Example sentences of "his [noun pl] and [verb] [adv prt] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bed was too narrow and Oliver muttered in his sleep and ground his teeth and thrashed about with his fists . |
| 2 | The fascination of this book is in its clear-sighted debunking of the myths which many have fondly mistaken for historical truth : that Columbus was really aiming for Asia , that he and his sailors thought the world was flat , that Queen Isabella pawned her jewels to finance his trips and came down with her husband to wave him off from the docks , or even ( a fondly-cherished delusion ) that these were journeys of discovery rather than intentional acquisition and expansion of the Spanish empire . |
| 3 | Birkett shrugged his shoulders and went on with the fish cakes . |
| 4 | Nikos shrugged his shoulders and went on with his writing . |
| 5 | Thomas shut his eyes and hung on with all his might . |
| 6 | The priest staggered to his feet and waddled off with an air of drunken disdain . |
| 7 | John ignored the heat building up under his hands and pressed down with all his weight . |
| 8 | And Pilger , an exasperatingly prickly individualist determined to expose the ills of the world , stubbornly refused to lower his standards and fit in with the new requirements . |