Example sentences of "[conj] the [noun pl] [verb] [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only later did it emerge that the Germans had supported his candidature for the post of High Commissioner in Danzig , and that he had since 1920 been on very friendly terms with Baron Ernst von Wiesäker , the head of the political section of the German Foreign Office . |
| 2 | From his home in Maltby in Yorkshire , he told journalists that the accusations had devastated his children . |
| 3 | They set off , but the Friar did not understand at first whom they were following ; it was as though he believed that the children had taken his sack . |
| 4 | Now it seems that the cuts have clipped his wings . |
| 5 | He stood up , waiting until the others had followed his lead . |
| 6 | ‘ The Lord Cardinal has described your escapades until the tears have soaked his cheeks . ’ |
| 7 | erm fucking indoor murder ball , the seat , cushion and stuff like that , its fucking well out of order piss up games oh that 's right I think we played in , I think we played , you know that British bull dog thing ? , we managed to clear all the fucking the nappy chair this and the chairs out the way , we were playing this British bull dog sort of thing and the only thing , the only , the only difference was when you got caught , got , everybody was fucking giving you a few thumps in the arm , for good measure like , and we played about four of this and every time this cocky little son of a bitch did n't get caught , he was always the last person , so we fucking said , we said , me and this other guy 's that are in our troop and that er , we said right we 'll get him , so when , when everybody sort of go for it right just after the one person in the middle , said fucking just get this guy and fucking pin him down and do something to him right , we did n't , I think we said we 'd just get him , yeah that 's a good idea , so he 's gone right go and his mate he 's fucking took off two steps and there 's eight of us fucking dived on top of him , what the fucking , he 's struggling , get off you cunt so we pinned him down and at first we was just going to de-bag him in front of the women , we 've taken his boots off and his trousers and that and shave his bollocks , yeah the whole fucking yeah , it was like an audience , all that they sort of gathered up the chairs and the tables fuck have his bollocks shaved . |
| 8 | But the training that had been such a part of his life , the long hours of studying the Twelve Books of Honour for entry into the Fiana at the age of eleven ; the days and the weeks spent schooling his mind so that all situations could be calmly appraised , came to his aid and , at length , exhausted and drained , Fergus began to look about him and assess this strange , out-of-the-world fortress . |
| 9 | Amy popped her head round the door to tell Kathleen that they had found some ID on the track and the police had brought his parents in . |
| 10 | Gould is writing to the Prime Minister and the Sports Minister to express his concern after he was banned from working for BSkyB at Albion 's Cup match with Wycombe Wanderers on Tuesday . |
| 11 | The Zoroastrians still reckon dates by the years of the last Zoroastrian king of Iran , Yazdgard III of the Sassanian dynasty ( who was assassinated in AD 651 after the Arabs had overrun his kingdom ) , thus prolonging his imaginary reign through the centuries . |
| 12 | In a case in May 1988 , a youth called Alladice confessed to armed robbery after the police had denied his request for a solicitor . |
| 13 | But in his euphoria , Haig had become convinced that he could defeat Germany with the BEF alone before the Americans arrived to steal his glory . |
| 14 | When the bandages began to make his fingers claw the local hospital made special gloves for him which reach up to his shoulders . |
| 15 | As long as the planes came to drop his explosives he did n't give a damn for the rest of the war effort . |