Example sentences of "his [noun pl] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His epithets include The One Who Dispels Darkness , a reference to his appearance as the light which preceded the sun as it rose . |
| 2 | But there are signs that not all his contemporaries saw the relationship in such simple terms . |
| 3 | Vlaminck always insisted that he was the first to have ‘ discovered ’ African or Negro sculpture ( and he and his contemporaries used the term ‘ art negre ’ generically to cover not only African but also Polynesian art and indeed any tribal art at all that came their way ) and his claim was to pass into legend , although Gauguin himself possibly owned examples of African as well as Polynesian sculpture . |
| 4 | Manager Geoff Cooke and his coaches had the look of men unashamedly glad South Africa are not here on a longer tour because the Boks are getting better by the minute . |
| 5 | ‘ So it was all set up , and your father 's known habit of shutting himself up with his scripts made the deception all the easier . |
| 6 | Yet Nizan was quite explicit in his attempts to counter the arguments of " those who accuse communism of crushing men and of withdrawing freedom " . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Elsewhere his attempts to plant the devices had failed . |
| 9 | Nizan was unsuccessful in his attempts to allay the suspicion that he did not really belong to the French communist party . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Jenny clung to him tightly , partly to delay his attempts to remedy the situation , partly to buffer herself against any possible impact . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Others resented and resisted his attempts to tax the city and bestow market privileges on Westminster Abbey . |
| 21 | His attempts to subject the traditional rulers of the provinces to his authority had resulted in constant warfare , and the extortions of his army , forever in the field , caused much discontent . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | And his views had the full backing of Alan Smith , chief executive of the Test and County Cricket Board . |
| 24 | We therefore warmly invite all fellow members and students who are able to reach the venue to hear Anthony McDermott , the editor of the World Trade page of the Financial Times , give us his views form the ‘ pink ’ world of the most famous and possibly reputable financial publication in the world . |
| 25 | His fingers felt the division between the old floorboards and then the cross-cut which marked the edge of a trapdoor . |
| 26 | His fingers probed the matted blood-stained hair which obscured the injury . |
| 27 | Yanto was using his fingers to gather the fine silky material . |
| 28 | Farrell reached inside his jacket , his fingers touching the butt of the .45 in his shoulder holster . |
| 29 | His fingers met the soft , masking texture of cloth , but beneath them he could feel her warmth , the firm softness of her sex . |
| 30 | This — ’ his fingers brushed the flimsy fabric where it stretched over her breasts and lingered ‘ — this was a great success . ’ |