Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] his [noun sg] [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He hoped that readers of his book would find themselves willy-nilly thinking his way . |
| 2 | Theologically trained readers of his time would recognise a background of scholarly debate on whether it is primarily through man 's intellect or capacity to love , that the soul engages with God , and they would be able to acknowledge Hilton 's synthesis of understanding and desire . |
| 3 | There was a stirring , a sense that at any minute the branches over his head might dip over him and brush his face , or that the roots that had thrust up out of the earth might wriggle and become alive and twine themselves about his feet . |
| 4 | Festivals held in his honour were attended by priests carrying reindeer pelts , and devotees of his cult would drink a beverage of the powdered ‘ velvet ’ from the tips of the antlers , said to produce visions and act as an aphrodisiac . |
| 5 | Himself the child of Jewish refugees , Cantor insisted that all proceeds from his tour should go to a special fund to support the re-emigration of young Jewish refugees to Palestine . |
| 6 | Ten more years of his pontificate might have set both the church and the statesmanship of western Europe in a different direction . |
| 7 | Perhaps if he had worried less about them , and taken a less self-reproachful line , the outlines of his personality would have softened with the years . |
| 8 | He promised attacks by his cartel would cease if the government agreed to negotiate . |
| 9 | Doubters among the party 's membership will argue that the combined Brown and Tsongas vote against Mr Clinton confirms their fears that questions about his character will lead to a crushing defeat at the hands of President Bush . |
| 10 | Having concentrated so far on administration and CIA involvement , Walsh declared that the final stages of his investigation would focus on other agencies which either collaborated in , or had detailed knowledge of , the Reagan administration 's secret arms sales to Iran or its covert resupply network for the contras . |
| 11 | There are many such instances where secrecy was maintained so that the leader or members of his entourage could remain in office , irrespective of potential or actual damage to government . |
| 12 | A formal party vote might not be necessary to remove him : senior members of his party might make it clear to the Prime Minister that he no longer had the confidence of the parliamentary party ( as , in a sense , happened with Churchill in 1955 ) , or the lack of support might become clear as the result of a Commons vote ( as in 1940 , when Chamberlain obtained a drastically-reduced majority in a vote of confidence ) . |
| 13 | The disloyal mutterings about his leadership will grow , as will the possibility of a token candidate standing against him when his party position comes up for formal renewal in November . |
| 14 | A SOCCER club boss who admitted displaying illegal advertising signs at his ground must pay a £150 penalty . |
| 15 | An expert potter who sedulously observes all the taboos of his trade may find that a whole batch of carefully turned pots crack in firing . |
| 16 | Morris is a decent , amiable guy , one of the best on the circuit , and he bit his tongue when many others in his position would have made a public scene of it . |
| 17 | He remarked that if they did not exist he and many others in his position would have to invent them ! |
| 18 | Costs were high because injuries to a male can easily be crippling or fatal , whereas serious injuries to his companion can leave him without an essential partner in combating rival coalitions . |
| 19 | It is not obvious that the grounds for his naturalism would evaporate if he took seriously a wider variety of forms of discourse . |
| 20 | Chlothar I even made the heinous suggestion that the churches of his kingdom should hand over one-third of their revenues to the crown . |
| 21 | Alternatively , a client who has been treated as an expert investor on the grounds of his experience may claim that , in fact , he was a private investor , that he should have received warnings as to the risks and that , had he received them , he would not have entered into this type of transaction at all . |
| 22 | Thus , Paul in Athens uses language and concepts with which the Stoics in his audience can identify and before the Sanhedrin , the Jewish supreme court in Jerusalem , he establishes common ground with the pharisees among the council members . |
| 23 | But Reverend Sawyer says his collections and fees simply are n't raising enough money … to even pay for urgent repairs , the sixty regulars in his congretation will have to pay . |