Example sentences of "with his [noun pl] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harold P. Ford , a long-serving and widely respected former CIA analyst , portrayed Gates as a self-serving careerist who curried favour with his superiors and did not manifest the necessary independence of judgment . |
| 2 | They were the organization , or company man ; the conformist who goes along with his superiors and finds balm for his conscience in additional comforts and security of his place in the corporate set-up . ’ |
| 3 | The debate was wound up by the Home Secretary who was at his most Clarke-ish , punching the air with his fists and pushing back a lock of hair a la Heseltine . |
| 4 | The just before Christmas a teenager came in with his friends and asked for a book ‘ honestly ’ listing all the mistakes in the Bible . |
| 5 | If I meet my young son from school , laughing with his friends and waving to me and the dog , who wags its tail and barks in return , should I be supposed not to know what I am talking about if I pronounce them both to be conscious ? |
| 6 | He also ( at any rate while writing the first part of his book ) admired the young Charles , who consulted with his nobles and followed the good counsels of bishops . |
| 7 | His horrible wont was to envelop his victim with his wings and suffocate him to death . |
| 8 | The summer of 1914 started very much like any other , with Chapman passing the long sunny days playing cricket and golf with his players and keeping them in trim for the coming season . |
| 9 | A closed-doors meeting of the America supporters urged Koch to stop playing around with his crews and let Buddy Melges and the pros get on with the job of beating Conner . |
| 10 | ‘ Ken most of the folk hereabouts ? ’ demanded the customer , uncorking the bottle with his teeth and filling the grubby glass that had been set in front of him . |
| 11 | Far from letting go , he wrestled like a mad thing , kicking out with his boots and laughing like a maniac when the branch flicked across her throat and drew blood . |
| 12 | He passes his day snoozing , playing with his toys and relaxing in his favourite spot . |
| 13 | He combed through his hair with his fingers and headed back to his clothes . |
| 14 | Frankie would be set to work at the big sink , and before he washed each plate and roasting-pan he would scrape it clean with his fingers and eat every last scrap of chicken , sage and onion stuffing , corned beef , sliced Spam and cheese . |
| 15 | He smoothed the paper with his fingers and gave it to her . |
| 16 | Spike grabbed both ants with his fingers and squeezed the heads until the bodies fell away . |
| 17 | When I confront him with his omissions and lies he just looks sheepish . |
| 18 | Even with his skills and influence at the Prime Minister 's disposal , however , by the end of January Miyazawa 's future tenure as Prime Minister appeared to be distinctly uncertain . |
| 19 | He curled up and covered his head with his arms and waited for the dark to absorb him . |
| 20 | Turning over the free endpaper to the next double page , we shall usually arrive at the first appearance of print , unless the publisher has been very free with his endpapers and given us some blanks . |
| 21 | I agree wholeheartedly with his complaints and have been equally infuriated when missing wickets falling ‘ live ’ . |
| 22 | At the age of 12 he went on holiday to Butlins in Ayr with his parents and had his first taste of competitive success . |
| 23 | ( Dustin was not prepared to stay with his parents and had rented an apartment . ) |
| 24 | He receives for his employment a take home pay of seventy three pounds per week , he lives with his parents and pays a board of twenty pounds per week he 's fortunate in that his employer takes him to work in the mornings but he has to catch the bus home in the evening and at lunchtime on Saturdays which costs him seven pounds forty . |
| 25 | He lives with his parents and pays board of twenty pounds per week . |
| 26 | So he 'll need to go down there with his associates and had to evacuate the Leisure Centre . |
| 27 | I 've given him some some things to play he 's going to play with his pennies and make patterns and work out his tables . |
| 28 | On learning that the French called them disparagingly " boites d'allumettes " — matchboxes and that they were usually only used by poor Annamese , the senator had suddenly elected to ride in one with his sons and meet the Frenchman at the market . |
| 29 | There 's this youth , an actor would n't you know ? , marching about Chelsea with his soldiers and showing off no end . ’ |
| 30 | Just in case Lord Milton failed to appreciate his value , MacLachlan stressed that he had been approached by the rival interest in the county and had been offered sufficient to make him easy for life , and accordingly implied that Milton had an obligation to aid him with his creditors and enable him to arrange further loans . |