Example sentences of "and his [noun sg] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He died of exposure , and his widow received the usual death allowance of £20 . |
| 2 | A potentially explosive element was introduced when Thakin Tun Ok publicly accused Aung San of the headman 's murder , and his widow petitioned the Governor for justice . |
| 3 | However generous Edward wished to be — and his willingness to challenge the Stanleys suggests that he saw Richard 's endowment as a matter of some urgency — there was a limit to how much he could afford to do for his brother . |
| 4 | However generous Edward wished to be — and his willingness to challenge the Stanleys suggests that he saw Richard 's endowment as a matter of some urgency — there was a limit to how much he could afford to do for his brother . |
| 5 | St Bernard , Abbot of Clairvaux , developed a cult of inward sensibility that was unprecedented in Christian Europe and his mysticism became the hallmark of the newly-founded Cistercian order . |
| 6 | PRESIDENT Boris Yeltsin , stung by a humiliating rebuff from Russia 's supreme legislature , accused it yesterday of seeking to restore Communist rule and his spokesman said the president was poised for decisive action . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | McCarthy 's bid to become the Democratic nominee for president was getting up steam , and his following included the liberal Hollywood establishment , among them Paul Newman , Joanne Woodward , Robert Redford and Warren Beatty . |
| 9 | There was a fight , and his wife killed the other . |
| 10 | CD modelled it on the SS Britannia on which he and his wife made the crossing in 1842 . |
| 11 | The personal interests of an Anglo-French magnate and his wife made the absorption of this great and valuable fief a far costlier operation for the French crown . |
| 12 | HAVING spent all his working life in the pottery industry , a Wedgwood executive is setting his sights on a new ‘ career ’ that will take him and his wife exploring the scenic routes , cities and towns of Britain , America , Canada and Europe . |
| 13 | The minister and his wife offered the freedom of the manse , and the children started to go to Brownies , Boys ' Brigade and Sunday school . |
| 14 | A few months ago he died , and his wife sold the house and went to live with her sister . |
| 15 | He and his wife know the sex already . |
| 16 | Last week on The Jamesons ( R2 ) he and his wife ditched the usual phone-in for a fax-in . |
| 17 | After a buffet rijstafel of gargantuan proportions-thirty dishes concluded with a chewy sweet much beloved of the malais which resembled nothing so much as toenail pie — the Colonel served Tia Maria which he and his wife thought the last word in cosmopolitan sophistication . |
| 18 | That American and his wife left the boat and drove away , later some of the crew came ashore too . |
| 19 | Heads turned that night when Senator Jared Tunstall and his wife entered the ballroom at Devonshire House . |
| 20 | expulsion from Paradise : " Unto Adam also and his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins and clothed them . " |
| 21 | More remote , but lovely , is Valcebollère , a stone village perched at the end of a valley , where M Lafitte and his wife run the cosy L'Auberge les Ecureuils hotel . |
| 22 | Relations between him , his wife and bishop Patiens of Lyons were particularly cordial , according to Sidonius in a letter which provides the only depiction of the Burgundian ruler 's cultural and religious connections : Chilperic admired the banquets provided by Patiens and his wife admired the bishop 's fasts . |
| 23 | Dick decided from the start that he wanted a ‘ museum quality aircraft ’ and his goal set the tone for the excellence that was to follow . |
| 24 | His skills as a coach ( the England player Philip Sharpe was one of his discoveries ) , his knowledge of players , his presence at cricket 's great occasions and his ability to entice the great and the famous to play for his occasional XIs combined to make him , in his own way , one of the game 's celebrities . |
| 25 | A former convenor at Ford , Dagenham , his financial manoeuvres — plus input from Samuel — and his ability to get the magazine out , provided a core to its progress . |
| 26 | From this it was only a short step to total involvement in folk culture , and his ability to play the gipsy violin led him to join the Gyorgyos Bokreta group , which at that time offered a programme of traditional songs and dances from the Bata region . |
| 27 | His vision and his ability to distribute the ball accurately have added another option to United 's potent attack . |
| 28 | Both the coroner and his companion saw the chain fastened to the wall strain at its clasps . |
| 29 | Then Benedict raised his head from where it rested in the wild disorder of her flaming hair , and his gaze met the misty love in the deep grey of her eyes . |
| 30 | They got out of the car and his Dad rang the door-bell of number forty-five . |