Example sentences of "[verb] his [noun pl] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Cool and straight-batted , he had survived a couple of early shaves as Waqar and Akram almost found his stumps off the inside edge , and at 58 , right after lunch . |
| 32 | She shot a look at Alain , but looked away very speedily when she found his eyes on the sudden curve of her lips . |
| 33 | 2 The defender places his arms in the correct position to execute a forearm block . |
| 34 | Then he saw one of the boys turn his back on the man he seemed to be dancing with , hook his fingers in the skimpy underpants , wriggle them down to reveal his bottom and then wiggle the bottom until it shook like a jelly . |
| 35 | But he pursued his policies within the parliamentary Labour Party and the Labour Party issued the ‘ Mosley Manifesto ’ , develop his policies into a full-scale plan in January 1931 , under the title ‘ A National Policy ’ . |
| 36 | with honours in chemistry in 1869 , then pursued his studies in the natural sciences at St Bartholomew 's Hospital , obtaining his D.Sc . |
| 37 | In the aftermath of the April 1981 riots in Brixton the Home Secretary , William Whitelaw , used his powers under the 1964 Police Act to appoint Lord Scarman to inquire into the events , produce a report , and make recommendations . |
| 38 | Mr Gardini , who together with his wife , Idina Ferruzzi , severed his links with the Ferruzzi family in March 1991 , bears much of the blame for the group 's woes — not least because the family paid 505 billion lire in August 1991 to buy Idina 's 23% stake . |
| 39 | At the height of the Anglo Irish agreement , McMurdo severed his links with the Conservative Party and set up an ill-fated Scottish Unionist Party . |
| 40 | By 1930 , at the height of this stridently sectarian phase of PCF development , Nizan had established a firm emotional base with Rirette , had symbolically liquidated his links with the bourgeois state and had begun his apprenticeship in the party . |
| 41 | Had he confined his attentions to the Austrian provinces and Bohemia the story might have been very different ; but the nationalism of the Hungarians ( or at least their ruling class ) and the ingrained particularist conservatism of the Netherlands provinces , above all Brabant , proved too much for him . |
| 42 | Cristofori provided his pianos of the 1720s with a proper check . |
| 43 | Cranston stared moodily down at the floorboards , scuffing his boots over the polished surface . |
| 44 | ‘ Listen ! ’ said the young man named Lawrence suddenly , and checked to strain his ears for the small , recurrent sound that had reached him . |
| 45 | It would be far more sensible to concentrate his thoughts on the lovely girl at his side . |
| 46 | It is only by being so that he is able to concentrate his efforts on the detailed articulation of the paradigm and to perform the esoteric work necessary to probe nature in depth . |
| 47 | At least for the moment , Scapula was able to concentrate his forces on the western frontier , which now extended to the Wye and the Severn . |
| 48 | He supported the Pope , of course , and sent his own embassy to the Lombards demanding that Desiderius remove his forces from the occupied papal cities , and comply further with the Pope 's original demands for Ferrara and Faenza . |
| 49 | On 14 September Lenin , still in hiding , began to urge his colleagues on the Bolshevik Central Committee to organize an immediate seizure of power . |
| 50 | The blood which flowed in his veins meant that , as well as expressing his emotions with the dramatic use of his hands , Vitor d'Arcos was a proud man — and she doubted he had ever begged anyone for anything in his entire life . |
| 51 | Ceauşescu elected to exhibit his trophies in the National History Museum in Bucharest , in salons of ‘ homage ’ where his subjects could see the admiration Western democrats felt for their leader . |
| 52 | Not that she was destined to get any practice at such a mega-speed , since Downes , at least for the first half of the interview , was to enunciate his words with the slow deliberation of a stupefied zombie . |
| 53 | An experiment with a psychic healer passing his hands over the polymer-coated slide , resulted in a tearing of the film membrane in several places . |
| 54 | Mayor dropped his plans for the new committee and agreed to keep the Executive Board more fully informed of his actions in future . |
| 55 | Why , then , could Tolkien not finish his legends of the First Age off ? |
| 56 | By March of 1188 , Frederick seemed finally to have defeated his opponents on the major domestic and imperial fronts . |
| 57 | He would start expounding his theories on the cultural state of the nation . |
| 58 | The stoma care nurse and ward nurses were able to answer his questions over the next few days and also showed Mr Reynolds some of the bags which can be worn over a stoma and let him practise handling these . |
| 59 | Farm workers have found themselves working more often alongside their employer and the farmer in turn is often more willing to consult his workers on the day-to-day management of the farm . |
| 60 | Taking care not to scratch his hands on the holding spikes , he rummaged through the weed feeling for that spasm of movement which would indicate a dying fish . |