Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He asked to see his social services file and eventually the local authority agreed , provided the donors of information consented . |
| 2 | Does he regret now avoiding the operation all those years ago , before he failed to scale his own Olympian heights in Rome and Seoul ? |
| 3 | Corbett held her close and fought to hide his own deep unease . |
| 4 | She started to come again as he tried to slide his whole hand deep into her soaked vagina . |
| 5 | Tesselmann grabbed at the handle of the freight car and hauled himself off the ground , his legs swinging precariously in the air as he tried to clasp his other hand around the handle . |
| 6 | Both men were bound over to keep the peace , but the incident was the beginning of a long history of misbehaviour which was to drive a wedge between Gallacher and the unfortunate clubs who tried to tame his wayward spirit . |
| 7 | Still , if it helped to restore his own estimation of himself , let him think otherwise . |
| 8 | She scrutinised the spare figure before her in crumpled navy-blue suit and silk tie , and tried to penetrate his sunken eyes . |
| 9 | He said his membership of the Legal Aid Foundation helped to secure his early release . |
| 10 | Watching Niall haul himself out of the water , she felt suddenly absurdly shy as , in one fluid movement , he bent to retrieve his own towel , draping it casually around his neck . |
| 11 | SHORTLY after 9am yesterday , the owner of an ageing Lada saloon desperately tried to restart his stalled car as he waited at the lights which now control the exit from the M8 at the Newbridge roundabout on the western approaches to Edinburgh . |
| 12 | I realized then just how many times , over the months , I had had evidence of this fear , and how careful I had always been to avoid doing or saying anything that could threaten the bastions he erected to guard his frail defences . |
| 13 | Jackie 's face tied itself in a knot as he tried to remember his own mother . |
| 14 | At their wedding , all those years ago , his friends , all of them even then in suits and ties , had nudged each other when he rose to answer his best man . |
| 15 | He came out of the library when he saw it was me , shook my hand and said ‘ Terrible thing , terrible thing ’ a few times , while Beethoven sounded loudly from the opened library door and his wife tutted and tried to smooth his errant hair . |
| 16 | In the absence of truly definitive knowledge about Jesus , it seems to us more likely , more probable , more in accord with our experience of humanity , that a man should have been married and tried to regain his rightful throne than that he should have been born of a virgin , walked on water and risen from his grave . |
| 17 | Shannon tried to resist his plundering lips , tried to pull her face away , but she could n't think straight , could n't clear the confusion fogging her mind . |
| 18 | And Dexter tried to calm his faint resentment against her for casting a shadow over his optimistic mood . |
| 19 | In the early 1980s , Dan tried to trace his old crew and received this letter from the Veterans Administration , informing him ‘ We regret to advise you that our records reflect the deaths of three of your crew : — Edward C Chambers , July 31 , 1973 ; William F Mackowiak , November 10 , 1975 ; Charles J Wilson , January 2 , 1978 . |
| 20 | While he went to get her a glass of freshly squeezed lemon and lime juice she tried to resent his patronising amusement , but failed to summon up enough ill-feeling to do so . |
| 21 | In recognition of the support which the majority of the Jewish aristocracy had given him , Antiochus III tried to help his new subjects . |
| 22 | From an early point in his career , Kirk Douglas tried to assert his own authority on the films he made . |
| 23 | At that period , despite a postbag of film offers , Dustin tried to put his pregnant wife and his stepdaughter before everything else . |
| 24 | For a moment Seb had forgotten his sprained ankle but it reminded him in no uncertain fashion when he tried to put his full weight on it . |
| 25 | As scientist he adopted a certain method of explaining things ; as philosopher he tried to go one step further , he tried to justify his scientific methodology with arguments intended to prove that the things he did not need in his explanations — objective colours , sounds , and so on — did not exist . |
| 26 | Although the President promised to use his second term for a new " crusade " to secure peace and prosperity within the USA , he offered few new prescriptions for the ailing economy , preferring instead to concentrate on a broad agenda which included less government and lower taxes . |
| 27 | He tried to do his best for Lennie by only stressing his good points . |
| 28 | Sharpe tried to draw his own sword , but the moment he took his right hand off the reins he almost fell and the mare immediately tried to check . |
| 29 | Caligula proposed to put his own statue there , and the resulting furore is echoed in the New Testament ( e.g. 2 Thess. 2 : 4 ) . |
| 30 | Selkirk promised to leave his customary token force and Corbett , grateful for Selkirk 's intervention and assistance on the French galley , began to thank the rather taciturn Scottish knight . |