Example sentences of "to his [noun] [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | The eight stitches to his forehead took his tally to 23 from three knocks on the head this season . |
| 2 | The merchant unwittingly parodies Christ 's resurrection in his withdrawal to his counting-house to review his affairs : He descends only to join the rest of the household in a superficial scanting of Christian ritual between the call of the business world and the lure of socializing : Note the distraction and reluctance implied by the " " But … " " at the beginning of line 251 in comparison with the consecutive " " And … " 's that introduce more pleasing activities . |
| 3 | Mr Anderson went across to his home to inform his wife and when he learned of the family circumstances he immediately paid Mrs Stevens £50 . |
| 4 | A future director of the National Theatre who admired Leavis 's lectures at Cambridge has since remarked that ‘ all we students pretended we sped to his lectures to imbibe his humanism , ’ whereas in fact they were enjoying his character-assassinations : ‘ Strange that a great moralist should be so destructive about creative artists . ’ |
| 5 | This hit home for me in a 10-mile traffic gridlock around Birmingham last weekend , gazing at the rows of orange cones he swore to sweep away with Citizens ' Charters while listening to his critics savage his new improved Classless Honours List . |
| 6 | Pye 's very lukewarm support for the parliamentarian side in the civil war may seem to have owed more to his determination to retain his office than to any principled convictions . |
| 7 | When an emotionally articulate speaker wants to convey to me , not the fact that he is sad , but in what way and to what degree , his language becomes rhythmic and metaphorical , pulls me to his viewpoint to visualize his situation becomes a poetry which infects me with his melancholy and a rhetoric stirring me to help him , and afterwards perhaps I find myself regretting having committed myself to an action in his interests rather than my own . |
| 8 | Cheesemaking is very labour-intensive and the producer must be dedicated to his art to maintain his enthusiasm . |
| 9 | The General beckoned to his orderly to bring his horse forward and , ignoring the Prussian musketry , he pulled himself into his saddle and drew his sword . |
| 10 | But the moment he got to his feet to begin his speech , the windows began to rattle with the din from outside . |
| 11 | ‘ It means good night , ’ Feargal explained as he got to his feet to kiss his mother goodnight . |
| 12 | Rupert got up and went back to his desk massaging his scalp with both hands . |
| 13 | He wrote at once to his constituency resigning his candidacy . |
| 14 | The debtor might have been reduced to his inability to satisfy his creditor , asserted Thomas Foxwell Buxton , |
| 15 | He felt weak and drew his knees up to his chest to contain his body warmth . |
| 16 | That evening Gould wrote to his wife describing his frustration at having to wait yet longer in Recherche Bay : |
| 17 | He was still holding her hand and once again lifted it to his lips to brush his mouth across the back of it . |
| 18 | Then Richard returned to Poitiers and from there , on 2 February , he sent envoys to his father reporting his success and announcing that he had pacified all parts of Aquitaine . |
| 19 | Steve Gaughan set up Kevan Smith to head straight at Billy Stewart , and Nick Pickering , having his best game so far burst through to force the keeper to dive to his left to clutch his shot . |
| 20 | It would mean a visit to his house to get his National Insurance card , and then going through the intricacies and humiliations of getting money from the State . |
| 21 | The children saw not much of him because all day he was out at his duties and in the evenings he retired to his study to convert his lectures into books . |
| 22 | Born in Wakefield , Yorkshire , he lost hearing at the age of 8 but to his death retained his speech . |
| 23 | He went out to his car carrying his jazzy jacket and tooted as he drove away . |
| 24 | He swallowed the last of his coffee and went to his room to inspect his wardrobe . |
| 25 | Having enjoyed a very tasty breakfast , he feels good and returns to his room to collect his luggage . |
| 26 | He was helpless ; he was not convinced , but he lacked the self-assurance and moral authority to go back to his office to use his official powers to requisition the people 's promade . |
| 27 | And with that he was gone , back to his office to re-don his leathers . |
| 28 | He returned to his office to write his letter of resignation and clear his desk . |
| 29 | He had faced 3 assault charges relating to his bid to rid his area of prostitutes and curbcrawlers . |