Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] and [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | His weekly half-hour CBC programme was one of the most popular and kept his Victor recordings high in the rating charts . |
| 2 | For seventeen , he was big and heavily built , but the man who carried him was so tall and held his weight so easily that there was no doubt who he was . |
| 3 | ‘ I know , ’ he murmured , suddenly smiling and bending his head to run his lips over her neck . |
| 4 | He 's only 16 and has his own specially adapted Renault 19 . |
| 5 | ‘ Th'best go down first and catch his legs when I 've helped him on to the ladder , ’ Jess told Hawkins . |
| 6 | Riven downed a great gulp of the cold beer and felt it alternately chill and warm his gullet . |
| 7 | The risk that this information might become generally available and affect his future ability to get credit is too great . |
| 8 | Mysteriously the Spartan king Pleistoanax now withdrew , thereby puzzling and enraging his compatriots , who fined him ( Thuc. ii.21 ) : he went into voluntary exile in Arkadia . |
| 9 | She says — at first he was quite nervous , but after the first day he became much more confident and started his David Bellamy act , waving his arms about … |
| 10 | ‘ Thunder coming up , I should n't wonder , Doctor , ’ she said , as she reached the pram where , at the sight of her , the child became more vociferous and waved his arms about excitedly . |
| 11 | He regularly came home drunk and expected his wife to do everything he told her . |
| 12 | After five minutes or so both Rick and I were properly awake and using his scoop technique ( which incidentally had n't been quite perfected ) my first catfish was on the bank . |
| 13 | Her father was instantly contrite and abandoned his attempt to bait her . |
| 14 | Fascinated with his new discovery he went on experimenting and then found he was also arching and narrowing his back . |
| 15 | In a bizarre leadership contest had dug up a dead Davidian and challenged his rival Vernon to bring the body back to life . |
| 16 | He saw I was little wiser and slowed his breathing down . |
| 17 | He laughed loudly at things that were n't funny and littered his English with expletives to appear more at home in the language . |
| 18 | With an exceptional eye for hair in fashion photography , Trevor manages to capture the essence of his work in photographs that are profoundly unique and reflect his individuality and sense of style ’ . |
| 19 | He turned her hand over , palm uppermost , and she could n't help noticing how strong and tanned his fingers were in contrast to her own . |
| 20 | But it went horribly wrong and ruined his hopes of finishing anywhere better than third . |
| 21 | The grey man smiled and Shamlou noted how white and perfect his teeth were . |
| 22 | Born in Edinburgh , Allan Ramsay was precociously talented and received his first commissions while still a teenager . |
| 23 | After washing himself down he shaved , trimmed his moustache , brushed his teeth , gargled and then greased and combed his hair . |
| 24 | The light was poor in the Collector 's bedroom and Fleury might not have noticed how red and swollen his face was , had the Collector not presently fallen sideways , rapping his head on the floor . |
| 25 | Charles turned abruptly round and gave his wife a withering look as reporters homed in on the pair . |
| 26 | But the man who desires to know himself more completely — however strange and confusing his discoveries may be — he is drawn further within until he finds in the texts a mirror of his own complexity . |
| 27 | Out of the hall , lurching , swimming , swaying , feeling shamefully sick and gritting his teeth together to stop his stomach from heaving . |
| 28 | He 's new , he 's adorable and he 's unique to The Red House — get our soft cuddly JESS the cat absolutely FREE and follow his adventures with a Free Postman Pat book too . |
| 29 | George Underwood : David was always a bit over the top and he decided to write to John Bloom , a millionaire business , saying something to the effect ‘ Brian Epstein has got The Beatles but you can have us ’ , but Bloom was n't that interested and passed his letter to Les Conn , an agent . ’ |
| 30 | She needled him too much and punctured his control . |