Example sentences of "[vb pp] his [noun] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lightbody has already booked his place to compete in the British Isles singles championship in Worthing in July . |
| 2 | In an open letter ( new routes book Rock and Run ) Steve has also made his feelings known on the recent spate of bolting on Chapel Head , stating ‘ All I 'm suggesting is that a bit more thought goes into the development of the crag . |
| 3 | With term approaching fast , it was quite likely that Andrew was coming to London on department business , and had seen his opportunity to call in the debt . |
| 4 | He 'd seen his mother sat at the end of the bed ages after she was dead , you know . |
| 5 | Siward , the man who had planned in his turn a fair dominion for himself and his offspring , and had seen his son die in the land of his rival . |
| 6 | A heroin addict who gave a friend a fatal injection of drugs has had his sentence reduced by the Court of Appeal . |
| 7 | This bland characterisation is apt only if B is misleadingly conceived as a person who has had his conviction quashed on the basis of successfully arguing one of his points of appeal . |
| 8 | I think we should cover Dull , and see whether the man there has had his wits cleared by the smell of fresh shite under his nose . ’ |
| 9 | John Hurst , the managing director of Deon who make a Ferrari Dino replica , has often had his cars mistaken for the real thing by owners of the genuine article . |
| 10 | A sepoy with a green turban had had his spine shattered by The Spirit of Science ; others had been struck down by teaspoons , by fish-knives , by marbles ; an unfortunate subadar had been plucked from this world by the silver sugar-tongs embedded in his brain . |
| 11 | Portsmouth 's best chance came in the sixty fourth minute , a great breakaway down the left , the cross coming in , seventeen goal man Guy Whittingham getting his head to the ball , but it was n't going to be his eighteenth goal of the season , because Ken Vasey dived to his right , just got his finger tips to the ball and held on to it and the chance had gone . |
| 12 | The Secretary of State exercised his powers to apply to the NIRC under the Industrial Relations Act 1971 for an order requiring a ballot of trade union members to be held . |
| 13 | Following a tremendous start to this term , the one-time journeyman has pronounced his determination to go for the title . |
| 14 | The Yorkshire-born jockey broke his duck at Yarmouth in 1967 and has never once doubted his ability to compete with the best . |
| 15 | Our first Secretary of State for National Heritage had spent his Easter hols at the Lucerne festival , where the London Symphony Orchestra ( last year 's Arts Council grants : over £1 million ) proved its world-class rank with a ‘ peerless ’ Mahler One . |
| 16 | She could have sworn his eyes lingered on the scarf about her neck . |
| 17 | He explained he had wanted his audience to sit on the edge of their seats , hoping and believing that the composer was going to amplify his idea — and then to confound them . |
| 18 | Brother Luke has asked his congregation to pray for the Council to change its mind … other wise he could soon be in the doghouse over his coal house . |
| 19 | The deposed king had announced his decision to return at the end of May , when he committed himself to promoting democracy and announced that he was planning to sponsor an interim multiparty government of national consensus which would include members of the military . |
| 20 | He succeeded Corneliu Coposu , who had previously announced his decision to resign from the post . |
| 21 | The Scottish Sports Council announced today that its Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Mr Ken Hutchison has intimated his decision to retire at the end of November . |
| 22 | They 've heard his mother hammering on the door , demanding that he open it to her . |
| 23 | She continued to stand there , eyes closed tightly , long after the front door had closed behind him and she had heard his car disappear down the drive . |
| 24 | Genet uses the blacks , the way a man who has just emptied his revolver reaches for the knife at his side ’ ( ‘ The Revenge of Jean Genet ’ , 175 ) . |
| 25 | This golfer has allowed his weight to remain on the left side and , worse still , has allowed his right leg to straighten . |
| 26 | ' When the time comes , Dustin has expressed his desire to depart in the style of the actor David Burns , who suffered a fatal heart attack in the middle of a performance . |
| 27 | During the twenty-mile drive , once he had left his own estate , he had kept his mind fixed on the goal of his errand , and what came in between went unremarked . |
| 28 | The monotonous motion of his arm released his mind to think about the discovery in the shed . |