Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He asked to see his social services file and eventually the local authority agreed , provided the donors of information consented . |
| 2 | Jock then tried to hit Denis , who was still swinging at Michael , who did n't want to hit his big brother , and stumbled back into Sean , who jumped to one side and collided with Pat Kelly , knocking his next drink out of his hand ! |
| 3 | My son Jonathan , who turns two on Christmas Day , was fascinated to see his own image when I captured him on home video . |
| 4 | The police are entitled to tell the person walking away from the scene to discontinue using his filthy language , which would in all likelihood constitute an offence under section 5 of the new Act . |
| 5 | James Halden , of course , had no idea that he was helping to support his own daughter . |
| 6 | I can also confirm that £300 is available to enable John Bowers , of the Leeds Business School , to continue pursuing his critical examination of the economic justification of the barrage scheme on our behalf . |
| 7 | Does he regret now avoiding the operation all those years ago , before he failed to scale his own Olympian heights in Rome and Seoul ? |
| 8 | Was that because Theo did n't want to risk his precious name in the Paris art world ? |
| 9 | Why on earth would Parkin want to kill his own mistress ? |
| 10 | Ten years later he produced singlehanded his monumental theory of gravity — the general theory of relativity . |
| 11 | Corbett held her close and fought to hide his own deep unease . |
| 12 | She ignored him , hardly daring to meet his penetrating gaze . |
| 13 | And then Peters sank his own hideously transformed jaws into the thing 's arm as it lifted Cardiff . |
| 14 | David Feherty , who , like Richardson , has received his first Masters invitation , had much the same experience . |
| 15 | And the particular incident that has aroused his fearsome wrath is the departure from Granada Television of Mr David Plowright , a man who knows about TV programmes , at the behest of Mr Gerry Robinson , a man who knows about balance sheets . |
| 16 | She started to come again as he tried to slide his whole hand deep into her soaked vagina . |
| 17 | Dromore angler Niall Cromie has broken his own record for a four hour ‘ Keep All You Catch ’ ticket at the Straid Fishery . |
| 18 | Birmingham 's Paul Howe has broken his own British record at the European Open Swimming Championships in Rome , he finished second in the 200 metres freestyle and still has another two races to come . |
| 19 | Newman has broken his left ankle , although the extent of the damage was not apparent until more than 24 hours after Monday 's goalless draw at Elland Road . |
| 20 | He has broken his age-long silence in order to warn humankind that he has committed a dangerous ‘ syntax error ’ . |
| 21 | RON THACKER , BEM would like to thank all friends and colleagues who helped make his memorable day such a success . |
| 22 | Jina — meaning ‘ conqueror ’ in the sense of one who has conquered his own duality to obtain balance , liberation and wisdom . |
| 23 | After all the speculation surrounding his appointment , he ca n't wait to see his new side in action . |
| 24 | After all the speculation surrounding his appointment , he ca n't wait to see his new side in action . |
| 25 | Tesselmann grabbed at the handle of the freight car and hauled himself off the ground , his legs swinging precariously in the air as he tried to clasp his other hand around the handle . |
| 26 | Was he being indescribably presumptuous even to suppose that Sir Philip might consider allowing his only daughter to share her life with a man who could pay for little more than the bare necessities ? |
| 27 | Rather than buying fewer pictures of greater quality , Croce has squandered his considerable funds in speculations , favouring the ‘ bargains ’ , i.e. the mis-catalogued ‘ workshop ’ pictures that would ( hopefully ) improve dramatically with cleaning , or pictures that were authentic , but not particularly fine or interesting . |
| 28 | Mayer could n't fucking wait to shop his rich young pal . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Mayer could n't fucking wait to shop his rich young pal . ’ |
| 30 | In ‘ The disappearance ’ , Imamu has to prove that he had nothing to do with Perk 's disappearance by finding her dead body in someone else 's house having been murdered by that person and Boo has to risk his own life in order to save that of Scout 's before his most ignorant neighbours realise he 's not a squirrel eating monster . |