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Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " 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	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 .
5	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 .
6	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 .
7	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 .
8	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 .
9	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 .
10	Defending his decision to meet with the South African delegation he said the conversation had dwelt on the future and potential business investment in the country .
11	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 .
12	He succeeded Corneliu Coposu , who had previously announced his decision to resign from the post .
13	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 .
14	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 .
15	Ollokot had expected to meet Howard and receive his permission to settle on the Umatilla Agency rather than Lapwai .
16	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 .
17	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 .
18	Once he had taken that view he abdicated , albeit unconsciously , his responsibility to rule on the submissions made .
19	He even expressed his willingness to act for the police in the future , if needed .
20	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 . ’
21	Tesfaye Gebre Kidan continued to appeal for a ceasefire and to impress on foreign ambassadors his willingness to negotiate with the rebels .
22	His willingness to get into the crowds earned points .
23	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 .
24	That he takes his job seriously is borne out by his willingness to worry about the Higgs boson .
25	He opened his mouth to shout at the Thing , and the walls exploded .
26	This afternoon , at Sadler 's Wells theatre , he begins his attempt to progress to the final of the world chess championship candidates matches .
27	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 .
28	The General , scenting victor , turned his horse to search for the infantry Colonel who had refused to attack the bridge and whose military career was therefore finished .
29	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 .
30	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 .