Example sentences of "[verb] his [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gaily looked back over his shoulder at the rosy-bricked manor house , for he was too near to remembering the time he had wished his mother dead . |
| 2 | GEOFF Mulcahy , the soft-spoken chief executive and chairman-elect of Kingfisher , insisted last night that in launching his £460 million bid for Dixons , that revenge was the last thing in mind . |
| 3 | He jerked his arms loose and reached for the head trying to blink the searing pain from his eyes ; He could n't ; in his double darkness he had no choice . |
| 4 | Vologsky tensed himself , then jerked his arm free . |
| 5 | Birds cost his farm thousands of pounds in crop damage . |
| 6 | The Nottingham Forest manager has wasted no time in moving for Olympic keeper Brad Freidle after Mark Crossley cost his side two crucial survival points against Wimbledon on Sunday . |
| 7 | ‘ Pip , old boy ! ’ cried Joe , opening his kind blue eyes very wide . |
| 8 | This presentation would have benefited from being delivered out to the audience , rather than down to the lectern , and he should practise opening his mouth wider when talking — he was sometimes difficult to follow . |
| 9 | BORIS BECKER disappointed his West German supporters for the second consecutive year when a knee injury forced him to withdraw from the Stuttgart Classic here yesterday . |
| 10 | Jan-Ove Waldner , Olympic champion and former World champion , disappointed his home Swedish crowd by losing to Jean-Michel Saive of Belgium in the semi-finals , while Gatien took out Croatia 's Zoran Primorac , the World No 14 . |
| 11 | Goodison Park manager Howard Kendall desperately needs his £1.5 million signing to bring in some firepower with 10 blank sheets coming in the Mersey club 's past 21 League and Cup games . |
| 12 | Ioka champ BOXING : Hiroki Ioka of Japan retained his WBA junior flyweight title by outpointing South Korean challenger Kim Bong-jun over 12 rounds in Osaka yesterday . |
| 13 | But Sartre 's courageous intervention against French and other colonialisms could not have a corresponding theoretical impact so long as he retained his historicist Marxist framework . |
| 14 | We 're looking for 20 winners and they 'll each receive a pair of £50 ringside tickets for Saturday 's Daily Mirror-sponsored clash between Chris Eubank and Tony Thornton at Glasgow 's Scottish Exhibition Centre when Chris defends his WBO super middleweight title . |
| 15 | And it entered his mind uninvited to wonder about the strangeness of human relationships . |
| 16 | God deliver first , an ugly shambolic noise attack which is punctuated by lead vocalist Kevin , as he scrapes his lungs raw in a vicious attempt to command our full attention . |
| 17 | He leaned against the wall and analysed his guilt laden thoughts . |
| 18 | The Hezb-i-Islami chief , Gulbuddin Hekmatyar , is fighting to oust Mr Rabbani , accusing him of rigging his election last December . |
| 19 | The purist bookman wants his book complete with the half-titles , if they were there in the first place , and it is an appreciable demerit mark if the cataloguer has to confess ‘ lacking half-titles ’ or ‘ volume III without half-title ’ , even though they are present in the other two . |
| 20 | Keeping his Muslims loyal will be . |
| 21 | He did it by carefully keeping his options open and just stopping short of deliberate lying . |
| 22 | ‘ We had a very good chat but , like most players at this stage of the year , Alan is keeping his options open , ’ said Flynn . |
| 23 | ‘ We had a very good chat but , like most players at this stage of the year , Alan is keeping his options open , ’ said Flynn . |
| 24 | But Robbie Supple had been keeping his powder dry on Very Very Ordinary and there was nothing in the least ‘ ordinary ’ about the long , relentless charge with which they mowed down the leading pair between the last two fences . |
| 25 | ‘ Come , ’ he said , deliberately keeping his voice low and even . |
| 26 | So it 's really about keeping his spirit alive and making sure people get a chance to hear this album and see it performed live . |
| 27 | ‘ You 'll maybe be needing one if you remember the Jesus play , ’ he said flatly , out of his blank face , keeping his distance all the while . |
| 28 | He placed her gently on her feet and opened the car door , keeping his arms close around her all the while . |
| 29 | He was able to give a pagan friend power of attorney to act on his behalf , and so found an elegant way of keeping his conscience clear and his standing with the church unaffected . |
| 30 | He says in the autobiography erm my view was that every president was a and this was a famous phrase every president was a steward of the people , a steward of the people , bound actively and affirmatively to do all he could for the people and not to content himself with the negative merit of keeping his talents undamaged in a napkin curious turn of phrase I decline he says to adopt the view that what is imperatively necessary for the nation can not be done unless the president can find some specific authorization to do it in the constitution . |