Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only his beard continued to grow these days , for he had given up shaving ; a bad sign . |
| 2 | He was at pains to explain why his election promises to lower middle-class taxes had actually turned 180 degrees . |
| 3 | And I would maintain that for all his limited command of English and his limited general knowledge , he not only knew all there was to know about how to run a house , he did in his prime come to acquire that ‘ dignity in keeping with his position ’ , as the Hayes Society puts it . |
| 4 | And they spurred forward to pursue and take him , no doubt believing it a happy chance for them , and the Lord Owen caused his horse to appear to drop lame , and so encouraged and led them until they were spread all along the field in open order , within close range of the bowmen in the woods . |
| 5 | His bid started to go wrong at the 12th hole and spluttered out at the 17th , the Road Hole , where many an aspiration had been snuffed out in the past . |
| 6 | What are the Ministry of Defence estimates of the costs of that and what attempts are his Department making to cover some of those costs ? |
| 7 | They continued under Carter , and his administration failed to produce any effective solutions . |
| 8 | As Hrun 's gaze swept over her his mind began to operate two notional counting machines . |
| 9 | He had spent three weeks since his wedding trying to remain calm and continue his studies , but with the disturbing picture of Tess always in his mind . |
| 10 | Even before hunting began , his sons would have had cause to identify with him because each and every one of them was powerfully motivated by the drives of his id to wish to become such a primal father in his turn . |
| 11 | Boris Ford thought that Lord Robbins and his Committee had to accept some of the blame ‘ for the ease with which the grey eminences at the Department have been able to enlist radical ministers like Sir Edward Boyle and Mr Crosland in support of policies that are socially and academically reactionary ’ . |
| 12 | Fire raced through her blood , her slim arms winding themselves instinctively about his neck , the throbbing of his heartbeat seeming to echo that of her own . |
| 13 | A good kung fu man never stands rigidly ; his posture has to appear natural and relaxed . |
| 14 | President Clinton himself has started running hares with his campaign promises to soak foreign companies taking unfair advantage of the US market and his more recent claims that European governments are subsidising the Airbus project and destroying jobs at Boeing . |
| 15 | She must be mated again , and the first mate has to guard her or risk his groundwork going to benefit another . |
| 16 | Instead Mr Kinnock would be likely to introduce a more modest programme , tinkering with his tax plans to accommodate Liberal Democrat reservations , and concentrating on plans for constitutional reform — including Scottish and Welsh assemblies and a new Freedom of Information Act . |
| 17 | But , Prof Richard De La Rue , of the university 's department of electronics and electrical engineering , and his team hope to go 20 times better and develop a cable which will transmit ten billion pulses , or two million simultaneous telephone calls . |
| 18 | His wife seemed to recognise some signal and took up the conversational baton for the next lap . |
| 19 | In 1832 Walter Henry built a Sunday School near the church , and in 1839 founded a day-school for boys while his wife began to teach young girls in the rectory . |
| 20 | In one scene of this comedy about university revue artists meeting in acrimony ten years later and which also features comedienne Rita Rudner , Branagh as a once-promising writer reduced to penning an American TV sitcom for his wife had to become drunk at a New Year 's Party . |
| 21 | The rest of them felt his wife tried to sever all connections . |
| 22 | … his back lengthens to fit any number ; men 's hands stick to his skin and [ when ] he is killed nothing remains but a pool of water . |
| 23 | From 1957 Macmillan and his cabinet tried to rectify this by drastic cuts to conventional forces as Britain 's nuclear armoury expanded . |
| 24 | Acute renal impairment ( creatinine 0.37 mmol/l ) developed on 26 February 1988 and his encephalopathy worsened to grade iv . |
| 25 | As it was , in the weeks that followed Herr Bremann 's death , his lordship began to devote more and more hours to the matter of the crisis in Germany . |
| 26 | Karl Llewellyn spent a great part of his life seeking to reconcile legal doctrine and commercial activity . |
| 27 | Everything in his life seemed to go wrong . |
| 28 | ‘ He gave his life to try to save one of the horses which Stephen bought from Father . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ So there we are , ’ he went on , and his voice seemed to carry more than ever . |
| 30 | His universalism seemed to offer unending real misery punctuated by periods of illusory bliss . |