Example sentences of "to [noun sg] his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may also have hoped that by supporting a revolution with which the Chinese felt no small degree of identification , he would be able to outmanoeuvre his Maoist critics . |
| 2 | This was to assist the layers of the king 's soul to break free and find their proper places , so as not to encumber his final space-flight . |
| 3 | If the joint tenancy between the husband and wife has been severed , it will have been possible for the husband to mortgage his own share or settle it upon certain trusts . |
| 4 | Lewis was inclined to ground his grudging acceptance of democracy on the doctrine of original sin ; Tolkien rejected it on the grounds that public virtue can not be mechanised or formulated . |
| 5 | The computations are thus interpretative processes , carried out by the visual system considered as a symbol-manipulating system rather than simply as a physical transducer ( though Marr attempts to ground his computational hypotheses in specific facts of visual psychophysiology ) . |
| 6 | And within three minutes Jamie Hoyland burst from midfield to claim his first goal of the season , bundling the ball past Schmeichel when the Danish keeper was left helplessly unprotected against an inswinging Hodges free kick . |
| 7 | He appointed a seneschal , receiver and auditors to ad-minister his French lands and employed a proctor-general for French affairs to represent his interests at law . |
| 8 | To add insult to injury his faithful laser blazer has limited power , so to keep the aliens at bay he has to make every shot count . |
| 9 | As shadow secretary , he has a duty in the House of Commons to cross-question his opposite number and to turn a relentless searchlight on his public pronouncements . |
| 10 | In response he was threatened by mob violence and obliged to sign an Act of Attainder condemning to death his chief minister , Strafford . |
| 11 | So , when Joe shoots to death his teenage mistress , Dorcas , and a deranged Violet decides to disfigure her rival at the funeral , it 's no surprise that the past rushes back to take its rightful place . |
| 12 | The constant dangers and perplexities that beset John Kemp arise from the ferocious enmity of O'Brien , whose hatred of anything English is increased by his hopeless love for the Don 's daughter Seraphina , for whose sake he moderates from time to time his evil power over the old aristocrat . |
| 13 | ‘ Is there a problem ? ’ he asked calmly , continuing to unbutton his faded denim shirt before her horrified gaze . |