Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | His hair brushed the splintery floorboards . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 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 | Ben the actor appeared beside them and started his piece , and I saw Filmer turn a bland face towards him and watched his mouth shape the unmistakable words , ‘ Go away . ’ |
| 9 | Major Vine curbed his horse to watch the ten companies march past . |
| 10 | In the course of this success he also travelled abroad on at least two occasions : in 1787 he visited Paris , where his youngest brother , the inventor and pamphleteer William Playfair [ q.v. ] , was then the agent of the Scioto Land Company of Ohio — and for whom he later made abortive designs for an ideal ‘ American City ’ — while in 1792–3 he was in Italy , where his itinerary included the Greek temples of Paestum . |
| 11 | His chapter reviewing the thirty years controversy that had followed Murchison 's work demonstrates Horne 's judicial cast of mind , as the strengths and weaknesses of the opposing views are clearly set out . |
| 12 | Along with the ending of the " Period of Rebellion " President Lee also formally announced the termination of the " Temporary Provisions " ( effective during the " rebellion " ) and promulgated a number of major amendments to the country 's Constitution [ see p. 37917 for President Lee 's December 1990 announcement of his intention to rescind the Temporary Provisions and also for Kuomintang approval of a constitutional reform package ] . |
| 13 | Following the formal election of Kim , Lee gave notice of his intention to contest the presidential elections as an independent . |
| 14 | He was leaning comfortably into the corner of his seat reading the unmistakable pages of the London Financial Times . |
| 15 | It is interesting that Lord Denning in concluding his interview chose the dying words of John of Gaunt from Shakespeare 's Richard II to foretell the decline of Britain into what he believes is a ‘ tenement ’ of Europe . |
| 16 | Colonel Graham Seaton Hutchinson , and his National Worker Party , also fizzled out ; his proposal to merge the two groups into the British Empire Fascist Party probably collapsed when the BF realized that the National Worker Party was aptly named . |
| 17 | A further campaign development occurred on June 28 when Lee Jong Chan announced that he had abandoned his plan to contest the presidential elections as an independent candidate . |
| 18 | In addition to his work promoting the Contagious Diseases Acts , in the 1860s he also served on the Parliamentary Bills Committee of the British Medical Association , helping to draft legislation on habitual drunkenness , infant mortality and the examination and registration of midwives . |
| 19 | We are told the new C-in-C vetoed the suggestion from the outset and , in the absence of evidence from the archives , this is surely inconsistent with his demand for the agreed build-up of the Command , his determination to shed the twin-engined bombers in favour of four-engined Stirlings , Halifaxes and Lancasters , and his bitter and seemingly endless feud with the Navy ( and , to a lesser degree , the Army ) about the " milking " of his Command . |
| 20 | Demand for his services exceeded his capacity to meet the many requests and in the second year of the scheme he acquired a car to provide greater mobility . |
| 21 | At this edict , the leviathan disappeared to the depths of the oceans , while the behemoth lay down to sleep , the mighty folds of his body becoming the Himalayan mountains . |
| 22 | Isaiah Berlin has pointed to the uncertainty in Marx 's attitude to this ‘ the most central of all the concepts of his system ’ and to his failure to reconcile the two views he expresses : the one , that in unalienated labour there is perfect freedom for the fullest realisation of human potential and happiness ; the other , that ‘ the need for this minimum of toil is an inescapable fact of physical nature which it is mere Utopianism to hope to conjure away ’ . |
| 23 | The major one is his failure to recognise the positive aspects of nationalism and ethnicity . |
| 24 | While his job lacks the other features of the policeman 's work which lead to social isolation ( cf. |
| 25 | He is angry , bitter , obsessive in his need to name the guilty men . |
| 26 | His move secures the 14 jobs at the site and keeps the famous A3 landmark alive . |
| 27 | The discovery was a direct outcome of the interest of Dr Bevan Reid ( Reader in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Sydney University 's Queen Elizabeth II Research Centre for Mothers and Infants ) in the cause of cancer , and his aim to resolve the many questions surrounding the problem . |
| 28 | We are also deeply opposed to the violence of the Western response , the initiation of war before all alternative possibilities had been exhausted , the way in which the presentation of his war conceals the real effects upon civilian society an the manipulation of the United Nations on behalf of a small number of states , instead of an instrument of peace and security on behalf of the whole world community . |
| 29 | John Calambokidis , who runs the non-profit marine-mammal organisation Cascadia Research , based in nearby Olympia , says that 1991 was the year that his team saw the most whales come in to Puget Sound , and stay the longest . |
| 30 | In his eagerness to escape the encroaching flames , he worked the action and fired three times in rapid succession . |