Example sentences of "his [noun] [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He fumbled about on the table , felt in the pockets of the odorous hawk-training jacket which hung on the back of the door , told his sister to try the cupboard . |
| 2 | For , poverty crushing , his mother nagging , he was made to swallow his pride , his hope to become a motor mechanic . |
| 3 | He was doing his bit to save the world . |
| 4 | JOHN Major is poised to do his bit to make the world a safer place in 1993 . |
| 5 | However one of the youngsters at the back in his enthusiasm to reach the water tripped and fell over the one in front and this started a chain reaction in the column and the entire orderly procession landed at the bottom in a tangle of webbed feet and flapping wings . |
| 6 | He was almost running along the pier past the Tartar Frigate Inn , such was his enthusiasm to begin the cooking lesson , with a large lobster tucked absent-mindedly under his arm . |
| 7 | Should he not be with us in six weeks , will he leave a message for his successor to ensure the continuation of that economic miracle into York street and York road in the constituency of my hon. Friend the Member for Belfast , North ( Mr. Walker ) ? |
| 8 | The final decision may go to the one who is the most persistent in his attempts to persuade the customer that the product meets the buyer 's needs . |
| 9 | Nizan was unsuccessful in his attempts to allay the suspicion that he did not really belong to the French communist party . |
| 10 | Thwarted in his attempts to cause a shortage of coal in London by attacking Newcastle , as the Dutch had done in 1667 when they controlled the Thames estuary , Jones did what he could to disrupt the coastal trade . |
| 11 | Mino Martinazzoli , the leader of the Christian Democrats , has seen his leadership challenged by parliamentary deputies and , despite his attempts to clean the party up , faces the possibility that impatient reformers will quit . |
| 12 | Jenny clung to him tightly , partly to delay his attempts to remedy the situation , partly to buffer herself against any possible impact . |
| 13 | To make matters worse , because he always does fail in his attempts to improve the situation , the sufferer convinces himself that he has nothing to look forward to but a lifetime of misery . |
| 14 | This parent , Mr M , had studied the ‘ Effective Intervention ’ document as well as the Social Work ( Scotland ) Act in his attempts to assist the W family . |
| 15 | I applaud and support the efforts by Bill Bates , food safety consultant at Control UK , in his attempts to get an arbitration board set up , but have reservations about the priority likely to be given to this by food minister , David Maclean . |
| 16 | A more appropriate model of academic goals , one which does not construct or require a ‘ great divide ’ between an ‘ objective ’ , written , academic language and a ‘ context-dependent ’ , oral , lay language , is offered by Godfrey Lienhardt , in his attempts to find a language for describing concepts of ‘ self ’ in different cultures . |
| 17 | At Ludwigsburg Leopold suspected that his attempts to gain an audience with Karl Eugen , Duke of Wurtemberg were being thwarted by the intervention of Niccolò Jommelli ( court Kapellmeister at Stuttgart ) who was attempting to prevent Germans from appearing before the Duke . |
| 18 | During the election campaign Mr Smith made defending the parity of the pound within the ERM the cornerstone of his attempts to convince the City of Labour 's anti-inflationary convictions . |
| 19 | This is not to say it was quiet , for Hobbes published controversial Objections to Descartes 's Meditations ( 1641 ) , and was involved in acrimonious arguments with leading mathematicians about his attempts to square the circle . |
| 20 | Until about nine months ago it was normal to heap all the blame on his Interior Secretary , James Wan , a born-again Christian who has stuck to the letter of Genesis in his attempts to have the Earth subdued . |
| 21 | Others resented and resisted his attempts to tax the city and bestow market privileges on Westminster Abbey . |
| 22 | Perhaps the enormity of the facts and figures reaching his desk enabled him to overcome , for the first time , the old Marxists who were already resisting his attempts to change the way things were done . |
| 23 | In his first act as a father , Vitor had arranged for his labourers to build a sandpit at the edge of the terrace and opposite her workshop . |
| 24 | When Charlie eventually reached the front of the queue , he held out his billycan to receive a ladle of lumpy porridge and a stale piece of bread . |
| 25 | Bates , on the other hand , relaxed after claiming the first set 6–1 to lose the second 6–0 and found difficulty in mentally recharging as the 25 year old Swede took his opportunity to achieve a career best performance to reach the final . |
| 26 | He flexed his fingers to get the feeling back , and fumbled in his pocket for his keys . |
| 27 | Holly strained with his fingers to twist the coin under the lip of the bolt . |
| 28 | He raised his hands , crossing his fingers to make a crucifix . |
| 29 | His hands shifted to part her thighs , and allow his fingers to caress the secret , intimate heart of her . |
| 30 | She had Dreamed Lord Roger as a former surgeon , still brooding because of his inability to save the life of his only child . |