Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] and [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked at Rosie and Holly , drawing them in and lowering his voice for effect . |
| 2 | But now , the soft clicks coming with typical irregularity , he listened to them painfully and let his mind slide back ten years to what he must remember , to the truth he must recall if he were going to be able to tell lies . |
| 3 | But he disengaged himself gently and shook his head . |
| 4 | But he finally got there and settled himself down and lifted his baton . |
| 5 | With strength born of desperation , Craig heaved himself up and pushed his way through the broken window just as the door burst open below him . |
| 6 | Then his fingers unfolded and he crossed himself reverently and ducked his head . |
| 7 | Sam knocked over his jar of biros on his desk , gathered them up and dropped his notebook . |
| 8 | He then picked me up and drove his knee straight into my balls . |
| 9 | I recall how he used to tell the story of the three pigs : when the wolf ate the pigs who 'd built their houses of straw and twigs , my father would gather me up and rub his bristly face against mine , saying , ‘ Gnaggle , gnaggle , gnaggle . ’ |
| 10 | He began to note down suitable thoughts and epigrams on pieces of office copy-paper , not really with the intention of learning them off by heart , but with the idea that he might put them in his jacket pocket and touch them from time to time during the programme to give himself reassurance , knowing that if the worst really came to the worst he could take them out and refresh his memory . |
| 11 | Watching every movement , and she put him on and put his blanket on the ground and he was laying there in his handful of this and so she said come to me then and she put something on the floor she said well you know you go to it , I ai n't gon na give it to you and he 's she said well no , you 've got ta try ! |
| 12 | The chief superintendent stared at her colourlessly and tightened his lips . |
| 13 | When Riddle came here last Friday night I suppose you let him in and took his coat ? ’ |
| 14 | Since he became leader , there have been many other occasions when his reluctance or inability to get through his homework have let him down and embarrassed his party . |
| 15 | After 20 minutes Smith , who had put the telephone outside , used his victim 's keys to lock her in and made his escape almost two hours after the ordeal began . |
| 16 | He often fought with his younger sister aged 3 years , he would snatch her toys , push her over and ride his car into her . |
| 17 | He just waved her away and turned his back on us , and while he was n't looking Mum whispered in Billy 's ear : ‘ Yer wunt ter keep that up fer yer bung ! ’ |
| 18 | Curious , she did as he said and Modi looked at her critically and fetched his box of pastel crayons . |
| 19 | My father tried to stop her by standing in her way , so she ran him over and broke his leg quite badly , on the path before the bridge . |
| 20 | Did a bitch do more than submit when she was mounted by a strange dog in the street , held down by his teeth in the loose flesh of her neck to keep her still and ensure his better satisfaction ? |
| 21 | He shook her off and made his way , groping through a dark lit only by the red light of the fish-tank heater , to the front door and out into the street and away . |
| 22 | He regarded her balefully and shook his head . |
| 23 | She summoned him to court , chastised him ferociously and slapped his face before the entire assembly . |
| 24 | Jan picked him up and wiped his nose . |
| 25 | They want him to have injections every month — I do n't know if they help or not — but he says they slow him up and make his legs ache and he ca n't think straight . |
| 26 | Mr Shreeves said : ‘ Ray Clemence , our goalkeeping specialist , worked with Ian in training this morning to straighten him up and get his head up again . |
| 27 | ‘ So you picked him up and chopped his head off ? ’ |
| 28 | She bolsters him up and feeds his ego and tells him he 's wonderful — is it kind ? |
| 29 | Yet for psychological insight and acute comment it is not easy to match the way Marryat , in Percival Keene , states and develops the situation of an illegitimate boy steadily and tenaciously working out how to persuade his noble father , under whom he serves as midshipman and later as lieutenant , to acknowledge him openly and alter his reserved , cold but unmistakably responsible behaviour towards his son . |
| 30 | Whilst he was laid up for six weeks in Middlesex Hospital , Minton visited him regularly and kept his family in Northumberland informed as to his progress . |