Example sentences of "his [noun] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He fumbled about on the table , felt in the pockets of the odorous hawk-training jacket which hung on the back of the door , told his sister to try the cupboard . |
| 2 | He was doing his bit to save the world . |
| 3 | JOHN Major is poised to do his bit to make the world a safer place in 1993 . |
| 4 | And Johnny 's doing his bit to introduce the youngsters to the animal kingdom … |
| 5 | The winger , who last Friday withdrew a transfer request , scored the equaliser and generally did his bit to rally the troops . |
| 6 | However one of the youngsters at the back in his enthusiasm to reach the water tripped and fell over the one in front and this started a chain reaction in the column and the entire orderly procession landed at the bottom in a tangle of webbed feet and flapping wings . |
| 7 | He was almost running along the pier past the Tartar Frigate Inn , such was his enthusiasm to begin the cooking lesson , with a large lobster tucked absent-mindedly under his arm . |
| 8 | This change of career was prompted by his enthusiasm to study the Pacific . |
| 9 | Should he not be with us in six weeks , will he leave a message for his successor to ensure the continuation of that economic miracle into York street and York road in the constituency of my hon. Friend the Member for Belfast , North ( Mr. Walker ) ? |
| 10 | Yet Nizan was quite explicit in his attempts to counter the arguments of " those who accuse communism of crushing men and of withdrawing freedom " . |
| 11 | The final decision may go to the one who is the most persistent in his attempts to persuade the customer that the product meets the buyer 's needs . |
| 12 | Elsewhere his attempts to plant the devices had failed . |
| 13 | Nizan was unsuccessful in his attempts to allay the suspicion that he did not really belong to the French communist party . |
| 14 | Mino Martinazzoli , the leader of the Christian Democrats , has seen his leadership challenged by parliamentary deputies and , despite his attempts to clean the party up , faces the possibility that impatient reformers will quit . |
| 15 | Jenny clung to him tightly , partly to delay his attempts to remedy the situation , partly to buffer herself against any possible impact . |
| 16 | To make matters worse , because he always does fail in his attempts to improve the situation , the sufferer convinces himself that he has nothing to look forward to but a lifetime of misery . |
| 17 | This parent , Mr M , had studied the ‘ Effective Intervention ’ document as well as the Social Work ( Scotland ) Act in his attempts to assist the W family . |
| 18 | In his attempts to understand the paths taken by projectiles and falling bodies , he had ‘ opened to us the gate of natural philosophy universal , which is the knowledge of the nature of motion ’ . |
| 19 | Faraday was a friend of Turner and an admirer of his work , and might well have been more sympathetic to his attempts to catch the effects of light in paint . |
| 20 | During the election campaign Mr Smith made defending the parity of the pound within the ERM the cornerstone of his attempts to convince the City of Labour 's anti-inflationary convictions . |
| 21 | This is not to say it was quiet , for Hobbes published controversial Objections to Descartes 's Meditations ( 1641 ) , and was involved in acrimonious arguments with leading mathematicians about his attempts to square the circle . |
| 22 | Until about nine months ago it was normal to heap all the blame on his Interior Secretary , James Wan , a born-again Christian who has stuck to the letter of Genesis in his attempts to have the Earth subdued . |
| 23 | Others resented and resisted his attempts to tax the city and bestow market privileges on Westminster Abbey . |
| 24 | A combination of clerical opposition and papal objections thwarted his attempts to tax the clergy directly , but to the king Winchelsey constituted a far greater problem than the pope who , susceptible to more and wider pressures , gradually modified his objections to Edward 's aims and granted him a papal tenth in 1301 . |
| 25 | Perhaps the enormity of the facts and figures reaching his desk enabled him to overcome , for the first time , the old Marxists who were already resisting his attempts to change the way things were done . |
| 26 | He flexed his fingers to get the feeling back , and fumbled in his pocket for his keys . |
| 27 | Holly strained with his fingers to twist the coin under the lip of the bolt . |
| 28 | His hands shifted to part her thighs , and allow his fingers to caress the secret , intimate heart of her . |
| 29 | She had Dreamed Lord Roger as a former surgeon , still brooding because of his inability to save the life of his only child . |
| 30 | Before Lord George obtained this command , however , his inability to render the services expected of him by some of the family 's political friends was a liability , and was seen as such by Montrose , who wrote with some anxiety to deny allegations that the son of another gentleman of the region was serving in Lord George 's ship , but was on board the flagship of the admiral . |