Example sentences of "his [noun] [prep] [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Congress derided President Truman 's domestic program , passed significant legislation over his veto and generally dismissed his hope of extending the Roosevelt New Deal into the Truman Fair Deal . ’ |
| 2 | President Ishaq has made a dignified statement about his enthusiasm for upholding the constitution . |
| 3 | Sometimes Papert 's writings and his enthusiasm for changing the structure of education seem to place him in affinity with such educational radicals as Ivan Illich and Everett Reimer , but this is misleading . |
| 4 | He also gave me his own way of planning little dialogues , and his technique of distinguishing the three tones of the language , which could alter the meaning of what looked to an English eye to be the same word , often with unexpected , humorous or even disastrous effect . |
| 5 | I actually thought that his technique for unpacking the hidden history of products was despicable . |
| 6 | ‘ Many scholars have suggested that she broke his heart by ending the relationship , ’ Hawkins says from his home in Blandford , Dorset . |
| 7 | Since Mr Haynes owns 62% of the group 's equity and gladly confesses to a liking for general publishing , it seems likely that his views on keeping the division will prevail . |
| 8 | ‘ Thou great softie ! ’ he said , delighted ; and he wiped her cheeks with the kerchief on which he had cleaned his fingers after eating the pie . |
| 9 | Mr Lawson did , however , play his part in taking the Prime Minister to that peak of economic success from which the poll tax plan was launched . |
| 10 | Playing his part in meeting the challenge is the prospect Bill relishes . |
| 11 | He had served 27 years on Robben Island along with Mandela and other political prisoners , for his part in launching the PAC 's armed resistance in the early 1960s . |
| 12 | Leslie was in a rapture of courage to play his part in finishing the war . |
| 13 | Ten years before , in December 1978 , Deng Xiaoping had given his support to reforming the economy first in the rural areas then in the cities . |
| 14 | Mexico 's president , Carlos Salinas , announced his support for giving the central bank autonomy over monetary policy . |
| 15 | Thanks to Jonathan Poole for his support in lending the Russian Sculpture . |
| 16 | He promised Markov 's widow his support in uncovering the truth about the killing . |
| 17 | When Hawthorn 's yard became available in 1924 , he decided to enter shipbuilding in his own right and soon expanded his operations by purchasing the business of Cran & Somerville in 1927 . |
| 18 | With his plans for afforesting the poorer parts of his ancestral acres , the replanting , the harvesting of his mature timber crops , his Christmas-tree plantations of Norway spruce , he knew exactly what he was doing . |
| 19 | In his diary , he wrote that he had frequently tried to cross-examine Wilson on his plans for overthrowing the government of Ian Smith . |
| 20 | By early 1937 Waismann completed Logik , Sprache , Philosophie , but the Anschluss and later the invasion of Holland frustrated his plans for publishing the German text . |
| 21 | Even as heir-apparent , he had been in correspondence with Louis XVI of France concerning his plans for reorganising the army , and the overthrow of the French monarchy in the year of his accession , 1789 , did not diminish his enthusiasm for learning from the west . |
| 22 | And his plans for deregulating the economy continue whilst US aid to Pakistan has already been cut by 2/3 last October . |
| 23 | His own party has its doubts ; congressional Democrats may not accept his plans for cutting the deficit . |
| 24 | Since then , the fundamentalists have been waging a steady war on the government , at one point demanding the resignation of the Education Minister because of his plans for reforming the teaching of Islam in schools . |
| 25 | We hear about his plans for harnessing the luminescent power of putrescent meat ( ’ I have read a Geneva Bible by a leg of pork ’ ) , and about his experiments with bottled air ( ’ Isle of Dogs air is the heaviest ’ ) . |
| 26 | It also reinforces his case by demonstrating the implications of not giving him the cash that he needs . |
| 27 | The jury may have understood the phrase to refer to small or trifling amounts , and followed his direction by awarding the sort of sum they imagined in the coffers of Scrooge McDuck . |
| 28 | Thorp director & name presents & name with his award for winning the THORP logo competition |
| 29 | Bert watched Yanto jump on his bike without touching the pedals . |
| 30 | Apart from his difficulty in hearing the contrast the Tamil speaker will also have difficulty producing both th and [ 0 ] . |