Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly he saw his hated enemy reach behind him . |
| 2 | Suddenly he hated his own beauty , and dropped the mirror on the floor where it broke into many small pieces . |
| 3 | He needs to get betrothed fast and naturally he wants his little heifer to be rich . |
| 4 | He must have been a remarkable man , because when his aircraft was shot down he lost his right hand but before many months had passed he was back on his squadron with a hook on his right arm , and although I am not one hundred percent sure of my facts here , I believe he went back on operations as a navigator or air gunner . |
| 5 | Perhaps Vincent 's mother had put pressure on him , or perhaps he had his own reasons for softening the blow . |
| 6 | Perhaps he left his previous London headquarters at 182 Camberwell New Road in something of a hurry , for a new base was quickly found at 9 Jeremiah Street , Poplar , the offices of the Green 's Home branch of the old union , at the rent of 95 a week , " starting afresh with the loan of two chairs and a table , sixpence worth of writing paper and six penny stamps for establishing communications with friends in other ports " . |
| 7 | Perhaps he regained his old power in the Badlands and rebuilt his domain , or maybe he fell to the sword stroke of an ambitious young Orc Warboss before ever reaching the Iron Rock . |
| 8 | Somewhat pointedly he closed his own book and tipped his seat right back , preparing himself for sleep . |
| 9 | So he does his own audit before the company audits him . |
| 10 | So he sells his Dutch s cigars for four x . |
| 11 | We might say that Wordsworth has slanted his autobiography to fit a theory ; in doing so he denied his own high academic attainment . |
| 12 | And he just wanted to get the heat in so he kept his other hand round about it . |
| 13 | So he followed his own route . |
| 14 | So he rejects his former selfish hiving-off from the rest of the human race ( lines 53–6 ) ; from now on even worse sights than Beaumont 's painting will be welcome , for they will reinforce his resolve to endure in patience to the end ( lines 57–9 ) . |
| 15 | He was intelligent enough to realize that his father would never allow him much freedom in the business and so he started his own training centre at Heald Grove , Rusholme . |
| 16 | Thus he fought his criminal cases , accepting the client 's wish to ‘ get off ’ as his objective . |
| 17 | Meanwhile he reassesses his immediate targets . |
| 18 | When finally he fitted his lean hips into the cradle of hers she was ready for him , impatient for his possession . |
| 19 | Already he looked his old strong , capable self . |
| 20 | And that would be soon as ever he had his own son safely established back under this roof , where he should have been all along ! |
| 21 | As ever he answered his own question . |
| 22 | another Central South success story this year has been the form of Gloucestershire racing trainer David Nicholson … yesterday he opened his new stables at Ford for the very first time and racing folk turned up in their thousands |
| 23 | Barely three months later he announced his Ecumenical Council ( together with a synod for the diocese of Rome and the reform of the Code of Canon Law ) on 25 January 1959 , the last day of the Octave of Prayer for Christian Unity . |
| 24 | Ian took the others to the baths to practice canoeing skills , Eskimo rolls and so on , and later he got his own boats out of the garage and we canoed the Otago harbour , very beautiful in the evening sunlight at low tide . |
| 25 | He did n't say anything , though , and a moment later he returned his full attention to the road ahead . |
| 26 | In March 1945 , a few weeks before the German surrender , Eliot was expressing his pessimism about the future ; a few days later he wrote his last commentary for the Christian News Letter and used the pseudonym of " Metoikos " or " resident alien " . |
| 27 | Well , later he sold his three boxes of Dutch cigars at a profit of thirty three of their cost . |
| 28 | But a year later he had his second stroke . |
| 29 | Three years later he had his first Formula One drive in a March 711 at the Austrian Grand Prix , just six years after watching his first Grand Prix . |
| 30 | Later he queries his own adjective ‘ fruitless ’ , but still repeats that the victory long ago in which Sauron was overthrown but not destroyed ‘ did not achieve its end ’ . |