Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [verb] [verb] his [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CHART star Carl Cox stopped performing at illegal raves after discovering that police had tapped his phone . |
| 2 | Randi says that none of these feats would have been possible if researchers had followed his advice . |
| 3 | He is kept alive by dialysis sessions three times a week and the doctors , nurses and fellow-patients have become his friends and surrogate family . |
| 4 | ‘ I thought then of the wife , the difficult woman with the nerves , St-Jean was talking about , whose caprices and demands had made his life so impossible . |
| 5 | Over 100 leading actors , actresses and singers have joined his campaign . |
| 6 | ‘ If only his teachers and psychologists had identified his problems earlier on , we could have saved him years of anguish , ’ his father said . |
| 7 | Questions and comments , feelings and comparisons kept interrupting his attempt at contemplating the work . |
| 8 | In a subsequent interview with the government newspaper Izvestiya he complained that collapsing central government authority over local administrations and suppliers had made his job impossible . |
| 9 | and surgeons battled to save his life |
| 10 | And out of compassion they would always buy something small from his stock of knick-knacks and fol-de-lols to help distract his thoughts and put some money in his purse . |
| 11 | Although Edward apparently promised him the captaincy of Berwick in September 1319 , during the English siege of the town , and grants continued to come his way during 1320 , his allegiance was soon to be severed by the ambitions of Despenser , whose attempts in 1320–1 to enlarge his share of the Gloucester inheritance in south Wales raised the whole march against him . |
| 12 | The next day the main opposition parties joined in the calls for Ershad 's arrest and students threatened to storm his home . |
| 13 | Masters said he was angry because vandals had smashed his door . |
| 14 | He was in intensive care in Maidstone Hospital last night as surgeons tried to save his arm . |
| 15 | He made his way slowly along the dust track as rickets had disabled his knees and the only way he could move was to shuffle his bare feet slowly along the hard-packed mud track . |