Example sentences of "his [noun] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is , perhaps , especially strong confirmation that the verb and adjective properties are immediately bound together in the fact that there is no coherent way to question either the adjective or the verb alone while leaving the other in place ; we can not , for example , have : ( 24 ) what should I do to the string longer ? ( 25 ) how did his sister set the owl ? |
| 2 | And sentences ( 26 ) , even if acceptable : ( 26 ) what did his sister set the owl ? how did Liz knock her fiancè ? would give us questions not corresponding to the types of statement in ( 1 ) or ( 14 ) . |
| 3 | Like them , he was no spiritualist , though his sister followed the cult . |
| 4 | He fumbled about on the table , felt in the pockets of the odorous hawk-training jacket which hung on the back of the door , told his sister to try the cupboard . |
| 5 | However , if one tries to envelop the noun phrase and the adjective in a single question , then , on the one hand , the result will usually or always be grammatical , because the verbs occurring in this construction can of course stand as ordinary transitive verbs , but , on the other , the question form will naturally be taken as related to the ordinary transitive verb with a simple noun phrase object — with a corresponding alteration in the meaning expressed ; ( 23 ) is an attempt to put such a question : ( 23 ) his sister set the owl free what did his sister set ? to which suitable answers could include the mousetrap or the first four questions . |
| 6 | But there are signs that not all his contemporaries saw the relationship in such simple terms . |
| 7 | Vlaminck always insisted that he was the first to have ‘ discovered ’ African or Negro sculpture ( and he and his contemporaries used the term ‘ art negre ’ generically to cover not only African but also Polynesian art and indeed any tribal art at all that came their way ) and his claim was to pass into legend , although Gauguin himself possibly owned examples of African as well as Polynesian sculpture . |
| 8 | Manager Geoff Cooke and his coaches had the look of men unashamedly glad South Africa are not here on a longer tour because the Boks are getting better by the minute . |
| 9 | He was doing his bit to save the world . |
| 10 | JOHN Major is poised to do his bit to make the world a safer place in 1993 . |
| 11 | And Johnny 's doing his bit to introduce the youngsters to the animal kingdom … |
| 12 | The winger , who last Friday withdrew a transfer request , scored the equaliser and generally did his bit to rally the troops . |
| 13 | However one of the youngsters at the back in his enthusiasm to reach the water tripped and fell over the one in front and this started a chain reaction in the column and the entire orderly procession landed at the bottom in a tangle of webbed feet and flapping wings . |
| 14 | He was almost running along the pier past the Tartar Frigate Inn , such was his enthusiasm to begin the cooking lesson , with a large lobster tucked absent-mindedly under his arm . |
| 15 | This change of career was prompted by his enthusiasm to study the Pacific . |
| 16 | But there was nothing conservative about the way in which Louis and his successor exploited the bishop of Clermont 's complaints against the count of the Auvergne to secure a foothold in the county ; it was their preparatory work that made possible Philip Augustus ' annexation of the Auvergne to the royal demesne . |
| 17 | Should he not be with us in six weeks , will he leave a message for his successor to ensure the continuation of that economic miracle into York street and York road in the constituency of my hon. Friend the Member for Belfast , North ( Mr. Walker ) ? |
| 18 | But his resignation means the club will not have to pay up his contract . |
| 19 | ‘ So it was all set up , and your father 's known habit of shutting himself up with his scripts made the deception all the easier . |
| 20 | Yet Nizan was quite explicit in his attempts to counter the arguments of " those who accuse communism of crushing men and of withdrawing freedom " . |
| 21 | The final decision may go to the one who is the most persistent in his attempts to persuade the customer that the product meets the buyer 's needs . |
| 22 | Elsewhere his attempts to plant the devices had failed . |
| 23 | Nizan was unsuccessful in his attempts to allay the suspicion that he did not really belong to the French communist party . |
| 24 | Mino Martinazzoli , the leader of the Christian Democrats , has seen his leadership challenged by parliamentary deputies and , despite his attempts to clean the party up , faces the possibility that impatient reformers will quit . |
| 25 | Jenny clung to him tightly , partly to delay his attempts to remedy the situation , partly to buffer herself against any possible impact . |
| 26 | To make matters worse , because he always does fail in his attempts to improve the situation , the sufferer convinces himself that he has nothing to look forward to but a lifetime of misery . |
| 27 | This parent , Mr M , had studied the ‘ Effective Intervention ’ document as well as the Social Work ( Scotland ) Act in his attempts to assist the W family . |
| 28 | In his attempts to understand the paths taken by projectiles and falling bodies , he had ‘ opened to us the gate of natural philosophy universal , which is the knowledge of the nature of motion ’ . |
| 29 | Faraday was a friend of Turner and an admirer of his work , and might well have been more sympathetic to his attempts to catch the effects of light in paint . |
| 30 | During the election campaign Mr Smith made defending the parity of the pound within the ERM the cornerstone of his attempts to convince the City of Labour 's anti-inflationary convictions . |