Example sentences of "[vb infin] his [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scholars ' president looks to famous ancestor The Rev. John Douglas will seek his inspiration from a famous ancestor when he returns to the Friends ' School at Great Ayton as president of the Old Scholars ' Association . |
| 2 | He returned home to Irvine but had already decided to emigrate and seek his fortune in Canada . |
| 3 | Todd , 43 , is keen on renewing a partnership forged at Ayresome Park and will seek his release from Bradford City . |
| 4 | I ask you dear friends to pray for me in this area for guidance , finance and I will seek his will in everything . ’ |
| 5 | The supplier will seek his profits in other markets , hoping that the volume at which he can operate in the contract market will make his product highly competitive in price and cost terms elsewhere . |
| 6 | But the wide expanses of Aintree should suit his type of jumping and if he produces the form he showed at Leopardstown then he 'll take all the beating . |
| 7 | His weight is further forward , but each passenger must suit his style to his driver 's technique . |
| 8 | He had the curious ability to erase , or at least pretend to erase , from his memory that which did not suit his idea of himself at the time . |
| 9 | The spectator has come for blood , but did not buy his ticket to be reminded of his own mortality . |
| 10 | He said he could not offer any explanation as to exactly what Mr McNeill meant by his remarks as that could prejudge his statements on Thursday . |
| 11 | He did not discuss his ordeal with Ranulf or the Prior , although he told them time and again that all was well and let them order his life , content to drift , think and reflect . |
| 12 | In The Periodic Table he mentions a woman ‘ dear to my heart ’ who was murdered at Auschwitz : but the book on Auschwitz does not discuss his relationship with her . |
| 13 | We did n't discuss his plans for the day , only mine , and those I presume are hardly of interest to you . ’ |
| 14 | On his return , he will discuss his future with manager Lennie Lawrence . |
| 15 | Paradoxically the woman is also inside the bottle offered but inaccessible ; thus the spectator/consumer can only quench his desire by reading the magazine . |
| 16 | A Yorkshireman ( so who could doubt his knowledge of cricket ? ) |
| 17 | Cynics might doubt his commitment to social security , as he introduced himself as the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry ( his previous job ) , but in his usual good-humoured style , Frank Field simply thanked him and said they would recommend him to Downing Street for a new job because of his social security knowledge . |
| 18 | As he explains : ‘ The Deity does not need my supplication , but I , a very imperfect human being , do need his protection as a child that of its father . ’ |
| 19 | He was a callous brute , and if she did n't need his protection on the journey to Winchester she would n't care if he bled to … |
| 20 | And for their inspirational captain and star batsman to see himself so early as a lonely figure of torment , when England will need his strengths in the weeks to come , does not bode well . |
| 21 | He might have destroyed Arabella 's letters to Newley , but he could n't rid his memory of their contents . |
| 22 | We must respect his moods of abstraction . ’ |
| 23 | He felt it was possible and he opted to at least try to stay out of the glitterama ; and , as the movie industry would soon learn , this cool-headed assessment of the way he hoped his career would pan out would soon include his rejection of many scripts including The Godfather , The Sting and The Great Gatsby . |
| 24 | We can track his spoor through the Letters . |
| 25 | When inspired by Tchaikovsky 's Fifth Symphony to create Les Frésages ( 1933 ) , Massine took a theme which proposed that Man would win his struggle against fate if he had Action , Love and Frivolity on his side . |
| 26 | The release of dissident Fang Lizhi in June 1990 [ see above ] was an important symbolic gesture and helped Bush win his battle with congressional critics who had been attempting to block the renewal of China 's most-favoured-nation ( MFN ) trading status . |
| 27 | So , too , was runner-up Chris Platts , who shot a fine final round 68 to finish two shots clear of David Jones , Roger Winchester — who did win his card at the Qualifying School — and local player S. Okpe . |
| 28 | He 's in the top 30 and should win his class in his first ever RAC Rally . |
| 29 | The powerful Goellner , 6ft 5in , put out Petr Korda in Paris last month to help boost his ranking to 34 , but showed at Queen 's last week that he has a game for grass . |
| 30 | Wigan 's David Grindley can boost his chances of winning the European Cup 400 metres spot if he can produce a fast run tonight against Olympic bronze medallist Samson Kitur . |