Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [art] [noun] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the late 1980s , Ceauşescu 's suspicions and caprices had whittled down the numbers of his long-term favourites . |
| 2 | His spectacles had shaken down the arch of his nose . |
| 3 | And tobacco ash was spilt down the front of his evening shirt . |
| 4 | He had picked up the phrase from his teenage secretary . |
| 5 | Irina however had not picked up the seriousness of his last words . |
| 6 | Richie had picked up the urgency in his voice and had stopped chewing . |
| 7 | He had looked out the window of his hotel that morning , seen the rain , thought of the day that lay ahead of him and none of it any more seemed worthwhile . |
| 8 | The latter so impressed George II that he had it hung on the walls of his apartment , and it was being printed as late as 1821 . |
| 9 | Imagine , then , that Mandela had written down the story of his life , and that the manuscript was for sale . |
| 10 | The man slowly turned over the page of his magazine . |
| 11 | Next to a photograph of John were a few words of text which Chris had just written off the top of his head : |
| 12 | ‘ I 've built up a dossier on his drug and arms deals over the past few years . |
| 13 | GRAHAM Robb , Conservative candidate in Hartlepool , mapped out the course of his campaign at his adoption meeting in the town 's Grand Hotel . |
| 14 | We were n't , I now realise by doing the sums , badly off My father paid the rent , all the bills , gave us our pocket money , and a fixed sum of f7 a week housekeeping money quite a lot in the late 1950s — went on being handed over every Friday until his death , even when estrangement was obvious , and he was living most of the time with someone else . |
| 15 | External Affairs Minister Madhavsinh Solanki resigned on March 31 after admitting that he had handed over a note to his Swiss counterpart , René Felber , requesting the Swiss government to slow down its investigations into pay-offs to high-ranking Indian officials allegedly deposited into Swiss bank accounts by the Swedish armaments company AB Bofors [ see pp. 35336 ; 35382 ] . |
| 16 | ‘ We are glad the owner has handed over the pictures of his own free will rather than selling them on the Western art market . ’ |
| 17 | Confused by her rebellious attitude , David himself had cleaned up the kitchen behind his stepfather , and so the pattern was set . |
| 18 | On the second night at the caravan she had slid back the partition between his bed and hers and had walked quietly up to his bed and had stood gravely looking down at him . |
| 19 | One officer was convinced his superior had spelt out the situation in his corps in detail , so accurate was her diagnosis when she preached . |
| 20 | Decisions which he regards as important must be continually referred up the line to his superiors , for inter-departmental consultations etc . |
| 21 | Having gathered up the elements of his story from Wordsworth and John Cruikshank , Coleridge had , in a week of brilliant creativity , produced not a gothic ballad of the supernatural , but a strange and capacious metaphor of life itself-of man 's lonely voyage on a ‘ wide wide sea ’ , of his struggle with evil , of guilt and imperfect redemption . |
| 22 | At that moment he would have given up every moment of his past and future freedom to have her at his side . |
| 23 | Sabbah gave his directive , and Azadi dutifully noted down the orders in his neat , precise script . |
| 24 | This pantomime went on for some time and , inevitably , the emotional strain brought on a resurgence of his symptoms . |
| 25 | Albert cut it out , snipping around the paragraph that said that her husband was the buyer in the men 's sports-clothes department of the same store , and pinned up the clipping in his room . |
| 26 | ‘ I was only young at the time , but I can still recall the funeral , and the flat cart with his coffin being pulled up the field by his horse . |
| 27 | Pa has just pulled up the sleeves of his jacket and taken the Monster from Ma . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's nothing , ’ he muttered , but still pulled up the sleeve of his sweatshirt to reveal the inflamed area on his inner wrist . |
| 29 | He had pulled up the sleeve of his jersey , exposing a powerful arm covered with reddish hairs . |
| 30 | The sculptor Rob Blote has set up a gallery in his home in Wassenaar with the specific purpose of selling works of art which the Dutch government had purchased through the BKR Scheme . |