Example sentences of "[verb] his [noun] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon after this incident Richard emerges from the obscurity which had surrounded his movements in the last two years since he knelt in homage at Montmirail . |
| 2 | or , Thomas ( c. 1784–1818 ) , prizefighter , was born a Virginia slave , and is reputed to have won his freedom in the American prize-ring . |
| 3 | Elbowed out FOOTBALL : Ajax Amsterdam 's Swedish striker Stefan Pettersson looks set to miss the European Championships after dislocating his elbow in the UEFA Cup final victory over Torino . |
| 4 | In 1821 Alexander I had tried to stop foreign powers fishing and whaling between the Sea of Okhotsk and Russian Alaska , but in 1824 he modified his policy in the light of the United States ' promulgation of the Monroe Doctrine . |
| 5 | He jerked his head in the direction of the car park . |
| 6 | He jerked his head in the direction of the zimmer with an expression of deep distaste . |
| 7 | Brutus Leitdorf , the Count of Averland , ordered the retreat over the great bridge and rallied his troops in the western half of the city . |
| 8 | This was a lengthy business , and from December 1103 to April 1105 he contented himself with justifying his exile in the face of criticisms from his English friends . |
| 9 | And for their inspirational captain and star batsman to see himself so early as a lonely figure of torment , when England will need his strengths in the weeks to come , does not bode well . |
| 10 | He refines his argument in the light of evidence that nowadays the demand curve for a company 's stock is extremely elastic : ‘ [ t ] hus even large purchases of stock will not necessarily have an immediate and noticeable effect on its price since other stocks are seen as perfect substitutes . ’ |
| 11 | To the strong boss , Jesus promised his Spirit in the midst of persecution , with all the violence of evil we may have to face . |
| 12 | Finally Himmler himself summoned Vlasov , and promised his aid in the creation of a liberation army . |
| 13 | Today they are commonplace ; the Lord Chancellor answering in the Lords , and a Junior Minister representing his Department in the elected House . |
| 14 | Among the Democrats Clinton once again demonstrated his appeal in the South , but was comprehensively defeated by Tsongas in Massachusetts and Rhode Island [ see table ] . |
| 15 | When Mr. Leitch established his public house in the village of Ardersier , so conveniently placed to catch the military traffic from Fort George , he wisely retained his seat in the council of the royal burgh of Nairn , and for a valuable parliamentary elector a mere transfer to the desired post was very little for a member of parliament to arrange . |
| 16 | In a speech on Sept. 27 , he had appeared to encourage his supporters in the teeming shanty town areas of Port-au-Prince to rectify gross social inequalities by rising up and killing their opponents with " necklaces " of flaming tyres , known locally as " Pères Lebruns " after the country 's main tyre importing firm . |
| 17 | In light of this , St Augustine 's was prepared to accept his re-enrolment in the school , although the assessment panel expressed a strong wish to keep his case under constant review . |
| 18 | West 's club-mate Mark Hudpith and Elswick 's Alan Johnson should be among the medal contenders in the 5,000 metres , while Newcastle security guard Peter Gordon defends his title in the discus . |
| 19 | Devos defends his action in the liner note , speaking of ‘ the organic relationship between the tempos of the different changes of time-signature [ mesure ] , separated in the manuscript by a double-bar . |
| 20 | We entered his office in the Research Labs . |
| 21 | Before landing his role in the super-soap series , Nader was a model who made it into movies . |
| 22 | The treatment of Abdulkerim by Katib Celebi and his followers is consistent ( and interesting ) in so far as they rightly , one believes , place his Muftilik in the time of Mehmed II , in accordance with the and as opposed to the view of the unmodified traditional account ; but on the assumption that the available texts of Katib Celebi and Hezarfen are accurate , the writers connected with the Katib Celebi view appear to differ amongst themselves about the nature and timing of his Muftilik , possibly because Katib Celebi " s list is particularly cryptic and , at first sight , confused at this point . |
| 23 | Todd from Neighbours also highlights another problem often seen ; he would have difficulty depositing his cans in the ‘ Save-A-Can ’ skip as it is clearly full to the top . |
| 24 | Dick described his part in the restoration project as ‘ chase and race ’ — ‘ I wish I had the time to do the mechanical work , I like that , but I did the parts sourcing and chasing and telephone calls . |
| 25 | All — his pride in his memory , his sense of the internationale of writers , painters , musicians , and the aristocrats , his study of form as technique ( no contours , no edges , intellectual concepts , but rounding , thrusting , as a splash of color , as Yeats described his aim in the Cantos … ) it is all a huge AESTHETICISM , ending in hate for Jews , Reds , change , the content and matter often of disaster , a loss of future , and in that a fatality as death-full as those for whom the atom bomb is Armageddon , not Apocalypse . |
| 26 | Baker , who described his role in the talks as attempting to impress upon the Iraqi government the determination of the 28-country coalition to eject Iraqi forces from Kuwait , said that he had " heard nothing which showed any Iraqi flexibility whatever " . |
| 27 | He emphasises his point in the following statement : |
| 28 | The exercise went far to establish his credentials in the right quarters . |
| 29 | He rammed in the pitch , keeping his balance in the tossing pirogue , as only he could , he with his funambulist 's antennae , who might have scaled the ship on a free-floating ladder if it had been a parade , a feast , a time of play and rejoicing . |
| 30 | Out for a golden duck — but as Mr Maxwell returned to the pavilion , a wry smile suggested that just now keeping his place in the Hailey first team is the least of his worries . |