Example sentences of "and [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sat down and beamed his good eye at the shine on his toecap . |
| 2 | ‘ Hullo Miss MacPeake , ’ said wee Danny , standing up and hanging his head . |
| 3 | He was a ‘ prodigal who is brought kicking , struggling , resentful and darting his eyes in every direction for a chance of escape ’ . |
| 4 | EMMA reaches across the table and squeezes his hand . |
| 5 | I always admired him for his tenacity of purpose and dedication — and envied his super brain-power . |
| 6 | But it was n't OK and when I reached for my bishop , he 'd wave his arms over the board like a referee who 's just counted somebody out — and change his move . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll give him a good wash , and change his socks and shoes , ’ she said . |
| 8 | A skilled speaker or a stand-up comic , for example , will be able to ‘ read ’ his audience and change his material in response to applause , laughter — or silence . |
| 9 | Will he please look at this urgently and change his decision ? |
| 10 | Ian Woosnam is debating whether to go back to the drawing board and change his putting style for today 's Honda Open in Hamburg . |
| 11 | Satisfied , he knelt and cleansed his hands in a pool of salt water and walked back down to where the ferryman was patiently waiting for him . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , having called for boiling water and cleansed his best knife over a candle flame , he took the risk . |
| 13 | It meant the ability to educate and supervise his own children rather than be driven to place them in the mill , and to preserve a customary life-style . |
| 14 | In my most cherished memory of him , he is standing on his chair , at a table for twenty-eight in The Last Great Australian Fish Restaurant , bopping and twisting and bellowing his way through ‘ I Ca n't Get No Satisfaction ’ , with his walkabout phone precariously jammed in the back pocket of a pair of apparently descending blue jeans . |
| 15 | Encouraging a manager to use and to enrich his or her own personal resources of belief and experience is not often a part of management training . |
| 16 | ‘ I suppose so , ’ clearly weighing up the chances of Auguste 's swimming underwater to the women 's bathing machine section and drowning his beloved daughter . |
| 17 | But after they had eaten she would take his head in her lap and comb his hair , or she would play sweet tunes on her pair of bone pipes . |
| 18 | He 's a kind of Giant Holdfast who both loves and terrorizes his children . |
| 19 | Iago 's technique of holding off exacerbates Othello 's curiosity , arouses his suspicions , and destroys his trust in appearance , in his own perception of reality . |
| 20 | To Eddie , the well-being of his ward is his priority at first , but this grows out of proportion until he is blindly obsessed and destroys his relationship with her . |
| 21 | On one occasion when Reagan , at short notice , addressed an audience of between three and four thousand teachers As a GE spokesman Reagan had the opportunity to hone his oratorical skills , and develop his political ideas . |
| 22 | If his leaning is towards the physical side , or his leaning towards to biological side , to take chemistry , biology and physics , to take those subjects in the sixth form at A level , and then come straight to university and develop his inclinations in the way that he is here to do . |
| 23 | It has borne his burdens , taken part in his wars , and shared his leisure pursuits but , incongruously , its most important period began with the start of the industrial revolution ; as man invented machines to revolutionise his industry , he found more need for the heavy horse ; it provided the means of transport and made possible the rapid improvements in agriculture required to feed the expanding population . |
| 24 | Jenkins was close to Gaitskell , and shared his bitter disappointment in 1959 . |
| 25 | It is not nearly so intriguing for this writer as is the closed book of Vincent 's intimate life in this unlikely household , with a woman who allowed him to clean her up , who tended and fed her like a mother , rocked the cradle of her newborn baby , and shared his food and his room with her . |
| 26 | Then he met Iris Barry last New Year 's Eve and shared his sense of inadequacy with her . |
| 27 | The Octobrist leadership were broadly sympathetic to Stolypin 's proposals for legal and administrative changes , and shared his hope that cooperation between Duma and government would strengthen the State 's authority , check the pretensions of minority nationalities and reduce social tension . |
| 28 | In 1844 his father and younger brother died : his mother devoted her life thereafter to John and shared his home for twenty years . |
| 29 | Only see one way in which we are like God is in having moral and spiritual capacities no other creature has moral and spiritual capacities , they do not of the potential to worship , they do not of a code er , er , of moral laws , they 're not governed by that , it 's a case of , of the , might makes right , it 's a case of the strongest the one that survives and the weakest goes to the wall you 've only got to look er at a litter of pups and the last one is the one that 's pushed to the back every time is n't it , there 's no moral law there , those pups and the , and the bitch does n't er work out , that because that one is weaker it should be getting more , more nourishment , it should be cared for better , it does n't work like that in any thing else , but God has placed within humanity a moral responsibility and his place within as a spiritual capacity , were more than just animals , were created in his image , so God created us , capable of knowing him and growing to be like him and in his original creation they 're in need of , the , the , the highlight of it was when he came down and communicated and talked with Adam and Eve there in the garden and shared his heart with them and there was this perfect commune between God the creator and man his creation , he never did it to any animal , he did n't go and talk to the trees and the plants perfect though they were , he never looked on any of the other creatures that he had made , wonderful though they may be , beautiful in their colouring , and go and talk with them , but he talks with Adam and he shares his heart with him his purpose is that Adam should communicate with him and walk with him and has fellowship with him , growing to be like him , but you see even though God created us like that , he did n't create us as puppets , it was n't God up in heaven pulling the strings and Adam did that and Eve did this and that was how it were , God is not a puppeteer and he made as capable of choosing good and evil , he gave us moral choices , because he made us his moral beings and so we could choose to do this and not to do that , we could choose to , to do this and to leave the other undone . |
| 30 | The captain then signs the bills of lading and precedes his signature with a statement that shipment is subject to charter party conditions . |