Example sentences of "[verb] his [noun] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He strained his eyes peering into the gloom . |
| 2 | He invited his clients to pay for the privilege of cutting his locks and raised £1,000 for the Chest Heart and Stroke Association . |
| 3 | The Preston Grasshoppers lock wants his name cleared over the incident which left Maskery 's son , Steve , concussed . |
| 4 | Sung looked up , then quickly looked back down , keeping his forehead pressed to the floor . |
| 5 | He was concentrating on maintaining his grip and keeping his mind closed to the pressing images of his fate on the rocks below . |
| 6 | Manville poked a ten-dollar bill through the driver 's window as he alighted , keeping his palm extended for the full change . |
| 7 | He maintained his refusal to comment on the polls , and remained adamant he would never do deals on proportional representation . |
| 8 | I expect his notes went into the university archives , and the rest of his belongings would have been sold off . |
| 9 | Like he always has his hair cut by the same man . |
| 10 | Well , he now has his stepmother to thank for the beautiful house that has been restored to look as it did in the 18th century . |
| 11 | ‘ Ernest has his head screwed on the right way , ’ Ruth said . |
| 12 | Lij Yasu has his head shaved in the Danakil fashion and is living with the Danakil ; what food or milk he requires he seizes from the nearest villages , and he is doing nothing but hunt occasionally . |
| 13 | When the next Rushdie has his book put to the torch , incitement to violence over a book , whether for or against it , should be treated as a criminal offence . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's what we 've been working for all season , ’ said the delighted Whitham , who now has his sights set on the international scene for 1994 , either in Superbikes or the 500cc Grand Prix series . |
| 15 | Lifting further , he bent his head to look under the broad limb , once so thrilling with power . |
| 16 | He trained his dogs to return to the kennels after they were sold . |
| 17 | He is guaranteed to find his plans frustrated by the more powerful departments of state , unless he runs constantly to Major for backing . |
| 18 | He waited until he could hear the water pot being pulled across the floor of the hut and then he entered to find his mother leaning against the mud wall and screaming for the doctor . |
| 19 | Lancaster moved towards the Loire in August , but he found his advance blocked by the French , who destroyed the bridge at Angers . |
| 20 | Upon entering the kitchen , he found his mother-in-law dozing by the fire . |
| 21 | A relative found his body slumped on the floor of his home in Polsham , Somerset . |
| 22 | But all the time he found his eyes fixed to the rear mirror , looking for a sign of pursuit . |
| 23 | A.C. Ladd sank his tee shot on the 330-yard 17th — a record held until 1928 when a 340-yard tee shot was holed at Stoneham , Hants . |
| 24 | He let his fingers drift across the paper like a dowser ; as if , somehow , among the fractured patterns on the page , he might suddenly feel the heat of Ross 's madness . |
| 25 | He let his head roll against the window and she could have believed he was doing something with his eyes to the countryside , the way he had done with his eyebrows to the men . |
| 26 | He let his gaze rest upon the awed and silent faces that fringed his passage , but without seeing them . |
| 27 | An amused smile touched Guido 's eyes as he let his gaze flicker over the rumpled high-necked cotton pyjamas she was wearing . |
| 28 | Idly , he let his gaze drift across the horizon . |
| 29 | George let his mind wander over the House . |
| 30 | In the last resort his conduct is in accord with ‘ Be aware ’ , because he would be acting the same if he were capable of full awareness both of the goal of saving life and of the temporary anguish he is inflicting , but being merely human he would lose sight of the goal if he let his mind dwell on the pain . |