Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His rhetoric acknowledged the end of the Cold War , but his actions or lack of them spoke volumes about his inability to throw off the attitudes and beliefs that have shaped his entire political life . |
| 2 | However , since the presence of the deceased on the premises was in direct contravention of an express instruction issued by the brewery to their manager , the brewery were not liable ; his permission to remain on the premises had ceased at closing time , 10.30 p.m . |
| 3 | Once he had taken that view he abdicated , albeit unconsciously , his responsibility to rule on the submissions made . |
| 4 | He even expressed his willingness to act for the police in the future , if needed . |
| 5 | Tesfaye Gebre Kidan continued to appeal for a ceasefire and to impress on foreign ambassadors his willingness to negotiate with the rebels . |
| 6 | His willingness to get into the crowds earned points . |
| 7 | SOUTH AFRICA 'S first non-white Test cricketer claimed last night he has been the victim of death threats in his bid to break through the barriers of apartheid . |
| 8 | Roseau 's appeal to members of his association to vote for the Gaullists carried considerable weight . |
| 9 | Adam craned his neck to look after the others . |
| 10 | When he set out today it had been his intention to make for the hills bordering the Golden Valley , but when he got through Blakemere the sweat was dripping from his chin and the sight of a stream tinkling its way not three yards from the road automatically brought his legs off the pedals . |
| 11 | Mr Justice Connell 's inquiry , set up by the Jockey Club , refused to accept Mr Evans ' evidence that on both occasions he waved his flag to signal to the riders that the race had been stopped . |
| 12 | Mr Justice Connell 's inquiry , set up by the Jockey Club , refused to accept Mr Evans 's evidence that on both occasions he waved his flag to signal to the riders that the race had been stopped . |
| 13 | Mr Justice Connell 's inquiry , set up by the Jockey Club , refused to accept Mr Evans ' evidence that on both occasions he waved his flag to signal to the riders that the race had been stopped . |
| 14 | A. H. Halsey , David Donnison , John Vaizey , Noel Annan , and Michael Young were among those whom he invited to his home to argue about the strategies and , but only after they had worked , to enjoy his hospitality : ‘ People become much too talkative if you give them something to drink . ’ |
| 15 | Agency staff sometimes question themselves about a discharger 's economic position and his capacity to comply with the parameters and limits which they would ideally like to impose . |
| 16 | Trapped between twin terrors , he allowed his body to sink within the folds of jackets and overcoats . |
| 17 | On 27th November 1974 , on a Complaint by the Council of the Law Society of Scotland , the Solicitors ' Discipline ( Scotland ) Committee found John Duncan Haward Soper , Solicitor , 48 Great King Street , Edinburgh , guilty of professional misconduct in respect of his failure to discharge his joint and several responsibility along with his former partner to keep proper books of a trust and in respect of his failure to comply with the provisions of Rule 4 ( 1 ) ( a ) of the Solicitors ' ( Scotland ) Accounts Rules , 1952 , as amended . |
| 18 | Although it had come as a shock , for he had never made it his business to enquire into the ramifications of his family , he had found a morbid humour in the situation . |
| 19 | Pizan writes : ‘ When he was occupied by some task and not at leisure to present his lectures to his students , he would send Novella , his daughter , in his place to lecture to the students from his chair . ’ |
| 20 | Earlier Romantic interests in dream , haunting and death were revivified by Odilon Redon 's lithographs and drawings and transposed into a mawkish fascination with human decollation and disembodiment ( a prescient subject of much Surrealist interest later ) , witness perhaps of his desire to escape from the strictures of the body where only material limitation and disease existed — the concerns of eschatology , sexuality and mysticism certainly haunted Redon as they do so much Symbolist thought . |
| 21 | In the 1880s Salisbury 's ‘ enemy ’ had been ‘ radical Liberalism ’ and his aim to bring over the Whigs and ‘ Villa ’ Liberals . |
| 22 | Again it is unnecessary for him to explain his reluctance to respond in the circumstances to the hope of this reviewer that he would again delight us with an introduction of the wide sweep of brilliance with which he embellished Volume II . |
| 23 | If Mr. Tully has good grounds for exercising the privilege against self-incrimination , then his refusal to comply with the orders for disclosure and discovery made by Buckley J. may have the effect of assisting Mr. Tully to escape prosecution and punishment for a crime and also the effect of assisting Mr. Tully and others to keep money which belongs to Abbey . |
| 24 | He maintained his refusal to comment on the polls , and remained adamant he would never do deals on proportional representation . |
| 25 | She 's coming up tonight , she 's getting what 's his name to look after the boys and she 's coming up |
| 26 | He turned his head to check on the others . |
| 27 | ROS : That 's it — pale sky before dawn , a man standing on his saddle to bang on the shutters — shouts — What 's all the row about ? ! |
| 28 | An awakening , a man standing on his saddle to bang on the shutters , our names shouted in a certain dawn , a message , a summons … |
| 29 | Mr Browning was no less solicitous but she read exasperation in his advice to turn from the Gospels to the Psalms , ‘ which may have a calming influence ’ . |
| 30 | At one point , instead of offering orders or advice , he jumped off his bench to hollow from the sidelines : ‘ What the ***** going on out there ? ’ |