Example sentences of "[verb] his [noun] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We shall consider words , phrases and sentences which appear in the textual record of a discourse to be evidence of an attempt by a producer ( speaker / writer ) to communicate his message to a recipient ( hearer / reader ) . |
| 2 | But there was to be no happy ending , as first Barwick and then Treleaven beat his mark by a stroke , the latter even bogeying his last hole , the 18th , after his drive found the trees . |
| 3 | A HUSBAND who beat his wife in a savage three-hour assault can wait until his holidays before going to jail . |
| 4 | They pulled him round and beat his head against a stool until his brain boiled . |
| 5 | He who loves his dream of a community more than the Christian community itself becomes a destroyer of the latter , even though his personal intentions may be ever so honest and earnest and sacrificial . |
| 6 | He 's still very intense about the art , still loves his cricket with a passion . |
| 7 | He had trouble finding them and managed to catch his finger in a filing cabinet . |
| 8 | Scholars ' president looks to famous ancestor The Rev. John Douglas will seek his inspiration from a famous ancestor when he returns to the Friends ' School at Great Ayton as president of the Old Scholars ' Association . |
| 9 | FORMER England captain Terry Butcher has won his fight for a football future at Sunderland . |
| 10 | All day long she had wondered how he had managed to bamboozle his way into a consultancy , but first the calm , unflappable way he had dealt with Steve and now here , with the devastated relatives , Kathleen had an opportunity to see at first hand the qualities that set him apart as a consultant . |
| 11 | But to show he was independent and a big boy he had lately taken to spelling his name with a small letter : martin . |
| 12 | The man behind ’ Sylvia 's Mother ’ and ’ A Little Bit More ’ is launching his comeback with a video shot in the region . |
| 13 | World No3 White won 5-4 , launching his comeback with a break of 114 after he lost the first three frames . |
| 14 | The French boy dismissed his apology with a little motion of his hand . |
| 15 | Request : In the guise of pop-group ‘ The Howlers ’ ( ‘ We play loud modern rock music not entirely lacking in melodies ’ ) , we contacted the portly football fan to request his consent for a song ( and concept album ) to be titled ‘ Mad Hattersley 's Tea Party ’ . |
| 16 | SIMON PARKE became the youngest male player to represent England when at the age of 17 years and two months he helped his country to a second 3-0 victory in the World Team Championships here yesterday , this time against the hosts . |
| 17 | Ironically there was a Molby in the team when Northern Ireland last played in Denmark — Jan 's young cousin Johnny who helped his side to a 2–1 victory over Billy Bingham 's men in November 1991 . |
| 18 | Ironically there was a Molby in the team when Northern Ireland last played in Denmark — Jan 's young cousin Johnny who helped his side to a 2–1 victory over Billy Bingham 's men in November 1991 . |
| 19 | Powerful centre who helped his Province to a Currie Cup triumph this season and scored a try on his debut v NZ . |
| 20 | He listed his experience as a fourteen-year-old ‘ irregular ’ in Ireland and his knowledge of the ‘ rudiments of Musketry , Bayonet Fighting and Squad Drill ’ which he had acquired during his four months of under-age service at Worcester . |
| 21 | For his son , Rock , who had spent most of his life adoring his father like a god , ‘ it was somewhat like the feeling … it 's late at night and you 're alone on the Tube riding with a bunch of thugs and they get off your car . ’ |
| 22 | He jerked his head at a hollow twenty yards behind him . |
| 23 | He jerked his head towards a corridor going off behind us . |
| 24 | Walking beside her now , he prayed she would not notice the peculiar tic that jerked his face into a spasm of nervous twitches and always made her so terribly angry . |
| 25 | As he explains : ‘ The Deity does not need my supplication , but I , a very imperfect human being , do need his protection as a child that of its father . ’ |
| 26 | In his final years he tried to revive his career in an American television series about martial arts called The Master ( 1986 ) but it failed and another series never got beyond the pilot stage . |
| 27 | I thought it only civil to break the ice with this boy of hitherto laggardly intelligence who had somehow scrambled his way to a temporary plateau of scholastic proximity . |
| 28 | Was Costello simply upping his profile as a serious performer by hanging out with egghead musicians whose forte is Shostakovich rather than Chuck Berry ? |
| 29 | McKeever was cleared of the assault charge after he said Mr McNally had approached his table in an aggressive way with his fists up and all he had done was push him away . |
| 30 | He smacked his legs with a birch branch . |