Example sentences of "his [noun pl] [vb past] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later , his employers decided to reduce the number of staff employed . |
| 2 | However , it was Mr Deerey who resigned after his calls failed to gain the support of the local YC executive , which included Chalmers 's brother and brother-in-law . |
| 3 | Whereas Philip V succeeded ( where two hundred years of Hapsburg effort had failed ) in dismantling the political institutions that gave Catalonia , Valencia , and Aragon a quasi-independent status his successors failed to diminish the fueros of the Basque Provinces — Guipúzcoa , Vizcaya , Alava — and of Navarre . |
| 4 | The Scots claim that Malcolm offered homage only in respect of his holdings in Cumbria and the largely anglicized Lothian ; William and his successors chose to interpret the acknowledgement as embracing all Scotland . |
| 5 | HEAVY fighting broke out in at least three districts of Panama City yesterday , as General Noriega and his supporters continued to defy the bogged-down 24,000 US invasion force with bitter resistance . |
| 6 | All day long at the Janata Dal officers in Amethi yesterday , Mr Jain and his supporters scrambled to update the list of party workers and activists who were beaten up by Congress I supporters — many of them in the presence of a senior police officer . |
| 7 | His eyes widened to accentuate the point and reprimand Blanche for thinking that he was straying from the matter in hand . |
| 8 | The man 's pale blue eyes peered into the fog and his ears strained to catch the sound of approaching footsteps . |
| 9 | When one of his clients asked to buy the pen , Waterman was in business . |
| 10 | According to foreign news reports the split was essentially over whether the south should secede ; the dissident group favoured an independent black state , while Garang and his loyalists continued to support the goal of a united , secular Sudan . |
| 11 | He was using a modern style of movement therefore the rise and fall of his design had far greater dimensions and therefore greater emotional content , His dancers had to parallel the sonorities of Fauré 's solemn ritual of mourning . |
| 12 | Andy Roxburgh , the Scotland coach , broke the mould in the wake of Wednesday 's reverse in Paris by admitting both he and his players had to accept the blame for a defeat which jeopardises Scotland 's chances of playing in a fifth successive World Cup finals . |
| 13 | Under these circumstances , Sainteny and his colleagues seemed to offer the possibility of an insurance policy . |
| 14 | His colleagues vowed to win the race again in his honour . |
| 15 | His amours seemed to upset the cooking . |