Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ACTOR Tom Conti is doing his bit to help the ailing economy by buying only British goods . |
| 2 | Carter had advocated deregulation , but he approached reform via legislation whereas his successor sought the same end primarily through administrative action . |
| 3 | Siome news in brief — the fatal accident inquiry into drug deaths in Glasgow has just ended with the sheriff telling the parents of the victim that while he understood their feelings of helplessness and grief , it was n't his function to hold the general inquiry into the misuse of drugs . |
| 4 | He believed in the chain of command : he communicated with civil servants through their ministers and ( with occasional exceptions ) with ministers through the prime minister ; and he did not regard it as his function to supervise the actual process of implementing decisions . |
| 5 | Jeffrey was refused help with the prescription for his inhaler because the Department of Health said his income exceeded the required level . |
| 6 | But he was in a sense revivified : his heart withstood the weakening effect of his illnesses much better than it had done in the same period of the previous year , and this was the first winter for some time when he had not been forced to seek treatment in a clinic . |
| 7 | His opportunity to counter the French threat came in the Low Countries , an area which had witnessed English intervention against France almost half a century earlier . |
| 8 | His opportunity to bring the two threads together as a writer came in the early 1980s through the radical London magazine City Limits — which also gave WCM regular Rob Steen his first break as a cricket-writer . |
| 9 | As far as William was concerned , seizing the English throne was just one move in his struggle to resist the growing power of France that had already lasted twenty years and would take up the whole of the rest of his life . |
| 10 | Hodge was frequently criticised by contemporaries for his inability to grasp the finer points of the problems confronting him and for reacting in too blunt a manner . |
| 11 | Whereas the satiric intentions of Divorce Italian Style were pointed and comic , Alfredo Alfredo gets unduly preachy as Dustin and his mistress join the four-year fight to change the Italian law on divorce . |
| 12 | It was a passing glimpse , since there was nothing else from the chest down , his pull spinning the lightened torso around , almost weightless in the water . |
| 13 | But promising newcomer Victor Ubogu has taken his shirt leaving the older hand desperate to push his case for the Barbarians against the world champions , Australia . |
| 14 | Paige 's arms slid around his neck , one hand running sensually through the thick mat of hair at his nape , the other gliding beneath his robe to caress the muscled strength of his shoulders . |
| 15 | She stepped back with remarkable alacrity , but Jackson was quicker , using his foot to halt the closing door . |
| 16 | Were his money worries the main source of his anxiety ? |
| 17 | His decision resolved the confused inactivity . |
| 18 | He wondered , morbidly introspective in the cold light of dawn , whether his decision to see the next murder case through from the call to the scene of crime to the trial had really arisen from a desire to learn or merely from a craven wish to impress or , worse , to propitiate , his staff , to show them that he valued their skills , that he wanted to be one of the team . |
| 19 | We talked of toxic wastes ; the possibility of there ever being true democracy in Tonga ( ‘ on paper the place is ripe for revolution , it is true , and our friends in the other islands are experiencing troubled times , so we must be wary ’ ) ; the complaints about corruption among the Tongan nobility , the curious business arrangements engineered between members of the royal family and the dubious Americans who were forever fetching up at the palace doorstep wishing to bend a royal ear to this scheme or that , with wealth and fame for all ; and the most surprising news : his decision to demolish the royal palace . |
| 20 | Once he has come reasonably to the conclusion that this will happen , the question whether his decision to issue the particular instructions that he gave was a reasonable one in the circumstances is subject to a further test of reasonableness . |
| 21 | This perception was heightened by his decision to focus the closing stages of his campaign not in the crucial mid-west " swing states " — those states which he had to win in order to retain his hold on the White House — but in an attempt to shore up his support in hitherto safe Republican states such as Florida , a pattern of behaviour widely seen as indicative of his desire to avoid being defeated by a landslide . |
| 22 | ‘ Winning only one Bledisloe Cup in my eight years and , of course , South Africa were factors ’ , Farr-Jones says of his decision to add the 53rd cap he won at Twickenham . |
| 23 | A devastating second run worthy of Ingemar Stenmark in his prime reversed the one-second lead of Ole-Christian Furuseth for victory by half a second with a two-run aggregate of 2 minutes 7.41 seconds . |
| 24 | His skin had the golden sheen of an eagle 's plumage … skin but not quite skin — oh yes ! thought Grainne , drowning in delight now . |
| 25 | His story mirrors the gifted boy in Jodie Foster 's 1991 film Little Man Tate , who became depressed about the world 's problems by the age of seven . |
| 26 | Meanwhile that one Catholic entertained the hope that his freedom to defend the Copernican system might yet be restored . |
| 27 | The divisional inspector of lifeboats for Scotland South , Tony Course , said : ‘ The courage displayed in his willingness to undertake the dangerous passage is exemplary , and the skill and determination of all crew members during this arduous service is a lifeboat with a partially exposed wheelhouse are worthy of the highest praise . ’ |
| 28 | His hair brushed the splintery floorboards . |
| 29 | ‘ The shout of ‘ Freeze ’ from the door and the sight of the big crew-cut man crouched over a Colt.45 aimed straight at his chest caused the burly man to stop . |
| 30 | Why did she feel no embarrassment or fear at letting her fingers trace down the hair-roughened muscles of his chest to skim the flat planes of his stomach and then move on ? |