Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [verb] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I also remind myself of the effect upon the plaintiff 's fathers career , of his decision to give up work in order to attend the plaintiff . |
| 2 | In August 840 , his decision to move swiftly north to Quierzy to bolster the nerve of his supporters , leaving his mother to take care of Aquitaine , was surely the right one in principle . |
| 3 | Seeing his car parked outside his cottage brought both relief and a fresh rush of nerves , in more or less equal measure . |
| 4 | Throwing the conservationist traditions founded in the Roosevelt-Pinchot era out the window , Reagan ( and who can believe he was once the environmentally aware governor of California ? ) has declared war on environmentalists in his crusade to open up America 's natural resources to the developers . |
| 5 | His horse put up waterfowl and once disturbed a whole field of rabbits that scampered in panic towards the hedgerows . |
| 6 | Although Venables ' failure to win an in- junction preventing his sacking means Spurs will start next season without him at the helm , he could still regain control if his bid to buy out Mr Sugar proves successful . |
| 7 | And his adviser said well Mr President you did say we should get rid of the missiles in Turkey but you did n't say when you know , you did n't say by Tuesday morning at ten o'clock or by next week or in three months ' time , you just said withdraw the missiles from Turkey . |
| 8 | Monaco shepherd Francis Clary , 45 , claims he was beaten up after his car held up Ducruet 's white Renault on the road outside Monaco , two years ago . |
| 9 | As the pain became more intense there was less and less space for his mind to wander over things , undone things that suddenly took on ridiculous and unrealistic urgency , but his thoughts were still churning with his innards and he could not keep out stray fragments of enacted scenes any more than he could stop the brilliant black fish from swimming in the air past his eyes . |
| 10 | Dušan never achieved his ambition to take over Byzantium . |
| 11 | Dr Proctor , already a wealthy man , has received an eight figure sum for the movie rights to his forthcoming autobiography What 's Cookin' , Doc ? , and director Kim Newman has already announced his intention to cast either Jeremy Irons or Steve Martin in the leading role . |
| 12 | He caressed her body , peered at her face , used his axe to snick off bits of twig , loose bark , the bulging scars of old wounds . |
| 13 | James Beck ( late of Dad 's Army ) was among his closest friends , while on the romantic side he almost got engaged to Yootha Joyce , got engaged to Justine Lord , and then finally , in the summer of 1963 , mid-way through his work setting up Doctor Who , got married to June Barry , soon to gain world-wide fame herself as one of the three leading ladies in Donald Wilson 's epic adaption of John Galsworthy 's The Forsyte Saga . |
| 14 | As his dragon swooped away Lio ! rt turned his head , expecting to see a dreadfully big cinder . |
| 15 | Outflanking Imelda Marcos , Cojuangco emerged as the leading right-wing opposition contender , continuing his campaign to build up support in the former Marcos bastions of northern Ilocos province and the Cagayan valley , and in the Mindanao and the crucial Visayas , estimated to represent some 21 per cent of the total vote . |
| 16 | It is much more his business to stir up curiosity than to insist on acceptances. , Pound as critic cuts the critic down to size ; which is , one may think , a pressing need , now , in 1984 . |
| 17 | From the resulting corner Rhodes made another fine save , hurtling to his right to deflect away Dixon 's rising shot . |
| 18 | It was with some relief that they assented to his desire to take over outreach work in the local community . |
| 19 | Since Shaw and his team took over profits have recorded a sevenfold increase to £218 million — two-thirds of it emanating from the rich North American market . |
| 20 | Chilton and his wife scraped together £250 and persuaded the manufacturer to produce an unwaxed batch . |
| 21 | Mr Mukasa earns between £15,000 and £19,000 a year and his wife earns about £17,000 . |
| 22 | The owner of a large herd could use it as leverage over poorer neighbours who depended on his goodwill to hire out cattle during the agricultural seasons . |
| 23 | While I 'm standing up to my thighs in water trying to kill a lot of fish that never did me any harm , somebody in this town takes it into his head to rub out Jack Mahoney . ’ |
| 24 | Around 1834 his father took up business as a gilder and ormolu manufacturer in London . |
| 25 | After the Restoration the keeper of the parish register no longer recorded occupations , but Gough observed that whereas his father paid only 4d. per annum poor rate upon his marriage in 1633 , by the end of the century he ( Gough ) paid almost 20 shillings . |
| 26 | He remains a non-executive director of the north London club he has played for and managed and in a statement last night said he would proceed with his petition to buy out Mr Sugar ‘ unless advised by my lawyers not to do so . ’ |
| 27 | If his lordship comes up Kath , our Bill |
| 28 | In the same month the University conferred an honorary doctorate on Chancellor Kohl who , in a widely-noticed speech , published by the Institute , clearly indicated that his government backed both EMU and Political Union . |
| 29 | He was too eager to get back to his roll to ask how Zen had found out about the anonymous phone call . |
| 30 | Knowing that the more treaties he himself signed , the greater would be the King 's suspicion , Rodrigo did his utmost to bring about peace between Moslem lords and Christian princes . |