Example sentences of "his [noun] [conj] [verb] [to-vb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | Andy licked his fingers and started to stroke them up and down over the purple bulge of his cock . |
| 2 | Lancaster slipped off his spectacles and began to clean them meticulously with a white handkerchief , scouring the rims with his fingernails . |
| 3 | He took off his spectacles and began to clean them with his handkerchief . |
| 4 | It will also affect the manner in which the coach attempts to motivate the sportsman , the light in which he analyses his performances and tries to improve them and more basically , the very nature of his personal relationship with his protêgê . |
| 5 | Alfieri watched out for his clients and tried to help them as far as his job would allow . |
| 6 | Then they follow him obediently , relyin' on his knowledge and experience to get them back to safety . ’ |
| 7 | Later that year , when the giant 's favourite boar was killed by an arrow fired from an unknown bow , he was so enraged by this that he took the first-born of all his tenants and threatened to kill them unless the guilty one came forward or some other person informed on them . |
| 8 | Frank took off his glasses and began to polish them in the sheet with enthusiasm . |
| 9 | Edward snatched off his glasses and began to scrub them . |
| 10 | One of the assassins had a list of names written on his hand and began to call them out . |
| 11 | He was diagnosed anti-depressants by his doctor but failed to take them and did not return for a check up two weeks later . |
| 12 | Greg Norman has had his chances and failed to take them , but Ian Baker-Finch , the Open champion , or Craig Parry might do better . |
| 13 | The condition may be upheld if the plaintiff had previously disclosed his reports or offered to disclose them in exchange for the defendant 's reports ( Clarke v Martlew [ 1973 ] QB 58 ) but even that is in doubt since Megarity v DJ Ryan & Sons Ltd [ 1980 ] 2 All ER 832 in which it was said that the plaintiff can not make it a condition precedent to granting a medical examination that the defendant must produce the ensuing report , since to do so would pre-empt the court 's power to give directions as to expert evidence . |
| 14 | The plaintiff instructed the defendants , a firm of estate agents , to sell his house and agreed to pay them a percentage of the selling price as commission . |