Example sentences of "[vb -s] to his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The animation is full of great touches : for example , a victorious knight removes his helmet and bows to his stricken foe , and the pirate takes a swig from his hip flask . |
| 2 | I would like to suggest that John Adler looks to his own laurels before criticising rough carpenters . |
| 3 | ‘ Terry never gets his hands on these buckets mate , ’ Yanto laughed ‘ Selwyn sees to his own buckets , buries it in his own garden . |
| 4 | His own critique of Lawrence leads to his climactic denunciation of his own generation when he turns himself prophet of the most orthodox sort , quoting a long passage from Ezekiel also used in The Waste Land . |
| 5 | The nearest he gets to his usual form is during a discussion about the Mondays ' donation to the Hard Rock Café , coming to the grinning conclusion he should send ‘ a bong made from a Boddingtons beer tin , a packet of Rizla , some tinfoil , an empty skag packet and the sheet me and Bez slept on when we shared a flat together . |
| 6 | Careful to avoid being declared a fugitive , Coleman had kept up the fortnightly calls to his pre-trial services officer in Chicago , reporting truthfully but contriving to leave his precise whereabouts in doubt . |
| 7 | In scene six , he demonstrates his absent-mindedness when , talking to the captain , he unwittingly alludes to his primary motive for coming to Czechoslovakia . |
| 8 | Freud replies to his own argument , that there is no need for man always to be ruled by emotions . |
| 9 | Their starting point was Handel 's will , drawn up in 1750 , in which he bequeaths to his assistant Christopher Smith ‘ my large harpsichord , my little house organ , my music books , and five hundred pounds ’ Subsequent variations to the will by codicils do not appear to alter any of this . |
| 10 | Williams , who beat Trevor Currie on Tuesday night to add the European championship to his Commonwealth title , may have to wait for his shot at the British champion , though Mason rises to his former sparring partner 's rhetoric . |
| 11 | Williams , who beat Trevor Currie on Tuesday night to add the European championship to his Commonwealth title , may have to wait for his shot at the British champion , though Mason rises to his former sparring partner 's rhetoric . |
| 12 | The same applies to his later fellow-citizens Meleager the subtle writer of epigrams , and Philodemus the Epicurean . |
| 13 | Falstaff is forcibly returned to prose , ‘ knapp 'd o'th'coxcomb ’ by verse , and subsides to his own level : ‘ Master Shallow , I owe you a thousand pound ’ . |
| 14 | The American Ed Schuyler , the boxing correspondent of the Associated Press , and a long-time pal of McIlvanney , testifies to his uncommon zeal . |
| 15 | If Leonard and Moore become an effective unit and Lions ' newcomer Martin Johnson plays to his normal form , there is the possibility of a dozen Englishmen in the second Test . |
| 16 | He laughs again , and crosses to his one way window . |
| 17 | In a letter of 1809 he refers to his five children . |
| 18 | He also refers to his Indian classmate and close friend , Hurree Jamset Ram Singh , by the nickname Inky . |
| 19 | For a President who often refers to his holy status as an elder of the Church of Scotland , these are harsh words . |
| 20 | One refers to his fourteenth year , a little later than the visit to Catherine at Jefferies farm , when he had changed greatly . |
| 21 | ( It is not clear if this refers to his own experiment or to the fact that Jones had by then made his work known to them . ) |
| 22 | Moorcroft 's letter of resignation refers to his ill health , but speaking 40 years later , Coleman said : ‘ I could see no ill health [ in Moorcroft ] at all . |
| 23 | But the student who goes to his first lecture without any idea at all of what he is to face is working quite inefficiently . |
| 24 | Manchester City last night signed the Blackburn Rovers centre-back Colin Hendry for £700,000 , of which £200,000 goes to his former club Dundee . |
| 25 | Manchester City last night signed the Blackburn Rovers centre-back Colin Hendry for £700,000 , of which £200,000 goes to his former club Dundee . |
| 26 | He always goes to his married daughter on Sunday evening . |
| 27 | But that is the day , it appears , when he regularly goes to his own bank . |
| 28 | Now , with Francis dead , apparently intestate , his share goes to his illegitimate daughter , a twentyyear-old . |
| 29 | When Eachuinn Odhar goes to his just reward in heaven or hell , it 's yourself will be Maclean of Duart , not young Hector Luath . ’ |
| 30 | The barrier is raised and he drives to his personal parking space next to the front entrance of the office block . |