Example sentences of "and [vb -s] his [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | His legacy as an artist is contained in a single novel , Homeboy , the tale of a charming , drug-addicted , dope-dealing , pimping , strip-show barker who finds salvation , gets the girl ( the whore with the heart of gold ) , and rides his motorcycle into the sunset and , presumably , a happy ending . |
| 2 | maybe like Todd 's standing by the lake yeah and Jim 's like pissed out of his head and comes driving along in the truck and drives his truck into the lake or something . |
| 3 | A raven flies past , looking dead black in the flat lighting , and croaks his way up the valley . |
| 4 | He holds his hands passively forwards , and places his head on the carer 's shoulder , on the side away from the chair . |
| 5 | Bob Hodson phones the Wilton sales office on a Thursday and places his order for the following week . |
| 6 | A man borrows money and transfers his land to the creditor , making the creditor legally owner . |
| 7 | Placing the right leg forward , the student leans back over his left leg and drops his hands to the floor , while keeping watch on his opponent over the right shoulder . |
| 8 | A leader without a party to go to , he nods and winks his way through the set crammed with seaside singalongs , while brother Scott grins cheesily at the girls during a knockabout ‘ Theme From The New Avengers ’ . |
| 9 | A leader without a party to go to , he nods and winks his way through the set crammed with seaside singalongs , while brother Scott grins cheesily at the girls during a knockabout ‘ Theme From The New Avengers ’ . |
| 10 | When a routine problem arises he perhaps assembles the information and pursues his inferences to the conclusion almost as tidily as he would on paper . |
| 11 | William Golding 's second novel , The Inheritors ( 1955 ) , and his favourite , is about the historically remote world of Neanderthal man , conversing in cries and grunts and on the point of being supplanted by smooth and hairless superior beings ; his third , Pincher Martin ( 1956 ) drowns its hero on the second page and recounts his thoughts in the rest . |
| 12 | Davies has helped Cardiff to the top of the Heineken League First Division with some commanding displays and deadly goalkicking , and gets his chance in the West Wales line-up owing to Stephens 's knee injury . |
| 13 | ‘ OK , here we are , ’ Sadat says unnecessarily , and pulls his bag off the back seat and gets out of the car . |
| 14 | He has no one to play ball with and tosses his ball against the wall in a most despondent fashion . |
| 15 | Glynn Reynolds drops them outside his brother-in-law 's home , and parks his Sunbeam outside the nearest pub , The Crane . |
| 16 | He hooks his leg forward and sweeps his opponent to the ground , finishing him off with a reverse punch to the head . |
| 17 | Mr Davies , annoyed at comparisons with Sir John , will bring a different style and approach to the job and feels his period at the Foreign Office and Treasury as an adviser to Nigel Lawson , former Chancellor , will be useful for the CBI and might help avoid ‘ lobbing bombs over the wall ’ . |
| 18 | He concentrates his energies on survival and focuses his hope on the second addition to his life since my departure : a son , now quite as tall as his father and doing well at school . |
| 19 | The man at the next table stands up , walks over and leans his hands on the chair next to Bill . |
| 20 | He staggers and bumps his way to the toilet for a cold wash and rough up with some semi-absorbent paper towels , all the while discovering and tweeking out small splinters of wood and metal from his face . |
| 21 | He 's there now , a little and Tufnell aborts his approach , gets up to the and dries his hands in the dust of the foot holes and sets off back to his mark . |
| 22 | It ‘ betrayed ’ Isildur to the arrows of the orcs ; it ‘ abandoned ’ Gollum , says Gandalf , in response to the ‘ dark thought from Mirkwood ’ of its master ; it all but betrays Frodo in the Prancing Pony when it slips on to his finger and proves his invisibility to the spies for the Nazgûl then present . |
| 23 | Institutional shareholders prefer an employee trust to an option scheme , as it will not dilute their equity in the company ; this is because an option scheme established by a company usually provides for options to subscribe shares , whereas an employee trust can be empowered to grant options over shares already in issue and which come to be held by the trust , as where an employee leaves and sells his shares to the trustees . |
| 24 | Thinks you 're a female and butts his head against the box trying to get to you . |
| 25 | But at the same time it is occasionally so terribly easy to rob a fellow human being of his life : a slight nudge , let us say , from a car-bumper , and a cyclist is knocked down and hits his head against the road and in a second or two a life has gone . |
| 26 | Neil turns to the camera and hits his forehead with the palm of his hand . |
| 27 | A student starts at tenth class , which is called ‘ kup ’ and works his way towards the level of proficiency of an instructor and his first dan , or black belt . |
| 28 | He escapes from a fast food outlet and makes his way to the City of London where he gets a job as a securities analyst . |