Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] his support [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Or the power person may be a power broker who has arranged his support before the meeting and knows that he can call on it if his authority is challenged .
2 The Prime Minister has shown his support for the Heritage Minister , David Mellor , in spite of recent reports about his private life .
3 He is said to have affirmed his support for the new fourth clause of the coronation oath at this time .
4 Little Rock had forced the Eisenhower administration to act and in the same year , 1957 , the President had put his support behind the first Civil Rights Act passed for over 80 years .
5 William " Stanley " Usher , who had been elected in September 1989 as an opposition UDP representative , was expelled from the party on Dec. 13 , 1989 , and joined the ruling PUP ; he had signalled his support for the PUP immediately after the general election .
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