Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [vb past] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Like them , he was no spiritualist , though his sister followed the cult . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | ( 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 ) . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | His heart sank the way it always did when she left him . |
7 | President Bush for his part stressed the importance of progress under the bilateral Structural Impediments Initiative ( SII ) talks , the third round of which had taken place on Feb. 22-23 between US and Japanese trade officials , but which had so far produced little concrete progress toward the elimination of what the USA termed Japan 's unfair import barriers . |
8 | His excellency crossed the floor of room B. It was n't a particularly interesting room and it 's doubtful whether it would have got a mention at all , had the Anti-Rex not chosen to enter it . |
9 | Thus he was a supernumerary stoker on a tramp steamer ( how Thesiger hated appearing before the ambassador in Constantinople in his flannels when His Excellency cabled the boat with an invitation ) . |
10 | His foot touched the book he had been reading before he had fallen asleep . |
11 | His foot tapped the floor in time to the music . |
12 | The van gave an erratic burst of speed as his foot prodded the accelerator . |
13 | His text cited the success of the Welsh Development Agency and Scottish Enterprise , government-backed bodies , in pump-priming inward investment . |
14 | GUIL : His play offended the King |
15 | A judicial investigation into his case ordered the arrest of a member of the national police . |
16 | That is until his bike left the road . |
17 | His defence told the court the Inland Revenue , who thought Mr Jones owed £4,700 , later discovered the debt was just £470 . |
18 | His defence accused the police of ’ throwing the book ’ at the Marquis after they found the gun at his home on the Blenheim Estate in Oxfordshire . |
19 | The ferrule of his stick touched the glass coffee pot and shattered it . |
20 | The Guard Regiment formed by Nkrumah for his protection fought the mutineers and only gave up when they threatened to kill Nkrumah 's wife and three infants . |
21 | On each of their minds was imprinted the mental image of that violated face , the half-open mouth stuffed with hair , those staring , sightless eyes , and his presence intensified the picture , brought it into sharper focus . |
22 | His presence froze the decay , but it would start again when he followed Anne into the tunnel . |
23 | His mum recalled the day . |
24 | If his Mum did the lot , and he thinks that 's as it should be , you 're going to have your work cut out persuading him to do his share . |
25 | His Mum backed the car out and he got in . |
26 | Di Leonardo looked flabbergasted , as though never before in his experience had the media failed to be satisfied by the reading of a prepared statement . |
27 | Sullivan crawled to the relative security of the chancery 's central corridor and on his walkie-talkie ordered the US marines guarding the compound not to resist , still less to shoot anyone . |
28 | His hair had the chestnut glints of George 's own and his brown eyes were steady with a touch of humour . |
29 | His ghost wandered the Essex farmhouse in eastern England ever after , its teeth chattering and little body trembling . |
30 | As a result , the faith of those converted under his ministry withstood the tests of both severe persecution and time . |