Example sentences of "his [noun] [to-vb] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A sitting tenant who came with the greenhouses … and is doing his bit to keep down the slugs . |
| 2 | I am not sure about the precise details , but I do believe than when Great-Grandfather Tallentire became old and decided to retire he refused to allow his sons to carry on the licence . |
| 3 | He made an irritable gesture of flapping his cloak to shake off the water . |
| 4 | He made a similar reply to another member who insisted that radio should give better publicity to what MPs said in the House : it was not , he said , the job of his Ministry to build up the reputation of individual MPs . |
| 5 | More recently his attempt to damp down the fires of the Rushdie controversy , A Satanic Affair : Salman Rushdie and The Rage of Islam , infuriated both Muslim militants and some of Rushdie 's friends , which makes him think he got the balance about right . |
| 6 | The flimsy Geneva settlement , engineered by Eden in 1954 to enable the French to withdraw from Indo-China , was breaking down as Ho Chi Minh had begun his attempt to take over the South with backing of Communist China . |
| 7 | But when Uccello died in his eighties , ‘ He left a daughter who could design , and a wife who used to say that Paolo would remain the night long in his study to work out the lines of his perspective , and that when she called him to come to rest , he replied , ‘ Oh what a sweet thing this perspective is ! ’ |
| 8 | He is near enough for his bulk to cut out the reflection of the sky and so his own reflection does not reproduce his colours but allows us to see into the water . |
| 9 | Lorton closed his eyes to shut out the sight of Dougal . |
| 10 | It was established that individual pathetic character once and forever by tying one end of his pocket handkerchief to a hook on , in the wall and attaching himself to the other to the performance , to , to the performance of this feat however the pocket handkerchief inside had been all he , he only cried bitterly all day and when the longest nights came on he spread his little hand before his eyes to shut out the darkness and crouching in the corner tried to sleep , everyone drawing himself closer and closer to the wall |
| 11 | He cried bitterly all day , and when the long night came , he spread his little hands over his eyes to shut out the darkness , and tried to sleep . |
| 12 | He became so desperate at one stage that it crossed his mind to give up the game altogether . |
| 13 | As he put the glass to his lips to wash out the thought , his eye caught the soldierly portraits all around , the Divisional insignia above the mantelpiece , the roll of battle honours flanking them on each side , and he had a sudden vision of the mess walls decorated not with these trumpery monuments to man 's stupidity but with the torn and mangled limbs of countless unfortunates and , in the place of honour , Corporal Byford 's shattered , still bleeding leg . |
| 14 | ‘ He walked around with shoulders hunched , head bent , unable to communicate , with hands over his ears to block out the noise of other people , ’ she said in a letter to The Times . |
| 15 | Madeleine Harvey , of Coniston school in Reigate , said : ‘ He walked around with shoulders hunched , head bent , unable to communicate with anyone very well , with hands over his ears to block out the noise of other people . ’ |
| 16 | He watched in agony as Ram , with the deliberate movements of long service and old age , tore the cartridge , emptied the powder into the muzzle , and took his ramrod to drive down the rest of the cartridge . |
| 17 | The bomb Simon Cormack had been carrying on his person was concealed in the broad leather belt he wore around his waist and which had been given him by his abductors to hold up the denim jeans they had also provided for him . |
| 18 | Wells lost his tolerance of contradiction in his anxiety to tidy up the world . |
| 19 | Quickly picked up near Cape Town by a passing ship , Swift , in the confidence of sealed orders and of his own determination , persuades the captain to divert his passage to track down the Welfare . |
| 20 | Working flat out during the day , and immersed in reams of paperwork during the night , Ross had been totally absorbed in his battle to fight off the sharks who were attacking his financial empire . |
| 21 | Tralhaut comments that he seemed to be almost glorying in his failure to break down the barriers and ‘ storm the fortress ’ of his love 's frozen heart . |
| 22 | Since John 's death , however , one of his younger cousins , Robin Cranko , has made it his business to search out the beginnings of the family . |
| 23 | But Mr Kohl 's lack of forthrightness in acting against racist attacks and his reluctance to take up the cause of their victims suggests a chancellor , if not a country , who has yet to come fully to terms with the past . |
| 24 | His refusal to take seriously the possibility of a confirmation theory , for example , can easily lead one to believe that he is closing his eyes to important normative issues . |
| 25 | Jessica , after a time , had said she loved him too , and grew quite fascinated by his refusal to bring up the subject of fidelity . |
| 26 | Next morning , Donleavy came up to his room to lay out the assignment . |
| 27 | In 1850 he resigned his curatorship to take up the post of mineral surveyor for New South Wales , an appointment that provoked the hostility of W. B. Clarke [ q.v . ] . |
| 28 | You need your Warlord near his troops to pass on the benefits of his leadership and to get stuck in alongside the Boyz . |
| 29 | Wayne said nothing for a while , and Pete allowed his attention to wander down the inventory list ; his eyebrows raised at the mention of a waterbed , a hi-fi system and a video hookup in the after stateroom . |
| 30 | Instead of sending in his officers to haul out the occupiers , Alderson argued that this was a civil issue , there had been no breach of the peace and it was not his job to suppress dissent . |