Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 | He was doing his bit to save the world . |
| 7 | JOHN Major is poised to do his bit to make the world a safer place in 1993 . |
| 8 | And Johnny 's doing his bit to introduce the youngsters to the animal kingdom … |
| 9 | The winger , who last Friday withdrew a transfer request , scored the equaliser and generally did his bit to rally the troops . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | This change of career was prompted by his enthusiasm to study the Pacific . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ) ? |
| 15 | But his resignation means the club will not have to pay up his contract . |
| 16 | ( His fecklessness was on an appealingly grand scale : when he was made a yeoman of the guard , responsible for fire-fighting equipment , his negligence permitted the fire which burnt down the Houses of Parliament ) . |
| 17 | She smiled trustingly at him and his heart melted the way it did when his small nieces slipped their hands into his when he took them out . |
| 18 | His heart sank the way it always did when she left him . |
| 19 | The pair should be observed , and if the male is being intimidated then his removal solves the problem . |
| 20 | She had Dreamed Lord Roger as a former surgeon , still brooding because of his inability to save the life of his only child . |
| 21 | Before Lord George obtained this command , however , his inability to render the services expected of him by some of the family 's political friends was a liability , and was seen as such by Montrose , who wrote with some anxiety to deny allegations that the son of another gentleman of the region was serving in Lord George 's ship , but was on board the flagship of the admiral . |
| 22 | It 's not the severity that worries him but his inability to universalize the verdict and therefore take it to himself as he can take ‘ Vous l'avez voulu , Georges Dandin , ’ the thing of Molière 's Dostoevsky liked to quote . |
| 23 | His inability to grasp the intricacies of modern economics was due in large measure to limits of intellect and lack of appropriate training ( although , as we have noted in Chapter 5 , this did not prevent him from drafting , in 1939 , his " National Programme for Resurgence " ) . |
| 24 | Do n't you see ? ’ , he repeated , frustrated at his inability to dent the journalist 's confident cynicism . |
| 25 | The only minister who actually lost a vote of no confidence ( by 74 to 23 ) was Arnis Kalnins , who resigned as Minister of Economic Reform , having been criticized for his inability to conduct the restructuring of the economy along free market lines . |
| 26 | Inside his head he could still hear his father 's slighting reference to a " Momma 's boy " and because this rankled more than his inability to shoot the doe , he hurried on ahead of her in case his father should turn and see them close together . |
| 27 | His foremost biographer attributes this withdrawal to his inability to endure the prison existence . |
| 28 | His inability to make the weight limit forced him to relinquish his title , but two years later , at the age of 22 , he moved back to the USA and won the featherweight crown ( subsequently losing it , regaining it , losing it again and winning it back finally in 1898 ) . |
| 29 | If there was a failure here , it lay in his inability to understand the position of those who , unlike himself and despite their faith , had no clear vision . |
| 30 | Rather , it was his inability to end the war which , already in the first months of the Russian campaign and ever more strongly during 1942 , began inexorably to undermine the image of the far-sighted , infallible , and well-intentioned Führer . |