Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adj] his [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a systematic study of his own dream life Freud tried to relate all his dreams to feelings and thoughts experienced the previous day . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | Especially not someone he 'd known all his life . |
| 4 | Bruno felt perfectly happy in that bed ; he seemed to forget all his worries . |
| 5 | Carrie said , thinking of the things Hepzibah had told her , how he 'd worked all his life and had no help from anyone , and he looked at her with surprise . |
| 6 | He had known the poor child was not robust : this was the basis on which he had been invited to treat , through an English lady , an Oxford acquaintance , then at Nice , who happened to know both his needs and those of the amiable American family looking out for something really superior in the way of a resident tutor ( 11 ) . |
| 7 | ‘ But , after a time , I began to see all his ideas as sort of odd , not charming eccentricities , but … you know , symptoms . ’ |
| 8 | He began to pour all his time and emotion into poetry , writing with a passion that recalls the English romantics , Oscar Wilde and the American beats . |
| 9 | He needed to mobilize all his resources in order to control his diocese , much as kings had to do in order to rule their kingdoms . |
| 10 | Mr Prior has been involved in planning new kitchens while working in major restaurants and hotel groups , so he decided to use all his experience when it came to his own establishment . |
| 11 | He had spent much of his spare time working on a theory for the formation of atmospheric depressions and decided to devote all his time to it ; he resigned from the Meteorological Office to become a graduate student at Imperial College . |
| 12 | Such an outcome would have been so great a blow to Edward II 's prestige that he decided to throw all his resources into reaching the garrison and destroying the besiegers . |
| 13 | Blissfully unaware that the full panoply of America 's military might was about to deliver him up to the majesty of American justice , President Reagan 's token terrorist was welcomed aboard Skunk Kilo by an undercover FBI team that was so wrought up by the occasion that in placing Younis under arrest they managed to break both his wrists , though he offered no resistance or showed any enthusiasm for the 12-mile swim back to Limassol . |
| 14 | Philip offered to return all his gains of the last year on one condition : that Henry gave Alice in marriage to Richard and made his barons , both in England and on the Continent , swear an oath of fealty to Richard as heir . |
| 15 | Most of the fleet surrendered , but Woodville himself , with two ships , managed to make good his escape , presumably with the gold coin , of which nothing more is known . |
| 16 | And he managed to make good his escape . |
| 17 | Most of the fleet surrendered , but Woodville himself , with two ships , managed to make good his escape , presumably with the gold coin , of which nothing more is known . |
| 18 | Why did have all his guitar out and everything ? |
| 19 | By the end of his reign , he had broken all his promises . |
| 20 | And says Emser ‘ A man who had given all his life to the classics might easily have suspected it ’ . |
| 21 | He had to invest all his savings in this nursery 3 years ago and still it only just makes a profit . |
| 22 | Cromer had expected all his staff to speak Arabic fluently and Garvin , after twenty years in Egypt , spoke the language like a native . |
| 23 | A few days later a local man , George Fleming , wrote to Sir William to tell him that Mr. Millford had quitted all his pretensions in the le Fleming mines at Coniston to John Shaw , and that the next day Millford left the country ! |
| 24 | that if had relinquished all his responsibility regarding the mortgage and so on and signed it over to you , then you could have turned round and say alright that 's it , I 'm going to sell the house |
| 25 | He had pumped all his savings into building the boat , using bits and pieces scrounged from all over the Middle East , and was suspiciously eager to part with it . |
| 26 | On being sued by the plaintiffs for breach of the implied duty of confidentiality , the defendant claimed that he had made all his calculations in designing the heater from information which had been published in a readily obtainable leaflet . |
| 27 | Throughout his campaign , Reagan had made clear his intention to cut government expenditure , to lower taxes and to increase defence spending , and he and his staff now moved to make a reality of those promises . |
| 28 | It was a matter of only a few minutes before the rebels reached the President 's quarters , and stopped to await General Bobo , who had made clear his intention to take over personally . |
| 29 | The Far Eastern Economic Review of Feb. 21 reported that Daim had made clear his intention to retire before the October 1990 general election . |
| 30 | It was also encouraged that Bush had made clear his intention to maintain pressure on the South African regime through other means . |