Example sentences of "[vb pp] his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Albert King , the former finance director of Yorkshire-based kitchen retailers Magnet Group , has won his three-year battle against wrongful dismissal . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Last month he announced he had won his eight-year battle to save Stamford Bridge from property developers . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The head strategist of Nomura International has earned his Japanese firm a fortune with his brilliant dealing . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | It 's Paula who has curbed his roving eye . |
| 13 | The voice which had charmed his early hearers grew hoarse . |
| 14 | Cleaning ship , and worrying about the visits of intending purchasers , occupied his entire horizon . |
| 15 | If a farmer dies having occupied his agricultural property for a period of at least two years , no inheritance tax is payable . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Since his retirement books and his garden occupied his whole interest . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | His removal to the USA was a violation of Panamanian law prohibiting the extradition of its nationals , and , as a foreigner who had committed his alleged crimes outside the USA , the US claim to jurisdiction to try Noriega was far from certain , although some legal experts suggested that sufficient precedents existed to circumvent any such defence . |
| 20 | My apologies , ’ she grinned , aware that she 'd wounded his massive ego . |
| 21 | ‘ He 's forgotten his early life as Peter Pan and put all the energy into his work that he used to put into Neverland . |
| 22 | Oh he 's forgotten his cool dude glasses . |
| 23 | Referees are so trusting that at one recent international a player who had forgotten his reserve boots showed the ref the physio 's pair — three sizes too small and with moulded studs ! |
| 24 | But the Prince seems to have forgotten his youthful adventures . |
| 25 | For a moment Seb had forgotten his sprained ankle but it reminded him in no uncertain fashion when he tried to put his full weight on it . |
| 26 | Brian seemed to have forgotten his previous bias against older nannies . |
| 27 | He had almost forgotten his previous dislike of Dickens , carried away by the opportunities for rhetoric that the Great Man was so unexpectedly granting him . |
| 28 | Gwendolen was bright red , having forgotten his unfortunate presence . |
| 29 | And then , for the first time in his place of birth , he read The Dry Salvages which opens with the Mississippi , the river which had so impressed his childish imagination . |
| 30 | I wondered for a moment about this strange near-miss , and what a trout might be doing crossing the road , until I saw a fisherman standing aside , who can only have dropped his slippery catch on the roadway and was waiting to recapture it . |