Example sentences of "[coord] his [noun] [vb base] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 More remote , but lovely , is Valcebollère , a stone village perched at the end of a valley , where M Lafitte and his wife run the cosy L'Auberge les Ecureuils hotel .
2 He is looking at services offered by the council and his drawings include the mobile bus which takes books to isolated farmhouses .
3 That is not the fault of the prison governor ; it is the fault of the prison service , for which my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary and his predecessors have the unavoidable responsibility .
4 Whereas the satiric intentions of Divorce Italian Style were pointed and comic , Alfredo Alfredo gets unduly preachy as Dustin and his mistress join the four-year fight to change the Italian law on divorce .
5 McKeown and his colleagues blame the general hospitals for killing their patients more often than relieving them , at least until the 1875 public Health Act .
6 So often Collard and his colleagues achieve the elusive blend of intensity and elegance which all really great performances of Fauré 's music possess .
7 Jackson has denied any wrongdoing and his representatives contend the sex-abuse claims grew out of a botched 20 million dollars extortion plot .
8 He and his family say the second operation was unnecessary , and the hospital , the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford , was negligent ; a claim Oxfordshire Health Authority deny .
9 The latter 's daughter , Lady Joan , is certainly interested in ‘ the Condition of England Question ’ , and his guests include the principled , High-Church , and well-born clergyman , St Lys , who retorts to Lord Mamey that war on the cottage does not at first seem so startling a cry as war on the castle .
10 Arthur Dooley 's presence deterred the opportunists , and Mallachy was content to watch Terence and his sidekicks receive the odd punch as they were passed and bundled backwards to the door .
11 Twice the Devil has been decisively defeated by God , but his strategies remain the same .
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