Example sentences of "of [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was warned in advance , but , as a former soldier , felt ‘ God has chosen me to go on this forlorn hope of preaching his Blessed Gospel in his country , and I should discourage those who are coming after me if I should be afraid and fly . ’ |
| 2 | But having in a somewhat cursory fashion quoted the authorities , he at once proceeded to the more congenial task of elaborating his argument , bringing forward considerations of individual psychology , the effect of various judgements on the penitent , and the necessity for prudence in the actions of confessors . |
| 3 | What gave him pause was not lack of sympathy for the enterprise but the appalling difficulty of handling his grandmother in relation to Leon . |
| 4 | Instead of centring his analyses on the knowledge derived from the experience of the subject , Foucault investigates the conditions of emergence of the subject as the basis of knowledge ; he argues that at the same time as it was widely proposed as the one saving good of human civilization it also facilitated a more sinister operation . |
| 5 | No , he had thought this all some kind of clever ruse ; some way of shirking his verbal obligation . |
| 6 | I admit to being guilty of slapping his face , in anger . |
| 7 | The gifts were his way of salving his conscience . |
| 8 | In neither form of action could the plaintiff be sure of recovering his goods in specie since the judgment in trespass was for damages and in detinue gave the defendant the option of giving up the goods or paying damages but it is unlikely that this was considered a defect and it should be noted that the remedy of specific restitution of chattels has remained unusual right up to modern times . |
| 9 | Predictably , he wanted above all else to be an actor but , when he had the chance of realising his ambition by working overseas , for some reason the Home Office refused an exit permit . |
| 10 | For his part the Prince had no intention of using his own money — he had better uses for it — and so things remained as they were . |
| 11 | Ivanov was capable of using his considerable social skills to cultivate and subsequently exploit successfully the acquaintance of a susceptible person engaged in strategic work . |
| 12 | He arrived at Narok ‘ with the intention of using his influence to bring the Moran to reason ’ , and left several weeks later with a promise that the recruits would be forthcoming . |
| 13 | Yet despite admitting that would love to play for New Zealand , and that he had no intention of using his Scottish connections when he first came to play in Britain , McIntosh fiercely defends his right to play for Scotland . |
| 14 | A BANK accused a man of using his hole-in-the-wall cash card to defraud it of hundreds of pounds — even though he did not know his personal number . |
| 15 | It accused Roy of using his very public fight to beat lung cancer as a way of furthering his career . |
| 16 | But Edward proved incapable of using his powers of patronage in this way . |
| 17 | His period there exposed him to a world of living theories , of using his preferred medium as a vehicle of ideas . |
| 18 | The pianist due to play a concerto in public spends many hours in practising the techniques of using his instrument that the piece requires . |
| 19 | ‘ Many of us felt he should have had the courage to admit that the job was n't working out instead of using his reputation as England manager to negotiate a lucrative overseas contract and then leaving everyone high and dry without a second thought . |
| 20 | Concepcion had been widely accused of using his office to promote the interests of his family . |
| 21 | Chief among those dismissed and allegedly involved in scandals was Pedro Paulo Leoni Ramos , Secretary for Strategic Affairs , who was accused of using his influence to win contracts from the state oil firm PÉTROBRAS for companies run by personal friends . |
| 22 | After a hard-hitting first round in which both boxers traded body punches , the initiative ebbed away from Hopper in the second as he allowed himself to be drawn into a slugging match instead of using his jab . |
| 23 | He was given a questionable standing count in the second of three thrilling rounds , but he spent too much time battling rather than boxing and too much time on the ropes instead of using his footwork . |
| 24 | This is an important point of principle given that Mr Bell was accused of using his contacts to try to get cheap labour for a family business . ’ |
| 25 | Medved accuses Steven Spielberg of using his Peter Pan story , Hook , to advance his theme of kids being good and adults bad ; while the storyline of Home Alone , about parents who accidentally leave their eight-year-old son behind when they go on holiday , promotes a picture of adult ineptitude and childhood self-sufficiency . |
| 26 | Well the first time when he found it could comb is hair straight back with his right hand ; he could dry himself under his arms properly instead of just sort of wiping at it with a towel ; wash his teeth better , instead of using his left hand with difficulty because he 's never been really left handed . |
| 27 | Each knight was in the act of drawing his sword , the swords a little further from the hilts in each panel , as if the knights were drawings in a moving-picture flick-page book . |
| 28 | So Portia Forbes is given the task of drawing his fire . ’ |
| 29 | At only 11 he was burdened with the responsibility of helping his mother cope while trying to support his younger brother . |
| 30 | Miss Rocco said Prince Philip was incapable of helping his sons when their marriages broke down because of his own austere upbringing . |