Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] [verb] [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | The federal Minister of Production , Islam Nabi , a member of the MQM , was reported by the Pakistan Times to have tendered his resignation on June 25 . |
| 2 | Bruce Springsteen , one of the world 's biggest rock stars has opened his British tour at the National Bowl in Milton Keynes . |
| 3 | In fact , it was rumoured that one of the Mill Hill guys had had his brain messed around with by the visitor who screwed up the landing in the Hebrides . |
| 4 | Originally one of Mrs Thatcher 's closest confidants , he soon became disillusioned when increased competition in the defence and telecommunications industries threatened to weaken his beloved company . |
| 5 | Fascinating because it has been brought together by one of Britain 's leading painters ( although Hodgkin denies that the bright colours and strong forms employed by the Mughal period artists have influenced his art ) it is also an important entity in its own right . |
| 6 | Robert Graves had made his home here and Ruth understood why . |
| 7 | John Storey , two , was rushed to hospital critically ill with stomach and throat burns and for several days doctors fought to save his life . |
| 8 | Within a few years Raffles had realised his dream . |
| 9 | He is selfcentred and ambitious , on his way to being a cosmetic surgeon , but love and white picket fences conspire to change his low-down ways . |
| 10 | The house from which Haverford Downs intended to telephone his ‘ Jottings ’ belonged to the Harrisons , an elderly couple who had set off to visit their daughter in Toronto . |
| 11 | Brathwaite acknowledged in a radio address that last-minute pressure from international church organizations and human rights organizations had influenced his decision . |
| 12 | MEDIA mogul Rupert Murdoch 's five UK newspapers have helped his News Corporation group more than double profits . |
| 13 | Bell vigorously resisted the attempts by Meese and others to foist on him people he regarded as unqualified ideologues ; he was convinced that movement conservatives wanted to infiltrate his department with appointees who shared their extreme views : ‘ They wanted to be able to monitor deliberations about proposed actions and have early warning of what might be brewing in suspect agencies . |
| 14 | Krenz ( who with two other former politburo members had resigned his Volkskammer seat on Jan. 9 ) and 13 other former politburo members were expelled from the party . |
| 15 | The pilot was flying the aircraft fairly close to the ground and was using road signs to help determine his location . |
| 16 | If a farmer dies having occupied his agricultural property for a period of at least two years , no inheritance tax is payable . |
| 17 | Tony Perratt , also a plasma physicist of Los Alamos National Laboratory and a former student of Alfven 's , has conducted experiments that bear out Alfven 's ideas at laboratory level , and computer simulations have confirmed his data on a galactic scale . |
| 18 | A farmer who was convicted of starving and neglecting farm animals has lost his appeal against a six month prison sentence . |
| 19 | United are unchanged … player coach Greg Downs has served his suspension but has named himself as sub … a man to watch is young Gareth Davies he 's been having trials with Liverpool and may have a future at Anfield … |
| 20 | Spokesman Neil Midgeley said quality improvement measures have boosted his company 's performance enormously . |
| 21 | Doug Wilder is elected governor of Virginia with the media noting that ‘ South-western coal counties helped to fuel his victory . ’ |
| 22 | When Mr Engelberger appeared on television in 1967 with one of his earliest robots , the only calls he got from Americans were from showbiz agents trying to book his ‘ act ’ . |
| 23 | I wish to move an amendment which is erm , that we defer any decision on this until the property , the director of property services has made his report to the property sub- committee on the erm , future , stroke to the organisation , which is th , the subject of his next report to property sub- committee . |
| 24 | Brooklyn-born Sendak 's own childhood memories have spawned his fantastic , often scary , creations but , in I Saw Esau , he has entered the imagination of real children down the years . |
| 25 | He had put on his best button down shirt and striped tie , which together with the tailored worsted slacks had annihilated his clothing coupons . |
| 26 | He denied allegations that a threatened boycott of Idaho potatoes by pro-choice advocates had influenced his decision to veto the bill . |
| 27 | The pilot has marked a direct line of track from his airfield of departure to his destination and noted the quarter , half and three quarter way marks to help assess his progress . |
| 28 | She was going to put it in the china vase , only one of the stage hands had left his lighter there for safe keeping , so she stuffed it between two books on the top shelf . |