Example sentences of "[verb] his [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After 1976 and a disastrous Lotus season ( a mere 29 points ) , Ronnie had thought he could do better at Tyrrell , though once again fate was to forestall his ambitions . |
| 2 | He somehow manages to distil the very essence of everything good in the lineage of Bobby Vee , Jefferson Airplane , Bob Marley and The Fall , mangle the results in the scrambled computer of his mind and offer up a new vision so convincing you forgive his rants against organised religion . |
| 3 | forgive his neglect . |
| 4 | The only thing that ‘ rang bells ’ for him was his own consciousness — Djwa 's ‘ experience ’ — and most of all the inner experiences which had always dominated his vision — his ‘ inner landscape ’ . |
| 5 | It contained a large white marble bust of the Shah 's father , Reza Shah , who had dominated his son as much as he had his country . |
| 6 | ‘ You 've done nothing for him except wreck his life . |
| 7 | Doctors ordered the star , who had been playing up to 150 gigs every year for the last 10 years , to rest or maybe wreck his voice for good . |
| 8 | The railways undercut his price and he was forced to find many more passengers than he had at first calculated . |
| 9 | We shall consider words , phrases and sentences which appear in the textual record of a discourse to be evidence of an attempt by a producer ( speaker / writer ) to communicate his message to a recipient ( hearer / reader ) . |
| 10 | the freedom to communicate his thoughts and opinions is one of the most precious of the rights of man ; every citizen is therefore free to speak , to write and to print , except in cases where the law lays down that he is liable to prosecution for abuse of that liberty . |
| 11 | The concept 's importance in theoretical terms is that the epic poet catches himself dreaming , and tries to communicate his dream to the rest of the group , through a mythic poem , or a ritual drama . |
| 12 | And Mr Bush , unlike John Kennedy , who came from a not dissimilar background , has found it difficult to communicate his beliefs to others . |
| 13 | In Holt the Court of Appeal held that para. ( a ) required the debtor to communicate his decision to the creditor and required that the legal consequence was the extinguishment of the debt . |
| 14 | His immediate discarding of the magazine at this point further supports the view that he had indeed been intentionally using the magazine to communicate his desire to go and see the live gorillas . |
| 15 | They over-rode his fears . |
| 16 | ‘ Whatsoever then , he removes out of the state that nature hath provided , and left it in , he hath mixed his labour with , and joined to it something that is his own , and thereby makes it his property . ’ |
| 17 | His anger was real but so continuously felt that once he had given it adequate ( in his own mind ) expression , it ceased to modify his actions . |
| 18 | Michael Sandusky has argued that United States troops could have assumed control of the greater part of Korea had Korea been identified as a priority and had MacArthur been willing to modify his decision to concentrate American forces in Japan prior to the official surrender on 2 September at the ceremony planned by MacArthur . |
| 19 | In order to secure sufficient parliamentary backing in February 1991 from the opposition Radical Liberals , Centre Democrats and Christian People 's Party for the approval of the 1991 budget , Schlüter was forced to modify his plans for income tax cuts [ see p. 38020 ] . |
| 20 | He could appreciate that a collection might become the last refuge and hope for survival of an endangered species , but the knowledge did little to modify his response ; apart from the dogs ' home where he 'd once been bought a sick puppy , it was one of the saddest places he knew . |
| 21 | Staff advised the customer how to modify his process , changing the temperature and concentration of materials , so he could recycle the waste himself . |
| 22 | The ability to think on one 's feet is of great benefit to a salesperson , since he will be required to modify his sales presentation to suit the particular needs and problems of his various customers and to respond quickly to unusual objections and awkward questions . |
| 23 | As a pro-abortion mood sweeps the country , he may have to modify his stance . |
| 24 | There was scarcely a divinity student in Cambridge , says a contemporary , who ‘ made not himself a disciple of Mr Andrewes by resorting to his lectures and transcribing his notes , and ever since they have in many hundreds of copies passed from hand to hand and have been esteemed a very library to young divines ’ . |
| 25 | The student who finds difficulty in writing out his results may equally use audio-recording as a tool , perhaps later transcribing his account into written form after he has formulated it . |
| 26 | The goal actually stemmed from a Southend corner but Kenny Irons made a superb interception in his own half and released Morrissey who brilliantly beat his cover before lashing a 16-yard shot high past ‘ keeper Sansome . |
| 27 | But there was to be no happy ending , as first Barwick and then Treleaven beat his mark by a stroke , the latter even bogeying his last hole , the 18th , after his drive found the trees . |
| 28 | A HUSBAND who beat his wife in a savage three-hour assault can wait until his holidays before going to jail . |
| 29 | The court was told that he beat his wife unconscious before pushing her and her car into a river . |
| 30 | A WHEELCHAIR-bound man beat his love rival to death after luring him into a field , a court heard yesterday . |