Example sentences of "his [noun pl] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thwarted in his attempts to cause a shortage of coal in London by attacking Newcastle , as the Dutch had done in 1667 when they controlled the Thames estuary , Jones did what he could to disrupt the coastal trade . |
| 2 | A more appropriate model of academic goals , one which does not construct or require a ‘ great divide ’ between an ‘ objective ’ , written , academic language and a ‘ context-dependent ’ , oral , lay language , is offered by Godfrey Lienhardt , in his attempts to find a language for describing concepts of ‘ self ’ in different cultures . |
| 3 | It was a downmarket job ; he 'd report on reactions to his attempts to change a $1000 bill , sit in a lion 's cage at the local zoo , or clean windows on the twenty-eighth floor of a skyscraper . |
| 4 | In his first act as a father , Vitor had arranged for his labourers to build a sandpit at the edge of the terrace and opposite her workshop . |
| 5 | The poses come as pauses at the end of each sequence , the dancer then changing position before beginning a new phrase , as if the guitarist were resting his fingers fur a moment . |
| 6 | His fingers traced a line from her groin up to her chin , forcing her to look back at him . |
| 7 | He raised his hands , crossing his fingers to make a crucifix . |
| 8 | A downturn in trade has forced London restaurateur Amin Ali , owner of Jamdani and the Red Fort , to put on hold his plans to open a restaurant in Moscow . |
| 9 | The foreign minister and former Georgian party leader , Eduard Shevardnadze , cancelled his plans to attend a Warsaw Pact meeting and flew to Tbilisi to appeal for calm while tanks patrolled the city streets . |
| 10 | She added that she had no idea why Mr Gilbey had wanted to stop her speaking about his plans to rent a property . |
| 11 | He also had drains that were in a terrible state and therefore wanted one of his sons to become a plumber . |
| 12 | No sooner had the Minister of Education , Lionel Jospin , stated that the scarves could not be a motive for excluding the girls from school than the teachers ' union , traditionally close to the Socialist Party , called him a traitor and 50 of his deputies signed a petition publicly disaffiliating themselves from his line and asking for his resignation . |
| 13 | In 1666 the Portuguese minister-resident in the Dutch republic had his household goods seized for debt ; and when , two years later , he attempted to leave for Portugal his creditors secured a court order for his arrest . |
| 14 | Since 1987 Bond 's own fortunes had also declined , however , and on Sept. 26 he resigned as chief executive of the Bond Corporation Holdings in an effort to induce his creditors to accept a reconstruction of the beleaguered Bond group . |
| 15 | She glanced sharply at him , and although his expression remained inscrutable she had the fleeting impression that his reasons involved a woman . |
| 16 | Seems to have been a business meeting when the Treasurer presented his accounts showing a balance of £15 ; 12 ; 6½ . |
| 17 | His orcs use a kind of gunpowder at Helm 's Deep ( II , 142 ) ; thirty pages later the Ents meet at Isengard , or ‘ Irontown ’ , a kind of napalm — perhaps one should say with closer reference to Tolkien 's own experience , a Flammenwerfer . |
| 18 | Ask Clint whether he feels it has been tough for his kids having a superstar dad and he looks cagey : ‘ Everyone worries about their kids . |
| 19 | His words struck a chord , making her turn away . |
| 20 | His words opened a door through which she refused to go , and she swept past him , her head high , hearing him chuckle as if she amused him . |
| 21 | His words cast a pool of silence . |
| 22 | His words created a furore there . |
| 23 | His words held a ring of finality , as though the subject was closed . |
| 24 | Despite his soft tone his words held a chip of flint , and Merrill found herself able to move away and rearrange the folds of her neckline with miraculously steady fingers . |
| 25 | Yet his subjects had a right of resistance , of rebellion against him , if he failed to rule them justly and to give them due protection . |
| 26 | Bransby Cooper says that ‘ I have sometimes suffered from the Professor 's love of cold air ; for if ever he could manage at his parties to have a window left open unperceived , he was delighted ; and many a time when I have dined with him I have said ‘ Pray , Mr Coleman , have your ventilators shut or I shall be blown out of the room ’ , at which he laughed and had the direction of the current changed by stealth so as to apply the breeze upon some other visitor less sensitive than myself' . |
| 27 | He came down on his knees to do a solo really because he ca n't actually play to back me up ! |
| 28 | When her eyes grew accustomed to the night Marian could see Allen on his knees disentangling a coil of rope . |
| 29 | Neither Bradford nor his successors obtained a charter for the colony , and because of this it was absorbed into the much larger colony of Massachusetts in 1691 . |
| 30 | Mother , daughter and father with son on his shoulders holding a toy gun at the apex of a neatly composed pyramid . |