Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] [prep] his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He ignored this and leisurely got into his undershirt . |
| 2 | He knows the precise needs of our hearts , in such a unique and personal way that we experience the remarkable conviction that we are being personally and intimately addressed by his word . |
| 3 | Prominent among the king 's clerks was Walter Stapledon who became bishop of Exeter in 1308 and eventually paid with his life for his loyal service to the crown . |
| 4 | Reid was repulsed after a bitter inter-union struggle , was charged and found guilty of disorderly conduct and eventually ejected from his office as branch secretary . |
| 5 | He stands back while Serafin comes into the centre of the room and slowly revolves on his heel . |
| 6 | Father McGiff turned from the window and wearily sat at his desk . |
| 7 | Mr Henry was found asphyxiated and badly beaten at his home in Whalley Range , Greater Manchester . |
| 8 | Eldon Henry was found asphyxiated and badly beaten in his home in Grosvenor Road , Whalley Range , Greater Manchester . |
| 9 | Nizan 's life chances were clearly and inalterably inscribed in his family situation long before he was born in Tours in February 1905 . |
| 10 | Naturally he was eager to do business , and so turned to his training officer for assistance . |
| 11 | Although not officially appointed locomotive superintendent until 1902 , Churchward was effectively in control of the locomotive , carriage , and wagon departments from 1899 and so continued until his retirement at the end of 1921 , with the new title of chief mechanical engineer from 1916 . |
| 12 | It is important that the rider does not collapse in the forward swing and so rely on his horse 's beck for support . |
| 13 | His grandsons remembered him as a very old man , fond of reading the Encyclopaedia Britannica and so failing in his memory that , when he dozed over one of the volumes , the boys would turn over several pages and he never noticed but read on from there when he woke up . |
| 14 | Seb could have gone to the Hankses ' cottage and perhaps worked on his learning with Carrie , but that would have meant paying a visit to Anna in her sick room and listening to his mother chatting about the plans for the wedding . |
| 15 | Among the Peers was the Marquess of Zetland , aged 54 and better known for his love of horse racing . |
| 16 | Would he be content to leave her in charge of Thomas and merely check on his progress from time to time , or might he endeavour to wield control in her — his — their son 's life ? |
| 17 | A horse much loved and much missed by his life long fans . |
| 18 | Odd-Knut , not willing to spend our money and not inspired by his attitude , declined . |
| 19 | Why we may go walks together , and not go to his house where there is all his family I simply can not imagine . |
| 20 | In the indenture , Gloucester undertook to be the earl 's good and faithful lord and promised not to claim any office or fee granted to the earl by the king or others and not to take into his service any men retained by the earl . |
| 21 | In the indenture , Gloucester undertook to be the earl 's good and faithful lord and promised not to claim any office or fee granted to the earl by the king or others and not to take into his service any men retained by the earl . |
| 22 | It is true that he seems to have been sufficiently interested to use Wagner as the extreme example of " the demonic in music " for his Germania paper on that theme ; and also that , following his exposure to the music of Tristan , some of his own compositions of 1861 have a marked Wagnerian flavour ( in eccentric combination with formally archaic polyphony ) — but this flirtation was short-lived and not repeated until his conversion to Wagner seven years later . |
| 23 | But it would be good to see him project a little , and not withdraw into his shell . |
| 24 | SULLIVAN , VICTUALLER ’ — and alternately reined in his horse and then with his whip prodded its jittering rump . |
| 25 | When I continued to scream at him he bared his upper teeth in an ingratiating grin and finally rolled on his back where he lay inert with half-closed eyes . |
| 26 | Four years later , aided , encouraged and finally coached by his wife Margot , the dour , muscular Scotsman was ready , his chances enhanced considerably by the absence of three American sprinters , Stanley Floyd , Mel Lattany and Harvey Glance , all suffering from the ill-conceived and , in the end , totally purposeless American boycott of the Games in protest at the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan . |
| 27 | If this was the case , Nicholl 's jacket could have been issued in 1823 and hardly used before his discharge in 1825 . |
| 28 | Those aware that in May 1989 Sotheby 's New York sold for $67 million a small group of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings inherited and collected by Ortiz-Patiño and once displayed in his house in Switzerland ( notable among the eight paintings offered at the time was Gauguin 's ‘ Mata Mua ’ , a Tahitian composition that sold for over $24 million to its former co-owner , Baron Thyssen , having been jointly purchased by Ortiz-Patiño and Thyssen only five years before at Sotheby 's New York for $3.85 million ) , may ask themselves how will Jaime Ortiz-Patiño furnish and decorate his London flat ? |
| 29 | THIS PHOTOGRAPH WAS ONE OF BERNARD 'S FAVOURITES AND ALWAYS SAT ON HIS DESK . |
| 30 | More particularly , assurance of faith comes from knowledge of God , as objectively revealed in his Word and subjectively revealed by his Spirit . |