Example sentences of "[verb] his [noun pl] [prep] [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Henry had copies of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle identifiable with our C and E , and went to some trouble to re-order his material so that his account of early English history was clearer than that of his sources ; Florence helped his readers by prefacing his work with lists of bishops of English sees and genealogies of English royal dynasties . |
| 2 | At half-time he tried to encourage his players by reshuffling his forwards , but they never regained their form . |
| 3 | Providing , that is , that he signified his intentions of commencing his partnership one month before the commencement of any of the sub-terms , and beforehand to pay a full one-quarter share of the cost of digging and winning and carrying on the said works . |
| 4 | Police identified the bomber as an Azerbaijani man who had shouted a warning to other passengers just before the blast , but by Aug. 8 investigators had concluded that he was not a terrorist but a dishonest businessman trying to escape his creditors by faking his own death . |
| 5 | He rose , scrubbed his teeth by dipping his finger in some salt , washed his face in a bowl of rosewater , put on his boots and , led by a still joking Corbett , went downstairs to break his fast in the small buttery . |
| 6 | Mansell , 38 , clearly delighted at completing his second hat-trick , refused to discuss his prospects of claiming his first championship , despite the retirements of both Ayrton Senna and Gerhard Berger in the two new Marlboro McLaren Honda MP4/7As . |
| 7 | Stomach for the fight — McKenzie shows his credentials in giving his colleagues a helping hand in the line-out during the World Cup final . |
| 8 | In the belief that it is better to abuse himself than others , he gets his kicks from watching his own videotaped interviews with women about their sexual preferences . |
| 9 | It seems that the Chief Constable must also show the report to the constable and invite his comments before reaching his final decision . |
| 10 | However , there is no doubt that many express terms which bind the employee to devote his time to his employment and to devote his energies to furthering his employer 's business contemplate control over his skill and knowledge . |
| 11 | Thus , it was rather ironic that in this , his best series , he bowled hardly any ; instead , he took his wickets by adapting his bowling to the slow conditions of a rainy summer , reducing his pace a fraction and making the ball move around more . |
| 12 | It could lead to his being used sparingly by Middlesex , which would hinder his chances of regaining his England place . |
| 13 | He said afterwards that he would consult his advisers before deciding his next action . |
| 14 | For some months he had been making his preparations by placing his men in key positions , so that if and when the moment came , the coup would be swift and , he hoped , bloodless . |
| 15 | It does something even more wonderful , it accelerates critical illness diagnosis by paying out on the disabling condition like loss of limb , where it creates a situation where the permanent person get paid out even before he has a critical condition , because that condition threatens his chances of paying his daily needs due to financial independence . |
| 16 | Ted had given up all hope of enlarging his holding and was concentrating his efforts on farming his existing soil , making a reasonable living from his multiplicity of vegetable crops , when a letter arrived one day explaining to him that if he still wanted to buy the adjoining land , the owners were interested in discussing the matter . |
| 17 | [ P ] eople respond to incentives … if a person 's surroundings change in such a way that he will increase his satisfactions by altering his behaviour , he will do so . |
| 18 | The director Stephen Spielberg has banned his children from seeing his latest blockbuster . |