Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For it was the Spirit who called Philip from his successful mission in Samaria to reach the Ethiopian eunuch with the gospel ( 8:29 and probably 26 ) , and led him on his further preaching tour as far as the very Hellenised city of Caesarea . |
| 2 | I talked to him after a recent gig in Manchester ( which saw Robben playing with Roscoe Beck on bass and drummer Tom Brechtlien ) and asked him about his new album . |
| 3 | He stopped himself from looking at any of them and stuffed them into his waste-paper basket . |
| 4 | Lawrence I think gave his handkerchief to turned his nose up a little and stuffed it into his left pocket . |
| 5 | The effort he had put into creating another character , a Daniel Miller , would have turned in upon him and transformed him into his own words . |
| 6 | ( Jones , as everyone would have expected , welcomed his vanquished opponent on board with great courtesy , and invited him to his own wrecked cabin for a glass of wine . ) |
| 7 | He saw the wisdom of this ploy and invited me to his next fight , when he lost his title . |
| 8 | Searle was a rogue and used it for his own purposes . |
| 9 | The taxi bill arose after he opened an account for Nalgo with Mersey Cabs without authorisation and used it for his own personal use as well as official business . |
| 10 | He greatly influenced modern methods of excavation : he deliberately studied Pitt-Rivers ' methods and modified them to his own ideas . |
| 11 | The 24-year-old Iro picked up the injury playing against Great Britain in the second Test in Auckland in July and aggravated it in his last match for Manly three weeks ago . |
| 12 | He picked up the injury playing against Great Britain in July and aggravated it in his last match for Manly . |
| 13 | But his personality — assertive and brash yet essentially both cheerful and tough — gradually communicated itself to the public and helped him to his greatest triumph : his victory in the 1948 election . |
| 14 | Unable to accept again the superstitions he had discarded , nevertheless with time and misfortune he found himself turning back to the three deities who had guided his early life , and helped him through his harsh apprenticeship as a scribe : the reasonable Thoth , ibis-headed , god of the scribes ; Horus , son of Osiris ; and the protector of the hearth , Bes — the little god of his childhood . |
| 15 | He went back for the woman pedestrian he knocked down near a busy roundabout and helped her into his white Sierra car . |
| 16 | On a Jamaican cattle ranch acquired in settlement of some debts , he freed the slaves and transported them at his own expense to Philadelphia for resettlement . |
| 17 | IN DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES , a black cop sat in his office above the Criminal Courts and told me of his seven years with the Hardcore Gang Unit of the District Attorney 's office : ‘ I have n't worked on anything but a murder since I started here . ’ |
| 18 | He had watched his sisters slide into prostitution , through financial and practical necessity , and told me in his Spanish dialect that he had become used to sleeping on the floor at home while they fucked a random selection of Cuban , Puerto Rican and American sailors from the nearby US Naval base at Subic Bay in the Philippines . |
| 19 | Yet he had since seen Aycliffe and told him of his unaltered intention to come into possession of them by wedding her . |
| 20 | She was shivering against him , and he helped her back to the fire and bundled her in his own bedroll ; but she kept her arms about him . |
| 21 | Glenn Gould played this regularly , even recorded it ( two movements on Le Chant du Monde CD LDC278 799 , 10/86 ) and played it at his last public concert in 1964 . |
| 22 | Socialist Euro MPs jeered and heckled him during his key speech to the European Parliament , in which he spoke of Britain 's ‘ triumphs ’ of the Edinburgh Summit . |
| 23 | The Spanish pistol was still clutched in his right hand ; Maxim took it away and dropped it in his own pocket . |
| 24 | Cecil crept up behind Sam and poked him with his over-sized weapon . |
| 25 | Inevitably his mother nursed and protected him in his early years , and this was the basis of a deep , perhaps inordinately and unhealthily deep , attachment of son to mother . |
| 26 | And some say that Brendan Behan never wrote the song ‘ Old Triangle ’ , but learned it off another inmate at Mountjoy and claimed it as his own . ’ |
| 27 | He was glad that he did n't throw out the Christmas cards from his son and daughter in 1987 , for every year since he had taken them out of the suitcase on top of the wardrobe and displayed them in his own room as if they had come in with the morning post . |
| 28 | They will offer us Mozart 's music as he would have played it and heard it in his own day . |
| 29 | presented him with a huge pepper mill and thanked him for his hard work . |
| 30 | On the Thursday ( 10 December ) Baldwin presented the King 's message of renunciation to the House of Commons , and followed it by his own account and justification of events . |