Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] he [verb] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Allowing his legs to relax , he worked at unlatching the twin bolts and eased the door open , clambering inside where he dropped to his knees , exhausted , his chest heaving as he sucked in mouthfuls of air . |
| 2 | He very much admired the poetry of Ebenezer Elliott , the Corn Law Rhymer , that is , a poet who helped to lead the opposition to the laws which kept the price of bread artificially high , and said ‘ None of us have done better than he has at his best ’ . |
| 3 | Though arrested in Denmark , Britain , France and Spain for narcotics and arms offences , al-Kassar had made himself too valuable an asset to European and American intelligence agencies for them to allow him to go to waste in prison , so that he went about his illegal business with a brazen assurance matched only among international criminals by his partner , Rifat Assad , younger brother of the Syrian president , who also owned a villa outside Marbella , and whose daughter , Raja , was al-Kassar 's mistress . |
| 4 | Stuart changed this so that he travelled with his team and stayed in the same cheap hotels . |
| 5 | Give the horse plenty to think about so that he concentrates on his work rather than other exciting stimuli . |
| 6 | Then his eyes , red-rimmed from weeping , widened dementedly and he lunged from his place swinging the long blade of his coupe-coupe high above his head . |
| 7 | Algy Forrester , something of a fire-eater , stormed on , reaching the hotel , now the centre of German resistance , where he was about to throw a grenade when a shot from the hotel knocked him down and he fell on his own grenade , which exploded to kill him . |
| 8 | Finally she knelt again with her head down and he stood on his toes with arms stretched out and up like a condor going for the kill . |
| 9 | I met Jack Mason , as arranged , shortly after ten o'clock and he went through his customary practice routine . |
| 10 | Only after he finished in his world 's best time of 4 minutes 12¾ seconds did George learn that the tenacious Scot had collapsed sixty yards from the tape and had fallen on the grass . |
| 11 | Harry brooded , frowning terribly as he toyed with his knife . |
| 12 | The fields which Miss Lockwood owned are also left to you , Sara , with the provision that Mr. Preston must have the use of them for as long as he requires for his horses . " |
| 13 | David Button , a father-of-six , was knocked down as he cycled from his home in Hedgerley , Bucks . |
| 14 | Gemayel 's foot tapped up and down as he warmed to his subject , his large oak desk shaking slightly with the vibration . |
| 15 | It was thus that he arrived at his figure of six hundred and twenty thousand three hundred and thirty one pounds to the overall cost of future care in this case . |
| 16 | Darkness fell and he put the report away while he lay on his bed and considered its contents . |
| 17 | Dessie will still have to take it easy when he returns to his stable in Melton Mowbray , Leics . |
| 18 | Jackie retired only once that year because of his engine and won six races , just as he had in his previous championship in 1969 . |
| 19 | Jesus will be presented as offering an invitation — just as he did to his disciples — an invitation freely given and freely accepted or rejected . |
| 20 | O'Leary is in his first season at Saracens , and impressed England coach Dick Best when he scored on his debut for the London Divisional side against the Midlands earlier this month . |
| 21 | Nigel always worked best when he drew on his own life . |
| 22 | Having made all kinds of good resolutions after Ladakh , he fell out of them as soon as he returned to his usual academic haunts in Oxford and New York ; painfully , he tried again . |
| 23 | he manages to get them on and he takes off his trousers , and fucking blind folded him , he gets up and |
| 24 | On balance , Williams probably gained more than he lost from his attempt to bring — and keep — together the separate traditions of Marxism and British cultural criticism , though as Parrinder has shown in a sensitive discussion of Williams , he made needless difficulties for himself by abandoning the concept of literature . |
| 25 | If the right hon. Member has the evidence , he should place it before the Home Secretary , the police and other appropriate authorities rather than come here , in the time off that he has from his interviews on Sky , to make wild accusations about everyone involved in immigration matters . |
| 26 | ENGLAND midfielder Paul Gascoigne 's return to form continued yesterday as he scored in his second successive game for Lazio . |
| 27 | All of them want the Chancellor , Norman Lamont , to explain his forward thinking clearly when he gets to his feet in the Commons on 16 March . |
| 28 | All of them want the Chancellor , Norman Lamont , to explain his forward thinking clearly when he gets to his feet in the Commons on 16 March . |
| 29 | Tory backbencher Richard Body sees farming rather differently as he commutes from his Lincolnshire constituency . |
| 30 | I thought of the most dedicated cricket fanatic I had ever known back in South Africa — a man who despite repeated heart attacks , doctors ' warnings and family entreaties to stop playing the game , had persisted with club cricket to the end , in his sixties diving after slip catches as recklessly as he had in his teens . |