 | William Holden plays a hack scriptwriter down on his luck , and his purple prose gives the film its biting tone . |
| 28 | Krasnov had lived in Germany since 1938 , and his anti-Bolshevik activities had the approval of Himmler , who in February 1944 authorised his appointment as Head of the newly-formed Chief Administration of the Cossack Forces ; but because of his advancing years ( he was born in 1869 ) his status in Tolmezzo was that of an honoured guest rather than that of an active commander . |
| 29 | He had the skull half hidden in his lap and his little hand stroked the smooth bone , gently and rhythmically . |
| 30 | After 1951 Winston Churchill and his Conservative successors protected the welfare state , maintained full employment , and conciliated the trade unions . |