Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few deep breaths to steady his racing pulse , and he was ready . |
| 2 | It was from a corner that Malcolm Allen headed the second after 18 minutes to claim his eighth of the season before Andy May volleyed the third from the edge of the box against his former club . |
| 3 | He has taken to disrupting romantic trysts in the village by pouring glue into the hair of those girls who step out with soldiers ; his motive being to encourage the largest possible number of servicemen to attend his lectures , where he speaks of the mysteries of the countryside . |
| 4 | He can even indirectly , but effectively , interfere with the legal owner 's attempts to enforce his legal rights by action in the Common Law Courts . |
| 5 | One deduction we might draw from this is that the examples of Anderson 's modesty noted above , when seen in the context of his more pompous utterances and these attempts to preserve his academic credibility , are more likely to be viewed simply as superficial politeness strategies than as being genuinely meant . |
| 6 | CHRIS COBLEY follows-up last month 's fascinating interview with a look at the reasons why he prefers herbs to treat his fish . |
| 7 | But there is no mention of the fact that Scheiner was put under pressure by his superiors to curb his anti-Aristotelian conjectures . |
| 8 | When an attempt is made to set him up as a Saint , it is scarcely possible for any man of good sense who knows the history of his times to preserve his gravity . |
| 9 | Just as the pilgrim who travels to the earthly Jerusalem leaves behind him all his possessions to enable his journey , so Hilton teaches that that which propels the inner journey is a balancing of the will and the mind in the simultaneous awareness that nothing is possible without God who must therefore be desired above all else . |
| 10 | Under the old system A takes proceedings in the Common Law Courts to establish his rights ; B has no legal defence ; he must go to the Court of Chancery to get , among other things , an injunction to forbid A to go on . |
| 11 | He spent several weeks in hospital , and needed three operations to repair his damaged liver . |
| 12 | In the corresponding Republican primary the incumbent governor , Bob Martinez , defeated four opponents to secure his party 's nomination for the second time . |
| 13 | Terry nodded and looked away to one of the machines , twiddling the knobs to hide his nervousness . |
| 14 | The first part of the poem deals with Sir Walter 's attempts to impose his mastery on the natural environment . |
| 15 | He stroked the side of her face with it , amused by her attempts to catch his fingers in her teeth , teasing her with it , darting little touches here and there on her lips . |
| 16 | Well because A T S had gone straight to the bailiff and the courts to freeze his account . |
| 17 | He did however attempt in his Sermons Chiefly on the Theory of Religious Belief ( 1843 ) and The Grammar of Assent ( 1870 ) an analysis of the nature of religious belief which shows some affinity with Coleridge , and includes Newman 's own original idea of the ‘ illative sense ’ by which we find it possible to proceed through probabilities to certitude ; and in his celebrated Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine ( 1878 ) struggled with the problem of change and continuity in the expression of Christian faith down through the centuries in a fashion which has helped many others to grasp something of the questions , if not in most cases to accept his answers . |
| 18 | David battled for three minutes to restart his heart , then had him rushed to hospital where last night he was critically ill with burns and internal injuries . |
| 19 | His heart stopped beating and doctors who were summoned took 32 minutes to restart his heart . |
| 20 | But such was the genuine power of his personality that his persistent contention that these fasts were undertaken with the object of assisting his opponents to accept his point of view on its merits always received respectful attention , even as it became more and more evident , with the passage of time , that their success depended in actuality on the personal capital he had built up : he was too special , too revered , and eventually too important in the political consciousness of the Indian masses , to be allowed to die . |
| 21 | And if in Amantani there is a season without rain , he also must work in the leather trade in Lima for three or four months to support his family . |
| 22 | This morning Kevin and his brother Ian were arrested at their homes in London by police investigating the affairs of their late father who used pension funds to bolster his businesses . |
| 23 | In Bangor 's Good Temple Hall , where all five candidates held their only public meeting together under the auspices of the Christian Election Forum , Mr Kilfedder lost few opportunities to emphasise his lengthy Westminster experience to an audience of more than 300 . |
| 24 | She lifted her eyes to search his face . |
| 25 | There is no certainty either as to where he wrote his main English works : the treatise known as Mixed Life , giving advice to the upmarket man of affairs who also wished to create opportunities to cultivate his inner spiritual life ( one manuscript describes it as " a luitel Boc was writen to a worldli lord to teche him hou he schulde haue him in his state in ordeynd loue to god and to his euencristene " ) , and the two books of The Scale of Perfection . |
| 26 | Constance detected a change in the atmosphere as Giancarlo excused himself and walked down the steps to greet his last guest . |
| 27 | United lost with Martin Foyle scoring two goals to sink his old team . |
| 28 | This allows the company to use its own assets as the security for credit but retain the ability to deal with those assets itself as it wishes until such time as the creditor takes steps to enforce his security . |
| 29 | He then sold the timber to E. B wrongfully removed some of the timber and E obtained judgment against him for conversion but took no steps to enforce his judgment , because B was insolvent . |
| 30 | He was a tall , thin man , but with the shoulders to carry his height . |