Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adj] his [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In certain running-down cases , however , a defendant should be asked to make discovery ( eg latent defect cases , where the plaintiff may want to see all his maintenance and servicing records ; accidents alleged to have been caused by sudden and unexpected illness or death , where the plaintiff wants to see the medical records ; and of course claims in nuisance against highway authorities and their contractors , where discovery can often reveal breaches of prescribed safety codes and bad accident records ) . |
| 2 | Jim never escapes the torment of self-doubt , even when in the remote kingdom of Patusan he has given all his energy and his intelligence , as well as his physical courage , to settling internal feuds and establishing prosperity — when , in fact , he has become to his people ‘ Lord Jim ’ . |
| 3 | In a systematic study of his own dream life Freud tried to relate all his dreams to feelings and thoughts experienced the previous day . |
| 4 | He is able to draw on a wealth of experience and he has attacked all his duties with surprisingly youthful enthusiasm , tempered with a great deal of patience . |
| 5 | 3.14 There is a head of damage which is sometimes called the loss of amenities ; the man made blind by the accident will no longer be able to see the familiar things he has seen all his life ; the man who has had both legs removed and will never again go upon his walking excursions — things of that kind — loss of amenities ( per Birkett LJ in Manley v Rugby Portland Cement Co Ltd , a decision of the Court of Appeal in 1951 ) . |
| 6 | A boy who during the vicious war in Liberia , has seen first his mother and then his father , his two elder brothers and his two elder sisters , savagely assassinated in front of his eyes by the guerrilla troops . |
| 7 | Diversity is what he has sought all his life . |
| 8 | My hon. Friend has made clear his regret at the job losses at British Aerospace . |
| 9 | PC says ‘ thanks ’ : A police officer injured last week when he was allegedly rammed by a car , has thanked all his well-wishers . |
| 10 | When the opera is finished , it is rehearsed and if these stupid Frenchmen do not like it , it is not performed — and the composer has had all his trouble for nothing . |
| 11 | ‘ I certainly ca n't think of anyone who has got all his attributes ’ . |
| 12 | Nigel Colborn 's series on Creative Planting on BBC2 's Gardeners ' World has provided plenty of inspiration , and now he has drawn all his ideas together for a special feature in this issue . |
| 13 | and it refused it , and it should , the woman did n't obviously did n't know what to do , she was as embarrassed as had to get the manager so by this time Brian has packed all his bags up |
| 14 | ‘ He is determined to try to give all his evidence but he is most certainly fighting a race against time . |
| 15 | The boy who nursed his dying mum has devoted all his life to the destitute |
| 16 | Based at Stanford-le-Hope , he has spent all his working life in road haulage , joining P&O in 1989 . |
| 17 | Dan McSweeney ( above , left ) has spent all his working life in the shipping industry . |
| 18 | An expert pharmacologist may not be subject to the authority of the government in matters of the safety of drugs , an inhabitant of a little village by a river may not be subject to its authority in matters of navigation and conservation of the river by the banks of which he has spent all his life . |
| 19 | He has Hungary 's second highest academic title in Marxist philosophy , has spent half his life teaching and disseminating the official ideology , and is one of the leaders of the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party , which calls itself the ‘ vanguard of the working class ’ . |
| 20 | A standard term of GIT insurance requires a haulier to confirm to his insurance company that he has notified all his customers of the conditions of carriage , |
| 21 | Maslow wrote that beauty is the last aim of man ; for when he has fulfilled all his drives and ambitions and has achieved self realization and creativity and success in his own eyes , there remains only this last aim of beauty . |
| 22 | But to win , he knows he has to beat first his team-mate Alain Prost who is keen to return to winning ways and regain the leadership of the championship and also overcome the tremendous challenge of Ayrton Senna . |
| 23 | For example , an employer who has allowed all his employees access to information or has entrusted it to the least skilled may find the court unsympathetic . |
| 24 | A new version of another old favourite was : ‘ Rudolph the red-faced banker , /Made a very big mistake , / Tried to screw all his clients , /Something they refused to take . ’ |
| 25 | It is a cause for chagrin , not satisfaction , that Serafin has rejected all his advice . |
| 26 | Father will pay you , or if he has lost all his money , Peter will pay you when he is a man . |
| 27 | Teacher ( in role ) goes to them to seek advice : " Melric , our magician , has lost all his magic ; and we do n't know how to do anything . |
| 28 | He has lost half his hair , and that which is left could use a comb . |
| 29 | But anyone fancying their chances in a fight with this highly intelligent Goan who has lived all his life in this country had better watch out . |
| 30 | Mr Richmond of Kettlewell , The Square , Scorton ( the ‘ local historian ’ mentioned above ) He has lived all his life in Scorton and knows more about the village than anyone else I can think of . |