Example sentences of "[verb] his [adj] [noun] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nigel Lawson may have won his prime minister the 1987 election , but it has become ever more clear that he let his boom run on too long and too strong thereafter . |
| 2 | Remembering his determined departure the previous evening , Robbie bit back a sharp retort . |
| 3 | Exuberantly believing that he alone was responsible for the separation and still moved by a powerfully purifying sense of goodness and rightness , Hope paid his modest bill the next morning , left a parting note for George , checked himself from asking to see Mary , promised — though he lied — to return and set off at a tremendous pace for Hause Point . |
| 4 | His name was Joseph Havelock Wilson , the year was 1887 and he made clear his ambition by grandiosely entitling his new organisation the National Amalgamated Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union of Great Britain and Ireland . |
| 5 | Dai Huang examined his new kiln the next day . |
| 6 | Each creature understands his own kind the best . |
| 7 | At the last minute the convention 's keynote speaker for Sunday 26 April was taken ill , and her replacement turned out to be Mr John Frohnmayer , the dismissed chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts who , although not scheduled to leave his post officially until a few days later , had actually worked his last day the previous Friday . |
| 8 | Bob Cools , the town 's socialist mayor ( who spells his first name the ordinary way ) , complained about a show of Antwerp as seen by foreign photographers ; he said locals could have done the job better . |
| 9 | Will he ever teach his new dog the old tricks ? |