Example sentences of "[vb past] his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dadda , voyaging day by day farther out on his black sea of depression , made his one contribution to the talk . |
| 2 | VETERAN U.S. chess star Bobby Fischer beat his former World Championship rival Boris Spassky yesterday to win their 5 million dollar ‘ revenge ’ re-match . |
| 3 | PAUL RIDEOUT proved a point with the winner as Everton beat his former club Southampton 2-1 . |
| 4 | ‘ Hunt is a legend here but if I go on and beat his all-time record I think it 'll take some bettering . |
| 5 | Killion twisted about and beat his gloved hands together , anxious to get away . |
| 6 | In November Mr Symington , a Republican developer , narrowly beat his Democratic opponent , Mr Goddard , at the ballot box , but he won only 49.7% of the vote . |
| 7 | A MAN who beat his unfaithful wife to death after she viciously grabbed his testicles was jailed for six years yesterday . |
| 8 | Morley Street beat his full brother Granville Again in the slowly-run Elite Hurdle last month , but has since been beaten by Muse over two and a half miles at Ascot . |
| 9 | In 1915 the New South Wales Swimming Association invited Duke Kahanamoku to the Domain Baths in Sydney where he beat his own world record for the 100 yards with a time of 53.8 seconds . |
| 10 | DEAN Gould beat his own world record in Felixstowe , Suffolk yesterday — flipping 296 new 10p pences from his arm to his hand . |
| 11 | Sweat dewed her lashes as she unbuttoned his white shirt , pushing it from his broad shoulders , running her hands over his flesh , pulling him closer , her mouth as hungry as his . |
| 12 | Maudsley modified his 1867 comments and in 1895 argued that masturbation was a product of a particular form of insanity , due to the processes of adolescence . |
| 13 | Later developments in the understanding of kinship and lineage relationships owed much to his discussions of this topic , but many of his academic successors — notably ( Sir ) E. E. Evans-Pritchard [ q.v. ] and ( Sir ) E. R. Leach — effectively dismissed his doctrinaire methodology . |
| 14 | On 5 September President Kasavubu dismissed his prime Minister , although he secured a vote of confidence from both Houses of parliament . |
| 15 | Mr Salmond last night dismissed his former deputy 's language as ‘ way over the top ’ and claimed the party 's impressive campaigning record on key issues underpinned its identity as vehemently anti-Tory . |
| 16 | She dismissed his admiring look with a cool smile in exchange . |
| 17 | Indeed Bob Arum , the promoter , who put it all down to a conflict of styles , recently dismissed his ranked middleweight Michael Nunn for such a negative performance . |
| 18 | A British ambassador expressed a widely accepted attitude when , in 1779 , he dismissed his Neapolitan colleague at St Petersburg as " merely a man of letters , unacquainted with and unfit for business " . |
| 19 | He then proposed his new plan : that his mother should go back home , and he would continue on to Paris when the weather improved , together with Wendling , Ramm and the bassoonist Ritter . |
| 20 | Mitchell first proposed his chemiosmotic theory in 1961 . |
| 21 | On 21 February 1992 , he proposed his own bill to provide for a referendum on the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 22 | The old man proposed his own house , the largest in Arghuri . |
| 23 | Athelstan helped his errant parishioner to his feet . |
| 24 | CARING Prince Charles helped his close friend Lady Romsey come to terms with the death of her child from cancer , she reveals today . |
| 25 | He had his house painted by the FBI Exhibits Section , listed his black servants as FBI agents , profited from books he had FBI employees write under his name . |
| 26 | Listed his sartorially-challenged men , to wit : |
| 27 | As named relatives or friends , he listed his ever-caring grandmother , Mrs Lyon Cohen , resident at the prestigious Haddon Hall , on Sherbrooke Street , and his uncles Norman Friedman and Horace Cohen . |
| 28 | Jessica stood , jerked his black shirt further down his back and off his arms , stepped back again , looked at him . |
| 29 | He jerked his own head away almost as fast , galvanized by the shock of embarrassment . |
| 30 | Oh ’ — he jerked his big head to the side — ‘ I never open me mouth but I say something . ’ |