Example sentences of "[verb] his [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he finally turned into Brunel Road and stopped to catch his breath the others were nowhere to be seen . |
| 2 | ‘ Richardson had a chance of qualifying in the world championships but he failed and now he has won his place the officials think that their choice was justified , but it was not . ’ |
| 3 | But even as this thought entered his mind the Padre 's voice came promptly to reprimand him : " Adulterers and fornicators and all unclean persons , God shall judge . " |
| 4 | She gazed into his face raptly as he described his clinic the day before at St Mary 's and passed on good wishes from Sister Concepta . |
| 5 | Morrison was host to such Victorian worthies as Ruskin , the great art critic , and Charles Kingsley , who is said to have been inspired to write his book The Water Babies by his visits to the Dales ( Vendale being based on Littondale ) and who once told somebody that the black marks on the face of Malham Cove were made by " the fingers of little chimney boys " . |
| 6 | I 've seen him like this before , before you were born , when he cracked his ankle the week before the final trial . |
| 7 | He was an open supporter of the Covenant and when he visited his friend the blacksmith , he was on his way to join a band of Covenanters about to confront a party of Dragoons . |
| 8 | In a bid to regain his machine the unemployed roofer climbed to the top of a building , ripped off tiles and threw them into the street , it was alleged . |
| 9 | His absence from this squad was perhaps surprising given his display at the Kelso tournament last autumn where his athleticism at kick-off virtually assured his team the ball , whether advancing or on the receiving end . |
| 10 | ‘ Sir Teddy Taylor , ’ he shouted , only to be told that Taylor had done his stuff the day before . |
| 11 | Slowly , disconnectedly , prompted by him , I told him a bit about Alison ; remembering his frankness the night before , produced some of my own . |
| 12 | She was remembering his expression the night she 'd blacked out , when he 'd first mentioned his father . |
| 13 | ‘ I have also been to the Guildhall , ’ he mournfully concluded ‘ The mayor told me in no uncertain terms how displeased His Grace the Regent Duke of Lancaster is at our lack of progress . |
| 14 | The home , in Portsmouth , Hants , has been bought by restaurateur Lim Walters who has named his eatery The Mayfair . |
| 15 | When Carco 's concierge came to clean his room the next day , she almost fainted at the sight of the nude picture hanging over his bed . |
| 16 | The police-sergeant told his junior the gentleman was a doctor and a friend of the young lady 's , and returned to the other side of the road . |
| 17 | When Eb told his son the truth , Tom went to Cyclops Wharf , determined to put a stop to the blackmail that was making his father 's life a misery . |
| 18 | Perhaps the manager , who is still registered as a player , should get out there and show his side the way . |
| 19 | Thanks to the intoxicating venom that floods his brain the Forest Goblin Shaman has great powers of mental control . |
| 20 | By means of tapping his foot the horse could perform mathematical calculations , and solve problems of musical harmony . |
| 21 | But Hutchinson slipped and dislocated his shoulder the night before the match and Cumbria pipped Durham and Cleveland 3–2 . |
| 22 | The price of such an agreement , of course , would be electoral reform — which , purely incidentally , would give his party the balance of power after any election in the foreseeable future . |
| 23 | He has made his firm the IBM of the 1990s . |
| 24 | Kite was six under par when he inflicted on Clark the worst defeat in Ryder Cup singles history and in the process handed his side the initiative which for a time seemed it would n't relinquish . |
| 25 | The judge dismissed the wife 's appeal , holding that since there was no evidence that in deceiving his wife the husband was acting on behalf of the bank , they could not be held responsible for his misrepresentation and , therefore , the charge was enforceable against her . |
| 26 | ‘ In the 1930s a commercial traveller staying overnight at the castle informed his host the next day that he had seen an apparition during the night — a young lady with long blonde hair wearing a gown with green silk puff sleeves . |
| 27 | In trying to conceal his negligence the projectionist had provided me with tangible evidence of the grand illusion . |
| 28 | That evening he showed his wife the little bronze relief . |
| 29 | Similarly a chorus of cavaliers , referring to ‘ corni e tamburi , e trombe ’ , has instrumental parts which could be for actual trumpets and drums but are more probably for strings imitating them , since in Act II when Chiron is supposed to play his lyre the music consists of a sinfonia di viole , and the passata dell'armata which ends the First Act of Didone ( 1641 ) and another chiamata alla caccia in the Third are equally ambiguous . |
| 30 | When every member of the society had got his house the society was wound up . |