Example sentences of "[vb pp] his [noun] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had won his point over there not being a re-vote . ’ |
| 2 | As for the other matter , it sounds like your dog could have earned his scabs by either defending himself , or having an argument with a cat . |
| 3 | With the publication of the fifth and final volume of his catalogue of Monet 's life and art , Daniel Wildenstein and his family foundation , now to be known as the Wildenstein Institute , has brought to completion the mighty project which has occupied his attention for more than fifty years . |
| 4 | He is dead now , but I 've never forgotten his description of how he had felt as the German bombers came in from Norway , picking the scattered merchant ships off , the sound of the bombs , and the cold , always the cold . |
| 5 | And he had deliberately caught his flight with just minutes to spare . |
| 6 | Significantly , some of the most illuminating comments in the book would have been excised if Hughes had pursued his task with quite the systematic rigour he commends . |
| 7 | He stressed that he had relinquished his deferment after only two months , thereby allowing his name to go back into the draft pool at a time when he could not have known that the draft would be shortly replaced by a lottery system . |
| 8 | A British audience will not have seen his work for more than twenty years , although he was included by his earlier art in the Tate Gallery 's ‘ St Ives ’ exhibition of 1985 , and the new works , delicately constructed and monochromatic in colour , will be a happy surprise . |
| 9 | As Miles has said , the Whistler 's had his kicks for tonight . ’ |
| 10 | Mr Waddington , a former immigration minister and rightwinger , seems to have gritted his teeth at yesterday 's meeting and stood by the compromise hammered out at Mrs Thatcher 's insistence in a cabinet committee . |
| 11 | Mr Waddington , a former immigration minister and rightwinger , seems to have gritted his teeth at yesterday 's meeting and stood by the compromise hammered out at Mrs Thatcher 's insistence in a cabinet committee . |
| 12 | The right hon. and learned Gentleman has advanced his idea of how to encourage manufacturing investment . |
| 13 | You look it 's got his dungarees on here and a little girl 's wearing them ! |
| 14 | Nigel must have got his money through else cos he was er on the train yesterday was n't he ? |
| 15 | Having got his way for so long , he should now relax and let the chair revert to what it it was in the past : a part-time job . |
| 16 | Oh ! he 's got his buttons on all right , that one . |
| 17 | The newcomer could scarcely have opened his account in more spectacular fashion , scoring with an overhead kick from 10 yards after Speedie had nodded on a cross from Trevor Peake . |
| 18 | He had timed his arrival for shortly after midday in the hope that lunchtime would find the staff free of commitments . |
| 19 | Already Gazza has restricted his interviews to twice a week after being hounded by the Italian Press . |
| 20 | In the eye of the Common Law there is plenty of land as good elsewhere ; but the purchaser has set his heart on just this piece of land , and damages ( even if liberally assessed , which is not always the case ) are not what he wants . |
| 21 | Few of his peers scoffed , but even fewer followed his example of actually taking it on the course . |
| 22 | Philip who lives in Darlington , and attended the town 's Longfield Comprehensive school before going on to the Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College , has already represented his country at under 15 and under 16 levels . |
| 23 | He has just increased his majority from under 11,000 to over 16,000 . |
| 24 | Freire originally developed his ideas through highly successful literacy programs for slumdwellers in Brazil . |
| 25 | Mortimer had emptied his Browning by now , and could n't risk the time to reload . |
| 26 | Miss McDermott said there was ‘ a suspicion ’ Doherty had been treated in ‘ the way the Secretary of State chose to treat him ’ because he had successfully resisted his deportation for so long . |
| 27 | He had put his anorak on again , no sign of the gun , no bulge as he climbed in and we started on up the mountain road , windscreen wipers slashing back and forth . |
| 28 | He had n't put his glasses on when he got up . |
| 29 | But it must also be remembered that this statement was made after his involvement with Surrealism and that he might not have phrased his reactions in precisely this way in earlier years . |
| 30 | he was whistling tunelessly , annoyed that he had allowed his mother to so unnerve him . |