Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within Iraq , all too many of his political opponents managed to underestimate his capabilities , and for most of them it was fatal . |
| 2 | His scientific ideas had harmed his political chances before , so he stuck to generalities about preserving memorials of the distant past . |
| 3 | The obsessions with eloquence and general knowledge would appear to be ones that emerged with our generation , probably in the wake of Mr Marshall , when lesser men trying to emulate his greatness mistook the superficial for the essence . |
| 4 | For some reason both the adjoining clerical incumbents wished to call his soul their own ; or it may have been his jumble that they wanted . |
| 5 | Her stabbing nails had torn his left upper eyelid and blood from the wound dribbled down the side of his face , some of it running across the orb itself , turning one half of his world crimson . |
| 6 | He spent an uncomfortable day surrounded by burly miners threatening to smash his Dansette with baseball bats every time he put on another part from the ‘ Ring Cycle ’ . |
| 7 | Similar allegations had caused his resignation from the Cabinet in December 1990 [ see pp. 37828 ; 38109-10 ] . |
| 8 | Andrus criticized the bill for its potential to turn the victim of a rape into a criminal , and objected to the role of outside activists attempting to exploit his state 's legendary conservatism . |
| 9 | The whole interior walls of the church in this little Istrian village are covered with paintings on such themes as the Dance of Death ( Mrtvački ples ) , the Adoration of the Magi ( Poklonstvo kraljeva ) and Christ on the Mount of Olives ( Krist na maslinovoj gori ) in which the poetic idealism of the painter shines through the simple techniques employed to convey his vision of spiritual truth . |
| 10 | JIANG ZEMIN , General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party , warned in a speech in Tokyo yesterday against a possible revival of Japanese militarism , as Chinese pro-democracy demonstrators tried to disrupt his address . |
| 11 | Mr Livingstone agreed that the spread of individual ballots had undermined his vote . |
| 12 | The organ grinder , however , did not have time to answer , because the drunken women had pushed his organ which began to roll down the hill . |
| 13 | At last , his apprenticeship completed , he was free and , in 1911 , three generous Jewish women undertook to pay his tuition fees at the Slade School of Fine Art . |
| 14 | Jeremy 's natural joy in the festivities found fulfilment at the Youngs ' house , where a children 's party and innumerable presents helped to put his father 's tragedy into the background . |
| 15 | The Institution of Electrical Engineers has listed his various papers and publications . |
| 16 | It subsequently became known that Serfaty had been released , and on Sept. 13 he was expelled to France , the Moroccan authorities having denied his claim to Moroccan nationality on the grounds that he held Brazilian citizenship . |
| 17 | In them opposing forces sought to violate his commitment : the physical versus the spiritual ; the free versus the regimented ; the religious versus the secular ; and so on . |
| 18 | But Mr Fallon said the medical men had misjudged his remarks . |
| 19 | Michael Hanley , Mr Osberk 's solicitor , says his client fears he will be tortured by Turkish police trying to trace his brother , a member of an illegal Kurdish independence organisation who is in hiding . |
| 20 | In order to re-affirm his declared commitment to a liberal and secular state , Ben Ali retained Mohamed Charfi as Minister for National Education , Higher Education and Scientific Research ; fundamentalist students had demanded his resignation . |
| 21 | Doubts about Mr Vargas ' taste were also raised by the sight of near-naked women dancing to celebrate his second anniversary in politics . |
| 22 | Ken was in one of his usual moods trying to get his mental computer working — does he ignore them brusquely or does he make one of his faces and willingly sign an autograph ? |
| 23 | ‘ He 's got more money than I have , ’ complained Owen after four largeish simultaneous demonstrations had stretched his resources to the utmost . |
| 24 | He might practise controlled movements involving bending his knee , or bending and straightening his arm . |
| 25 | And as students of the star signs will verify , the cuspate divisions help explain his ability to carve the characters he plays into different personality fragments to give them added depth . |
| 26 | Although the popular view of Summerson is as the historian of Georgian building ( his Georgian London , first published in 1945 is still in print ) , and although he was a founder member of the Georgian Society , conservation groups failed to enlist his automatic support . |
| 27 | Red fangs have torn His face . |
| 28 | President Vinicio Cerezo has blamed the killings on right-wing extremists trying to destabilise his government . |
| 29 | Whatever their opinion of him he was clearly in touch with other artists , as in April 1808 he complains bitterly of not being able to get on with his painting because of other artists coming to see his work . |
| 30 | Initially used by Viv Richards , the Jumbo was so successful that the other manufacturers had to follow his lead by bringing out their own heavy bats . |