Example sentences of "[verb] his [noun sg] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doctors ordered the star , who had been playing up to 150 gigs every year for the last 10 years , to rest or maybe wreck his voice for good . |
| 2 | The student who finds difficulty in writing out his results may equally use audio-recording as a tool , perhaps later transcribing his account into written form after he has formulated it . |
| 3 | The former captain of Staffordshire , who played off scratch for many years , beat his age by two shots . |
| 4 | She should be firmly denying his claim to any rights where she was concerned , not arguing about his habit of using unsuitable endearments . |
| 5 | In these respects I had many discussions with Guevara , who himself disclosed his loss of marxist illusions . |
| 6 | He let the tears lie on his cheeks , and men cheered as he passed them , their young golden King who had won his crown at last . |
| 7 | As for Mr Gilbert , an industrial tribunal dismissed his claim of unfair discrimination . |
| 8 | Darwin proposed his theory of sexual selection to account for sex differences of structure and behaviour , according to which , in most species , males compete for , and females select , mates . |
| 9 | Lloyd spoilt it , of course , with an unbeaten 60 that helped his team to 190 all out , but having dismissed them for their lowest total in years England had to feel confident . |
| 10 | Wull jerked his head to one side and looked menacing . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | President Alberto Keinya Fujimori presented Guzmán 's capture as justifying his assumption of dictatorial powers in April [ see pp. 38846-47 ] . |
| 13 | Contemporaries believed that Edward was persuaded to revive his claim in 1337 by Robert of Artois who , according to a story which may well be apocryphal and which has attracted widely differing interpretations , placed a heron before the king at a banquet . |
| 14 | This was the solution which Bernard Shaw , who objected to having to spell his surname with four letters instead of two , favoured . |
| 15 | At the age of 23 in 1938 he captained his country at one game and , more surprisingly , his county , Warwickshire in the other . |
| 16 | John , however , chose the honour of representing his country over financial gain and valuable ATP computer points , earned through tournament play . |
| 17 | When he finally emerged , Mr Major demonstrated his mastery of one form of economy — with words . |
| 18 | The fact that he demonstrated his interest in those eight cases , emphasised them and talked so wildly about them , shows that his concern is not with the genuine asylum seeker , but with diminishing the respect that this country should hold for people who are in desperate trouble and whom , in better and more self-confident days , hon. Members of all parties would have been in favour of helping . |
| 19 | Chauthala needed to win a seat in the Haryana state assembly to secure his post as Chief Minister , a post which he had inherited in 1989 from his father , the powerful Deputy Prime Minister , Devi Lal . |
| 20 | In 1941 he stood as an independent candidate in four by-elections ; but although he retained his deposit on each occasion , there was to be no political comeback for this highly cantankerous patriot . |
| 21 | Whatever the reality on Capitol Hill , Ceauşescu undoubtedly believed the pro-Israeli gestures would win Romania influence in Washington and would perhaps lead them to accept his differentiation of Romanian foreign policy from the Kremlin 's at face-value . |
| 22 | Nathalie Sarraute had never been prepared to accept his insistence on pure textuality , and both Robbe-Grillet and Claude Simon sought to distance themselves from the increasingly over-rigid application of his theories . |
| 23 | She put down her needle and thread and went on , her voice calm with conviction , ‘ Of course we do not know what God plans for us , so we must be ready to accept His will in all things , but sometimes prayer alone will heal the one who is ill and this is the best way . ’ |
| 24 | But he rails in such a disgusting way against the play 's characters that it is difficult to accept his view of human life . |
| 25 | An official refused to accept his registration for both races at the start of the meeting and he forgot to report again after the 100 metres final . |
| 26 | But common sense , coupled with the prospect of the time and paperwork involved in interviewing the hundred or so people who 'd been through the Cookery and Refreshment Tent during the past few hours finally defeated his hope for personal glory through brilliant deduction . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , McMillan defends his title against tough Colombian Ruben Palacio at London 's Olympia on September 26 . |
| 29 | But he robustly defends his propensity for tabloid television . |
| 30 | FOLLOWING our report of an accident in which a young girl was injured in a road accident , the driver concerned , Patrick White , who lives in Jenner Way , Alton , has asked us to make clear that he defends his manner of driving and ‘ was not to blame ’ . |