Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [verb] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He waved frantically , and his sister did the same . |
| 2 | Carter had advocated deregulation , but he approached reform via legislation whereas his successor sought the same end primarily through administrative action . |
| 3 | He admires the work of the PFA and wants his association to win the same respect . |
| 4 | And why , if his enemy had the same thought in mind , should he toss it back to him so carelessly ? |
| 5 | But there 's no mistaking Madge 's absolute technical control and his determination to make the most of the grand old man 's music . |
| 6 | Demand for his services exceeded his capacity to meet the many requests and in the second year of the scheme he acquired a car to provide greater mobility . |
| 7 | He was advised by his teacher to choose the latter and it was suggested that he should go to Oxford and read chemistry . |
| 8 | The discovery was a direct outcome of the interest of Dr Bevan Reid ( Reader in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Sydney University 's Queen Elizabeth II Research Centre for Mothers and Infants ) in the cause of cancer , and his aim to resolve the many questions surrounding the problem . |
| 9 | You 're not alone , his missus has the same . ’ |
| 10 | John Calambokidis , who runs the non-profit marine-mammal organisation Cascadia Research , based in nearby Olympia , says that 1991 was the year that his team saw the most whales come in to Puget Sound , and stay the longest . |
| 11 | Furthermore he would instruct all the dealers in his charge to do the same , on the grounds that a joint effort would shift the share price , and that , besides , the company 's prospects were good anyway . |
| 12 | When the marriage is good , a husband may be able to encourage his wife to see the many compensations in store , including the opportunities to explore their own interests and reinforce their commitment to each other . |
| 13 | His grin held the same hint of mocking , almost insolent provocation as when he had taunted Alain Gebrec . |
| 14 | His father had the same seriously intent eyes and the delicate look that Stephen had . |
| 15 | He drove himself hard , expecting his workforce to do the same , but he was quick to provide them with social benefits — housing in 1901 and 1908 , a hospital and benefit scheme in 1917 , holidays with pay , and a consultative board of directors and workers ' representatives in 1927 . |
| 16 | We noted the grim approaches ; incessant traffic noise in narrow streets ; parked vehicles hemming in the pavement ; rubbish dumps on waste land nearby ; the absence of green playing spaces on or near the school sites ; tiny playgrounds ; gaunt looking buildings ; often poor decorative conditions inside ; narrow passages ; dark rooms ; unheated and cramped cloakrooms ; unroofed outside lavatories ; tiny staff rooms ; inadequate storage space with consequent restrictions on teaching materials and therefore methods ; inadequate space for movement and P.E. ; meals in classroom ; art on desks ; music only to the discomfort of others in an echoing building ; non-soundproof partitions between classes ; lack of smaller rooms for group work ; lack of spare room for tuition of small groups ; insufficient display space ; attractive books kept unseen in cupboards for lack of space to lay them out ; no privacy for parents wishing to see the head ; sometimes the head and his secretary sharing the same room ; and , sometimes all around , the ingrained grime of generations . |
| 17 | Yet the sight of his daughter going the same way seriously displeased him . |
| 18 | You may have heard people speak about the loss of brain cells as we get older but , as Tony Buzan , expert in the working of the human mind , writes in his book Make the Most of Your Mind : |
| 19 | Paul Davies is a guru of mathematical physics and his book covers the same territory as that of Hawking ( whom he cites often ) and Gribbin and is almost as impenetrable ; however , he makes every effort to take the layman along with him , so that by judicious and generous skipping you do gain something of value . |
| 20 | We are not interested here in whether a second investigator who slavishly follows in the footsteps of his predecessor gets the same results . |
| 21 | Whether his descendant has the same staying power remains to be seen . |
| 22 | He was there when MacMillan made his famous ‘ Winds of Change ’ speech and recalls being on the same Dakota plane to Sierra Leone as the Foreign Secretary , who was on his way to grant the former colony independence . |
| 23 | I ca n't tell you anymore but ’ his mane remains the same ’ after all this time . |
| 24 | His tone had the same finality as the sound of the door closing behind them . |
| 25 | One person who spends much of his time doing the same thing is Master of Wine Tim Hanni from the Beringer Vineyards School for American Chefs . |
| 26 | ‘ His mother attended the same elementary school as Rose . ’ |
| 27 | It was time his mother felt the same kind of distress , the same feeling of being rootless ; after all , that woman had stolen her father away . |
| 28 | It was revealed on Aug. 5 that the special prosecutor in the Iran-contra affair , Lawrence E. Walsh , had informed Ronald Reagan that his office considered the former President " simply as a witness " in the investigation and not a candidate for indictment . |
| 29 | He 'd picked up the baby and held her while Ma gave her the medicine , and his face had the same look as when Billy had fallen in the river . |