Example sentences of "be [verb] his [noun sg] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | William looked around at the stacks of cartons and bundles and felt that he had been wasting his time tidying the stock . |
| 2 | This evening Bob will be changing his amendment to read the funds will be provided rather than consideration . |
| 3 | Hubert Thomas , the father of Gordon Thomas , told the Parliamentary Committee of 1893–4 that he had been advising his Committee to buy the Union for some thirty years . |
| 4 | ACTOR Tom Conti is doing his bit to help the ailing economy by buying only British goods . |
| 5 | And Johnny 's doing his bit to introduce the youngsters to the animal kingdom … |
| 6 | With the aid of rare signed texts , Dr Friedman is programming his computer to recognise the shapes of strokes in the hands of various writers . |
| 7 | He was doing his bit to save the world . |
| 8 | However , just as Mungo was lowering his head to clear the opening , something made him turn back . |
| 9 | She stood by the window for some minutes , looking down into Hand and Ball Court , where an old tramp was feeling his way round the walls and trying not to catch people 's eyes . |
| 10 | Some of Joseph 's creations — the all-powerful Ministry of the Interior , working through the prefect — fascinated a generation of bureaucrats : Javier de Burgos , who served Joseph as a sub-prefect , was to make his French experience the basis for the administrative reconstruction of Spain . |