Example sentences of "[vb pp] his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same interests have dominated his 10 years at Westminster , and it is claimed that he has redistributed more than £60 million from the taxpayer to the poor by challenging the DHSS in test cases . |
| 2 | K-9 ( 12 ) , which stars James Belushi , hints at the less than glittering screen career that might have awaited his elder brother , had he lived . |
| 3 | Nigel Lawson may have won his prime minister the 1987 election , but it has become ever more clear that he let his boom run on too long and too strong thereafter . |
| 4 | Albert King , the former finance director of Yorkshire-based kitchen retailers Magnet Group , has won his three-year battle against wrongful dismissal . |
| 5 | THE golfer Sandy Lyle has won his first contract to design an 18-hole championship course , about 25 miles from Berlin . |
| 6 | He had steadily improved his performance in the shadow of Jochen Rindt and , with Rindt 's death at Monza in 1970 , he had inherited the mantle of Number One driver and , by 1972 , had won his first championship at Lotus . |
| 7 | JOHN MAJOR anxiously awaits , but John Lukic has already won his European vote of confidence from Leeds United team-mates convinced he can still take them to Champions Cup fame and fortune against Rangers tonight . |
| 8 | Says David : ‘ That was at York four years ago when he was won his ninth race of the season . |
| 9 | Last month he announced he had won his eight-year battle to save Stamford Bridge from property developers . |
| 10 | There 's John Toshack , who has won his managerial spurs with Spain 's top clubs , at 6-1 and former boss Kenny Dalglish — now a hit at Blackburn — quoted 8-1 . |
| 11 | THE father of a two-year-old boy suffering from a rare genetic disorder must wait to learn whether he has won his High Court battle over the controversial closure of a London hospital 's bone marrow transplant unit . |
| 12 | There was a feeling that Mill House might just be coming out of the doldrums : he had won his last race , beating his solitary rival at Sandown Park for the princely sum of £426 , and appeared to be coming back to his old self . |
| 13 | ‘ Pay Homage should have won his last race at Goodwood and he 's been in fine form all year , ’ Ian said . |
| 14 | He had won his own victory . |
| 15 | Now that Mr Major has won his own mandate , it is important to understand that , though the Conservative Party has sometimes been successful because it has stolen the Labour Party 's clothes , this is not the reason for its success on this occasion . |
| 16 | But a few weeks earlier he had tentatively approached his departmental head to point out that the qualification which had got him his original interview was a first-class degree in French and Spanish , and that perhaps these abilities might be harnessed to the service of the business . |
| 17 | Had Hoving 's reign been marked by only these highlights , he would have richly earned his self-appointed title as the ‘ crusading force ’ in American museums in the twentieth century . |
| 18 | The head strategist of Nomura International has earned his Japanese firm a fortune with his brilliant dealing . |
| 19 | Cooksley was 21 last Saturday , Turner is 24 and Bunce has earned his first cap at 30 . |
| 20 | Then , after he had earned his professional ticket , he reached the final of the 1989 Asian Open in Bangkok — and caused the evening news bulletin to be delayed by prime ministerial decree . |
| 21 | certainly has earned his few quid tonight , about to take this goal kick , we 're inside the final minute of what has been a very good first half for the third division side , one goal each . |
| 22 | Galbraith 's The Affluent Society was published in 1958 , shortly after Macmillan had reminded his fellow countrymen that they had ‘ never had it so good ’ . |
| 23 | It 's Paula who has curbed his roving eye . |
| 24 | The voice which had charmed his early hearers grew hoarse . |
| 25 | Cleaning ship , and worrying about the visits of intending purchasers , occupied his entire horizon . |
| 26 | If a farmer dies having occupied his agricultural property for a period of at least two years , no inheritance tax is payable . |
| 27 | This pursuit of around 700 life histories occupied his spare time for years : ‘ I spent 10 years in Nottingham library going through the old newspapers and noting every reference to cricket up to 1880 . |
| 28 | Business interests in the music industry occupied his later years . |
| 29 | Since his retirement books and his garden occupied his whole interest . |
| 30 | Given that Paisley 's ability to predict political events had always been a major part of his public image , one would have expected the electorate to turn against him , especially when he had committed his personal prestige to the extent of offering to resign if the strike did not change British policy . |