Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [verb] his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The evening also gave Keith Jones , Manager , Personal Banking at Sheffield Church Street Branch , the opportunity to exhibit his Russian skills whilst conversing with the non-English speaking party member and also when rounding off the evening with a traditional toast in Russian . |
| 2 | In doing so they would deny Mr Ashdown the opportunity to take his painful decision . |
| 3 | If all input owners have a say in all decisions , decision-making is a costly process : the greater the number of decision-makers , the more resources are used up in sending out the information needed to make the decision ; and the more time is needed , in total , to give each person the opportunity to argue his preferred solution to any problem . |
| 4 | John and Mary , his second American film , did not satisfy his love of action , nor did it provide him with the opportunity to demonstrate his fine sense of place . |
| 5 | Cuthbert Welch , the medical officer of health , took the opportunity to emphasise his own higher responsibilities . |
| 6 | In the end , I judged the best option to be to talk in the privacy of his room , thus giving him the opportunity to ponder his new situation in solitude once I took my leave . |
| 7 | He did not mention the future of Saddam Hussein , but did take the opportunity to restate his earlier assertion that the war had not been conducted against the Iraqi people as a whole . |
| 8 | On one occasion when Reagan , at short notice , addressed an audience of between three and four thousand teachers As a GE spokesman Reagan had the opportunity to hone his oratorical skills , and develop his political ideas . |
| 9 | His continued appearance on the public platform and his considerable oratory skills gave Williams the opportunity to enhance his growing reputation as a spokesman for the ‘ common man ’ . |
| 10 | The purpose of this policy was twofold : to offer new and larger horizons to the French people and to the army , so as to divert attention from Algeria ; and to safeguard France 's position from outside encroachment until such time as more favourable military and international conditions ( an end to the Algerian war and the development of a French atomic arsenal ) gave him the opportunity to unveil his long-term strategy . |
| 11 | Marshall 's departure provided President George Bush with the opportunity to make his second nomination to the nine-member court , the president having appointed David Souter in July 1990 to replace another staunch liberal , William Brennan , who had also retired on the grounds of age and ill-health [ see p. 37604 ] . |
| 12 | The Prince took his customary place before the plain white marble fireplace . |
| 13 | The Prince summoned his private detective : a message was to arrive no later than 9.30 p.m. calling him urgently to Osborne . |
| 14 | The Prince had his own room , of course , and Narouz wanted a cabin next to him . |
| 15 | He thought it a mistake for the Prince to make his first visit in the shadow of such a legendary figure . |
| 16 | 5.5 This conclusion will actually exclude the great majority of verbs ( or , more exactly , all normal uses of the great majority of verbs ) from appearing in construction with an adverbal adjective at all , with or without the claimed nuance ; either they will be related to their object in such a way that there is simply no need to mention any particular property of the latter entity , as in ( 30 ) ; or , even if there is some property of the object specially relevant to the notion introduced in the verb , that property does not belong to the object by virtue of the relationship between the verb and the object ; for instance , even if Angela in ( 31 ) resembles her cousin in that they are both dark , her cousin does not have that property because Angela resembles her , and even if the Prince admired his Chief Justice because of his disposition to clemency it is not the the Prince 's admiration that justifies the applicability of the property merciful . |
| 17 | Hence the ungrammaticality of the structures in ( 31 ) which purport to offer us adverbal adjectives : ( 30 ) the Dean met Mrs Smollett and her uncle a Persian Kite costs $4,000 ( 31 ) Angela resembles her cousin dark the Prince admired his Chief Justice merciful |
| 18 | The final seal of royal approval was given when the Prince built his own holiday retreat in Brighton . |
| 19 | The wizard uncurled his stinging fist and the roll of gold coins slipped between his throbbing fingers . |
| 20 | Once uncomfortably aboard the wizard moved his white-knuckle grip to a convenient piece of harness and prodded K ! sdra lightly with the sword . |
| 21 | The other , whom I recognised at once from the camp at Southampton and from the training centre at Achnacarry was sitting u– on the stretcher cursing his bad luck in getting a piece of shrapnel in his leg . |
| 22 | In another case it will mean that the writer creates his own special kind of language : and it is in this sense that Halliday applies it to the Neanderthal language of The Inheritors . |
| 23 | On Radio 4 's Start the Week , Potter emphasised his characters ' aloneness — separated by passages where the writer does his directorial exercises . |
| 24 | ‘ He has no regard to the decreets of y[ou]r courts , but repells them currently , ’ the duke was told , and the writer added his own opinion of the intention of the bailie-depute in thus attacking a rival jurisdiction . |
| 25 | Should the auditor design his own software packages ? |
| 26 | Traditionally , a fell race is run between fixed points at the top and bottom of a fell , with the runner choosing his own route . |
| 27 | On arrival , he opens up the briefcase to reveal his personal transport . |
| 28 | JIM BAKKER , the fallen televangelist , was convicted yesterday of swindling followers of his Praise The Lord ministry out of more than $150m ( £90m ) and syphoning off part of the money to fund his extravagant lifestyle . |
| 29 | Michael Croggon 's studies could help save the Amazonian rain forests … but only if he can find the money to fund his own daily care . |
| 30 | One of her students , Simon , was having difficulty gathering the money to pay his yearly fees , despite working every available holiday . |