Example sentences of "[conj] his [noun] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Philadelphia — now remember this name — when the Philadelphia put into Stornoway in Lewis , and gleaned young boys from the beach , and stowed them in the hold like trade-goods , what constable or what factor raised his arm or his stick to stop the slavers ? |
| 2 | The final mode eliminates all official involvement and permits the plaintiff or his agent to send the documents , with some appropriate means of obtaining confirmation of their delivery , by post . |
| 3 | Meanwhile that one Catholic entertained the hope that his freedom to defend the Copernican system might yet be restored . |
| 4 | Mr Arafat is seeking to reunite the organisation in the face of criticism that his associates are corrupt and inefficient and that his decision to join the US-brokered Middle East peace talks has led the Palestinian cause into an impasse . |
| 5 | Does the Minister agree that his decision to retain the passport office in Belfast was a good one ? |
| 6 | A five-hour visit by US President George Bush on June 11 , intended , according to US political analysts , to demonstrate to US voters in an election year that his decision to launch the December 1989 military invasion of Panama [ see pp. 37112-13 ] had been vindicated and that peace and democracy had returned to the country , badly backfired when thousands of demonstrators disrupted his public appearances . |
| 7 | Mr Brown claimed that his failure to answer the question directly meant that ‘ nobody in this country trusts him ’ . |
| 8 | In In re A Debtor ( No. 1 of 1987 ) the Court of Appeal refused to follow that approach and held that a statutory demand , which on the face of it contained a number of puzzling and perplexing statements , was nonetheless valid because the debtor knew precisely what he owed and there was no injustice in holding that his failure to pay the debt gave rise to a presumption that he was unable to pay . |
| 9 | A few moments ago , you heard Dr Moore tell how he assured Dr Carrington that his wish to die the following day would be respected by the physicians . |
| 10 | It was held that his refusal to accept the offer of alternative employment was reasonable ( Charlwood v. |
| 11 | Inside his head he could still hear his father 's slighting reference to a " Momma 's boy " and because this rankled more than his inability to shoot the doe , he hurried on ahead of her in case his father should turn and see them close together . |
| 12 | His recall of the Parlement of Paris within a few months of his accession , his failure to support his radically reforming Controller-General Turgot ( 1774–76 ) , showed that he was no more able than his grandfather to withstand the opposition of the privileged groups . |
| 13 | However generous Edward wished to be — and his willingness to challenge the Stanleys suggests that he saw Richard 's endowment as a matter of some urgency — there was a limit to how much he could afford to do for his brother . |
| 14 | However generous Edward wished to be — and his willingness to challenge the Stanleys suggests that he saw Richard 's endowment as a matter of some urgency — there was a limit to how much he could afford to do for his brother . |
| 15 | His skills as a coach ( the England player Philip Sharpe was one of his discoveries ) , his knowledge of players , his presence at cricket 's great occasions and his ability to entice the great and the famous to play for his occasional XIs combined to make him , in his own way , one of the game 's celebrities . |
| 16 | A former convenor at Ford , Dagenham , his financial manoeuvres — plus input from Samuel — and his ability to get the magazine out , provided a core to its progress . |
| 17 | From this it was only a short step to total involvement in folk culture , and his ability to play the gipsy violin led him to join the Gyorgyos Bokreta group , which at that time offered a programme of traditional songs and dances from the Bata region . |
| 18 | His vision and his ability to distribute the ball accurately have added another option to United 's potent attack . |
| 19 | With the Irish party abstaining , both English and Irish Roman catholic bishops began to pressurize the leader of the Irish party , Redmond , and his associates to support the Conservative bill . |
| 20 | The fibre composite model has been successfully used by the author and his associates to explain the properties of ultra-drawn polymers such as polyethylene and polypropylene . |
| 21 | And as he tells the story of one Irish politician who was emblematic of the past — Fianna Fáil TD Sean Doherty — he strips away the layers of fiction and delusion underpinning both Doherty and his critics to touch the pulse of an Ireland distorted by the rhetoric of the newsroom and debating chamber . |
| 22 | Rigby worked with ardour to suppress trafficking in slaves and his efforts to enforce the 1845 treaty were unremitting . |
| 23 | In 1312 Clement V sent his vice-chancellor of the Curia and his chamberlain to resolve the conflict over Gaveston ; in 1316–17 another mission was involved with the realignment of parties ; and in 1326 the pope gave his backing to the queen only after his envoys had failed to achieve an Anglo-French peace between Charles IV and Edward II . |
| 24 | But there 's no mistaking Madge 's absolute technical control and his determination to make the most of the grand old man 's music . |
| 25 | Heseltine 's reluctance to fight an open campaign for the leadership and his determination to maintain the pretence that he is just another loyal backbencher is characteristic of his political style . |
| 26 | The elder Despenser , however , was re-appointed in June 1312 as Justice of the southern forests , and took part in the efforts by the king and his advisers to have the Ordinances set aside as invalid and illegal . |
| 27 | She could readily imagine his feelings of guilt and self-disgust , and his anxiety to lay the blame at Bella 's door . |
| 28 | In July 1882 an anti Japanese riot in Seoul ( the so-called Jingo Incident ) forced the Japanese minister in Korea and his staff to flee the country . |
| 29 | Dao Van Lat hurried out of the antechamber by a side door , leaving Joseph and his mother to join the line of departing guests . |
| 30 | His armies in his last years were partly feudal and partly mercenary , and his attempt to establish the principle of compulsory unpaid service had been decisively defeated . |