Example sentences of "and [verb] his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sat down and beamed his good eye at the shine on his toecap . |
| 2 | I always admired him for his tenacity of purpose and dedication — and envied his super brain-power . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , having called for boiling water and cleansed his best knife over a candle flame , he took the risk . |
| 4 | It meant the ability to educate and supervise his own children rather than be driven to place them in the mill , and to preserve a customary life-style . |
| 5 | ‘ I suppose so , ’ clearly weighing up the chances of Auguste 's swimming underwater to the women 's bathing machine section and drowning his beloved daughter . |
| 6 | On one occasion when Reagan , at short notice , addressed an audience of between three and four thousand teachers As a GE spokesman Reagan had the opportunity to hone his oratorical skills , and develop his political ideas . |
| 7 | Jenkins was close to Gaitskell , and shared his bitter disappointment in 1959 . |
| 8 | He had sat and formulated his final speech to the Academy . |
| 9 | In Rhodri 's cast-off clothes and worn shoes he looked like a penurious wandering scrivener of sixty ; in truth he was barely forty , and had been a tall , strong man of his hands once , and would be as good again after a month of eating regularly , and nursing his frayed body and broken and blistered feet . |
| 10 | ‘ Svend was watching television and nursing his broken heart , trying to work out how he could go back home without losing face , when he was forced to realise the amount of trouble and disruption he and his erstwhile girlfriend had caused on all fronts ! ’ |
| 11 | For two days now he had sat in Isobel 's garage during most of school hours and planned his new book . |
| 12 | The cold wind scoured Charles 's face and whipped his sodden trousers against his legs . |
| 13 | I distance myself from the position and the policy of the President and advocate his immediate resignation [ and ] the handing over of power to a collective body , the Federation Council . " |
| 14 | No sane malefactor would want to settle and conduct his predatory business in territory controlled by so active and powerful a magnate as Robert Beaumont , earl of Leicester . |
| 15 | But ships are too valuable to lie idle for very long , and Robert barely had a month in which to re-acquaint himself with his new wife and pat his young infants on the head before he was leaving John Street and Stepney again — through Limehouse into Poplar and aboard the Orynthia in West India Dock . |
| 16 | Morse turned , and laid his right hand lightly on her shoulder . |
| 17 | The head of the delegation was Sir Frederick Hoyer-Millar ( later Lord Inchyra ) , who was impressed by Hayman 's abilities and recommended his permanent transfer to overseas service . |
| 18 | Mister Johnny laughed and clapped his little hands together . |
| 19 | After retiring from Oxford in 1964 , he settled in Israel and divided his last years between New York , where he was visiting professor at Queens ' College in City University and Stern College , and Jerusalem . |
| 20 | He played with Louis Armstrong 's All Stars at the end of the 50s and led his own band at Eddie Condon 's in New York in the mid-60s . |
| 21 | Conscious of the fact that his palms were sweating even more markedly than usual , Pogo hurriedly pulled on his white gloves and led his impatient partner on to the floor . |
| 22 | In his third camp , Eichstatt , in spite of the crowded and stressful conditions , he managed with the help of the Red Cross and some accountant brother-officers to study for and sit his final accountancy examinations while actively preparing for his escape . |
| 23 | He had forgotten this unofficial war and damned his own foolhardiness at not taking the matter into account . |
| 24 | Detective Sergeant Joseph Bragg pushed away his plate , and wiped his ragged moustache . |
| 25 | At last he finished , gave a loud belch and wiped his greasy fingers and mouth on the hem of his ermine-lined cloak . |
| 26 | He wanted footballers to have a respectable place in society , breaking away from their traditional cloth-cap image , and expected his own players to adopt respectable standards of dress and behaviour . |
| 27 | So they returned each to his own country , blessing him for their deliverance , and magnifying his great bounty ; and forthwith they sent him tribute and acknowledged themselves to be his vassals . |
| 28 | However , he later recognised John Baskerville 's genius and became his enthusiastic supporter . |
| 29 | He had never been in hospital before and consulted his General Practitioner infrequently . |
| 30 | Terror had dried and paralysed his vocal chords . |