Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to [noun sg] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Le Cerf was rightly taken to task for his selective criticisms of Bononcini , 3 but the tonal oddness of Quando ridi is by no means exceptional in Italian music of the period . |
| 2 | I suppose it could be that he just wants to crow in his own back yard . |
| 3 | Despite the fact that Gandhi one would have thought provided rich material for psychoanalysts , like going to bed with his erm , nieces and his lady doctor erm , and naked and claiming that this was a specific exercise , erm . |
| 4 | He always went to sleep with his still burning , so he got through a lot more than she did . |
| 5 | After all , he 's been told what 's going on , she has n't — and is almost driven to suicide by his mysterious silence , ’ she explains . |
| 6 | Arms salesman ; okay the Avenger the Equaliser the Total Fucking Nutter went for the legs too but still , and the editor spiked , and the rapist-lenient judge raped and the pornographer poisoned and stroked and the man who was so callous about the bloodshed in the Iran/Iraq war forced to watch his penned animals die like cattle like soldiers like cattle and then bled to death in his own private fountains of blood and the businessman who put profits before safety and not only helped kill a thousand people but then tried to get out of paying the survivors and dependants any compensation gets his own gas explosion — blevey is the technical term apparently — and fuck me whoever he is ( assuming he is a he ) , he 's got a sense of humour or at least irony why he 's produced what 's almost a snuff video effectively a snuff video if you mean brain-death anyway it 's the closest anyone will admit to ever having seen or found one even the Obscene Pubs Squad who 've been looking for years but although everybody assumes they exist nobody 's ever seen one until old gorilla man comes along and just makes his own , specifically to warn off any other porn merchants thinking of dealing in snuff ! |
| 7 | In a word-association test , joy , gioa , Gaudium et Spes , are not terms that readily spring to mind in his connection . |