Example sentences of "[verb] his [noun] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a bid to regain his machine the unemployed roofer climbed to the top of a building , ripped off tiles and threw them into the street , it was alleged . |
| 2 | When Carco 's concierge came to clean his room the next day , she almost fainted at the sight of the nude picture hanging over his bed . |
| 3 | ‘ In the 1930s a commercial traveller staying overnight at the castle informed his host the next day that he had seen an apparition during the night — a young lady with long blonde hair wearing a gown with green silk puff sleeves . |
| 4 | He was , for instance , punctilious about paying his models the agreed amount and would work out the precise sum owed to the last quarter of an hour . |
| 5 | That evening he showed his wife the little bronze relief . |
| 6 | Managing to repair the Time-Space Visualiser he acquired from the Space Museum , the Doctor affords his companions the unique opportunity of viewing history as it happened . |
| 7 | The years spent at Cass enabled Rod Morris to evolve at his own pace and allowed his intuition the subtle space it required . |
| 8 | The years spent at Cass enabled Rod Morris to evolve at his own pace and allowed his intuition the subtle space it required . |
| 9 | Moving his head a fraction , he opened his eyes the merest slit and scowled at her from under thick dark lashes . |
| 10 | ‘ Just what 're you getting at , young Angel ? ’ he asked , narrowing his eyes the same way he did when he had a cigarette going and he was looking in a petrol tank . |
| 11 | In reporting his death the annual report of 1957 states : " It would not be an exaggeration to say that his shoulders carried the burden of the BDDA income for the greater part of that period . " |
| 12 | She did not speak when he raised his eyebrows the second time , so in went onions , mustard and ketchup . |
| 13 | The hotel offers all the normal comforts including a silver service breakfast … but the true train driver gets his meal the old fashioned way . |
| 14 | The ladies of the village would retaliate with the use of buckets of ‘ slops ’ , kept for such a purpose and the wary traveller , having had his joke , had to ‘ … plead his heels the faster ’ . |
| 15 | He 'll be fighting to keep his lead the next day , for this first full stage , a circuit through the Basque country , will be fast , tricky , and an especial challenge for the Spanish riders . |
| 16 | The police had found his body the previous afternoon , just before lunch . |
| 17 | Partly as a reaction against the restless interference of Lloyd George , he believed in giving his ministers the maximum freedom . |
| 18 | He therefore had the choice of making a new home somewhere or making his way back to a town about whose public feelings he could have no doubt , but knowing that if he did not change his ways the whole thing might happen again . |
| 19 | He was a tough old fellow when it came to it-his older brother had been an artillery colonel — but his health was failing and I guess he felt a younger man would serve his flock the better in the iron times to come . |
| 20 | A Word Child ( 1975 ) , indeed , is so specific in its references to places , and especially to places on the London Underground , that the narrator remarks he was once tempted to call his story the Inner Circle ; and Martin Amis 's London Fields ( 1989 ) is almost as detailed about Notting Hill as if it were a guide-book . |
| 21 | It does n't sound much but you 've got to watch out these days , with everything constantly getting cheaper and Tod grimly counting his money the whole time . |
| 22 | Rushdie had announced on Dec. 24 that he had embraced Islam and withdrawn permission to allow his book The Satanic Verses to be published in paperback . |
| 23 | Claire used to repeat his sentences the same way when they were kids and she wanted to wind him up . |
| 24 | And that would make his shot the first . |
| 25 | In the spring of 1167 he led an army into the Auvergne , right on the eastern border of Aquitaine , in order to lay waste the land of Count William of Auvergne , who seems to have dispossessed his nephew the young Count . |
| 26 | Indeed , three generations of Culpepers joined this guild , as Edmund II 's son , John Chandler , in turn became his apprentice the following year . |
| 27 | He had hoped by this gesture to spare his people the customary vengeance which the Turks exacted indiscriminately against the population when Serbs defied them . |
| 28 | The daddy held the receiver at arm 's length , to spare his ears the inevitable assault . |
| 29 | Then they were in the flat , the first time she had been there since leaving Oliver typing his letter the previous morning . |
| 30 | I go to see his wife the next day . |