Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [verb] his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Michael Peto is somewhat forgotten these days , it is perhaps partly due to his wife 's decision to leave his entire archive to the University of Dundee where , because of limited funding and the Scottish city 's relative geographical remoteness , it is not , for most of us , readily to hand . |
| 2 | The decision in Lambeth LBC v. Secretary of State for Social Services where Woolf J struck down the minister 's decision to use his statutory powers to suspend the members of an area health authority and to appoint commissioners in their place was strongly interventionist . |
| 3 | Coe 's decision to run his first marathon at London emerged from a wager with ADT President , Michael Ashcroft , who offered to donate a substantial sum of money to charity if Coe entered the event . |
| 4 | Gen. Tienchai resigned as leader of the Rassadorn Party on Feb. 28 , saying that he was deeply hurt by the junta 's decision to investigate his financial background . |
| 5 | Wilson 's decision to found his new union on his own north-east coast was not lacking in rationality . |
| 6 | For example , a husband whose wife was incapacitated by the defendant 's negligence had his own action against the defendant for the value of the domestic services which she had formerly rendered and for the loss of her ‘ consortium ’ ( or society ) and a master had a remedy for ‘ enticement ’ against one who wrongfully persuaded his servant to leave his employment . |
| 7 | The Keystone Cops brief sequence was great and Chaplin 's struggle to create his Little Tramp — the curled up , ill-fitting shoes , the baggy trousers , the tight dress jacket , the bowler and the cane . |
| 8 | Perhaps echoing the ritual reality of an annual Easter reclothing of the royal retinue , the episode as recounted six months later to Charles 's camp signified his political " resurrection " and the collective cleansing and rededication of his followers . |
| 9 | Where such a step-by-step approach is not appropriate , and it does restrict the contractor 's freedom to use his own judgement in areas where he may be better informed than his customer , an approach that divides risk and reward on a reasonably equitable basis between customer and contractor may be a useful option . |
| 10 | Clarkson 's narrative revealed his own perseverance and commitment until exhaustion and financial difficulty overtook him in 1794 and Hoare fastened upon Clarkson 's continuing ‘ zeal ’ . |
| 11 | Abraham 's willingness to offer his only son Isaac has the innocent Isaac saying in Genesis 22.7 . |
| 12 | He was jitterbugging with the recoil , and the gun 's momentum kept his first sweep going for a couple of yards even after he realised he 'd missed me . |
| 13 | Clark had always loved computation , and a childhood estimation of the minimum possible capacity of Noah 's ark foreshadowed his later demonstration in Applied Pharmacology that the preparation of some homoeopathic remedies involved dilutions of such order that there would be only one drug molecule in a volume of solution equal to that circumscribed by the orbit of the planet Neptune . |
| 14 | All through the pages of Ramakrishna 's biography appears his gentle humour which often acted as a prelude to his flights of ecstasy . |
| 15 | It was no part of Owen 's plan to let his whole company lurk there , now that they were compromised ; in case of close inquiry that would have been all too clear an indication of Llewelyn 's unofficial complicity in the enterprise , and however little doubt Isambard himself might have on that head , it would not do to let it be established and admitted . |
| 16 | The publication of the General Theory before the war was part of Keynes 's campaign to persuade his fellow economists that his proposition — that the trade cycle could be ironed out by the government adjusting the volume of demand in the economy — was correct . |
| 17 | Sally Burgess , mime and dancer almost as much as singer , recruited all her allure and sensuality to overcome her husband 's reluctance to disclose his sinister secrets . |
| 18 | Reid was found to have made ‘ foul comments ’ to the referee , George Tyson , at the end of QPR 's match against Manchester City on 9 September , while Caesar 's punishment follows his sending-off during Arsenal 's pre-season friendly against Independiente in the United States . |
| 19 | In ‘ The Mistaken Lover ’ Strephon attacks his wife 's appearance to cover his actual greed . |
| 20 | But the king 's failure to impose his ecclesiastical policy on Scotland and the tension between him and the English Parliament in 1640 forced the earl to reconsider his position . |
| 21 | Yet it is evident that the timing of the Act had been determined by Churchill 's desire to popularize his first budget and , with the rate of pension remaining static despite inflation , the continuing poverty of many elderly people merely testified to the inefficacy of such posturing in a climate of financial stringency . |
| 22 | But Corca adds , ’ A man 's desire to conceive his own genetic child is transformed in the report into a ’ medical indication ’ for buying a woman 's body ’ . |
| 23 | Tim was startled but saw that the determination in Oliver 's eye belied his friendly tone . |
| 24 | Pharaoh 's reaction reveals his implacable hostility , already predicted by God ( 3:19 ) . |
| 25 | Odinga had planned to appeal to the High Court against the government 's refusal to register his National Democratic Party ( NDP ) , whose formation on Feb. 13 [ see p. 37995 ] was seen as a direct challenge to the one-party rule of Moi 's Kenya African National Union ( KANU ) . |
| 26 | Melissa nodded , concealing a smile as she pictured the ramshackle building where Gloria 's husband operated his used-car business . |
| 27 | Here was Gabriel 's chance to leave his wooden perch and to stand stage-centre with a huge property sword as tall as himself . |
| 28 | Dexter felt there was something strange about Beasley but could only place it when Lancaster 's friend raised his right hand to tug at his beard : the last two fingers were no more than withered stumps . |
| 29 | The sentence had no effect on Barry 's eligibility to complete his current term ( due to expire on Jan. 2 , 1991 ) or to fulfil his stated intention of standing for the city council elections on Nov. 6 . |
| 30 | He became Robert of Jerusalem to his contemporaries ; his deeds were recorded in the Song of Antioch ; his pious bravery totally expunged the memory of Robert the Frisian 's usurpation ; and after his death his son Baldwin VII harped on his father 's achievement to justify his substantial use of coercion against the enemies of the church . |