Example sentences of "[to-vb] his [noun] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the marriage is good , a husband may be able to encourage his wife to see the many compensations in store , including the opportunities to explore their own interests and reinforce their commitment to each other . |
| 2 | Only that perhaps he had manufactured some reason so that she would be able to overcome her own personal fears of being alone with him ; given her an excuse to accept his invitation to re-enter the apartment where he 'd previously abused her both physically and verbally . |
| 3 | Special considerations : the appellant 's counsel had informed the sentencer that the appellant was prepared to sell his house to raise the funds to pay compensation , and that the house was subject to an offer to purchase which would leave the appellant with an equity of almost £17,000 . |
| 4 | Mr Gorbachev would hate to destroy his efforts to persuade the world that Russia is cuddly by sending tanks on to East European streets . |
| 5 | He unclasped the chain and signed to the toisech , who was hovering , to lead his men to join the rest on the riverbank . |
| 6 | SALMAN RUSHDIE made a dramatic television appeal yesterday for a meeting with the Prime Minister to fortify his campaign to end the fatwa sentence of death imposed on him by Iranian fundamentalists . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | The Special Commissioner was therefore entitled to exercise his discretion to exclude the testimony under s 5(3) of the Civil Evidence Act 1972 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In more questioning times , with the historian seeking to exercise his right to examine the past , people have tried to explain why wars occur . |
| 11 | To exercise his right to treat the contract as repudiated by the seller 's repudiatory breach , the buyer must inform the seller that he regards the contract as at an end . |
| 12 | Where there is no such interrelation , as where the landlord does not have to serve a notice in order to exercise his right to review the rent , the mere existence of a tenant 's break-clause will not lead the court to impose time limits on the landlord ( Woodhouse ( Edwin ) Trustee Co Ltd v Sheffield Brick Co plc ( 1983 ) 270 EG 548 ) . |
| 13 | The Prime Minister was the first world leader to announce his intention to attend the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro this June . |
| 14 | The Chancellor has been unwilling to use his flexibility to reflect the reality of such competition to allow spirits to compete on more equal terms . |
| 15 | The most that can be done is that B may allow C to use his name to claim the money . |
| 16 | When he was about 18 years old , Richard Baxter was almost persuaded , by Mr. Wickstead of Ludlow , to abandon his ambition to enter the ministry . |
| 17 | How can any locally elected politician be expected to persuade his community to pay the price of blight and disruption for the greater good of a city on the scale of London ? |
| 18 | Polybius explains in Book 3 why he proposes to extend his exposition to cover the next twenty years by saying : " Since judgements regarding either victors or vanquished based purely on the actual struggles are not final … |
| 19 | ‘ It meant a lot of work for the Director preparing his camera script because he had to know exactly where to put his cameras to get the shots he wanted . |
| 20 | The reshuffle leaves Labour 's Welsh team without a Welsh speaker , as Welsh Secretary David Hunt is about to publish his Bill to strengthen the Welsh language . |
| 21 | JOHN Major is poised to do his bit to make the world a safer place in 1993 . |
| 22 | Jenny clung to him tightly , partly to delay his attempts to remedy the situation , partly to buffer herself against any possible impact . |
| 23 | But since it was his first day in the place , he was particularly anxious to make a good impression , and to demonstrate his eagerness to accept the spirit of the institution . |
| 24 | Three years ago Mr Taylor asked the Forest of Dean District Council to force his landlord to improve the building . |
| 25 | He might be able to force his mind to forget the way she had felt in his arms . |
| 26 | A committee of MPs has unanimously agreed to back his bill to give the prosecution the right of appeal against bail . |
| 27 | And he was appointed the county 's high sheriff , he decided to invite his ex-teacher to attend the traditional church service to mark the opening of high court session . |
| 28 | When overtures were received from the Czech resistance movement Vlasov was persuaded to allow his men to aid the anti-communist uprising in Prague on 7 May 1945 , in the vain hope of ingratiating themselves with the allies , and of winning sanctuary from an independent Czech government . |
| 29 | The Scottish goalkeeper Jack Harkness once claimed ‘ I never saw any forward with as many scars and hacks , ’ and Gallacher 's brother-in-law , the Gateshead player George Mathieson remembered : ‘ You had to see his legs to believe the treatment he was given . |
| 30 | He was breathing the words against her skin , his voice muffled by the folds of cotton he had pushed aside to enable his mouth to cherish the tender apices of her pale breasts . |