Example sentences of "[vb past] his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Hunt is a legend here but if I go on and beat his all-time record I think it 'll take some bettering . |
| 2 | Killion twisted about and beat his gloved hands together , anxious to get away . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | A MAN who beat his unfaithful wife to death after she viciously grabbed his testicles was jailed for six years yesterday . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | On 5 September President Kasavubu dismissed his prime Minister , although he secured a vote of confidence from both Houses of parliament . |
| 9 | She dismissed his admiring look with a cool smile in exchange . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 " . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Mitchell first proposed his chemiosmotic theory in 1961 . |
| 14 | Athelstan helped his errant parishioner to his feet . |
| 15 | CARING Prince Charles helped his close friend Lady Romsey come to terms with the death of her child from cancer , she reveals today . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Listed his sartorially-challenged men , to wit : |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Jessica stood , jerked his black shirt further down his back and off his arms , stepped back again , looked at him . |
| 20 | Oh ’ — he jerked his big head to the side — ‘ I never open me mouth but I say something . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Quiet in there tonight , ’ and jerked his bald head in the direction of the bar . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm going to make you the new Madonna , ’ Waterman promised his new prodigy , but even today he shakes his head disbelievingly at the opportunity others missed . |
| 23 | STRIKER Bernie Slaven last night promised his full backing for Middlesbrough 's promotion drive . |
| 24 | It offers women , Coward argues , the fantasised pleasure ( and apotheosis of sexual desire ) of finding security in the strong arms of the hard-bitten patriarchal hero , along with the pleasure of having ‘ tamed ’ him and domesticated his wild ways by the power one enjoys over him in being a woman . |
| 25 | Slamming the tankard back on the oak table , he smacked his wet lips and sucked at his beard . |
| 26 | The death penalty was retained for repeated murders , while a new defence of diminished responsibility , imported from Scotland , allowed a charge of manslaughter to be substituted for murder if a defendant ‘ was suffering from such abnormality of mind … as substantially impaired his mental responsibility for his acts … ‘ . |
| 27 | Sex the night before picking up his pen apparently impaired his literary powers . |
| 28 | In 1551 he demonstrated his increasing devotion to the new doctrines by taking a wife , though this was to ensure deprivation from all his livings under Mary in 1554 . |
| 29 | Yet as early as 1922 Sobhuza demonstrated his political leadership of the Swazi nation by petitioning the British government to nullify a proclamation increasing the land available to the white-settler community . |
| 30 | Once the Palace had reached the 2nd Division , Bert demonstrated his solid ability , coping admirably with some talented opposing wingers from that Division and , by the time he left us for Orient in January 1967 , he had accumulated well over 200 appearances for the club . |