Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the starvelings it had to suffice that His Munificent Highness personally attached the greatest importance to their fate , which was a very special kind of attachment , of an order higher than the highest . |
| 2 | At 29 , the head Raider does not appear to accept that his best years are behind him , bad news perhaps for Jonathan Davies , for whom the press conference provided a first glimpse of a man whose reputation travels before him . |
| 3 | It was Rosa Luxemburg , with the strong support of the German leadership , who defended the position of the German Social Democrats in the name of internationalism , urging the Polish worker in Prussia ‘ to give up national utopias and to accept that his national interests are best taken care of by Social Democracy , and not by taking up a separate position as a Pole in the wake of nationalist parties ’ . |
| 4 | MICHAEL Heseltine , the new Secretary of State for Trade & Industry may be interested to know that his powerful exhortations last week to vote Tory were unsuccessful with his daughter Annabel . |
| 5 | It was at least gratifying to know that his initial dislike of the young man had been justified . |
| 6 | Arriving back , as he did from his holidays , to discover that his honourable companions had n't given him a second to call his own , he took umbrage ( somewhere near Troy ) |
| 7 | Tinnion is appalled to discover that his old friend proposes to throw in his lot with the Nazis . |
| 8 | This was even harder to bear than his own self-criticism . |
| 9 | As a screen Englishman , he felt it his duty to volunteer for the Royal Navy when war broke out and was amused to find that his newly-developed persona automatically promoted him to officer class . |
| 10 | Whatever evidence the IAAF officials discovered in the laboratory , one only needed to look at recent pictures of Johnson , in which he resembled an inflated balloon , to guess that his improved times showed he 'd been sucked back into the drug culture . |
| 11 | Her breath caught , and she sent him a startled look and , as her heart gave a merry flutter to see that his dark-eyed glance , dark and good-humoured if she was not mistaken , was on her again , ‘ Are you inviting me to call you — Vendelin ? ’ she dared , and hardly believed that it could be so . |
| 12 | It would not be quite true to claim that his wide experience of light music , and the strain of singing long parts , with numerous encores , throughout the week left no mark on either his style or his vocal chords ; but he can be justly likened to two other similarly popular tenors , John McCormack and Tito Schipa , in his ability to return successfully to serious music until the end of his career . |
| 13 | Certainly he expects to be happy there , but even if we were to claim that his ultimate end is pleasure we should be using ‘ end ’ in another sense than when we say that his flight was the end to which booking the ticket was the means , since to enjoy living in a place is not an activity separate from and subsequent in time to living there . |
| 14 | Charlie rose from the chair and shook her hand vigorously to confirm that his first deal was closed . |
| 15 | it took a moment , while fought the fire in his stomach and throat to realize that his left hand was completely numb . |
| 16 | Gilbert felt moved by the film 's story — that of a woman forced by circumstances to turn to prostitution — to state that his own mother was a whore . |
| 17 | He liked on occasion to talk of his earlier days at his parents ' cottage in Scotland , and it amused him to remember that his sensitive mother could never bring herself to pronounce or write the word ‘ toilet paper ’ which was always , either in speech or on shopping lists , abbreviated simply to T.P. |
| 18 | The elation he 'd felt the day before at his own breathtaking adventure with the Moi girl now also seemed suddenly shameful to him , and he began to wonder if his exaggerated pride in the deed had n't been the direct cause of the danger in which he and his mother had suddenly found themselves on the plain . |
| 19 | ‘ It will be enlightening to see if his new-found honesty runs to incriminating himself in any way , ’ observed Amiss . |
| 20 | The Duke of Kent had to wait until his fiftieth birthday for the Garter , the senior ranking Duke of Gloucester ( at 45 ) is still waiting . |
| 21 | However , among the lucky or sheltered it is common enough for someone to have the uneasy feeling that he is living too comfortably , might find himself unprepared to cope if his present security were to collapse , lacks adequate understanding of miseries outside his experience . |
| 22 | On the other hand , I could find nothing to suggest that his general health was materially affected . |
| 23 | The corrective that Mr Welch has prescribed is bold enough to suggest that his second decade as chief executive could be as radical as the first . |
| 24 | We might be doing Robert Titford 's memory a disservice to imagine that his disastrous voyage to South and Central America — his first and last as a master mariner — had any such sinister backdrop . |
| 25 | None of his victories was more characteristic of his indomitable will to win than his first success in the Arlington Million . |
| 26 | Rab C , that one-man marketing campaign for pie suppers which shed more oil than grounded tankers , might not be impressed to hear that his local hospital in Govan has begun a crusade to offer patients and staff a healthier diet . |
| 27 | At any rate , Salisbury came back to announce that his magnanimous prince had made this , his final decision . |
| 28 | Four Australian cricket-writers and one Australian team manager will never forget the day at net practice in Christchurch on the 1985–86 tour of New Zealand when , during a routine discussion with the journalists on preparation for a one-day match , he made mention of the fact that he intended to resign if his shattered team did not win the match the following Saturday . |
| 29 | If he did , he was bound to conclude that his vital interests were at stake . |
| 30 | Mr a forty four year old restaurant owner is still unable to sleep although his four year old son appears unaffected by what happened . |