Example sentences of "[noun] he [verb] his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Leiden he met his lifelong friend and correspondent , the Dutch poet and diplomat , Constantine Huygens . |
| 2 | In spring he dons his curious plumage : long ear tufts , and dramatic barred , streaked , blobbed or plain ruff-collar . |
| 3 | Each Tuesday he meets his unelected Cabinet , the Executive Council , and they approve — ‘ rubber stamp ’ is how critics describe it — legislation passed on by the Civil Service . |
| 4 | And yet that high broad forehead was his , the little tilted nose was his , his the pointed — although in her case , flat — ears , and in her huge eyes he saw his own little ones . |
| 5 | Leaving the Chelsea Arts Club he unlocks his fluorescent green mountain bike , which has a child 's seat on the crossbar . |
| 6 | This courage was to later re-emerge when , as an adviser , he fought to bring about educational change and improved resources , or , when against opposition he backed his own judgement at an appointment interview , or the courage to back a teacher in difficulty from whom others had withdrawn support . |
| 7 | In later years , when he was in the position of having to counsel others he found that these doubts were quite common , and in answering their doubts he answered his own as well ! |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't care about the baby , ’ Philip said , and with those few words he doomed his unborn son . |
| 9 | From Hegel he derives his basic manner of thinking , asserting the primacy of experience . |
| 10 | In Hungary he got his first win — by almost a lap over the entire field — and in Belgium last week he did it again , although not without some drama . |
| 11 | Just before half-time he slid his easiest opportunity wide , then turned his back in favour of Mike Marsh after Hutchison was fouled for a penalty six minutes from time that clinched a fourth-round tie with Crystal Palace . |
| 12 | Near nightfall he saw his younger sister Katya come out of the kitchens into the yard , saw her empty some slops for the few chickens who scuttled about . |
| 13 | In recent months he accepted his increasing illness with an admirable fortitude and resignation . |
| 14 | Heaving his body up to his feet he left his cool sanctuary and ambled over towards them . |
| 15 | He was born in Capel Curig in 1906 , and in that village he spent his whole life . |
| 16 | In December he became a cardinal ; and the following February he followed his old master de Gasparri as Secretary of State . |
| 17 | In May he prepared his own aircraft for flight from the local farm . |
| 18 | By January Waites was practising his putting , in April he walked his first 18 holes over his own club at Hollinwell and in May he played his first round , shooting a 78 . |
| 19 | Secure in the backing of an army corps and a party in Madrid the king refused to recognize the authority of the Regency ; on 4 May he published his first decree declaring the work of the Cortes null and void and adopting a modification of the Persian programme . |
| 20 | He falls asleep with his head on her grave mound , to be taken away in spirit to a strange land where all his grief suddenly fades — and where to his utter delight he sees his lost child facing him , on the other side of a river . |
| 21 | He won the Two Thousand Guineas on Shotover for John Porter of Kingsclere in 1882 and on Shotover he won his only Derby , also in 1882 . |
| 22 | After a moment he raised his dark head to look quizzically into the wide golden eyes fixed on him . |
| 23 | Sharpe tried to draw his own sword , but the moment he took his right hand off the reins he almost fell and the mare immediately tried to check . |
| 24 | Flowers looked a figure of total confidence from the moment he made his first save from Brazilian skipper Rai . |
| 25 | How far Warnie emulated at this stage of life his father 's fondness for a little drop of whiskey , and at what point he began his calamintous descent into alcoholism is not easy to determine . |
| 26 | At one point he describes his two colleagues as cheerfully admitting that they could not write very well . |
| 27 | The jokes and the conversations end abruptly with ‘ But this is worshipful society ’ and at that point he shows his real toughness and ambition . |
| 28 | But the attack , when it came , came from an entirely unexpected quarter , leaving her completely without defence , as in one easy move he thrust his long fingers into her mane of hair and pulled her to him , his mouth silencing the startled cry on her lips . |
| 29 | On this occasion in Dunvegan he repeated his earlier assertion that Burke never made a good joke . |
| 30 | It was his grandparents he spent his first Christmas with . |