Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ACTOR Tom Conti is doing his bit to help the ailing economy by buying only British goods . |
| 2 | Siome news in brief — the fatal accident inquiry into drug deaths in Glasgow has just ended with the sheriff telling the parents of the victim that while he understood their feelings of helplessness and grief , it was n't his function to hold the general inquiry into the misuse of drugs . |
| 3 | He believed in the chain of command : he communicated with civil servants through their ministers and ( with occasional exceptions ) with ministers through the prime minister ; and he did not regard it as his function to supervise the actual process of implementing decisions . |
| 4 | His opportunity to counter the French threat came in the Low Countries , an area which had witnessed English intervention against France almost half a century earlier . |
| 5 | His opportunity to bring the two threads together as a writer came in the early 1980s through the radical London magazine City Limits — which also gave WCM regular Rob Steen his first break as a cricket-writer . |
| 6 | As far as William was concerned , seizing the English throne was just one move in his struggle to resist the growing power of France that had already lasted twenty years and would take up the whole of the rest of his life . |
| 7 | During his struggle to get The Possessed into shape he came to see that his conception of Stavrogin , as well as obsessed by crisis and clarity , was hopelessly overcrowded . |
| 8 | Hodge was frequently criticised by contemporaries for his inability to grasp the finer points of the problems confronting him and for reacting in too blunt a manner . |
| 9 | Paige 's arms slid around his neck , one hand running sensually through the thick mat of hair at his nape , the other gliding beneath his robe to caress the muscled strength of his shoulders . |
| 10 | She stepped back with remarkable alacrity , but Jackson was quicker , using his foot to halt the closing door . |
| 11 | Mr Arafat is seeking to reunite the organisation in the face of criticism that his associates are corrupt and inefficient and that his decision to join the US-brokered Middle East peace talks has led the Palestinian cause into an impasse . |
| 12 | He wondered , morbidly introspective in the cold light of dawn , whether his decision to see the next murder case through from the call to the scene of crime to the trial had really arisen from a desire to learn or merely from a craven wish to impress or , worse , to propitiate , his staff , to show them that he valued their skills , that he wanted to be one of the team . |
| 13 | We talked of toxic wastes ; the possibility of there ever being true democracy in Tonga ( ‘ on paper the place is ripe for revolution , it is true , and our friends in the other islands are experiencing troubled times , so we must be wary ’ ) ; the complaints about corruption among the Tongan nobility , the curious business arrangements engineered between members of the royal family and the dubious Americans who were forever fetching up at the palace doorstep wishing to bend a royal ear to this scheme or that , with wealth and fame for all ; and the most surprising news : his decision to demolish the royal palace . |
| 14 | Once he has come reasonably to the conclusion that this will happen , the question whether his decision to issue the particular instructions that he gave was a reasonable one in the circumstances is subject to a further test of reasonableness . |
| 15 | His decision to unify the various administrative and pastoral functions of the archdiocese under one roof reflected his realistic approach to the Church of the 1990s . |
| 16 | This perception was heightened by his decision to focus the closing stages of his campaign not in the crucial mid-west " swing states " — those states which he had to win in order to retain his hold on the White House — but in an attempt to shore up his support in hitherto safe Republican states such as Florida , a pattern of behaviour widely seen as indicative of his desire to avoid being defeated by a landslide . |
| 17 | ‘ Winning only one Bledisloe Cup in my eight years and , of course , South Africa were factors ’ , Farr-Jones says of his decision to add the 53rd cap he won at Twickenham . |
| 18 | Meanwhile that one Catholic entertained the hope that his freedom to defend the Copernican system might yet be restored . |
| 19 | The divisional inspector of lifeboats for Scotland South , Tony Course , said : ‘ The courage displayed in his willingness to undertake the dangerous passage is exemplary , and the skill and determination of all crew members during this arduous service is a lifeboat with a partially exposed wheelhouse are worthy of the highest praise . ’ |
| 20 | Peter Ainsworth , Conservative member for Surrey East , was " Best Campaigning MP " for his willingness to promote the controversial — and ultimately unsuccessful — Hedgerows Bill [ see page 3 , this issue ] and his skill in negotiating with the conflicting interest groups . |
| 21 | Why did she feel no embarrassment or fear at letting her fingers trace down the hair-roughened muscles of his chest to skim the flat planes of his stomach and then move on ? |
| 22 | The husband not only forked food into his mouth with an almost non-stop movement of his right hand , but he also held a corn bun in his left hand so that food could be put into his mouth to fill the split second it took to reload the fork . |
| 23 | He was breathing the words against her skin , his voice muffled by the folds of cotton he had pushed aside to enable his mouth to cherish the tender apices of her pale breasts . |
| 24 | Stalin 's successor Khruschev , in the mid-1950s , made overtaking US meat production ( which entailed rapid increases in the production of feed-grains ) the measure of success or failure of his attempt to improve the Soviet diet . |
| 25 | Editor , — A B Kay deserves support in his attempt to persuade the General Medical Council ( GMC ) to provide far more effective protection for members of the public in relation to doctors who publicise treatments of unproved efficacy . |
| 26 | During his visit Xu met with the nominal leader of the Khmers Rouges , Khieu Samphan , but apparently failed in his attempt to persuade the Chinese-backed faction to rejoin the peace process . |
| 27 | MR MICHAEL MATES , 57 , appointed Minister of State Northern Ireland Office , is a close associate of Mr Heseltine and managed his attempt to win the Tory leadership election in 1990 . |
| 28 | Firstly , we will look at the history of delinquency and will refer in some detail to Geoffrey Pearson 's recent study , Hooligan : A history of respectable fears , and his attempt to locate the supposed ‘ golden age ’ of a traditional way of life based on respect for law and order and all forms of authority . |
| 29 | His attempt to identify the real world of perceived objects with our perception of it , and his denial of any experience-independent material reality , are the most obvious examples of this . |
| 30 | This was mainly the result of the action taken by Roosevelt shortly after his second inauguration : his attempt to reform the Supreme Court . |