Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | During most of the time Jenkins was there , there was a fixed number of songs on the island , a kind of ‘ song pool ’ from which each young male drew his own small repertoire . |
| 32 | A BRUTE punished his four-year-old step-daughter by spinning her in a tumble-drier , a court heard yesterday . |
| 33 | The Marine clenched his own fist which seemed almost as large as any boy 's head , though this was not actually the case . |
| 34 | Joachim eventually broke away from the Cistercians and retired to a lonely spot in Calabria where disciples gathered around him and he was given papal permission to found his own congregation . |
| 35 | The final seal of royal approval was given when the Prince built his own holiday retreat in Brighton . |
| 36 | Broad , high cheekbones and a mahogany skin underlined his Indian blood . |
| 37 | Nkrumah had his first opportunity to meet his fellow prime Ministers at a Commonwealth Conference , June — July 1957 . |
| 38 | The Tory candidate for Skipton and Ripon , Mr David Curry , must be employing a good getaway driver to meet his punishing campaign schedule . |
| 39 | He was having enough difficulty understanding his own feelings , without trying to fathom out Carrie 's . |
| 40 | He successfully combined his career with worldwide travel and scientific study , often applying the resulting experience to benefit his native city . |
| 41 | Secrets are not confined to the great houses of antiquity : Mr Merdle in Little Dorrit has his own new secrets , and is uneasy beneath the eye of his butler in his new London palace : ‘ He would have clasped himself by the wrists in that constabulary manner of his , and have paced up and down the hearth-rug , or gone creeping about among the rich objects of furniture , if his oppressive retainer had appeared in the room at that very moment . ’ |
| 42 | He had been at his wits ' end , with no reply to Bigwig 's scornful impatience except his readiness to risk his own life in company with Fiver and Pipkin . |
| 43 | He had gone ‘ over the herring pond to see his betrothed ’ , she learned . |
| 44 | This is a snowflaked Victorian set full of carol singers , the dreadful poor , the idle rich and Mr Caine resolutely refusing to recognise the festivities until the Ghosts of Christmas Past , Present and Future prick his dormant conscience . |
| 45 | There was an amused smile in Guido 's eyes as the wind whipped his dark hair in curling strands about his face . |
| 46 | The night wind whipped his grey cropped hair , bit at his ears and cheeks and clawed at the grey robe wrapped round his body . |
| 47 | Well , for instance ; one night Stella went crazy and assaulted a visitor who had called Stella II a skinny black bitch right in the middle of her rendition of ‘ Te Amo ’ , and he meant it , right there in the middle of his number — well Madame not only showed her approval of the assault by conspicuously buying Stella drinks every night for the whole of the following week ; as soon as she saw the fight starting she got off her stool , yanked out the plug on the sound system , hitched up that frock , got straight up on the stage while they were still on the floor ( she knew Stella would sort him out ) and she went into an unforgettable aria of abuse against this stranger which culminated in her eschewing all her usual magnificence of phrasing and just standing there shouting fuck off at him , screaming fuck off , if you do n't like it you can fuck off , E , X , I , T , there it is , you came in through it and now you can fuck off out of it , fuck off out of it why do n't you you stupid bastard ( and by now of course someone had dragged Stella off and we were all up on our chairs cheering while the disgraced stranger made his slow and humiliating exit through the parting crowd ) why do n't you just piss off and insult someone who does n't have the balls to answer back because you 've picked the wrong girls here darling , fuck off that 's it , fucking fuck off , fucking fuck off right through my front door and do n't you ever , do n't you ever , do n't you ever step on my fucking frock again . |
| 48 | Were , I wonder , those same cries heard in the West Country back in 1969 when a 13-year-old made his Minor Counties debut for Somerset IIs ? |
| 49 | On June 18 Bongo announced Oye Mba 's re-appointment and , three days later , Oye Mba announced his third government . |
| 50 | Hopper went on television to denounce Universal for suppressing his film and The Last Movie became his last for a long , long time . |
| 51 | Does he incorporate the votes of everyone who voted Labour or Liberal Democrat at the last election and use that as part of his mandate to enforce his unwanted policies on the Scottish people ? |
| 52 | Bill Levy took over as editor , and Mick Farren , whose relationship with It was to survive the history of the underground made his first appearance . |
| 53 | Having milked his seventy-five Friesian cows , he set about the main business of the day , loading Norton 's Coin , one of only three horses he trained under permit on his farm , into the horsebox , then taking the wheel to drive his stable star to Cheltenham . |
| 54 | That September the President made his first significant move to provide military equipment to the British government . |
| 55 | Spears of light made his pale features glow . |
| 56 | He neatly propped a chair in front of the door and went back about his business , but awareness of him tingled all around Charity — awareness of the way he moved , with such effortless grace , of the way he looked with the wind ravaging his neat curls . |
| 57 | The defender launches his pre-emptive counter-attack a split second after the attacker prepares to strike . |
| 58 | But Kit was n't having some young blood replace his female prizes . |
| 59 | In the event , his attempt to impose his new conservative orthodoxy upon these churches was to cause disturbance and resistance abroad , and ultimately civil war and revolution at home . |
| 60 | Business interests in the music industry occupied his later years . |