Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , Nellie 's nagging won the day and he agreed to go in his new Austin car and look for Dr Nolan . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Stirling was accompanied by Seekings and Cooper as usual , and planned to drive to his target in the ‘ Blitz Buggy ’ . |
| 4 | The man got trapped under his parachute when it hit the water at Holywell Bay , Newquay , Cornwall . |
| 5 | He had always skipped swimming because he got teased about his bones sticking out . |
| 6 | Friends of Mia , 47 , say director Woody owes her £195,000 after she agreed to appear in his movie A Manhattan Murder Mystery . |
| 7 | Mrs Alderley gazed stupefied at his rigid back . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Mr Rumback either read to them from books , which no-one heard because the words got caught in his big moustache , or slept . |
| 10 | Then my eyelashes got caught in his zip . |
| 11 | But he quit to concentrate on his game and reaped an instant dividend . |
| 12 | If we bear in mind that even the normal expenses of government by this time exceeded the normal income of the crown , we shall appreciate why Edward I sought to extract from his subjects more than any previous king had attempted . |
| 13 | In Alderney he finally and grudgingly got to work on his autobiography , Basingstoke Boy , using only the third person . |
| 14 | Even before the pathologist had finished at the scene and the head was wrapped , the hands mittened in their plastic bags , even before Doc Kynaston got to work with his scalpels , the corpse would be an exhibit , more important , more cumbersome and more difficult to preserve than other exhibits in the case , but still an exhibit , tagged , documented , dehumanized , invoking only interest , curiosity or disgust . |
| 15 | He mentions two examples of work that he implies Clark tried to claim as his own . |
| 16 | The legislation is presented in the form of the Media Commission Bill , which Neville D Jayaweera , WACC 's former director of Studies and Planning , helped to draft in his capacity as consultant to the President of the Republic . |
| 17 | A CLERGYMAN found hanging in his garage had suffered from depression for several years , an inquest heard yesterday . |
| 18 | He tried drawing in his stomach and straightening his shoulders , as instructed by the physical education teacher . |
| 19 | He bit on his lip , the feeling of excitement in his breast causing his heart beat to pound in his ears . |
| 20 | This religion of the people has some similarity to Calvin 's theology of the city of God on earth , though in a more modern and less rigorous setting than the one which Calvin tried to realize in his lifetime in the city of Geneva : |
| 21 | It features characters from the dance-halls , bars , brothels and circuses of Paris , some of whom he helped to promote through his posters . |
| 22 | Now Joyce proposed to exclude from his tuition those pupils whose racial origin offended him and to take very little care about concealing his admiration of Hitler and his total commitment to National Socialism from those who came under his influence . |
| 23 | The only comfortable position was standing up because then the fluid drained away and stopped pressing against his lungs . |
| 24 | The family of a remand prisoner found hanged in his cell have called for a public inquiry after an inquest reached a suicide verdict . |
| 25 | He saw how Wolfe 's leg muscles flexed impotently as he tried to scrabble to his feet ; how he squirmed in the two men 's grip , trying to get away . |
| 26 | He tried to reach for his sword but could not . |
| 27 | He kicked his boots off and tried to grip with his toes . |
| 28 | It was not until well into 1917 that the reckoning came ; Malvy was sentenced to five years ' banishment , Bolo Pasha and Mata Hari shot , and Almeyreda found strangled in his cell . |
| 29 | ‘ What 's the bastard trying to do , Nurse Dungarvan ? ’ he mumbled as Dr Curtis tried to listen to his chest ‘ Tell him to get the hell out of it . ’ |
| 30 | Frantically she tried to escape from his tightening grip , but he merely laughed and trapped her against the hatch with his body . |