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 .
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