Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | who nervously pats his hair , |
| 2 | Perhaps because he is in many ways an absolutely objective choreographer , he successfully exposes his deeply held views on society and its problems , in particular man 's inhumanity to man , through dance . |
| 3 | But the man who says , ‘ It looks bent ’ thereby exhibits his sophistication in the matter of how an object 's being half in water leads to his seeing it otherwise than as it is . |
| 4 | The most amusing commentary on the limitations which are inherent in this type of research , however , is perhaps that enshrined in the Indonesian concept of a ‘ statistical Muslim ’ ( or Islam statistique ) , a person who , while not actively practising the faith , so records his identity for census and other purposes . |
| 5 | He constantly signs his vases , whereas Makron regularly puts the name of the potter Hieron , hardly ever his own ( so also Onesimos with Euphronios ) . |
| 6 | In his Commentaries on the Laws of England published over half a century before the 1870 Education Act , Blackstone wrote that ‘ it is not easy to imagine or allow that a parent has conferred any considerable benefit on his child by bringing him into the world , if he afterwards entirely neglects his culture and education , and suffers him to grow up like a mere beast , to lead a life useless to others and shameful to himself ’ . |
| 7 | We tend to think of cruelty as incorporating violence , but equally cruel is the father who constantly belittles his son or daughter in front of others . |
| 8 | gingerly crosses his legs in the beam — a double-cross performed on screen . |
| 9 | Indeed , the hero of the tale , Jean , son of the count of Dammartin , not only inherits his father 's French lordships but the earldom of Oxford as well . |
| 10 | Composers are notoriously fickle when it comes to performing their own music , but with a few exceptions ( the first part of the Diptyque being the most obvious , where the innumerable pauses , rallentandos and general changes of speed , not to mention more than a few smudges and slips , have no basis in the printed score ) Messiaen not only fulfils his own written requirements , but does so with utter conviction and persuasiveness . |
| 11 | Yet despite admitting that would love to play for New Zealand , and that he had no intention of using his Scottish connections when he first came to play in Britain , McIntosh fiercely defends his right to play for Scotland . |
| 12 | In this way he not only develops his people , he also frees himself to spend more time on other aspects of his work ( for example , planning decisions , communications with other areas and personnel problems ) . |
| 13 | After this period the original owner not only forfeits his right to claim back his property ( revendication ) but the person in possession of the goods also becomes the lawful owner . |
| 14 | How long has his party been in power ? |
| 15 | So writes his former coach , Charlie Francis . |
| 16 | Like a good Renaissance poet he replies that this is the principle of decorum ; his form merely recreates his subject-matter : We are inclined to smile at the self-depreciation , as we are at the similar joke in 105 : He has no need for other forms , other themes . |
| 17 | I 've told him not to , and so has his dad , ’ replied the mother , ‘ but you know what boys are ! ’ |
| 18 | And to ease my memory , to free from it some of the words , the phrases I had already written — precious seeds — I would walk and walk ; walk like a man without a camera , who only has his diary to record what he sees . |
| 19 | Freddie did not manage to keep us in the Cup against the powerful Rangers outfit but , usually playing at centre-forward , he steadily repaid that fee several times over during the first five post-war seasons , for not only has his tally of 48 League goals only been exceeded by six players here at The Palace since then , but his goals were scored in struggling Palace teams , which only once finished in the upper half of the League table . |
| 20 | In one of the central episodes in the novel , Humberto not only cuckolds his employer , but fathers on his wife the heir whom the oligarch himself has never been able to engender , and it is only subsequently that it becomes clear that what has been narrated as a factual account of events is , in reality , no more than a fantasy in which he simultaneously avenges his social humiliation and effects the incorporation of the humble Peñaloza line into the oligarchy . |
| 21 | The clerk , realising from Mirsal 's uniform that I belong to the sacred official class , merely bows his head to the storm , pays up and looks pleasant . |
| 22 | He constantly punctuates his statements with ‘ You see ? ’ , as if explaining the world to a child or student . |
| 23 | Milovan Djilas , who observed both Stalin and Tito at close quarters , has made the point that self-abasement too is necessary to the system : everyone is loyal to the leader , owes everything to his inspiration , is worthless without him , until someone else is leader : that someone suddenly loses his modesty . |
| 24 | A man with a mission who suddenly loses his faith . |
| 25 | If your child 's a restless sleeper and constantly loses his duvet , invest in a Tidibed , a duvet cover that 's partly attached to a fitted sheet so the duvet will stay in place . |
| 26 | Below Georgiades his men leapt up the last few pegs . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , he not only refuses his tithes but seems to have a source of wealth which enables him to distribute alms , to mend the church as well as have it painted and refurbished . ’ |
| 28 | who ever said obviously fancies his socks of you pardon me , as you do n't know who it is , follow |
| 29 | He only reveals his true feelings when he throws his flower into Mary Vetsera 's grave just before the curtain falls . |
| 30 | Hawkins ' qualities in this sort of role were deployed again ln a film that brought together the American director John Ford and former Ealing writer T. E. B. Clarke , Gideon 's Day ( 1959 , Gideon of Scotland Yard in US ) , where he plays a slightly muddled police officer who , in true English fashion , only reveals his mettle under pressure . |