Example sentences of "and his [noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly , the situation was very serious but ‘ not out of control ’ and his officers hunted down terrorists of both persuasions . |
| 2 | Cohen 's eyes flashed with a sudden steely glint , and his eyebrows shot up . |
| 3 | They widened even more and his eyebrows went up and down , with an odd little flicker , as though with the effort of forcing his message silently across the air to Jinny . |
| 4 | In peace-time Achilles and his cronies come down to his level of prose abuse and mockery ( Troilus and Cressida , II.i. ; II.iii ; III.iii ; V.i. ) , but when the fighting restarts Thersites takes no part in it , and is left alone to direct his poisoned breath straight at us . |
| 5 | Worse still , the Socialists , who campaigned to end amigismo — in which the local mayor and his cronies hand out jobs and contracts to friends and families — have embraced this custom with gusto . |
| 6 | Immediately after the Last Supper , Jesus and his disciples went out to the Mount of Olives . |
| 7 | John Goldthorpe and his associates followed up these arguments in 1962 with a study of affluent workers in the car industry : how far had they become middle class in their behaviours and attitudes , with increased spending power ? |
| 8 | Shultz and his associates carried out a series of studies to investigate children 's understanding of intentions . |
| 9 | In 1351 Edward III granted John the woodward of Raskelf a pension of 3d. a day ‘ for good service and especially because his eyes were torn out and his tongue and his fingers cut off by malefactors in the Forest of Galtres in the time when he was one of the King 's foresters there ’ . |
| 10 | She felt her skirt slide over her hips on its way to the floor , and his fingers closed over her breasts as her bra and briefs joined the rest of her clothes . |
| 11 | He dug his hand through the aromatic blanket and his fingers closed round an unmistakeable shape . |
| 12 | Crash goes his belly and his arms flap up like a corkscrew lever . |
| 13 | In the end Purvis and his records opened up a new world for me , starting on that very first dinner when we played Beethoven 's Archduke Trio , the one in B flat major , ‘ Opus 97 , ’ he added casually . |
| 14 | He 'd lost weight , his eyes were staring and red as if they 'd been rolled in grit , and his clothes hung on him like a scarecrow 's ; it was almost as if , in the course of the past few weeks , he 'd been drained of the zest and the energy and the sense of confidence that she 'd steadily been picking up . |
| 15 | Congressmen and senators did not like being bombarded with an estimated eighty legislative proposals in Carter 's first year and were unim-pressed by his resistance to compromise , his aversion to bargaining and his threats to go over their heads directly to the people . |
| 16 | James Sands and his friends processed in to salve their consciences by buying bookmarks , needlecases , embroidered handkerchiefs and even some of the exquisitely embroidered baby clothes on offer . |
| 17 | He and his friends set off right away across the sea . |
| 18 | Finally , when the walls of Amal 's room began to vibrate from the sounds of the bass from the stereo , she decided to go downstairs to ask her brother and his friends to turn down their music . |
| 19 | Philip and his friends looked on in silence and apprehension , until they saw Alexander turn back towards them at the end of the gallop , and return joyful and triumphant with his success . |
| 20 | At the conclusion of The Return of the King , the third of the three books — Tolkien always denied they were a trilogy — Frodo and his friends ride back to their lost land , to discover that ‘ they cared about it more than any other place in the world ’ , though its cottages and gardens have been laid waste and replaced by ugly new houses and factories belching smoke ; and they defeat the ruffians who had defiled it and resume the kingdom of little men . |
| 21 | Bohr and his friends hammered out an approach to the understanding of quantum theory which hardened into a rigid orthodoxy prescribed for the faithful . |
| 22 | Paul has heard John and his friends going on about concentration camps for people with HIV . |
| 23 | Gowie is given every opportunity by his teacher and his classmates to join in with the others and make a useful contribution to the school ; but every gesture of friendship he rejects . |
| 24 | He was droopy and small for his age and his joints stuck out at knees and wrists and elbows as if he was waiting to grow into them , like clothes . |
| 25 | His own farming seems not to have been profitable , however , perhaps because of his other activities ; he and his heirs sold off over 500 acres in the later seventeenth century . |
| 26 | A BAF spokesman , Tony Ward , said : ‘ We will have to talk to Livingston and his advisers to find out whether they are still going to go ahead with the appeal . ’ |
| 27 | The fighter goes out and his reflexes take over . |
| 28 | Richard and his Brabançons carried out this task with an efficiency which must have shattered many observers accustomed to a more leisurely way of doing things . |
| 29 | The doctor looked down on to the younger children 's heads and his teeth clamped down even harder on his cigar . |
| 30 | To consolidate his power he needed new members and his recruiters fanned out across the world . |