Example sentences of "his [noun] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One evening Rosslyn 's horse came up from the paddock as usual for his dinner , but instead of practically knocking her over like he normally did in his enthusiasm to get at the food , he stopped quietly at her side and put his head in her hands , saying non-verbally : ‘ I hurt ! ’ |
| 2 | With term approaching fast , it was quite likely that Andrew was coming to London on department business , and had seen his opportunity to call in the debt . |
| 3 | The 32-year-old Irishman said his struggle to return to the form which won him the world title and Tours of France and Italy in 1987 his 1987 level , when he won a world title and the Tours of France and Italy , had placed strains on his family . |
| 4 | The deposed king had announced his decision to return at the end of May , when he committed himself to promoting democracy and announced that he was planning to sponsor an interim multiparty government of national consensus which would include members of the military . |
| 5 | The Scottish Sports Council announced today that its Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Mr Ken Hutchison has intimated his decision to retire at the end of November . |
| 6 | Walsh announced his decision to retire from the government on April 2 ; although he gave no reasons , he had earlier suggested that the government lacked sufficient political will to confront the country 's grave economic problems . |
| 7 | My friend is not simply explaining why , for good or bad reasons , he did decide to go to the Park ( as he might after the event , in which case it would be no objection to his explanation that when he got there the zoo turned out to be closed ) ; he is defending his decision to go to the Park rather than meet me at his house , and I can still try to change his mind . |
| 8 | He used the occasion to inform the public that his decision to withdraw from the campaign in July had been in response to a Republican dirty tricks campaign which had included a plan to smear his daughter through manufactured photographs and to disrupt her forthcoming wedding . |
| 9 | Referring to his decision to resign from the Cabinet over the Westland affair in January 1986 , he says : ‘ I made a statement that day making it clear that I was going to continue in active politics in any role the Conservative Party wanted . |
| 10 | He succeeded Corneliu Coposu , who had previously announced his decision to resign from the post . |
| 11 | Many commentators interpreted his decision to run for the council as a means of preserving his extensive political machine while also providing a platform within the city government from which he could launch a future mayoral bid . |
| 12 | The change from the propagandist playing his derivative educational theme throughout A New View of Society to the leader , however temporary , of a trade union movement already inspirationally Owenite and now ready on his prompting to aspire to the control of the means of production and provision , was profound . |
| 13 | A LOYALIST politician has admitted talking to Sinn Fein about his plans to travel into the heart of republican areas of Belfast . |
| 14 | Did 1973 respond to his plans to leapfrog into the elite who would be actually paid to drive ? |
| 15 | To ask the Secretary of State for Energy what are his plans to assist with the repair and protection of the electricity supply in the event of severe weather conditions . |
| 16 | Today , however , he used his privilege to check on the background of the child his wife idolized , more out of curiosity than any inclination to relax his stand against trying to procure the child for her . |
| 17 | As Richard Neustadt puts it , ‘ When one man shares authority with another , but does not gain or lose his job on the other 's whim , his willingness to act upon the urging of the other turns on whether he conceives the action right for him . ’ |
| 18 | A prodigious runner , Mehew 's pace and fitness give Rovers the appearance of playing 4-4-2 and 4-3-3 at the same time and his willingness to get into the penalty area has brought him four goals already this season . |
| 19 | He opened his mouth to shout at the Thing , and the walls exploded . |
| 20 | This afternoon , at Sadler 's Wells theatre , he begins his attempt to progress to the final of the world chess championship candidates matches . |
| 21 | We say that Dr. George Briant has been misguided in his attempt to delve into the mystery of human existence in the way he has . |
| 22 | Chuck was the first to recover , and when he pulled himself to his knees to peer across the plain , the closeness of the leading herd bull surprised him . |
| 23 | ‘ He 'll never get that , ’ said Gazzer flatly , heaving himself to his knees to look over the edge . |
| 24 | Michael Winner , on whose original story Likely Lads TV writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais based their script , had discovered , while studying at Cambridge University , a legal loophole that meant that ‘ borrowing ’ bicycles from his college to get to the office of the student newspaper Varsity , which he edited , did not constitute theft , although he was gated and sent down for two weeks . |
| 25 | He spoke of ‘ a new age , in which people can come together ’ , directed his administration to deal with the reorganization of pensions , housing , the improvements to maternity homes and the reorganization of the poor law . |
| 26 | Tremayne lent me his Volvo to go to the boatyard in the morning , reminding me before I set off that it was the day of the awards dinner at which he was to be honoured . |
| 27 | Despite carding his worst round of the championship , a two over par 74 , he held his nerve to see off the challenge of defending champion Eamonn Darcy over the testing K Club course . |
| 28 | It took seconds for his eyes to adjust to the gloom . |
| 29 | It took a few minutes for his eyes to adjust to the dimness , and he remained still , blinking hard , making out the man standing directly in front of him holding the shotgun , while on the stairs to his left another person — a woman ? — was also holding what looked like a small pistol on him . |
| 30 | At this stage it is sufficient to note his readiness to refer to the weakness and failings of his own religion which is a human construct and an expression of that which underlines all religions . |