Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] his [noun] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He phoned to tell his bosses the bad news . |
| 2 | When Carco 's concierge came to clean his room the next day , she almost fainted at the sight of the nude picture hanging over his bed . |
| 3 | Before he had completed his turn the whole sphere was blazing , and two parachutes were unfolding below it . |
| 4 | The police had found his body the previous afternoon , just before lunch . |
| 5 | Yet before he made the astonishing leap from Paupers ' Alley with Cambridge United to Millionaires ' Row with Manchester City Dublin , 23 , had to learn his lessons the hard way . |
| 6 | He had learnt his craft the hard way ; after you had shot an Ibizan beach orgy sequence in a studio in Soho on a cold January morning with a load of complaining bimbos and a gay black man coked out of his brains , any other gig was a breeze . |
| 7 | The pain increased and when he attempted to move his legs the right one went into an agonising cramp that caused his eyes and mouth to open simultaneously . |