Example sentences of "his [noun] [verb] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As his dive steepened he felt the speed pick up again ; there was still life in the controls , somewhere . |
| 2 | Making life hell so he resigned , and threatening to expose his negligence to ensure he made the minimum of fuss , was much more acceptable to MacQuillan . ’ |
| 3 | Unfortunately , their conception of American culture woefully behind the times and Cameron Smith , a KGB man with a more up-to-date approach , convinces his superiors to allow him to give the place a more modern look by duping a couple of real American experts to act as advisors . |
| 4 | It is no secret that there was great division among Transvaal administrators in releasing Rice from his contract to enable him to join the Channel 9 TV commentary team for the World Cup that clashed with the latter stages of the South African season . |
| 5 | His willingness to rethink everything aroused the hostility of the left ; but he remained too leftwing for the right , and his shadow cabinet ratings sunk . |
| 6 | Each must decide as he pleases , according to whether his temperament urges him to prefer the prolific , radiant , almost jovial abundance of Rubens ; the mild dignity and eurhythmic order of Raphael ; the paradisal — one might almost say the afternoon colour of Veronese ; the austere and strained severity of David ; or the dramatic and almost literary rhetoric of Lebrun . |
| 7 | The thin cotton of his pyjamas did nothing to cushion the discomfort of the wicker scraping his bony body . |
| 8 | His words made one recall the excellent reports compiled by Ian Paisley 's Assembly Agriculture Committee and Sheila Magee about the industry in the mid 1980s . |
| 9 | The Crown Princess of Jordan opened an exhibition of his work saying it captured the real colour of life . |
| 10 | A FEUDING doctor who was awarded a record £150,000 damages against his partner for slander has been forced to give up his battle to get her to pay the cash . |
| 11 | go sitting in his shop watching him mend the shoes . |
| 12 | Steve and his wife use it to keep the weight off and ensure their 3 young daughters get the balanced diet the experts say they need . |
| 13 | When he became known as the composer of marches and was about to take up his first bandmaster post , his wife suggested he use the letters on his case , S.O.U.S.A. as a professional name , and he took the names of his sons as his Christian names . |
| 14 | His awkwardness made her remember the last time they had met — that time he had come to her and cried upon her shoulder , four days after Han Ch'in 's death . |
| 15 | Mr Arsmtrong said : ‘ She said she thought he was going to start on her again so she went into the kitchen to get a knife and while her husband had his back turned she pushed the knife into his lower back . |
| 16 | On the second occasion the wife of his landlord caught him thumping the side of the machine with his fist . |
| 17 | For once his joking did nothing to ease the tension and no one laughed . |
| 18 | The violent scene ended with his father telling him to leave the house , ‘ so decidedly that I actually left the same day . ’ |
| 19 | His father encouraged him to read the historical books of the Bible . |
| 20 | The untimely death of his father did nothing to alter the youngest Charlton 's ambition . |
| 21 | These photographs — ‘ my life 's blood ’ — are pinned to his bench enabling him to check the size and configuration of the newly-carved elements . |
| 22 | Only as Darwin began to form his theories did he realise the error of his ways on board the Beagle . |
| 23 | Although this ardent Protestant was now protector ( and duke of Somerset ) , his government did nothing to help the Protestant Castalians . |
| 24 | AIAS [ Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies ] tried to get in touch with Gould and his publishers to ask them to withdraw the book from sale , or at least remove this photo . |
| 25 | God and his Reason commanded him to subdue the Earth , i.e. improve it for the benefit of Life , and therein lay out something upon it that was his own , his labour . |
| 26 | AMERICAN comedian Milton Berle , 84 , claims his doctor says he has the body of a 40-year-old and adds : ‘ Even at my age the sex act is terrific — especially the one in the winter . ’ |
| 27 | One writer had the initiative to check with Muslim organisations when his publisher asked him to remove the term ‘ pig-out ’ . |
| 28 | His visit did nothing to stem the exodus , however , and on Jan. 20 the Greek authorities declared that no Albanian would be allowed to enter Greece without a passport and visa . |
| 29 | When Ryoei Saito , 74 , president of Daishowa Paper Manufacturing Co , set the latest auction record ( $82.5 million for Van Gogh 's Portrait of Dr Gachet ) his representative said he regarded the painting as ‘ quite cheap , very reasonable . ’ |
| 30 | One of his daughters takes me to borrow the telephone of a surly neighbour , who insists I pay for the call . |