Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [verb] [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the actor told his agent he wanted to see his name up in lights at the cinema . |
| 2 | If she had come into his mind he had operated his cancelling switch as he did when any of the denizens of Ecalpemos strayed into his thoughts . |
| 3 | At half-time he tried to encourage his players by reshuffling his forwards , but they never regained their form . |
| 4 | With the strength that can come only from fear he managed to draw his legs up until his heels were touching his buttocks . |
| 5 | A young post-graduate student told his professor he had fiddled his statistics in his thesis , risking his recently-gained M.Sc . |
| 6 | The accused had been sexually abused himself as a child and now bitterly regretted the harm he had caused his daughters . |
| 7 | Down in the hold he 'd cracked his shins on the bumper of a small green car and she 'd laughed at his face and kissed him as if he 'd been a kid and for a moment he was thirteen and being hugged by Dave 's big sister , who was certainly large and confusing to thirteen year olds . |
| 8 | yeah , that , that bloke his got his fucking , there 's this bloke he 's got his sun glasses on and he thinks his er sun bathing , so he got this fucking what 's it , his trousers on still and he 's trying to get his trunks on and his trousers on still cos this blokes there , he 's fucking going from all this and that |
| 9 | But the extra oxygen he needed affected his eyes , leaving him nearly blind . |
| 10 | It soon became clear that somewhere in his furtive passage he had lost his way — that at least was the opinion expressed by the Bishop of Chester as he fended off Lord Charles 's passionate advances . |
| 11 | Now if he makes the swap he risks reducing his ultimate claim from , say , a $1,000 face value to the $400 market value . |
| 12 | And perhaps through the drinking he sought to meet his father of whom he spoke so little and to whom it seemed , the older he grew , he meant so little . |
| 13 | Terrible neuralgic pains which troubled him throughout this period were the mirror of his inward distress , and the large doses of laudanum he took to relieve his symptoms , a portent for the future . |
| 14 | At the end of the campaign he had dismissed his Brabançons . |
| 15 | Being a 110 per cent cricketer he wanted to leave his problems 5,000 miles away in England and bury his attentions in the game that has won him glory . |
| 16 | This was but a temporary setback , for after a rest and a defeat on his return he proceeded to win his next nine races , completely outclassing his rivals at distances from nine furlongs to two and a quarter miles . |
| 17 | Even within the community he preferred to give his advice in writing . |
| 18 | After the war he returned to farm his estate in Wales . |
| 19 | He was conversing merrily in English at a reception during the European Cup meeting , but several weeks later in Rome when confronted by the television team he seemed to lose his linguistic powers . |
| 20 | It was a good job he had filled his mini-freezer with chilled meals from the supermarket a couple of days before . |
| 21 | No prizes , then , for guessing what job he has set his sights on.During the General Election , Lord Archer worked tirelessly as John Major 's minder and warm-up man at speeches up and down the country . |
| 22 | Although Arminius , who had taught theology at the University of Leyden , was in most respects an orthodox Protestant , on the question of salvation he had turned his back on a century of Reformed theology by arguing against the extreme predestinarian theology of Calvin 's successor at Geneva , Theodore Beza . |
| 23 | Instead of directing the inquiry he had admitted his inexperience and was following it . |
| 24 | And yet in the same lecture he had expressed his belief that the tradition of which he spoke was drawing to a close ; and , in the poem , the encounter with the familiar but only half-glimpsed figure is charged with a sense of transitoriness and loss : |
| 25 | She did not ask herself then under what compulsion he had made his plots or constructed his worlds ; she accepted them as one accepts fairy tales in childhood . |
| 26 | To help combat the boredom he had brought his books on perspective with him , and a novel , Dickens ' Edwin Drood . |
| 27 | This gives the Christian all the incentive he needs to fill his mind with Bible doctrine . |
| 28 | The ghost plot — Swayze gets killed , and before he can go off to heaven he has to save his girlfriend Demi Moore from the bad guys — is really just a gimmick , there to dress up the standard Swayze package with a few special effects and an impossibly sentimental ending . |
| 29 | However , observing him in the classroom he had noticed his immature behaviour . |
| 30 | It used to be said — in the face of evidence of a growing and changing repertory of enormous size — that Karajan was interested in technology because after so many years in the business he had exhausted his interest in the music itself . |