Example sentences of "[vb past] his [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | VETERAN U.S. chess star Bobby Fischer beat his former World Championship rival Boris Spassky yesterday to win their 5 million dollar ‘ revenge ’ re-match . |
| 2 | PAUL RIDEOUT proved a point with the winner as Everton beat his former club Southampton 2-1 . |
| 3 | Morley Street beat his full brother Granville Again in the slowly-run Elite Hurdle last month , but has since been beaten by Muse over two and a half miles at Ascot . |
| 4 | In 1915 the New South Wales Swimming Association invited Duke Kahanamoku to the Domain Baths in Sydney where he beat his own world record for the 100 yards with a time of 53.8 seconds . |
| 5 | DEAN Gould beat his own world record in Felixstowe , Suffolk yesterday — flipping 296 new 10p pences from his arm to his hand . |
| 6 | Indeed Bob Arum , the promoter , who put it all down to a conflict of styles , recently dismissed his ranked middleweight Michael Nunn for such a negative performance . |
| 7 | CARING Prince Charles helped his close friend Lady Romsey come to terms with the death of her child from cancer , she reveals today . |
| 8 | At long last Chris Lewis demonstrated his wonderful batting talent , and together with Hick blossoming and Fairbrother blending his natural game to Test demands , there have been some encouraging signs . |
| 9 | On Hird 's death 10 years later , Cutts took over the list , and demonstrated his own publishing flair with his first best-seller , A J Russell 's For Sinners Only . |
| 10 | Frank Grant retained his British middleweight title in emphatic fashion at Bradford last night , stopping John Ashton in the seventh round . |
| 11 | In presidential elections held on Nov. 8 , 1988 , the Republican Party candidate and then Vice-President , George Bush , defeated his Democratic Party rival Mike Dukakis ; he duly took office as President on Jan. 20 , 1989 . |
| 12 | One top dealer and team leader invited his four team members out to a wine bar one evening . |
| 13 | Vietnamese Prime Minister Vo Van Kiet invited his Australian counterpart Bob Hawke to visit Vietnam in 1992 . |
| 14 | Having lost his fear of the future and of black Africans , Don invited his white socialite friends to meet his new black friends in his home . |
| 15 | But that Saturday for the first time in his life , he invited his youngest son Patsy to attend the ball-game along with himself and his other three sons . |
| 16 | ( One story , which entered his official state Department biography , has it that he told several students that his own rise to the position of ambassador showed what great opportunities there were for the young in Iran . |
| 17 | Gerald Williams described his former commentary box partner as ‘ an immensely warm person who was proud to be a part of tennis establishment . |
| 18 | He described his 1924 film Reveille , an episodic account of how a group of humble people had been affected by the war , as ‘ a scrapbook of pictures of life caught in the living , no hero , no villain , no plot , no tying up of loose threads . ’ |
| 19 | Even though the winds were not as strong lower down , Duncan maintained his 41,000 feet altitude so as to save fuel . |
| 20 | The soldier from the Dishforth-based Army Air Corps had stopped at the station to ask directions but on the way out of the car park he crashed his four ton truck into a wall knocking it down . |
| 21 | He decided to make one more call — and crashed his two-seater Cessna plane into her house . |
| 22 | A wealthy and handsome ‘ man of many parts ’ , he owned considerable property in Funchal and designed his own town house ( the large house , with a tower , which the Madeira Wine Institute now occupies ) and his favourite country residence , Quinta do Jardim da Serra , where he built his own mausoleum and was buried . |
| 23 | He tugged at his sparse white beard , then drew his dark fur robe tighter around his bent shoulders . |
| 24 | When Wrangham joined our Bristol team after his chimpanzee research at the Gombe National Park ( p. 69 ) he concentrated his rainy season observations on a unit of gelada males . |
| 25 | During the 1890s , the mill was in use for corn grinding , in conjunction with Millbottom although , during this decade , Emmanuel Davis moved his extensive furniture business to Days Mill . |
| 26 | Fenton moved his big prison rig closer too , in anticipation of a fresh intake of captives . |
| 27 | He called firemen , who snatched his four-year-old son Jamie to safety from a smoke-filled bedroom of the Errol Street house . |
| 28 | He blinked his small eyes and stroked his handsome silver sides . |
| 29 | San Francisco 49ers receiver Jerry Rice caught his 101st touchdown pass to break Steve Largent 's all-time NFL record and Tom Rathman scored twice to lead the 49ers to a 27-3 rout of the Miami Dolphins . |
| 30 | The final seal of royal approval was given when the Prince built his own holiday retreat in Brighton . |