Example sentences of "his [noun] [to-vb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's up to Foucard and his superiors to decide who the suspects are … ’ |
| 2 | But when he had leapt off his horse to approach it the chest had sprouted legs and had gone trotting off into the forest , stopping again a few hundred yards away . |
| 3 | Finally he 'll decide to go and tinker with his terminal to tell him the tally to date . |
| 4 | His determination to deny them the ‘ improved living and working conditions , proper social protection , dialogue between management and labour ’ aspired to by the Maastricht social chapter suggest he may have had a different community in mind from the sort outside the gates of Timex . |
| 5 | It is inevitable that the Evangelist made changes to the traditions in his desire to say what the events of Jesus ' life meant for his readers . |
| 6 | His sense of what counts , his independence , his refusal to do what the others do . |
| 7 | In 1889 a Select Committee heard another plea from a male trade unionist for the restriction of married women 's work on the grounds that ‘ when the married women turn into the domestic workshops they become competitors against their own husbands and it requires a man and his wife to earn what the man alone would earn if she were not in the shop ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ I sha n't wait till Adam returns , ’ Lewis said in that manner that had once led his daughter to call him the Frog Footman , |
| 9 | Mr. Pantry informed Mr. Small , for the defence , of the discrepancy between the 12 January statement and Matadial 's evidence about the telephone call after the shooting , but did not consider it his duty to show him the statement . |
| 10 | He kept up the pressure with his shoulder to give himself the widest gap possible . |
| 11 | It was heavy , being covered by a thick layer of turf , and as soon as he could he checked over his shoulder to satisfy himself the area was entirely clear , before climbing stiffly all the way out and dropping the trapdoor shut again . |
| 12 | The Leasehold Reform Act 1967 for the first time introduces leasehold enfranchisement , whereby a lessee is entitled to compel his lessor to sell him the freehold upon payment of compensation on a scale fixed by the Act . |
| 13 | Blanche waited for his shaking to give him the momentum to carry on . |