Example sentences of "[vb past] his [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Tottenham teenager beat his stepfather to death with a cricket bat after an argument about mess caused by his puppies . |
| 2 | In an attempt to defuse the protests Roh dismissed his Minister for Home Affairs , Ahn Eung Mo , on April 27 and replaced him with Lee Sang Yeon . |
| 3 | The defendant was convicted of murder , and the Court of Appeal of Jamaica dismissed his appeal against conviction . |
| 4 | Mauve proposed his name for membership of the Pulchri Art Club , where Vincent could draw the models available without extra expense . |
| 5 | It helped his team to edge 3 matches to 2 ahead in the series hosted by John Laing plc . |
| 6 | He left the village school at the age of eleven , and helped his father in farming and sawing timber . |
| 7 | Lin Foh jerked his head in acknowledgement of the courtesy , his princely bearing enabling him to do nothing else . |
| 8 | Whereas Carl demonstrated his affection for Mum , Sam was more partial to Dad . |
| 9 | He was asked questions , and every time demonstrated his lack of knowledge . |
| 10 | Joseph Chamberlain retained his preference for independence but allowed himself to be overruled by Austen and by the overwhelming wishes of the Liberal Unionist Council to merge . |
| 11 | He retained his position of Director of the Africa Literature Centre in Kitwe until 31 March , and the Centre is now looking for a successor . |
| 12 | Responsibility for Housing and Works was taken on by Adriaan Vlok , who retained his position as Minister of Correctional Services but relinquished the Ministry for the Budget to Org Marais . |
| 13 | In 1164 , Rainald was deprived of the chancellery , but retained his position as Arch-chancellor for Italy . |
| 14 | Pius XII was trained as a diplomat , and retained his faith in diplomacy despite its obvious failure in the case of Germany . |
| 15 | Nicholson retained his air of calm . |
| 16 | If the meticulous Davis was the last player one would expect to lose in such a manner , the six-times Masters champion retained his reputation for sportsmanship by the grace with which he accepted the verdict . |
| 17 | Paul Robertson was appointed Public Service Minister , replacing Kenneth McNeil ; Robertson retained his post as Minister of Information . |
| 18 | A Moslem Brotherhood deputy , Abdel-Latif Arabiyat , retained his post as Speaker of the House of Representatives . |
| 19 | Edgar Garay was confirmed as Navy Commander and Gen. Oscar Botero Restrepo retained his post as Defence Minister . |
| 20 | Nim retained his post as Vice-Minister of National Defence . |
| 21 | António Hama Thai ( who retained his post as Chief of General Staff of the Armed Forces ) , and Maj.-Gen. |
| 22 | No doubt it was easier to reform it with Dzerzhihsky nut of Moscow , although he retained his post as head . |
| 23 | Class 5 leader Gen. Suchinda Kraprayoon retained his post as Army C.-in-C. and was promoted to take on the additional post of Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces , in place of Gen. Sunthorn Kongsompong . |
| 24 | Hiroshi Mitsuzuka became chairman of the LDP 's policy affairs research council , while Koko Sato retained his post as chairman of the executive council . |
| 25 | Heng Samrin retained his post as President of the State Council and was appointed as the party 's " honorary president " . |
| 26 | Ramsey invited his Master to lunch and invited Knox to meet him . |
| 27 | Distinguished guests fared only a little better ‘ … a pleasant fiction and cheerful jest of the captain 's … a profoundly preposterous box ’ was how Charles Dickens described his cabin on board the Britannia in which he crossed the Atlantic on his trip to America in 1842 . |
| 28 | One man described his experience of depression in this way : ‘ Early in the crisis I became deeply aware that God was my ally . |
| 29 | Speaking after his acquittal , Darren Nichol described his time under suspicion as a ‘ dreadful ordeal ’ . |
| 30 | I liked it when Kaptan described his moment of deliverance , the point at which I tried to shoot my old comrade in arms in the back , then the desperate fumble to see who 'd get their shots off first . |