Example sentences of "and [vb past] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the women talked and asked stupid questions about his novels he imagined putting them in the next one . |
| 2 | Other places associated with Ceauşescu 's career , like the prisons at Doftana or Caransebes , were made into shrines to his onward march through life and became regular centres of his cult . |
| 3 | Across the garden , the big yellow dog snorted and made digging motions with his paws . |
| 4 | George pointed to the figures beside each , which were in hundreds of gallons , and made tap-turning motions with his hands . |
| 5 | He pried , manipulated and blackmailed , and involved successive presidents in his activities through his knowledge of their own secrets . |
| 6 | He had been one of the most respected and admired deaf men of his time , and he was missed not only within the ranks of the BDDA but also of the NID , on whose executive committee he had served since its reorganisation in 1924 . |
| 7 | By the end of the inquiry , he had cross-examined nearly every witness from either the nuclear industry or a government department and delivered vast reams of his own evidence on every subject covered , some amounting to several hundred pages of closely-typed script . |
| 8 | He was strong , if not athletic , and covered fair distances with his plump legs . |
| 9 | In the First World War Lord Lonsdale raised The 11th ( Lonsdale ) Battalion and issued silver badges at his own expense to the volunteers . |
| 10 | Bobo was surprisingly young for a general , being only in his early thirties , and had unremarkable features atop his muscular frame . |
| 11 | He sat down again by Luce 's side and ran restless fingers through his black hair . |