Example sentences of "[verb] his [noun pl] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Keeping his Muslims loyal will be . |
| 4 | He did it by carefully keeping his options open and just stopping short of deliberate lying . |
| 5 | ‘ We had a very good chat but , like most players at this stage of the year , Alan is keeping his options open , ’ said Flynn . |
| 6 | ‘ We had a very good chat but , like most players at this stage of the year , Alan is keeping his options open , ’ said Flynn . |
| 7 | He placed her gently on her feet and opened the car door , keeping his arms close around her all the while . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Through applying Mach 's training ideas , by putting in unpaid coaching for two or three hours a day , five days a week , and by keeping his doors open , he built up a group of 30 young sprinters in Toronto within a year . |
| 10 | So he 's , he 's now doing er A level psychology and G S C E sociology at night school whilst he is keeping his days free to try and get a job which is not easy anywhere |
| 11 | His words boomed out , spoken with clarity and in a tone that suggested that he was keeping his words simple for the less intelligent inmates of the prison . |
| 12 | Bernhard Langer , who has steered clear of New Orleans , is keeping his cards close to his chest while the best the rest can hope for is a high enough finish in order to be invited back next year . |
| 13 | Bernhard Langer , who has steered clear of New Orleans , is keeping his cards close to his chest , while the best the rest can hope for is a high enough finish in order to be invited back next year . |
| 14 | CARDIFF coaching organiser Alex Evans will be keeping his cards close to his chest today ( Sat ) when his side meet Pontypridd in the annual Boxing Day clash at the Arms Park . |
| 15 | Wright , who kept another clean sheet against Latvia on Wednesday is well aware of Forest manager Frank Clark 's interest but is keeping his cards close to his chest . |
| 16 | Midfielder Peacock , out of contract and rated at £1m , was keeping his cards close to his chest yesterday . |
| 17 | Jehan liked his cup and drank , keeping his eyes all the time on Sidacai 's face . |
| 18 | Assuming the car had gone missing at the same ti me as Angela Morgan , it might have been there for over a week ; it had only been found that evening by a uniformed constable who was keeping his eyes open . |
| 19 | Remembering his duty , he strode briskly up the stairs , keeping his eyes open for any suspicious signs . |
| 20 | He had difficulty keeping his eyes open . |
| 21 | It was just a matter of moving carefully and keeping his eyes open . |
| 22 | and keeping his children quiet as he shouts at the News . |
| 23 | ‘ Because Shaw has his hands full with the Incident Room and you 've got the rank . |
| 24 | You should never try to throttle someone who has his hands free . |
| 25 | Spencer has his characters busy washing sheets , making beds , tidying cupboards , and Christ and his apostles appear in Cookham as though attending a summer regatta- ’ ‘ Fine , ’ he says , rising from his chair , ‘ I could n't ask for more proof of realism , of everyday life … |
| 26 | She watched his whole body stiffen , his fists clench at each side of his hips , then his big soft-lipped mouth , the feature that marred his otherwise handsome looks , stretch wide as he ground his teeth one set over the other . |
| 27 | When a Count musters his forces all the knights from an order fight together , forming individual units of Knights Panther , Knights of the Blazing Sun , and so forth . |
| 28 | Their twenty seven year old son had returned home around eleven thirty last night and found his parents dead … next to them a shotgun . |
| 29 | Goodhart-Rendel writing from the viewpoint of having altered his first plate-glass windowed house , Idsworth ( 1848–52 ) , Hampshire , found his elevations conventional and even perfunctory and in our own time even Howard Colvin found that ‘ not a single building stands out as a masterpiece ’ . |
| 30 | He found his hands full of dry , papery skin which , as he worked his way closer to her windpipe , came up and away like a curtain of strudel dough . |