Example sentences of "[noun prp] he [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Leiden he met his lifelong friend and correspondent , the Dutch poet and diplomat , Constantine Huygens . |
| 2 | Each Tuesday he meets his unelected Cabinet , the Executive Council , and they approve — ‘ rubber stamp ’ is how critics describe it — legislation passed on by the Civil Service . |
| 3 | From Hegel he derives his basic manner of thinking , asserting the primacy of experience . |
| 4 | In Hungary he got his first win — by almost a lap over the entire field — and in Belgium last week he did it again , although not without some drama . |
| 5 | Good news and bad news for local jockey Richard Dunwoody he reached his century of winners this week but now leads the championship by just six |
| 6 | In December he became a cardinal ; and the following February he followed his old master de Gasparri as Secretary of State . |
| 7 | The next February he awakened his bride from her melancholy sleep and carried her over to the window , where , on looking out , she saw the landscape covered in white . |
| 8 | On 8 December he told his ministers that he had blundered by treating the election as a referendum and would not make the same mistake again . |
| 9 | On 4 December he took his leave of the observers from other Churches in a prayer service which scandalized a number of the bishops because it breached the old rules against communicatio in sacris . |
| 10 | In May he prepared his own aircraft for flight from the local farm . |
| 11 | In May he took his protest to the rooftop of Long Lartin prison in Worcesterhsire . |
| 12 | By January Waites was practising his putting , in April he walked his first 18 holes over his own club at Hollinwell and in May he played his first round , shooting a 78 . |
| 13 | On 23 May he read his poetry at the National Gallery in Washington , to an audience which included St John Perse , all the time " keeping behind horn-rimmed spectacles an almost unchanging expression " . |
| 14 | Secure in the backing of an army corps and a party in Madrid the king refused to recognize the authority of the Regency ; on 4 May he published his first decree declaring the work of the Cortes null and void and adopting a modification of the Persian programme . |
| 15 | Walter de Maria has always rummaged about in the realm of the mystical and this month at Gagosian ( downtown ) until 9 May he shows his ‘ 5–7–9 ’ series , betraying a continued interest in numbers and , according to the gallery , psychic phenomenona . |
| 16 | During three weeks ' leave in England he resigned his Trinity scholarship and made a conscious decision to return to Spain for the duration of the war . |
| 17 | Destined for a distinguished career in the Church of England he lost his hearing through illness within four years of his ordination . |
| 18 | Back at his home near Florence he completed his book on hydrostatics , in which it is interesting to see that he was nonplussed by the fact that a thin flake of ebony , though denser than water would nevertheless float . |
| 19 | In Cape Town he met his wife , Beatrix Powell , daughter of Robert William Hazell , medical practitioner in Cape Town . |
| 20 | ‘ But he 's unusually shy and when he first arrived from Millwall he felt his price tag was a burden . |
| 21 | He won the Two Thousand Guineas on Shotover for John Porter of Kingsclere in 1882 and on Shotover he won his only Derby , also in 1882 . |
| 22 | At Grassgill Beck he brak his neck , |
| 23 | When he came back to Russia he shed his aliases . |
| 24 | When he did n't like the bedroom furniture in his penthouse suite at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami he ordered his bodyguards to throw the offending furniture out , according to his former bodyguard Andy Celentano , who said , ‘ One time he took a dislike to the piano . |
| 25 | ( 11 May 1768 ) In July he expressed his anger more strongly : |
| 26 | In July he saw his party make history when it won the first governorship conceded by the ruling party in 60 years . |
| 27 | When the Collector mentioned this to Dr McNab he shook his head and said : " Aye , the poor man has a way to go yet before he 'll be sound . " |
| 28 | You see when we had those men in Chesham and Joey he did his nut when we |
| 29 | ‘ Of course , Mr Flowerdew he put his hand out and took hold of the hair ; and the horse nearly went berserk . |
| 30 | At Streatham and Liverpool in November he made his mark , observed by the Fascist apologist A. K. Chesterton ( cousin of G. K. Chesterton ) who recorded in his own life of Mosley that it was William Joyce who was the ‘ brilliant writer , speaker , and exponent of policy … addressed hundreds of meetings , always at his best , always revealing the iron spirit of Fascism in his refusal to be intimidated by violent opposition . ’ |