Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] his [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edward agreed to renounce his claim to the French crown , while John was to abandon his demand for sovereignty over the lands ceded to the English . |
| 2 | ‘ Of course , I agreed to carry his bag like a shot , and the Irish golfer gave me some very basic instruction in my duties over a couple of pints of the dark stuff from his native land . |
| 3 | France 's Environment Minister , Brice Lalonde , has threatened to resign unless the government agrees to implement his plan for a new waste tax . |
| 4 | They came to an agreement , and the man designated retained his authority by a leadership which did not offend his fellow lineage members : support could fall away , men could choose another elder to act for them , or fail to contribute to common funds when required . |
| 5 | There is no evidence that sceattas circulated widely in the Mercian hinterland and some reason to suggest in the light of a multiplicity of distinctive sceatta coinages in eastern and southern England that Aethelbald , who may have minted in Canterbury , failed to impose his authority over the issue of coins by others , ‘ a critical commentary ’ , perhaps ‘ on what Bede asserts , and on Aethelbald 's own claims ’ . |
| 6 | His narrative reveals Geertz ( almost ) capable of being a player himself , helping to establish his credibility as a knowing ‘ reader ’ of cockfighting and supporting his claims for the activity 's wider anthropological significance . |
| 7 | When Gabriel turned in terror towards Garvey , the playmaster was already struggling to untangle his robe from the top of the ladder and to climb down . |
| 8 | It was published in America in 1974 , translated by Peter Kussi , who has revised his translation for the new edition of 1986 which I am discussing here . |
| 9 | A soldier who risked his life to save children wounded in a mortar attack in Bosnia has received his MBE from the Queen . |
| 10 | He has developed his sport into an art and never stops fishing . |
| 11 | If anything in the Amis corpus has validated his penchant for the poison dart , it was last year 's Memoirs : indiscreet , at times indefensible , but nevertheless a book to leave you giddy with laughter . |
| 12 | The matter will therefore drag on for another month until the next management committee meeting , while Ferguson has to continue his return to the first team under awkward circumstances . |
| 13 | He bit his lip as he tried to thread his finger through the trigger guard . |
| 14 | He had expected to lose his life on the track , but he passed away peacefully in his bed . |
| 15 | TONY Benn , the veteran darling of Labour 's left wing , is expected to lose his seat on the party 's ruling National Executive today . |
| 16 | The magistrate who tried to kill his wife with a home-made gas chamber has been jailed for nine years . |
| 17 | Or the power person may be a power broker who has arranged his support before the meeting and knows that he can call on it if his authority is challenged . |
| 18 | Three times Balaam tried to drive his donkey along the desert road . |
| 19 | Ken , upset , tried to drive his van through the line of Mr Rowse 's patients : he broke the ankle of an elderly man too feeble to jump out of the way . |
| 20 | If the original depositor has assigned his interest to an assignee , so that the assignee has become entitled to look to the bank for repayment , achievement of the legislative purpose requires the assignee to be the person entitled to compensation . |
| 21 | So let's say this client has got his thirty pounds a month Covermaster , er , and he 's decided that he wants to invest his Covermaster in a Japan fund . |
| 22 | He has dumped down the notes for a greyhound , has given his heart to the beast , and is derided for this by his friends in the pub . |
| 23 | However , the responsibility for any report included in listing particulars or a prospectus ( for example , an accountants ' report ) remains with the person who has given his consent to the inclusion of that report in the form and context in which it is included . |
| 24 | Arafat has gambled his reputation on a plan for interim Palestinian self-rule in the Israeli-occupied territories , starting with an early Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and the West Bank town of Jericho . |
| 25 | Tom Walkinshaw , chairman of the BRDC and their trading subsidiary Silverstone Circuits Ltd before the deal was made , has since been sacked and has resigned his membership of the Drivers ' Club . |
| 26 | He tried to batter his rider against the wall , scrape him off against a fragment of the banisters , but still Fleury held on . |
| 27 | A person who has parked his car on a road and left it unattended ca n't be said to be the driver of this offence . |
| 28 | Mr Kenneth Clarke has earned his promotion to the Home Office , and has the combination of brains and toughness to undertake the huge task of reforming the police . |
| 29 | And no one doubts that he has earned his place among the sport 's leading players . |
| 30 | The child care lawyer needs to know his way around the Children Act . |