Example sentences of "[to-vb] his [noun sg] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the marriage is good , a husband may be able to encourage his wife to see the many compensations in store , including the opportunities to explore their own interests and reinforce their commitment to each other . |
| 2 | Erwin Koeman , 30 , the Dutch international midfield player , may be unable to help his country defend the European Championship . |
| 3 | Polybius explains in Book 3 why he proposes to extend his exposition to cover the next twenty years by saying : " Since judgements regarding either victors or vanquished based purely on the actual struggles are not final … |
| 4 | Nahum was content to let his wife do the local visiting , and reports on the children 's welfare came regularly from the inspector , so there was little required of him in Chertsey . |
| 5 | The reshuffle leaves Labour 's Welsh team without a Welsh speaker , as Welsh Secretary David Hunt is about to publish his Bill to strengthen the Welsh language . |
| 6 | And he was appointed the county 's high sheriff , he decided to invite his ex-teacher to attend the traditional church service to mark the opening of high court session . |
| 7 | He was breathing the words against her skin , his voice muffled by the folds of cotton he had pushed aside to enable his mouth to cherish the tender apices of her pale breasts . |
| 8 | The nine-year-old , owned by Sheikh Mohammed and trained by James Fanshawe , had been well placed to deliver his challenge approaching the final flight , but faded to finish just over six lengths behind the winner Novello Allegro . |
| 9 | In order to make his song heard the young man is singing into a microphone wired to a loudspeaker . |
| 10 | The obsessions with eloquence and general knowledge would appear to be ones that emerged with our generation , probably in the wake of Mr Marshall , when lesser men trying to emulate his greatness mistook the superficial for the essence . |