Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | On a normal day at home , he is given his breakfast , which he may or may not eat depending on his mood and Trish then rides him , unless she is competing in the evening , when she delays it until later . |
| 2 | At night he was heard weeping in his miserable hut . |
| 3 | His move towards contracting led to his being awarded the contract for the Llanidloes and Newtown Railway in 1855 , reaching his home village a year later and passing within a few yards of his first contract , the iron bridge . |
| 4 | But Preston did n't want to go into his domestic problems . |
| 5 | ‘ I had been rowing with my dad since I was little , so I did n't want to go to his new family with my brother . |
| 6 | " The burial regulations and provision of mourning " , notes Stephen Jones , " make it plain that many a coasting man did not want to go to his maker like his deep-sea brother , sliding down a plank in a canvas sack with the last stitch through his nose " . |
| 7 | Juliet — ’ he came closer and looked intently into her eyes ‘ — do you really want to go to his party ? ’ |
| 8 | Would the Minister like to clarify that now , or would he prefer to wait for his PPS ? |
| 9 | He will prefer to go to his own courts in State A , assuming they have jurisdiction . |
| 10 | How I hate to sit on his knee . |
| 11 | The man swung round , fear flashing in his eyes . |
| 12 | It had been Campion Price , her father , who , disappointed that his firstborn had not been the male he 'd intended naming after his own father , had insisted she bore the feminine version of that name — Georgina . |
| 13 | However , Nellie 's nagging won the day and he agreed to go in his new Austin car and look for Dr Nolan . |
| 14 | It ai n't gon na tell us they 're only gon na sa , someone gon na lose this because a bloke got sacked from his job for having a Betty Boop tattoo . |
| 15 | Kate had arranged to go to his house and see him herself . |
| 16 | Stirling was accompanied by Seekings and Cooper as usual , and planned to drive to his target in the ‘ Blitz Buggy ’ . |
| 17 | The man got trapped under his parachute when it hit the water at Holywell Bay , Newquay , Cornwall . |
| 18 | He had always skipped swimming because he got teased about his bones sticking out . |
| 19 | ‘ Chris , that 's just one of the many strokes that Martinez has pulled in his time ; and he still goes laughing on his way to the bank with his twenty-five per cent commission . |
| 20 | Friends of Mia , 47 , say director Woody owes her £195,000 after she agreed to appear in his movie A Manhattan Murder Mystery . |
| 21 | I did n't want to stand in his way . ’ |
| 22 | Mrs Alderley gazed stupefied at his rigid back . |
| 23 | But for the moment , the prospect of marriage to a woman he loved , and of life together in a place of exquisite beauty , seemed to offer the stability and direction he never ceased to crave in his personal life . |
| 24 | Mr Rumback either read to them from books , which no-one heard because the words got caught in his big moustache , or slept . |
| 25 | Then my eyelashes got caught in his zip . |
| 26 | She remains anonymous throughout , unable to answer , allowing Marlowe to continue to revel in his fantasy . |
| 27 | One day Peter would want to know about his parents . |
| 28 | This then provides the background for the next comment made in the text , about the difficulty of proof : the case just discussed is a relatively easy one , since the testator has at any rate made it clear that the coheirs are intended to benefit under his will . |
| 29 | But he quit to concentrate on his game and reaped an instant dividend . |
| 30 | He wo , he wo n't want to come on his own he |