Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [to-vb] him [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a gladiator 's performance that again calls into question Manchester United 's decision to sell him for £750,000 in the close season . |
| 2 | Anfield has quickly taken to the midfielder and manager Graeme Souness 's decision to replace him with Michael Thomas during Tuesday 's match with Southampton was greeted by a chorus of boos . |
| 3 | Stuart Harper ( Points of View , 6 February ) welcomes the Government 's decision to provide him with data on examination results so that he can use it to make decisions on schools in ‘ the Government 's market-place for education . ’ |
| 4 | BARRY FRY wants to put Stan Flashman through the wringer by forcing the man dubbed ‘ Fat Stan ’ to account for yesterday 's decision to sack him as Barnet manager before an industrial tribunal . |
| 5 | Sula was by birth a Manghutt princess , and she had lived under sentence of banishment until her son 's accession to the Dragon Throne for her part in her family 's attempt to install him as Kha-Khan while his grandfather Arjun yet ruled . |
| 6 | At all events , King Malcolm 's immediate reaction to Rufus 's refusal to see him at Gloucester was to go straight to Wilton , tear the veil off Matilda 's head , and take her back to Scotland . |
| 7 | And they 'd need to hold a gun to Piggott 's head to keep him in hospital a day — no an hour — longer than strictly necessary . |
| 8 | ‘ I thought , ’ she said , ignoring her father 's advice to treat him with kid gloves , ‘ not that it 's any business of yours , that I might potter into Nice for the day . ’ |
| 9 | Stealing from the camp one night with only his rifle and iron rations , wading the river at the border , finding a sympathetic ship 's captain to take him to Sweden , working there for a while and then making his way down through Poland and Germany and the rest of Europe , village by village , shtetl by shtetl , always moving west , America the ultimate goal , until he reached Cork . |
| 10 | It was something apparently irrelevant that had enough secret bearing on Albert 's situation to push him into action . |
| 11 | Grant got the impression that Larsen must have been waiting for his signal , like a sprinter crouched in his blocks waiting for the starter 's gun to launch him into motion . |