Example sentences of "[to-vb] his [noun pl] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man struggled to marshal his thoughts and translate them into English . |
| 2 | Last week he asked us to bring our experts along from Leicestershire to meet his experts and have a discussion . |
| 3 | During a period of pitiful loneliness and depression , Marinello made the ill-advised decision to compromise his skills and try to win his way back into the Arsenal first team as an auxiliary midfield player rather than an avaricious dribbler . |
| 4 | Ignoring the advice of General de Bono , the Commander-in-Chief , who wanted a pause in the advance in order to consolidate his gains and improve communications , he replaced him with General Badoglio . |
| 5 | It will also give him a chance to recharge his batteries and have a look at where he is going next . ’ |
| 6 | Cranston blinked to hide his tears and grinned over at Athelstan . |
| 7 | Ever-resourceful , he 'd stolen a copy of the Evening Standard to hide his blushes and gone home by Underground . |
| 8 | Therefore we have to discover his plans and act accordingly . |
| 9 | Caledor called for brave young horsemen to bear his messages and ride the troubled land . |
| 10 | The new hope that Zborowski would be able to sell his paintings and manage his affairs might have affected his decision to stay in Paris . |
| 11 | It is associated with the final curtain descending on present world history , when Jesus will descend from heaven in power to destroy his enemies and restore the entire creation . |
| 12 | Although Paul usually forgot his dreams on waking in the morning , he began to remember his dreams and started to keep a diary of what he had dreamt . |
| 13 | Harry Andrews , who was also in their scenes , told me , ‘ Trevor was quite sickened by the sum Brando was being paid , especially as Brando could n't seem to remember his lines and had to read his dialogue off boards . ’ |
| 14 | The Doctor was left to wave his arms and shout ; he could not be heard above the din . |
| 15 | This is because as Dickens wrote his novels as weekly instalments he had to put enough into each instalment whether it be a couple of chapters or many , enough to captivate his readers and cause them to wait with eagerness for the next instalment . |
| 16 | In The French Lieutenant 's Woman ( 1969 ) , John Fowles ( or a version of him ) intrudes famously — or notoriously — into chapter thirteen to discuss his tactics and emphasize that ‘ this story I am telling is all imagination . |
| 17 | And , at the end of this act we are shown how his ambition has led to another theme , that of appearance and reality , where Macbeth is told by his wife to conceal his thoughts and appear to his guests to be the perfect host whereas he is really supposed to wait for the time to kill the king . |
| 18 | Clearly some forward planning in 1992 would have given him the opportunity to organise his affairs and avoid many of his problems . |
| 19 | And Pilger , an exasperatingly prickly individualist determined to expose the ills of the world , stubbornly refused to lower his standards and fit in with the new requirements . |
| 20 | He had felt a similar urge in the Barrow , as the wight 's fingers came towards him , and there the temptation offered was to abandon his friends and use the Ring to escape . |
| 21 | However , where an expert had agreed to give his decisions and produced none , presumably the court would view an application more favourably , on the ground that the expert was in breach of contract . |
| 22 | A king who sought to defy his magnates and preserve his favourites , who was threatened from Scotland and France , who was distrusted and despised by his French wife , would surely need all the support he could get from his clergy and from the pope in order to survive ; and for this , one might expect him to pay dearly by concessions . |
| 23 | In Wright 's case , Taylor has had sports psychologist John Gardner attached to the squad , in an effort to ease his nerves and bring out his bright side . |
| 24 | You see , he is adaptable , and has managed to fill his days and pay his way by having a go at a variety of jobs that he 'd never have contemplated three or four years ago . |
| 25 | The sheer ingenuity of an opportunity idea should not bedazzle the entrepreneur to the extent that he fuels to do his sums and work out the profitability of the venture . |
| 26 | The fascination of this book is in its clear-sighted debunking of the myths which many have fondly mistaken for historical truth : that Columbus was really aiming for Asia , that he and his sailors thought the world was flat , that Queen Isabella pawned her jewels to finance his trips and came down with her husband to wave him off from the docks , or even ( a fondly-cherished delusion ) that these were journeys of discovery rather than intentional acquisition and expansion of the Spanish empire . |
| 27 | For the power of Christ 's resurrection , as he puts it elsewhere , is available only to those who are willing ‘ to share his sufferings and become like him in his death ’ ( Phil 3:10 ) . |
| 28 | After a while he seemed to recognise his whereabouts and closed his eyes . |
| 29 | He mustered from his family 's many garrisons a substantial army , and went out to patrol his borders and look for his enemy . |
| 30 | A West German journalist who interviewed a man claiming to be an IRA terrorist won a court ruling last week upholding his right to protect his sources and forbidding the federal prosecutor 's office from questioning him . |