Example sentences of "[verb] his [noun pl] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Elspeth Loades ) ; ‘ Lord James Goldsmith ( right ) announcing his plans to demerge the USSR . ’ |
| 2 | For Trusty Dusty Hare read Long John Liley , a rapidly emerging full-back who has let his boots do the talking whilst notching up the season 's fastest century . |
| 3 | Police say his victims ignored the risks because they were so desperate to make a sale after the slump hit their business . |
| 4 | McAdam 's system , which involved his surveyors checking the size of stones by passing them through a two-inch ring , was soon adopted by the turnpike trusts . |
| 5 | Guy found his eyes following the gesture . |
| 6 | He let his eyes slip the other way , towards the little group of waiting people , hunting along the front line until he picked out Harriet Shakespeare . |
| 7 | As he said it he let his hands caress the silk chair-arms , the movement seeming to echo the drift of his dark eyes as , unhurriedly , and with appreciation , they surveyed her . |
| 8 | BRENTFORD 'S Gary Blissett let his goals do the talking after the 3-1 victory over Sunderland at Roker Park . |
| 9 | Muddiman continued to report the doings of both Monck and the Rumpers until they quarrelled , whereupon he used his papers to support the former . |
| 10 | I want his mates to hear the gospel and besides that Billy would not want a sad funeral , so I think you should preach , Dad . ’ |
| 11 | Initiatives such as the Montreal speech and even the withdrawal from NATO were motivated in part by a feeling that he could not trust his successors to do the necessary . |
| 12 | But this man says his documents prove the trough was given to the town in 1907 and still belongs to the parish council . |
| 13 | In fact Christ explicitly commanded his disciples to proclaim the Kingdom . |
| 14 | The implication that the constabulary were fomenting disorder angered the sergeant , but he commanded his men to assist the bailiff and agents in evicting the tenants . |
| 15 | As a teenager , and later as a club reporter , city-dweller Kieth waterhouse relished his chances to explore the lush countryside and wild moors of the Yorkshire Dales , tramping by rills and becks and over craggy rocks and soaring hills . |
| 16 | Mr Gorbachev would hate to destroy his efforts to persuade the world that Russia is cuddly by sending tanks on to East European streets . |
| 17 | He unclasped the chain and signed to the toisech , who was hovering , to lead his men to join the rest on the riverbank . |
| 18 | Feared as he was , the townsfolk had gathered to oppose him on several occasions , once when he affronted their God-fearing attitudes by ordering his men to rip the timber fan-faulting from the local church to use in the construction of Lambourn Palace . |
| 19 | She could feel his fingers tracing the curve of her neck . |
| 20 | Ken had mortgaged himself to the hilt with the flat in Brunswick Gardens , Kensington and after one interminable row following another , he told his parents to leave the flat . |
| 21 | For thirty years after his marriage Benjamin hardly let his feet touch the ground before he was on the move again — giving us over a dozen different addresses for him during his lifetime . |
| 22 | By the simple device of warning his readers to expect the worst , de Pomiane gets his message across . |
| 23 | This was a brave soldier urging his fellows to acknowledge the slaughter of the Khe San and Da Nang . |
| 24 | The deal , which involved the purchase of Party Politics and the Irish-trained Roc de Prince ( 17th ) was struck by renowned bloodstock agent David Minton , who advised his clients to leave the two horses with their respective trainers . |
| 25 | Apart from chairing the new London film co-op he had a small article in the first It detailing his efforts to phone the CIA at the American embassy . |
| 26 | And you saw the marks only for a couple of seconds when he lifted his palms to receive the Host . |
| 27 | Bowe dethroned Holyfield in November and should the fight go ahead , he will donate his proceeds to help the famine in Somalia . |
| 28 | Early in February 1726 Montrose instructed his commissioner in Scotland to organise his friends to support the plan of a reduction in emoluments for the collector , believing that this would discourage the new candidates and ensure Kirkton 's re-election , for the duke was determined ‘ to stand by him upon the above terms , I mean of a smaller sellary for the future ’ . |
| 29 | By investing the war with a transcendent moral purpose , Acland may have helped his followers to silence the promptings of their pacifist consciences . |
| 30 | Although he can do nothing directly about them , the existence of the concurrent proceedings is an element , albeit not necessarily decisive , in the assembly of facts by reference to which the judge of subordinate jurisdiction must decide how in the interests of justice to exercise his powers to regulate the proceedings in his court . |