Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] his [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may also need to lay on a messenger service to deliver the film to the newspaper building while the photographer goes on to his next assignment . |
| 2 | He says unless you know what goes on in his daily life you do n't realise what he goes through . |
| 3 | The child who is abused or belittled will often , when an adult , seek out others who will treat him in the same way as this fits in with his inner image of himself . |
| 4 | Jilted pilot drops in on his old love |
| 5 | Frank , who virtually lives in his brown jacket , blends in with his dusty study , and has a Shakespearean flourish . |
| 6 | Bishop looks back on his recent visit |
| 7 | Signing Off Tony Rudd looks back over his brilliant career 56 |
| 8 | BBC2 's Frost In The Air looks back over his 30-year career . |
| 9 | To take one example : it has frequently been said that a child 's attachment to his mother develops out of his physical dependence on her . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , 18-year-old full-back Michael Gray stands by for his full League debut at Southend . |
| 11 | The right leg follows it and the student arrives back at his original stance . |
| 12 | So , equipped with a newly-restored 1942 300 hp Stearman ( the Cannibal Queen of the title ) former A-6 Intruder pilot Coonts launches off with his teenage son aboard to set wheel in all 48 contiguous states , stopping en route to visit family , ex-wife , old squadron buddies , national monuments , places of pilgrimage ( like Kill Devil Hills , from which the Wrights first flew ) , aviation museums , and pausing awhile en route to give rides in the big yellow biplane to anyone who asks , and to philosophise on racial equality , politics , religion , women the FAA , Disneyworld … |
| 13 | In this way , too , the angry man draws the discord he subconsciously craves down upon his own head . |
| 14 | Andy reaches up for his big friend 's hand . |
| 15 | His second wife , Barbara , turns up with his second daughter . |
| 16 | A woman spends many years charring in Cremona ; she saves all her money to buy an apartment for her son when he gets married ; her no-good husband , the boy 's father , reappears after years and demands assistance ; she refuses ; when the son is engaged , she relents and negotiates subsidies to her ex-husband , for a suit , a car , a wedding-present ; she organizes a big reception to which she invites all her former employers ; nobody comes except a tennis-star ; there is no sign of the husband ; her lawyer tells her that the girl her son is marrying is her husband 's mistress and that he had already taken over the apartment ; she reflects a moment and decides to carry on with the reception , everything is all right , ‘ if no one notices anything , it is as though nothing has happened ’ ; passers-by are invited to join the wedding-party , which they happily do because the tennis-star is present ; the husband turns up in his new car ; no one takes any notice of him because no one knows who he is , except for the dealer he sometimes does jobs for , who tells him all new cars lose half their value as soon as they are bought and end up on the scrapheap anyway . |
| 17 | Taking time off from more pressing matters , Kevin Maxwell lines up with his local cricket team . |
| 18 | GARRY PARKER has the best possible reasons for holding no grudges against Brian Clough when he lines up against his old club Nottingham Forest at Villa Park today . |
| 19 | Former Hammers player Bobby Barnes lines up against his old club . |
| 20 | Graham refused to run with me after that and in India , as he builds up for his first attempt at the London Marathon next year , he can find some other mug to tramp the streets of Delhi or Bombay with him . |
| 21 | Be interesting to see how he gets on without his precious protégé . ’ |
| 22 | He has opted for the island county this time qualifying under the residential rule which also applies to captain Mark Harris , who has switched clubs from Menai Bridge to Bangor but stays on for his fourth campaign in charge . |
| 23 | No I feel that this ties in with his nervous breakdown . |
| 24 | Reynolds hesitated for a moment , then said , ‘ I do n't see how this ties in with his medical practice . ’ |
| 25 | And then he gets up on his high horse and he says , ‘ Rico has no daughters , Rico only has sons . |
| 26 | ( ALFRED struggles out of his half-on robe . ) |
| 27 | Of course , Thomas Luis de Victoria is better known than Juan Gutièrez de Padilla but , as Bruno Turner points out in his informative programme note , he is ‘ undoubtedly the finest composer of the colonial period to come from Old Spain and spend nearly all his productive life in the New Spain ’ . |
| 28 | Today that analogy seems almost trivial , yet , as Professor L. M. Brown points out in his stimulating introduction to this book , in the 1930s there was an almost pathological fear of new particles . |
| 29 | Immanuel Yelikovsky 's idea that the Earth stopped rotating in Old Testament times is attractive , as Martin Gardner points out in his recent Science , Good , Bad and Bogus , because it seems to verify the Old Testament . |
| 30 | As Charles Medawar points out in his seminal study , Power and Dependence ( Social Audit , £10 ) , it was not until the 1980s that benzodiazepine dependency became recognized as an iatrogenic problem , a disease caused by medicine itself . |