Example sentences of "[verb] his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dadda , voyaging day by day farther out on his black sea of depression , made his one contribution to the talk . |
| 2 | You may not think of Prestwick Airport as a great landmark in rock n roll history but it was where Elvis Presley made his one and only visit to Britain . |
| 3 | Damien Cronin made his one telling burst of the match … and that was enough to open the way for Ronnie Eriksson to score … |
| 4 | Before the break , record signing Lenny Johnrose got his one and only chance but Roger Freestone pulled off a good save . |
| 5 | It was at TMcL that he first met his one and only ‘ accountancy ’ hero , James Dowling , the then senior partner — ‘ one of the finest men I have ever met and arguably the best accountant Scotland has ever seen ’ . |
| 6 | At the next race it was entrusted to Jo Bonnier , a likeable Swede who had won his one and only grand prix 10 years before . |
| 7 | To forestall his next movement ( such as his taking her in his arms ) Franca moved rapidly round the table , took a firm hold of his shoulder , and , as he instinctively lowered his head , kissed his hot blushing cheek . |
| 8 | The same interests have dominated his 10 years at Westminster , and it is claimed that he has redistributed more than £60 million from the taxpayer to the poor by challenging the DHSS in test cases . |
| 9 | ( b ) It sometimes makes it difficult for the historian to communicate his precise meaning . |
| 10 | He had the ability of good actors or teachers to communicate his own enthusiasm repeatedly , especially for his special subject , the history of architecture . |
| 11 | The Guv'nor used to brew his own beer in those days as most people did . ’ |
| 12 | The intrepid manager had to content himself with numbering his reserve teams . |
| 13 | In order to re-affirm his declared commitment to a liberal and secular state , Ben Ali retained Mohamed Charfi as Minister for National Education , Higher Education and Scientific Research ; fundamentalist students had demanded his resignation . |
| 14 | With his opening salvos the anti-pluralist has , if anything , merely forced his opponent to modify his own position somewhat , not to abandon it . |
| 15 | Laboriously , he began the complicated procedure of transcribing his intended message into apparently meaningless symbols . |
| 16 | PAUL RIDEOUT proved a point with the winner as Everton beat his former club Southampton 2-1 . |
| 17 | VETERAN U.S. chess star Bobby Fischer beat his former World Championship rival Boris Spassky yesterday to win their 5 million dollar ‘ revenge ’ re-match . |
| 18 | ‘ Hunt is a legend here but if I go on and beat his all-time record I think it 'll take some bettering . |
| 19 | Killion twisted about and beat his gloved hands together , anxious to get away . |
| 20 | In November Mr Symington , a Republican developer , narrowly beat his Democratic opponent , Mr Goddard , at the ballot box , but he won only 49.7% of the vote . |
| 21 | A MAN who beat his unfaithful wife to death after she viciously grabbed his testicles was jailed for six years yesterday . |
| 22 | Morley Street beat his full brother Granville Again in the slowly-run Elite Hurdle last month , but has since been beaten by Muse over two and a half miles at Ascot . |
| 23 | In 1915 the New South Wales Swimming Association invited Duke Kahanamoku to the Domain Baths in Sydney where he beat his own world record for the 100 yards with a time of 53.8 seconds . |
| 24 | DEAN Gould beat his own world record in Felixstowe , Suffolk yesterday — flipping 296 new 10p pences from his arm to his hand . |
| 25 | Forbidden suicide by his religion , he could not induce death by , for instance , agitating his pierced hands and feet until loss of blood carried him away . |
| 26 | One scratches his hairy chest and leans back , positively smouldering . |
| 27 | As his angry response to such blatant prejudice , Jarman scratches his own message into thick paint dragged over the sensational tabloid headlines which he has silkscreened onto his canvases . |
| 28 | He loves his new Florida Flamingoes uniform . |
| 29 | And walking tall : Why Harry the penguin loves his new mum . |
| 30 | Grant loves his new dinosaur books . |