Example sentences of "his [noun] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like them , he was no spiritualist , though his sister followed the cult . |
| 2 | He waved frantically , and his sister did the same . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But there are signs that not all his contemporaries saw the relationship in such simple terms . |
| 5 | Vlaminck always insisted that he was the first to have ‘ discovered ’ African or Negro sculpture ( and he and his contemporaries used the term ‘ art negre ’ generically to cover not only African but also Polynesian art and indeed any tribal art at all that came their way ) and his claim was to pass into legend , although Gauguin himself possibly owned examples of African as well as Polynesian sculpture . |
| 6 | Manager Geoff Cooke and his coaches had the look of men unashamedly glad South Africa are not here on a longer tour because the Boks are getting better by the minute . |
| 7 | Carter had advocated deregulation , but he approached reform via legislation whereas his successor sought the same end primarily through administrative action . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ So it was all set up , and your father 's known habit of shutting himself up with his scripts made the deception all the easier . |
| 10 | Jeffrey was refused help with the prescription for his inhaler because the Department of Health said his income exceeded the required level . |
| 11 | ( 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But he was in a sense revivified : his heart withstood the weakening effect of his illnesses much better than it had done in the same period of the previous year , and this was the first winter for some time when he had not been forced to seek treatment in a clinic . |
| 14 | His heart sank the way it always did when she left him . |
| 15 | Truly there must be something strange about the seaside , when the mere sight of seeing an ankle had made his heart beat the faster . |
| 16 | And his views had the full backing of Alan Smith , chief executive of the Test and County Cricket Board . |
| 17 | The longer his beard grew the more ginger it became ; another bad sign . |
| 18 | Navarre lost his castles and was lucky not to lose his life ; he was to attempt further intrigues with the English , but his double-dealing made the English wary of him . |
| 19 | His fingers felt the division between the old floorboards and then the cross-cut which marked the edge of a trapdoor . |
| 20 | His fingers probed the matted blood-stained hair which obscured the injury . |
| 21 | His fingers met the soft , masking texture of cloth , but beneath them he could feel her warmth , the firm softness of her sex . |
| 22 | This — ’ his fingers brushed the flimsy fabric where it stretched over her breasts and lingered ‘ — this was a great success . ’ |
| 23 | His fingers brushed the soft , inner flesh of her thighs , then traced the lace trim on her panties and slid beneath them . |
| 24 | His fingers touched the dirk at his belt . |
| 25 | His fingers touched the keys . |
| 26 | He took Ranulf 's hand , led him over to the gibbet and pushed his hand between the iron bars until the tips of his fingers touched the decaying flesh of the hanged man , just above where his heart had been . |
| 27 | He felt in his pocket for his lighter and his fingers touched the hard squareness of an envelope . |
| 28 | His fingers traced the warm smoothness of her thighs and belly , then found the hot wetness at the core of her . |
| 29 | His fingers found the wrist . |
| 30 | His fingers encircled the top of her spine and his muscular forearm held her clamped to the upper half of his body as he plundered her mouth . |