Example sentences of "[vb infin] his [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The public , who have often neglected him in the past , have made The Fellow a short price favourite for this afternoon 's King George in the expectation that the French raider will win his second successive Boxing Day showpiece . |
| 2 | Dave was caddying for Roberto de Vicenzo , who looked as though he could win his second Open , but he hit two great shots and then three-putted the 13th in the third round . |
| 3 | THERE YUGO : Injured war veteran Martin Bell will happily pack his lucky white suit and green socks again . |
| 4 | Michael will also demonstrate his other delicious savoury dishes and desserts on BBC2 's Food & Drink . |
| 5 | Ivan Lendl will not achieve his last great ambition — to be Wimbledon Singles Champion . |
| 6 | I hoped the service we had just attended would ensure his continued safe landfalls from ‘ out there ’ . |
| 7 | At less than arm 's length she could feel and smell his warm clean breath , mingled with masculine body odours , and she had to clench her stomach muscles against the small ripples of sensation . |
| 8 | He was so near her that she could smell his cool lemony cologne . |
| 9 | He could smell his own burned flesh on them , could see blackened streamers of skin sticking to the metal . |
| 10 | The new US approach fell short of outright recognition for Bazin 's government , but involved urging exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to meet with Bazin , whereas the earlier US position had been that Aristide should choose his own Prime Minister prior to his return to the country . |
| 11 | Rachel got clumsily to her feet , and walked to the door although she wanted to run because her legs were shaking and she could feel his narrowed blue eyes burning into her back . |
| 12 | P.P.S. If any of this is anything to do with that creep Gavin I will personally break his personal fucking neck . |
| 13 | Well he could bring his own bloody milk in ca n't he ? |
| 14 | Over the next decade a succession of ‘ Aldwych farces ’ would run for at least 200 performances each , and some for many more : A Cuckoo in the Nest ( 1925 ) , Rookery Nook ( 1926 ) , Thark ( 1928 ) , and Plunder ( 1928 ) alone occupied the years from 1925 to 1929 , and to them all Lynn would bring his own unique brand of wistful stooging : essentially he was the Stan Laurel [ q.v. ] to the much more bluff Hardy of Tom Walls , but Lynn 's timing , notably on staircases and when suddenly finding himself in the wrong room with the wrong people and quite often the wrong name , was a lesson in comic technique for generations of stage actors . |
| 15 | But now we are one again he 'll expect his own personal maid , cook and bottle-washer . |
| 16 | A move to the capital would give his two teenage sons greater career prospects . |
| 17 | If it was sad that in England in 1963 his form finally drifted away , he did at least give his last fine Test innings , an unbeaten 74 , to the Manchester crowd , a happy choice of venue in view of his connection with Radcliffe and the university . |
| 18 | And he looked liked really just ready to get up and do his lovely fresh face you know . |
| 19 | The fourth-seeded Croatian , who took his ace tally for the week to 42 , will contest his first clay-court final since 1990 . |
| 20 | ‘ He 's got reason to be , ’ Kolchinsky replied , opening the boot so Graham could deposit his two black holdalls . |
| 21 | Then he would remember his own beloved homesite , and whisper to himself of its dour moorland and rough sea coast , and the winds and the rain that did battle with an eagle 's wings . |
| 22 | And he would n't follow any of those regular 12-bar song-shapes ; John would follow his own droning groove . |
| 23 | you know if there 's nothing immediately behind me , then he knows that I I ai n't gon na touch his precious parked car ! |
| 24 | I was hidden behind a tree , but could see his dark barrel-shaped silhouette clearly enough . |
| 25 | He was lying on his hard , as it were armour-plated , back and when he lifted his head a little he could see his domelike brown belly divided into stiff arched segments on top of which the bed quilt could hardly keep in position and was about to slide off completely . |
| 26 | I could see his bright ginger head bobbing about four rows in front , and then his class all went off to the baths , and by the time he was back I was in triple needlework . |
| 27 | Judith Leggett had told her partner Patrick Cartan , 32 , yet again , that she did n't like his awful checked shirts . |
| 28 | The middle-aged manager might have well-thought-out ideas about how he would spend his enforced early retirement . |
| 29 | Once this occurs , the bwca will not regain his earlier good humour , so the householder will have to enlist the help of a soothsayer to banish the sprite . |
| 30 | I 'll tear his nasty sneaky eyes out , so I will ! |