Example sentences of "[to-vb] his [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To forestall his next movement ( such as his taking her in his arms ) Franca moved rapidly round the table , took a firm hold of his shoulder , and , as he instinctively lowered his head , kissed his hot blushing cheek . |
| 2 | ( b ) It sometimes makes it difficult for the historian to communicate his precise meaning . |
| 3 | He had the ability of good actors or teachers to communicate his own enthusiasm repeatedly , especially for his special subject , the history of architecture . |
| 4 | The Guv'nor used to brew his own beer in those days as most people did . ’ |
| 5 | In order to re-affirm his declared commitment to a liberal and secular state , Ben Ali retained Mohamed Charfi as Minister for National Education , Higher Education and Scientific Research ; fundamentalist students had demanded his resignation . |
| 6 | With his opening salvos the anti-pluralist has , if anything , merely forced his opponent to modify his own position somewhat , not to abandon it . |
| 7 | for a quote to preface his latest thesis |
| 8 | It took a peculiar collection of qualities to catch his mental eye . |
| 9 | He was expected to keep good order ; that is to say , to see that offenders were punished , that evil-doers went in fear of him , that disputes over land were settled in an orderly manner ; and personally to supervise his royal court . |
| 10 | He was expected to practise for several hours a day , but was entrusted to supervise his own timetable . |
| 11 | Towards the end of 1982 , Bernard was half-tempted to revive his old profession of writer and tackle a company history himself . |
| 12 | It was all he could do to spell his own name . |
| 13 | Not even the raids on the town 's three gay brothels brought forth a whisper of information about Surere 's whereabouts , and after four days of intensive hunting , over ground which included the Valley of the Great Tombs on the west bank of the river , Merymose began to think that perhaps , after all , the escaped political had done as he had told Huy he would , and left for the northern deserts to found his religious community . |
| 14 | Wilson 's decision to found his new union on his own north-east coast was not lacking in rationality . |
| 15 | SANKUKAI Some years after Tani established his style , history repeated itself and his senior student , Yoshinao Nanbu , left him to found his own school , developed from shukokai , called ‘ sankukai ’ . |
| 16 | Joachim eventually broke away from the Cistercians and retired to a lonely spot in Calabria where disciples gathered around him and he was given papal permission to found his own congregation . |
| 17 | Matilda was still only 25 and Geoffrey a mere 14 , but it was the wisest thing Henry I did in order to secure his dynastic survival ( after the disastrous loss of his heir when the White Ship sank with loss of all hands , leaving him only a single female heir ) . |
| 18 | He confessed that the monetary rewards are becoming obscene but feels it is worth risking ‘ burn-out ’ to secure his financial future . |
| 19 | He said his membership of the Legal Aid Foundation helped to secure his early release . |
| 20 | To secure his rear Scapula used the device of founding a colonia of retired veterans at Camulodunon and giving two British rulers the responsibility of maintaining the peace in their areas . |
| 21 | Whilst the partnership agreement may well expressly or by implication prohibit a partner from becoming involved in other ( non-competing ) business in an attempt to secure his full time devotion to the firm , breach of such provision will not result in the offending partner becoming accountable in respect of profits earned from that other business . |
| 22 | As premier earl , Harold was able to secure his own election to the throne , but was forced to defend it almost immediately against Scandinavian and Norman claimants . |
| 23 | The one certainty is that he has consistently sought to secure his own position , mostly by presenting himself as a sensible centrist between the extremes to his right and left . |
| 24 | Fearful that this might well be his last chance to secure his own future , he persisted , ‘ Do n't be afraid to strike out , Esther . |
| 25 | Even ‘ theoretical modernist ’ Sigmund Freud used friends of Hartel to secure his own career promotion . |
| 26 | And , better to secure his doubtful Rule , |
| 27 | But Greg says he did set out to irritate his former boss as he got there first with talks with RHM last May . |
| 28 | So I used to encourage his own poetry , and his ideas for poetic themes , even when I knew they were poor or did not interest me . |
| 29 | Then , too , she had felt rather shy of him since Christmas when he had given her the violets and had tried not to encourage his obvious interest in her . |
| 30 | His strong thighs tightened on her , keeping her in place , forcing her to accept his male domination . |