Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] his [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He drew the attention of the soldier-in-charge and explained about his position in the club . |
| 2 | Meri had been criticized for his management of the Foreign Ministry , especially for having dismissed two deputies in February without consulting the Prime Minister . |
| 3 | The SPD polled an average of 26.64 per cent ( 21.88 per cent in March 1990 ) , but apparently only made real inroads on CDU support in Brandenburg , with the respected East Berlin lay Protestant leader and lawyer Manfred Stolpe heading its campaign against the CDU 's Peter-Michael Diestel ( who had been criticized for his handling of the dissolution of the Stasi secret police — see p. 37828 ) . |
| 4 | The FNM attacked the size and cost of the new Cabinet and called for the resignation of Maynard and of Philip Bethel , who had been criticized for his stewardship of the Transport Ministry and the troubles of the state airline Bahamasair . |
| 5 | Murchison recognized the boy 's ability , arranged for his entry to the Royal School of Mines , where he studied under Thomas Huxley and ( Sir ) Andrew Ramsay [ qq.v. ] , and in 1862 recruited him to the Geological Survey of Scotland . |
| 6 | Hugh Fraser 's later career was rewarded — no doubt forgiven for his participation in the case , or possibly because it was unknown — by a knighthood , but nothing more . |
| 7 | Jovellanos , in his campaign for technical education and the useful arts as a means of raising living standards , may be forgiven for his attacks on the dead languages . |
| 8 | Another veteran communist politician , Santiago Carrillo , secretary-general of the PCE from 1960 to 1982 , effectively retired when on Feb. 15 , 1991 , he signed an agreement providing for the integration into the PSOE of the small Partido de los Trabajadores de España ( Spanish Workers ' Party — PTE ) , which he had formed after his expulsion from the PCE leadership in 1985 [ see pp. 34183-84 ; 35527 ] . |
| 9 | But David Dein , the Arsenal vice-chairman martyred for his part in the deal , insists that it is working ‘ eminently satisfactorily ’ . |
| 10 | Lewis referred to him as ‘ a man martyred for his belief in the destiny of his country , a man whose worst fault was that his courage outran his prudence ’ . |
| 11 | In one such list the Jesuit astronomer Christopher Scheiner is included for his discovery of the sunspots . |
| 12 | Majid had a brutal reputation , earned during his suppression of the 1988 Kurdish rebellion and his period as governor of Kuwait following the August 1990 invasion . |
| 13 | They had all come to pay their last respects to the local boy , decorated for his part in the Gulf War , who lost his life on a training mission in the Scottish Highlands . |
| 14 | Professor Geoffrey Rose — now retired — is highly respected for his work at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine . |
| 15 | The highly sensitive post of Interior Minister was given to Police Gen. Pow Sarasin , a General in the Police and well-known and respected for his role in the fight against drug trafficking . |
| 16 | Lucy 's four main contacts were Major General Oster who was the head of the Abwehr ; Admiral Canaris who was later hanged for his part in the 1944 bomb plot ; Carl Goehdeler who was leader of the official opposition to Hitler ; and Colonel Boetzel , the commanding officer of Intelligence Evaluation . |
| 17 | Richard Weston , an associate of Gresham 's , was certainly involved in the plot against Overbury , and was later hanged for his part in the murder . |
| 18 | A boy has come off his motor-cycle at the roundabout outside the main gates . |
| 19 | It is often said of the Prime Minister that he retains all the instincts and skills which were politically honed during his time in the Whips ' Office . |
| 20 | One important question remains unsettled , namely , whether there can be a conviction for assault on a constable when the constable is not actually on duty in the technical sense that he has reported for his shift at the requisite time . |
| 21 | A few lines earlier ‘ wonder ’ has come into his eyes at the mention of Lothlórien . |
| 22 | The banker is let into his house by the maid . |
| 23 | Then Sam had thrown her a pleading look , like a naughty little boy caught with his finger in the jam pot . |
| 24 | Dansey left Rome in 1936 ; word seeped out that he had been caught with his hand in the till and sacked . |
| 25 | Sometimes Preston felt that St Augustine had raised more problems than he had solved with his theory about the holes in the universe . |
| 26 | Interspersed with his translation of the books of the Old Testament , which was never completed , were polemical works ; for in light of the reception of his New Testament he felt no need to restrain his views either on the English clergy or on the Roman Catholic Church . |
| 27 | Spittals picked up from his desk a silver cup he had won in his youth in the Manchester Bowls League . |
| 28 | That same year , one of Ellis 's relatives was evicted from his holding by the local landlord for voting Liberal in the general election . |
| 29 | All I 'm pointing out is that those steps are a hazard , and one which any sane architect would have omitted from his plan from the start . ’ |
| 30 | The Northern Ireland Minister , Michael Mates , has resigned from his post over the Asil Nadir affair . |