Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suspect that Blake , in his enthusiasm to demonstrate all the techniques used in the book , has produced a mechanical exercise in linguistic description that risks killing appreciation . |
| 2 | The RICS check each lease to make sure there is a power of appointment ; other than that , the president did not consider it his function to determine any legal questions which might arise in the course of a rent review . |
| 3 | It is not just his verbosity , his inability to make any statement or express any idea , briefly and in plain English . |
| 4 | His bankruptcy in 1633 was the result of his inability to meet such charges due to the failure of the undertaking from the lord treasurer , Richard Weston , first Earl of Portland [ q.v. ] , to keep up payments due to him . |
| 5 | Cecil 's most popular publication was his life of his friend the Rev.John Newton ( 1725–1807 ) ; in the preface he writes that his decision to undertake this work arose |
| 6 | K. S. Karol points out that it was the same meeting of the Central Committee ( on 11 July ) which both endorsed Khrushchev 's announcement on 9 July of virtually unlimited economic aid to Cuba and approved his decision to withdraw all Soviet economic aid from China , and argues that the Cuban affair gave Khrushchevan unexpected internationalist alibi' for his anti-Maoist campaign ( Karol : 1971 , p. 204 ) . |
| 7 | TOMMY SMITH : ‘ So you 're saying his decision to have this operation and to actually sell it to the Sun came all within five seconds ? ’ |
| 8 | It had been his responsibility to take all the different times and sightings of Drew , and rationalise them . |
| 9 | He gave Jim 's clothes away to a refugee organization and pawned his watch to buy some clothes of his own choice for the interview . |
| 10 | Although President dos Santos had long expressed his willingness to form such a government , the agreement marked a significant policy change for Savimbi who had hitherto ruled out political co-operation with the MPLA-PT . |
| 11 | Moving to Guildford , Leese 's fanaticism and his willingness to devote all his time and resources to the new movement soon made him the fulcrum of racial nationalist activity in Britain . |
| 12 | She pushed at his chest to put some distance between them , pulling together the edges of her blouse with fingers that trembled . |
| 13 | Wilcox arrested the transfer of a morsel of meat to his mouth to put this question . |
| 14 | He opened his mouth to say more and then closed it again . |
| 15 | His attempt to achieve this by incorporating an intrinsic moral quality into the concept of lex , however , is not entirely convincing . |
| 16 | The castle 's stunted squad of masons and builders were still working to repair the damage the old man had done by tearing down walls in his attempt to prove these hidden glyphs were isolated aberrations , not — as they indeed were — ubiquitous . |
| 17 | Corbett stopped his horse to watch some labourers in the fields below working to bring in the last of the crops . |
| 18 | Manager Mark Ferguson warns his side to expect another tough battle but says : ‘ You can throw the form book away before this match ; it 's been shown at all levels that the cup has no respect for league positions . |
| 19 | Two speechless simian Servitors attended him , one to ingest his waste and cleanse him , the other to nourish him with its own enriched blood and shift his cart from window to window — from which he gazed out , praying for an exploration vessel of his Chapter to pass this way . |
| 20 | Jordi 's head was set beautifully on his broad shoulders , and there was something in the way he held his neck to support that head which was unmistakably intelligent and sexy . |
| 21 | Moreover Pound 's anti-Semitism , later so notorious , certainly casts a sinister light on his readiness to broach these issues . |
| 22 | Rémy of Pertuis had as good as made up his mind to leave that day , but the arrival of the earl of Leicester caused him to think again , and countermand his orders to Bénezet and Daalny to begin packing . |
| 23 | It did not come to his mind to murder any of them ; it was not his way , or the way he had been raised , to take life in cold blood , without a formal challenge or warning , without the necessary ritual preparation for combat and maybe death . |
| 24 | She had not expected his mind to contain this kind of landscape . |
| 25 | The twin starting points for this view are the widespread injustice and oppression which exist today in Latin America and which are then analysed sociologically with a Marxist framework , together with the fact that in the Incarnation God has declared his intention to liberate all people from every kind of slavery and injustice . |
| 26 | Mr Barton came to town on market day , yesterday , to announce plans for the May 25 to May 30 broadcast and his intention to do some shopping . |
| 27 | By contrast with his predecessor , he had declared his intention to introduce more " participation , accommodation and consensus " in a " kinder , gentler society " . |
| 28 | To do this , de Gaulle reshuffled his committee to include more representatives of the Resistance and more familiar political faces . |
| 29 | But he was out the door , tripping over them in his anxiety to avoid another whack . |
| 30 | Is he aware that they welcome his determination to do all he can to improve their lot , both at home and abroad ? |