Example sentences of "[to-vb] his [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | When Gabriel turned in terror towards Garvey , the playmaster was already struggling to untangle his robe from the top of the ladder and to climb down . |
| 4 | It was decided to make the raid on Annan Castle the following night ; and the messenger was sent back to inform his fellow-supporters of the attempt , in strictest secrecy . |
| 5 | The patient may also require advice on how to inform his employer about the admission . |
| 6 | Although God specifically warned Job 's comforters not to postulate his sins as the cause of his sufferings , the Middle Ages preferred , like most ages , to ignore what God said . |
| 7 | Meanwhile Gundovald , a supposed son of Chlothar , who had been excluded from the succession in 561 , took advantage of the situation to revive his claim to the crown , which he had already asserted with Byzantine support in 582 . |
| 8 | It enabled John Major to revive his version of the constitutional agenda . |
| 9 | In a speech on Sept. 27 , he had appeared to encourage his supporters in the teeming shanty town areas of Port-au-Prince to rectify gross social inequalities by rising up and killing their opponents with " necklaces " of flaming tyres , known locally as " Pères Lebruns " after the country 's main tyre importing firm . |
| 10 | Last year 's winner Jordan Knight of New Kids On The Block not only had to accept his slide from the peak of female adulation , but also had to present Mark Owen ( of Take That ) with this year 's trophy . |
| 11 | In light of this , St Augustine 's was prepared to accept his re-enrolment in the school , although the assessment panel expressed a strong wish to keep his case under constant review . |
| 12 | Though now , as Liz recited names of guests , she saw Charles drift away into what she took to be some private realm of financial speculation and morose managerial debate : he started to bite the inside of his lip , as he did when preoccupied , and to drum his fingers on the silvery-yellow brocade of the settee . |
| 13 | Denis returned to his seat , but before he could frame a new approach Josh Cohen started to drum his fingers on the tea-chest , looking about him and nodding his head in a calculating manner . |
| 14 | AYRTON SENNA was last night accused by his cut-throat rival Nigel Mansell of trying to pinch his drive with the all-conquering Williams Renault team . |
| 15 | Uncertainly , he turned his back on the prowling form of Jeopardy and attempted to curl his body into the movement Amber had disrupted . |
| 16 | Instead he sent out 12th man Paul Reiffel to cover for him whole he rang chairman of selectors Lawrie Sawle to vent his feelings about the news he had been given that morning . |
| 17 | As Cliff Bastin later recalled : ‘ Relations between these two had gradually been becoming more and more strained , until it ultimately came to a point at which the question was which of them would be the first to vent his feelings on the other . |
| 18 | Drawn just past the dolomite length , the Cleveland Angling Centre-sponsored star decided to try his luck on the waggler and with little wind to hinder presentation , the gamble paid off . |
| 19 | Despite pleas from his mother , Jackie was next to try his hand at the sport . |
| 20 | In 1984 he married a French woman , and the following year travelled to France to try his hand at the colour photography which seemed so popular in European magazines . |
| 21 | Even that great opponent of the industrial system of the nineteenth century Thomas Carlyle ( 1795–1881 ) failed to relate his criticisms to the Christian doctrine that he had abandoned as a young man . |
| 22 | To establish his credibility against the Scots , in the years from 1313 to 1316 especially , the king needed money on a considerable scale . |
| 23 | He was determined to become President in his own right , and he had a year in which to establish his fitness for the office . |
| 24 | The exercise went far to establish his credentials in the right quarters . |
| 25 | LIVERPUDLIAN professional golfer Karl ‘ Hitman ’ Woodward ( 42 ) , was today aiming to establish his claim as the longest driver in the world . |
| 26 | Seth had been defeated by Horus but took legal action to establish his claim to the throne of Osiris by bringing his case before the nine gods of Heliopolis . |
| 27 | Book Seven enhances the impression of a century of civil war , but again allowance must be made for the fact that this one book covers scarcely more than twelve months of 584/5 , and that it is concerned largely with the attempt by the " pretender " Gundovald to establish his claim to the Frankish throne . |
| 28 | First of all I should point out that the Nor the County Council er figure of none thousand seven hundred is actually a figure for local needs plus one hundred percent migration , and if you follow Mr Thomas 's figures that leaves a residual requirement of nine hundred and forty seven dwellings without any windfalls over the next thirteen years , which is quite inconceivable , so in order to establish his point on the need for the new settlement on tha on on his figures , the Bar Mr Grigson of Barton Willmore has to up the figure for Greater York to twelve thousand seven hundred , as set out in his erm paper . |
| 29 | In 1299 Boniface VIII ordered Edward to abandon war in Scotland since that kingdom was a papal fief , and he invited Edward to send proctors to Rome to establish his right to the Scottish crown . |
| 30 | But the commune also served a major coercive function since the majority in each village stood to lose should an individual either fail to meet his share of the payments due or take to flight . |