Example sentences of "[vb -s] his [noun] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | He always has his party on the last free night before production . ’ |
2 | The result of each one is made known to the voter before he casts his vote in the next , and the series is prolonged until there emerges at the top of the poll a candidate with an absolute majority . |
3 | Unlike baby goslings which lock on to the first moving object in sight , the newborn baby will be relatively undiscriminating about who tends his needs for the first three or four months of life . |
4 | Gandhi interprets his progression to the third stage of life as an extension of his social obligations . |
5 | He concentrates his energies on survival and focuses his hope on the second addition to his life since my departure : a son , now quite as tall as his father and doing well at school . |
6 | He somehow continues his journey to the next town and dies in somebody 's arms . |
7 | Below : John Barry grits his teeth on the first pitch of Thin Wall Special ( E1 ) . |
8 | In the afternoon we 're on the Palmer charge and believe it or not he hits his tee-shot at the 17th to exactly the same spot again , and turns to me and says , ‘ Before you say anything , Tip , do n't tell me it 's a 6-iron . ’ |
9 | On Friday morning the conditions are the same and he hits his tee-shot on the 17th , would you believe , into exactly the same place , and says , ‘ What club ? ’ |
10 | For example , Jan Watt bases his analysis of the first paragraph of Henry James 's The Ambassadors on five features : ( 1 ) non-transitive verbs ; ( 2 ) abstract nouns ; ( 3 ) the word that ; ( 4 ) elegant variation ; ( 5 ) delayed specification of referents . |