Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She had Dreamed Lord Roger as a former surgeon , still brooding because of his inability to save the life of his only child . |
| 11 | It 's not the severity that worries him but his inability to universalize the verdict and therefore take it to himself as he can take ‘ Vous l'avez voulu , Georges Dandin , ’ the thing of Molière 's Dostoevsky liked to quote . |
| 12 | Do n't you see ? ’ , he repeated , frustrated at his inability to dent the journalist 's confident cynicism . |
| 13 | The only minister who actually lost a vote of no confidence ( by 74 to 23 ) was Arnis Kalnins , who resigned as Minister of Economic Reform , having been criticized for his inability to conduct the restructuring of the economy along free market lines . |
| 14 | Inside his head he could still hear his father 's slighting reference to a " Momma 's boy " and because this rankled more than his inability to shoot the doe , he hurried on ahead of her in case his father should turn and see them close together . |
| 15 | His foremost biographer attributes this withdrawal to his inability to endure the prison existence . |
| 16 | His inability to make the weight limit forced him to relinquish his title , but two years later , at the age of 22 , he moved back to the USA and won the featherweight crown ( subsequently losing it , regaining it , losing it again and winning it back finally in 1898 ) . |
| 17 | If there was a failure here , it lay in his inability to understand the position of those who , unlike himself and despite their faith , had no clear vision . |
| 18 | If Minton was striving to produce a figurative subject far more ambitious than the café scenes associated with the Euston Road School , he was again defeated by his inability to find a style that was more than a pastiche . |
| 19 | He wrote that in 1874 Disraeli , then Prime Minister , sent ‘ civil apologetic messages as to his inability to find an office for me ’ . |
| 20 | Young David Stirling 's frustration at his inability to have a crack at the enemy mounted , yet in a most extraordinary episode he was nearly court-martialled for cowardice . |
| 21 | Rather , it was his inability to end the war which , already in the first months of the Russian campaign and ever more strongly during 1942 , began inexorably to undermine the image of the far-sighted , infallible , and well-intentioned Führer . |
| 22 | It seemed to him now , that she had planted inside him the dark seed of failure : that from it , everything else had flowered , his inability to keep a job , his uselessness , his drinking , his failed marriage . |
| 23 | In 1312 Clement V sent his vice-chancellor of the Curia and his chamberlain to resolve the conflict over Gaveston ; in 1316–17 another mission was involved with the realignment of parties ; and in 1326 the pope gave his backing to the queen only after his envoys had failed to achieve an Anglo-French peace between Charles IV and Edward II . |
| 24 | The committee said it had no reason to doubt Mr Gummer was out of pocket and it accepted there was no intent on his part to conceal the work . |
| 25 | NIGEL Short was today launching his fight to wrest the world chess crown from champion Garry Kasparov in the regal setting of the newly-refurbished Savoy Theatre in London . |
| 26 | THE CAPTAIN of England 's 1966 World Cup winners , Bobby Moore , last night disclosed he had cancer and spoke of his fight to beat the disease . |
| 27 | It 's because Mr Harvey was already a millionaire that he was able to indulge his fancy to have a stud farm — not the other way round . |
| 28 | Mr Reuter struggles on without his support to weld a group of large , still separate companies into a coherent whole . |
| 29 | He reached out with his foot to drag the lunch bag towards him . |
| 30 | Does the Minister agree that his decision to retain the passport office in Belfast was a good one ? |