Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] his [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They gave Jack the chance to practise some of the underhand humour that eventually became part of his mystique . |
| 2 | One day he went missing , and the producer went in search of him , eventually catching sight of his Rolls-Royce parked outside a bar . |
| 3 | The most widely reported feature of his speech was the proposal to repeal a 35-year-old law outlawing the Communist Party of the Philippines — Marxist Leninist ( CPP-ML ) and similar organizations , and to institute a sweeping amnesty . |
| 4 | His parents hoped that this might prove a stepping-stone to a painter 's career , but Rosenberg hated the work , only deriving consolation from his reading of such poets as Byron , Keats , Shelley , and , most importantly , William Blake [ qq.v. ] ; from his own writing ; and from evening painting classes at the art school of Birkbeck College . |
| 5 | She had watched Madeleine feed him in hospital , patiently push soup between his lips . |
| 6 | He suddenly has trouble with his breathing . |
| 7 | He not only has room in his science for God ; he tries to create God using only some laws of physics , some simplifying assumptions , some outrageous extrapolations , and truly cosmic gall . |
| 8 | A front-line supervisor only has authority over his part of the work of the organisation and can not issue instructions to another part . |
| 9 | ‘ But surely no one would be mad enough to hide gelignite in his room ? ’ said Amiss . |
| 10 | For the chief defect of parliamentary democracy is that it is representative : when a person elects a representative he necessarily surrenders part of his sovereignty to him . |
| 11 | Boz made the announcement as though expecting Dolly to argue with him , but she merely nodded acknowledgement of his statement . |
| 12 | He pulled away from them both long enough to wipe blood from his face and to lean on the stair-rail , sucking in deep breaths . |
| 13 | Rivers only roll along to brighten up the landscape , and cattle graze only to give life to his drawings . |
| 14 | But the sergeant knew he was not , it was simply the effect of a quiet man suddenly giving vent to his anger . |
| 15 | He still drank , began to smoke , and only took notice of his wife and child to shout at them or hit them , usually when he was drunk . |
| 16 | Andre Gide , apparently taking leave of his senses , described him as ‘ the greatest of all , the most genuine novelist we have had in literature ’ . |
| 17 | Shepherd merely took advantage of his right as equal to appeal to us . |
| 18 | It was Cannistraro and his colleagues who also identified the mysterious Libyan who bought the clothes in Malta to wrap around the bomb , based on a photofit picture produced by the FBI from the shopkeeper 's phenomenally detailed description of his customer ten months after he saw him for the first and only time . |
| 19 | Last night television 's aristocracy came together to pay homage to his service … still unfinished by the way , attempts to retire have failed and he 's still running the Sunday evening programme Highway with Harry Secombe . |
| 20 | Hoomey thought she did n't speak English very well ; she spoke Punjabi to the family , but Mr Singh always spoke English and Jazz only spoke gook to his mother , not to anyone else . |
| 21 | He apparently introduced Fagg as his colonel . ’ |
| 22 | This is essentially what Mycetes is because he is not strong enough to be in power , not brave enough to lead armies and not powerful enough to command respect among his followers and country . |
| 23 | He obviously had impregnation on his mind , but by now Lydia had lost her temper and she told him to get stuffed . |
| 24 | Hindley only had room in his heart for two people , himself and his wife , so when she died , he was in despair . |
| 25 | There are only a few places where he can be , but it is n't until 0500 hours that he is found walking along Unter den Linden , the most famous and beautiful of Berlin 's pre-war streets , having apparently lost contact with his friends . |
| 26 | The man , from Helen 's home town Horndean , near Portsmouth , was taken for questioning on Wednesday but police only released news of his arrest yesterday . |
| 27 | Larkin , a former Irish Schools international , normally plays fullback for his club but has taken over at fly-half on occasions . |
| 28 | By the end of the fifteenth century Louis XII was already using French in his letters to other monarchs ( the only significant exception was Poland , whose ruler he wrote to in Latin ) , while at the same time it was the language of the imperial court under Maximilian I. The century or more which followed saw a tendency for it to be used increasingly as the language of diplomacy . |
| 29 | The fact that the promisor has already received consideration for his promise before he makes it , so far from enabling him to break his promise seems to us to form an additional reason for making him keep it . |
| 30 | The small boy had just caught sight of his cousin , who went to Cranborne School . |