Example sentences of "and the [noun] [to-vb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a master stylist , a sharp , satirical observer of the social scene with an unfailing capacity for taking up a variety of interests , and the ability to persuade his readers to share his enthusiasms , however out-of-the-way . |
| 2 | We have to listen to the Spirit speaking divine things : and the way to appreciate his speech is to quicken our own minds with the life of the inspired images … . |
| 3 | Crippled in a hang gliding accident , Gary has fought his disability and the sceptics to earn his wings . |
| 4 | Well because A T S had gone straight to the bailiff and the courts to freeze his account . |
| 5 | BOBBY ROBSON tried his best to be diplomatic , but his face is too expressive to play that game , and the fight to conceal his true feelings was well and truly lost . |
| 6 | As he was held between the conflicting pressures of wind and water , so he was caught between the desire to reach Mariana and offer her comfort and the need to husband his remaining strength — but he knew that the husbanding of his strength was paramount if they were to survive . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , whatever the Articles of Association say , the director still owes fiduciary duties to his beneficiary ; these include the duty to make full and frank disclosure , and the duty to put his company 's interests before his own where there is a conflict . |
| 8 | After backroom lobbying by presidential aides , the organising committee of the Congress of People 's Deputies agreed to drop a resolution that would have recommended that Mr Yeltsin should be deprived of his post of Prime Minister and the right to select his Cabinet . |
| 9 | There was throughout his life a long conflict between what may one may call a sort of scientific naturalism in his attitude to the world , and the impulse to hypostatize his ideals , to create out of his ideals erm ideal beings of some kind , and so to worship . |