Example sentences of "and [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 31 | He smiles at his wife lovingly and she reaches across and pats his hand , loving him for what he was and not the stranger he has become . |
| 32 | He drew the sword and stabbed his attacker , Martin Day , who was later jailed for 18 months . |
| 33 | He paused and stabbed his match at me . |
| 34 | He shook his head and stabbed his fingers through his hair . |
| 35 | He had sat and formulated his final speech to the Academy . |
| 36 | That year he moved out of London to the Kent countryside and was henceforth mainly writing books , raising children and nursing his health . |
| 37 | ‘ Svend was watching television and nursing his broken heart , trying to work out how he could go back home without losing face , when he was forced to realise the amount of trouble and disruption he and his erstwhile girlfriend had caused on all fronts ! ’ |
| 38 | In Rhodri 's cast-off clothes and worn shoes he looked like a penurious wandering scrivener of sixty ; in truth he was barely forty , and had been a tall , strong man of his hands once , and would be as good again after a month of eating regularly , and nursing his frayed body and broken and blistered feet . |
| 39 | A benign observer of the event , sitting in among the press and nursing his hangover , would have cast his eye unenthusiastically over the massed ranks of what Sir Peregrine Worsthorne had once described in Mrs Thatcher 's golden days as ‘ the most successful political party in the world ’ : ‘ Essex Man ’ and ‘ Wessex Woman ’ , stockjobbers , garage-owners and a scattering of country women in lavender tweeds . |
| 40 | Mr Taylor 's considering his future — dividing his time between replying to three and a half thousand letters of support and nursing his mother , who , he revealed today , has suffered a stroke . |
| 41 | For two days now he had sat in Isobel 's garage during most of school hours and planned his new book . |
| 42 | The cold wind scoured Charles 's face and whipped his sodden trousers against his legs . |
| 43 | Once Smith finally began to criticise union influence in the party and voiced his preference for an electoral college composed solely of MPs and individual members , Gould penned a letter to the Guardian promising to strengthen rather than loosen union links . |
| 44 | Only three weeks ago Clough launched a scathing attack on the way he was treated at the European championship finals in Sweden this summer and voiced his disapproval at manager Taylor 's long-ball style . |
| 45 | When she attends for the first time , she assesses the patient : if he is out of bed and eating his breakfast , for instance , she observes whether he can feed himself , or whether he needs help ; whether he has perceptual problems ; how good his balance is while he is sitting ; whether he is limited by spasticity ; what his posture is like ; and then whether he is capable of standing and walking . |
| 46 | She must be married to the young man next to me , who was drinking his tea out of a bowl and eating his bread with unwashed hands . |
| 47 | I distance myself from the position and the policy of the President and advocate his immediate resignation [ and ] the handing over of power to a collective body , the Federation Council . " |
| 48 | No sane malefactor would want to settle and conduct his predatory business in territory controlled by so active and powerful a magnate as Robert Beaumont , earl of Leicester . |
| 49 | But ships are too valuable to lie idle for very long , and Robert barely had a month in which to re-acquaint himself with his new wife and pat his young infants on the head before he was leaving John Street and Stepney again — through Limehouse into Poplar and aboard the Orynthia in West India Dock . |
| 50 | It was James I who gave him the epithet ‘ judicious ’ and enjoined his son , the future King Charles 1 , to study his works . |
| 51 | He cleared his throat and laid his finger along his nose . |
| 52 | Rabbit-hunting farmer Vincent Caroggio of Chartres , France , paused for a rest and laid his gun down . |
| 53 | Jim , seated , or perched on his chair , could not settle , but got up and stumbled about , laughing helplessly , or sat and laid his head on the table and laughed , sounding as if he wept , then in an excess of happiness and gratitude , banged his two fists on either side of his head , which banging turned into a little sharp jubilant rhythm . |
| 54 | Hazel crouched down by Blackberry and laid his nostrils close to Bigwig 's , but a light breeze was blowing and he could not tell whether there was breath or not . |
| 55 | He pushed back the chairs and laid his blankets on the floor to fall asleep , as always , the moment he closed his eyes . |
| 56 | Husband shot his crisp pink cuffs and laid his forearms fastidiously on the scarred tabletop , bracketing a small heap of files . |
| 57 | Then he exhaled through his nose and laid his fists , with care , back on the table . |
| 58 | Rex switched off the suction pump , hung up the miner 's helmet , divested himself of the fisherman 's waders and laid his snorkel aside . |
| 59 | Morse turned , and laid his right hand lightly on her shoulder . |
| 60 | Guido shook his head and laid his hands on her shoulders . |