Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [verb] his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jesus had not left them orphans : he had come to them in the person of the Spirit , who was not only the special gift of the Messiah to the messianic people in order to enable them to know his continued presence with them , but was the first instalment of the Age to Come , the pledge that the last days which had dawned with Jesus of Nazareth would , one day , come to God 's perfect conclusion . |
| 2 | WHEN Kevin Cole drives to work he leaves his new Metro GTi behind and takes his wife 's Peugeot 205 diesel . |
| 3 | Major Gregg Donahue ( Marshall Thompson ) takes a Vietnamese guide to help him locate his younger brother , a doctor who is being held captive by the Viet Cong at an old French fort . |
| 4 | The Profitboss trusts the experts to lend their expertise to help him reach his profit-making goals . |
| 5 | If we 're to help him get his magic back I 'm going to need to know just what he 's been up to . |
| 6 | Pineau informed de Gaulle about the strongly republican and socialist trend of resistance ideology and tried to persuade him to abandon his political reticence , which was causing concern among resisters . |
| 7 | The counsellor has to discover to what extent these feelings are present within the individual , at what point such feelings have arisen in his life , and to persuade him to re-consider his real needs and feelings , as opposed to socially induced attitudes about the quality and extent of his involvement in social life . |
| 8 | Some manipulation , I dare say , but gentle massage — and then , once the spasms and the pain have gone , Jimbo will be so grateful that I 'll easily be able to persuade him to start his own passive exercises . ’ |
| 9 | I was trying desperately to be unselfish , to let him make his own decision , to be himself . |
| 10 | You 're quite right to let him live his own life , but he will always be a reminder of your love for your husband , and his for you . |
| 11 | Knowing Christopher , she has judged it right to leave him to make his own attempts , though had he not succeeded she would probably have joined him and discussed the solution with him . |
| 12 | This reflects , she claims , man 's attitude toward woman in general , split between the ‘ Pygmalion urge ’ to form her to suit his own desire and the ‘ demolition enterprise ’ ( 1991a:247 ) . |
| 13 | All eyes turned to see him twisting his triangular hat as if that action alone was holding him together ; his face white and despairing . |
| 14 | I want us to thrash them just to see him shut his fat mouth — and then whinge about unfair treatment blah blah blah . |
| 15 | I did not return to work until was 18 months so I was able to see him cut his first tooth , take his first step and many other monumental firsts . |
| 16 | FRANZ Klammer , one of the world 's greatest downhill skiers , has celebrated his 39th birthday in the Colorado ski resort of Copper Mountain , where the resort went to extraordinary lengths to enable him to indulge his other passion , golf . |
| 17 | The High Court on July 17 rejected Odinga 's appeal against the government 's refusal to allow him to register his National Democratic Party , formed in February as a challenge to the 1982 constitutional amendment which made Kenya a one-party state [ see p. 38182 ] . |
| 18 | A few days after his consecration the new Archbishop conducted a formal enquiry and pronounced , as Convocation had already done , that the King 's first marriage was invalid because the Pope had no power to allow him to marry his deceased brother 's wife . |
| 19 | We 'll all be rolling , ’ Moran said half-jokingly ; and as Michael started to sob he touched his thick curly hair . |
| 20 | They tried to get him to discuss his own work , but he would n't . |
| 21 | But if Sutherland sounds distant and indifferent to his father — ’ We see each other very rarely ’ he insists — one has only to ask him to list his favourite Donald Sutherland movies to see a proud and admiring son . |
| 22 | It probably wo n't be long , before Kenan 's nagging John to take him to see his favourite football team . |
| 23 | It probably wo n't be long , before Kenan 's nagging John to take him to see his favourite football team . |
| 24 | I suggested that they should also accept the invitation to take him to visit his new school 's Open Evening . |
| 25 | Constance longed to tell him to mind his own business , but she kept silent and forced herself to smile . |
| 26 | It was on the tip of her tongue to tell him to keep his supercilious consideration to himself . |
| 27 | She had to admit he had his good points . |