Example sentences of "[unc] [noun] and [vb -s] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new head of Soviet state television and radio , Leonid Kravchenko , says he was appointed to do the president 's bidding and thinks his job is to ensure that state television does not criticise the state . |
| 2 | While this is a considerable improvement on the former method , it does nothing to reduce the paper-work involved or to shorten the time before a buyer is entered on the company 's register and receives his share certificate — which will take weeks and sometimes months . |
| 3 | Paul raises his lover 's head and lowers his own lips as they kiss , Paul taking the weight of John 's body , and then John straining upwards with new strength to consume Paul , to tear his soul out through his mouth . |
| 4 | Along the way he recreates Nicholson 's grandstand rebel yell in One Flew Over The Cuckoo 's Nest and confirms his repressed screen love persona in perhaps his sweetest , saddest relationship . |
| 5 | I like to think of him , weaving his way a trifle unsteadily between his electro-mechanical gadgets , dreaming of a future in which a grateful world uses Bain 's invention and blesses his over-subscribed name . |
| 6 | Anyone who ignores the spectrum of Mozart 's wit and limits his interest to faecal parlance is bound to misdiagnose his personality . |
| 7 | Hotek , a heretic priest of Vaul , steals the sacred hammer from Vaul 's Anvil and makes his way to Nagarythe . |
| 8 | This account sums up much of Law 's appeal and explains his quick success as leader . |
| 9 | ‘ He plays at pirates all the time , does wheelies on his bike , throws mud at his friends , kicks his football into the neighbours ' garden and pings his food around at the tea table . ’ |