Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is more remarkable since in his own lifetime he had but few enthusiastic followers , nor did a school grow up around him to carry on his work . |
| 2 | She knew that he ‘ ought always to live in the country ; and someday you will with me ’ ; for the present , she encouraged him to carry out his father 's plans . |
| 3 | It also posed a delicate problem for the Home Secretary himself , since Lord Scarman had been appointed by him to carry out his Inquiry . |
| 4 | It also allows the vigneron easier access to the vineyard and to the vine , enabling him to carry out his next operation , the scattering of fertiliser pellets . |
| 5 | resources should be allocated to the subordinate to enable him to carry out his tasks at the expected level of performance , and authority should be delegated to enable the subordinate to do this job ; and |
| 6 | As we saw in the last chapter the anointed king of Israel was equipped with the Spirit to enable him to carry out his work ; hence the expectation of Isaiah 11:1 ff that the Messiah would also be equipped , in fuller measure , with that Spirit . |
| 7 | There is no objection to this but the tenant should ensure that the person so appointed is suitably qualified to enable him to carry out his functions in a proper and responsible manner . |
| 8 | At the same time I placed a leg between his ; the object being to prevent him bringing up his knee against my balls.The plan was to throw both of us to the ground — at the right moment . |
| 9 | He was about 10 , and we decided to keep him to see out his days . |
| 10 | An individual manager can be placed on the grid , and his position on the grid should help him to see how his performance as a leader and a manager can be improved . |
| 11 | Best to say nothing , perhaps — and she watched him pick up his hat and dash off to save McAllister from any dragons she might meet between Vetch Street and the rectory . |
| 12 | Now , four weeks after their wedding day , she lay in bed and watched him peel off his undershirt , revealing a mass of dark ginger curls over his back and chest . |
| 13 | One forced him to stand up his fiancée Mary Todd at their first planned wedding in 1841 . |
| 14 | FOOTBALL ‘ bad boy ’ Ian Jolosa is in trouble again … just days after a judge ordered him to clean up his act by watching Gary Lineker videos . |
| 15 | Coe tells me that he was attracted to writing some kind of thriller because it would help him tighten up his plotting , but he still has some way to go ; the book 's resolution is simply too arbitrary and fanatical . |
| 16 | Nigel Mansell is one example , though Mansell 's metabolism , once released from the horrors of his competitive life , seems to revert to such extreme placidity that it is possible to picture him living out his days as a happy family man and manager of his own investments . |
| 17 | The pretty girl behind him let down his trousers inch by inch . |
| 18 | The gazebo made him suck in his breath . |
| 19 | The resultant sharp pain made him suck in his breath , which in turn caused a burning stab of agony in his chest . |
| 20 | There was a momentary silence as she averted her gaze again , and she was aware of him picking up his coffee-cup and drinking . |
| 21 | They would achieve great things together , Rosa swore to herself , she would help him bring about his vision of converting the army to the cause of justice and equality . |
| 22 | After his father 's death in 1885 the cable companies persuaded him to set up his own manufacturing business , Muirhead & Company , which was so successful that in 1894 he was able to take over his father 's old firm when it was finally wound up . |
| 23 | According to his contemporary biographer , Richard Sibbes [ q.v. ] , the dominant influence on his early years was his uncle , Sir Henry Yelverton [ q.v. ] , who persuaded him to set aside his early inclination to become a divine and pursue his studies in the law . |
| 24 | Elizabeth 's accession allowed him to receive back his wife , along with his Durham prebend and the vicarage of Norton , on the resignation of Hornsea . |
| 25 | I would hope , obviously , that I wrote poems that could sometimes speak to the reader 's condition , and it would be too grandiose to say helped him to sort out his own feelings , but at least helped him to get a feeling of recognition and , if the poem is successful , you know , some kind of satisfaction that the feeling has been turned into that permanent form . |
| 26 | Now , she wondered whether the moon crept into his mind too , driving him to pick up his rod and mark her back . |
| 27 | But I wo n't let him carry out his plan , whatever it is . |
| 28 | Fighting an impulse to back away , Gina forced herself to hold her ground , refusing to let him see how his nearness made the hairs on the back of her neck rise in anticipation of conflict . |
| 29 | She saw him stick out his lower lip , a quick glance at Marc 's expression showed her the folly of such a request . |
| 30 | She had always been touched with religion , but as Rory had grown out of boyhood into his teens , she had been content to let him follow down his father 's road to politely concealed indifference . |