Example sentences of "his [noun] [vb infin] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What part , for example , did his teaching play in the increasing secularization of modern society ? |
| 2 | The new bosses are so lower class , so uncouth , such vulgarians — ’ Davide would put a finger across his lips , but without emphasis , for he loved to hear her anger , it healed his own affliction , the binding fatigue which came over him when he contemplated his work , and made his legs drag across the shiny floors in the clanging corridors of the new Law Courts , Town Hall and Police Headquarters in booming Riba , concrete inside , dead white marble outside , sprouting confident towers of glass and statuary of muscular naked giants , Order clubbing Chaos , Force cracking Cowardice 's skull underfoot . |
| 3 | Manager Kenny Shiels , watching his side win for the first time since the opening day of the season , feels that it 's not an impossible dream . |
| 4 | Manager Kenny Shiels , watching his side win for the first time since the opening day of the season , feels that it 's not an impossible dream . |
| 5 | Climbing out , stood for a few seconds to let his eyes adjust to the pale moonlight , then he stepped through the gap and began to pick his way carefully down the uneven terrain of the slope , towards the crashed car below . |
| 6 | He let his gaze rest upon the awed and silent faces that fringed his passage , but without seeing them . |
| 7 | An amused smile touched Guido 's eyes as he let his gaze flicker over the rumpled high-necked cotton pyjamas she was wearing . |
| 8 | Until the Van Sant collection arrived in London for display in the ICA on Pall Mall , and we were able to see his creations fly by the Round Pond in Kensington Palace Gardens and at the Festival Hall on the River Thames , most of our kite-thinking came in straight lines . |
| 9 | He smiled , seeing his pledge lie in the other man 's palm , as yet only half-accepted . |
| 10 | Or did his advice derive from the crooked workings of a twisted kind of covetousness — perhaps the kind prohibited by the Ninth Commandment , Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour 's wife , which had always seemed superfluous after the Sixth . |
| 11 | Thus did his byline appear in the first issue . |
| 12 | Chuck reloaded and fired off both barrels with great care , and again he had the satisfaction of hearing his bullets slam into the stationary animal . |
| 13 | Coins rattled in the tray 's money-compartment , then Frankie felt his hands close around the chilly wrapping of a choc-ice . |
| 14 | Will his reputation survive into the twenty-first century ? |
| 15 | How nonchalantly he posed , letting his menials deal with the remaining , no longer so elegant riff-raff . |