Example sentences of "[prep] his [noun] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lawrence 's rising reputation in the years after his death made the critical shift back to realism easier . |
| 2 | SENIOR Tories in Cheltenham were trying yesterday to persuade Mr John Taylor to remain as their prospective parliamentary candidate after his failure to become the first black Tory MP . |
| 3 | Mr Yeltsin 's appeal looks like a gesture of despair after his failure to influence the central government . |
| 4 | It was as though his mind was disposed only to preserve enough details of his history to make the present plausible . |
| 5 | Unable to sleep he had drawn back the front flaps of his hut to watch the spectacular storm and had been startled to see her dashing across the flooded clearing in the glare of the lightning flashes . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's nothing , ’ he muttered , but still pulled up the sleeve of his sweatshirt to reveal the inflamed area on his inner wrist . |
| 7 | Why did she feel no embarrassment or fear at letting her fingers trace down the hair-roughened muscles of his chest to skim the flat planes of his stomach and then move on ? |
| 8 | A DETECTIVE spent the last moments of his life watching the Grand National in a pub with friends . |
| 9 | The following day Charlie 's section of ten began to wish that he had n't spent the previous fourteen years of his life visiting the early morning market . |
| 10 | Consequently , the last line of his life parroted the last line of his masterpiece : at his funeral a picket of soldiers turned up to fire a volley over the coffin , and thus bid the state 's traditional farewell to one of its most improbable and sardonic chevaliers . |
| 11 | In 386 , Priscillian and at least five of his disciples became the first heretics to be executed . |
| 12 | When the cuffs went on he had braced the sinews of his wrists to secure the maximum space when he relaxed . |
| 13 | He took Ranulf 's hand , led him over to the gibbet and pushed his hand between the iron bars until the tips of his fingers touched the decaying flesh of the hanged man , just above where his heart had been . |
| 14 | She was aware of his fingers parting the swollen lips of her engorged fig , and fondling the whole length of her dewy slit until he came upon her cute little clit . |
| 15 | Jean-Claude spoke of his plans to reinstate the Guérigny house and stables with the money he would receive for his opera . |
| 16 | Scotland have claimed pushover tries against the Welsh on their last three visits to Murrayfield and though the Welsh front-row emerged with considerable scrummage plaudits from their tussle with England , I have observed before in these columns that Martin Bayfield is not in the same league as Paul Ackford as a scrummaging lock ; Jason Leonard , too , hardly seems to be at the peak of his powers following the bone-graft operation in his neck during the close season . |
| 17 | The referential nature of Ultimate Concern in Tillich 's thought is indicative of his tendency to hypostasize the Ultimate . |
| 18 | Matisse , who was one of the first of the painters of his generation to appreciate the true genius of Cézanne , had been working under his influence since 1899 , the year in which he bought Cézanne 's Trois Baigneuses from Vollard , choosing it in preference to an Arlésienne by Van Gogh , and in the figure pieces that lead up to the Bonheur , the influence of Cézanne is immediately obvious . |
| 19 | The issue was of far greater importance to Japan than to Russia , yet the Tsar and most of his ministers expected the Japanese to be easily intimidated . |
| 20 | But when the large hand of his watch passed the twelve , he did not move . |
| 21 | It hardly seems accidental that the extremely imprecise and tentative nature of his proposals allowed the maximum scope for the exercise of political judgement at all levels of the administrative system . |
| 22 | Yet despite this he is created in a relationship of accountability to God and the sphere of his accountability includes the economic . |
| 23 | One of his mates took the dented tube away from him and opened it , splashing froth over a window . |
| 24 | As Adam fell , Mike heard the sound of his head hitting the elaborate steel fender . |
| 25 | Li Yuan moved to the side of the pool , the toes of his boots overlapping the tiled edge . |
| 26 | Yet the sight of his daughter going the same way seriously displeased him . |
| 27 | ‘ Winning only one Bledisloe Cup in my eight years and , of course , South Africa were factors ’ , Farr-Jones says of his decision to add the 53rd cap he won at Twickenham . |
| 28 | And he told of his pledge to fight the growing crime rate in Darlington by calling for stiffer sentences and more responsibility placed upon parents for offenders under 17. — Labour candidate Alan Milburn , speaking at his adoption meeting , said the Conservatives had failed Darlington . |
| 29 | ‘ Several times more than once , ’ the Doctor said , the tone of his voice reflecting the numerous occasions on which Bernice had dragged him into the flea-pit cinema she 'd found in the TARDIS and insisted that he pay attention to the noir motifs and the semiotics of Double Indemnity . |
| 30 | The calmness of his voice belied the cold fury inside him . |