Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [to-vb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Might I suggest that young George should use his opportunity to put his expensive university education towards a greater purpose than the expansion of his wallet . |
| 2 | If John Major believes that his narrow majority is a vindication of his decision to join his darling mechanism , then his understandable sense of personal triumph will have gone to his head . |
| 3 | Fish explained his decision to run his own recording studio ; ‘ I got tired of giving a lot of money away to other studios and being away from my family and Scotland . |
| 4 | But even should she explain it to her as his ruse to get his own way with her , there was still the possibility that the ruse might not have come off ; in anyone older than him and less strong , it could possibly have achieved its object . |
| 5 | Very astutely , he uses most of his response to promote his latest tube amp launch : ie. ‘ our latest tube amp efforts far surpass anything done in the past ’ . |
| 6 | George is also quite generous with his possessions , giving Lennie a larger portion of their food , or giving him all of his ketchup to keep him happy . |
| 7 | The lanky Moody rode his luck to score his second century at the highest level . |
| 8 | But despite his confidence in Kylie and his willingness to give her complete control over her shows , Bush was turned down . |
| 9 | He put the gun sideways in his mouth to give him two free hands and I thought about trying to grab it off him but I thought I 'd probably kill one of us and even if I did n't I was no match for him and he 'd just take it off me again . |
| 10 | He opens his mouth to tell her this , but she puts her finger on his lips to silence him . |
| 11 | In the event , his attempt to impose his new conservative orthodoxy upon these churches was to cause disturbance and resistance abroad , and ultimately civil war and revolution at home . |
| 12 | His own vicissitudes in love are a feature of the story he tells , as is his attempt to understand his disconcerting brother and to produce reflections on the meaning of it all . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's so unfair , ’ Richard complained miserably , having sought Murray out in his study to offer his guilty sympathy . |
| 14 | This brought the West Indian 's aggregate for the two matches to 181 without being dismissed and it enabled his side to seal their second impressive nine-wicket win . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'll finish his bed and get him to lie on his side to make it easy for thee . |
| 16 | With an anguished whimper she gave up the fight and kissed him back with a fervour born of all the long , lonely nights she 'd spent without him , her arms snaking up round his neck to pull him closer still . |
| 17 | He had been at his wits ' end , with no reply to Bigwig 's scornful impatience except his readiness to risk his own life in company with Fiver and Pipkin . |
| 18 | He turned in his seat to raise his bound ankles over his girlfriend and kicked three times to free her door . |
| 19 | Does he incorporate the votes of everyone who voted Labour or Liberal Democrat at the last election and use that as part of his mandate to enforce his unwanted policies on the Scottish people ? |
| 20 | Perhaps his heart and mind leaped together at the daily realisation of his dream to take his beloved Johnson on this tour to these parts . |
| 21 | He 's been sat there all day like a stuffed dummy , then he suddenly comes to life , grabs the dinner and runs off with it trailing between his legs , tripping and stumbling over it in his anxiety to have it all to himself . |
| 22 | Thus when Hollar asks him to smuggle his thesis out of the country and proposes a solution to Anderson 's ethical objections ( " But if you did n't know you were smuggling it " ) , his determination to preserve his negative face is demonstrated by the fact that he interrupts Hollar 's proposal in order to uphold the maxim of quality at the expense of the maxim of agreement ( 'smuggling implies knowledge " , ( p. 56 ) ) . |
| 23 | STEVE DAVIS has been practising six hours a day during the build-up to the Embassy World championship , such is his determination to win his seventh title . |
| 24 | His determination to ensure his private life remained private kept him hidden off screen . |
| 25 | Buxton revealed his awareness of conflicting pressures and the source of his determination to pursue his own course in a letter to Althorp on the eve of the 1832 motion on emancipation . |
| 26 | Ian has spent the winter season rebuilding his machine to make it one of the fastest 600s on the grid . |
| 27 | Tolkien 's contention was that something he called ‘ the ulsterior motive ’ — the bogey of Lewis 's Ulster background — lurked beneath the surface of his imagination , and rose when he was off his guard to make him brutal in manners , crude or illogical in thought . |
| 28 | One of the guys at work managed to get his sister-in-law to tape US Prime Time mid-afternoon so that we could all watch it on vdeo last night . |
| 29 | It was alleged by his widow that Thomas Flete , as agent of Clemens , ‘ … him feloniously slew and murdered and clove his head in four parties and gave him ten deadly wounds in his body and when he was dead they cut off one of his legs and one of his arms and his head from his body to make him sure ’ . |
| 30 | With his opening salvos the anti-pluralist has , if anything , merely forced his opponent to modify his own position somewhat , not to abandon it . |