Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At night he was heard weeping in his miserable hut . |
| 2 | But Preston did n't want to go into his domestic problems . |
| 3 | ‘ I had been rowing with my dad since I was little , so I did n't want to go to his new family with my brother . |
| 4 | However , Nellie 's nagging won the day and he agreed to go in his new Austin car and look for Dr Nolan . |
| 5 | Mrs Alderley gazed stupefied at his rigid back . |
| 6 | But for the moment , the prospect of marriage to a woman he loved , and of life together in a place of exquisite beauty , seemed to offer the stability and direction he never ceased to crave in his personal life . |
| 7 | Mr Rumback either read to them from books , which no-one heard because the words got caught in his big moustache , or slept . |
| 8 | However , the sex allocation theory that Eric Charnov has developed in his embracing monograph has further implications . |
| 9 | Nor would he accept that he should work out the sum due by looking at the cost of providing a type of car which Mr Shove ‘ might reasonably be expected to acquire in his present circumstances ’ . |
| 10 | Man has to go through his personal exploration and final mastery of his inferno . |
| 11 | Here Dr Keep , 50 , tells of the real-life horrors he has witnessed in his long career . |
| 12 | Keith Courtney from Dungannon has withdrawn from his British Title fight due to a cracked rib . |
| 13 | Keith Courtney from Dungannon has withdrawn from his British Title fight due to a cracked rib . |
| 14 | Vic Wilcox asks Brian Everthorpe to stay for a meeting he has arranged with his technical and production managers . |
| 15 | NOVELIST Martin Amis , 44-year-old son of writer Kingsley Amis , has parted from his wealthy American wife Antonia Phillips after ten years of marriage , today 's Daily Mail reported . |
| 16 | The student went on to say that , though he had received help for a specific question , he had not obtained enough understanding to cope with his future library problems . |
| 17 | Out along the railway lines between 1880 and 1930 there developed ‘ a metropolitan corridor ’ , whose history J. R. Stilgoe has traced in his absorbing book of the same title . |
| 18 | THE Government 's most outspoken food safety critic , Professor Richard Lacey , has resigned from his only Whitehall post claiming it is being ‘ neutered ’ to protect the food and drug industry . |
| 19 | Outspoken food safety critic , Professor Richard Lacey , has resigned from his only Whitehall post . |
| 20 | Its owner wants to concentrate on his other , unrelated major business retail interests in Cleveland . |
| 21 | He argued that he has to persist with his Euro flops as he tries to qualify for the World Cup . |
| 22 | I now want to know about his fractured leg . |
| 23 | IBM Corp seems to have whipped up as much of a storm around its head with its plunge into digital delivery of music to record stores as Alan Sugar has attracted with his bizarre sacking of Terry Venables as chief executive of Tottenham Hotspur Plc : IBM 's joint venture with Blockbuster Entertainment Corp has triggered ‘ swift , fierce and almost entirely negative ’ reaction from the music industry , the Wall Street Journal reports — ‘ IBM and Blockbuster made a major gaffe by issuing announcements without contacting the record companies , ’ said Michael Schulhof , chairman of Sony Corp 's Sony USA ; Warner Music Group talked of arrogance , MCA Music Group said it had begun working on its own electronic distribution system , and even Polygram , 80% owned by Philips Electronics NV , which also has 6% of Blockbuster , described the announcement as premature . |
| 24 | Rod Wallace needs to work on his finishing , how many times does he miss when he 's clean through ? |
| 25 | ‘ My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord and my spirit exults in God my saviour because he has looked upon his lowly handmaid Yes , from this day forward all generations will call me blessed for the Almighty has done great things for me . |
| 26 | After all , it is flattering to a hard-working policeman to think that someone as glamorous , or glamorous-seeming , as an author wants to know about his dull daily life . |
| 27 | Because he 's got a plan of the site so he wants to know with his little squares , what 's what . |
| 28 | Finally , my early nomination for Referee of the Year is my old friend Derek Bevan , who has built on his excellent World Cup final with a great Calcutta Cup game and an even better England v Ireland . |
| 29 | We must take account of the cause and effect relationship which God has built into his created order , by unearthing and facing facts . |
| 30 | THE FIRST and most serious change that Professor Horst Rollnik has seen during his 19-year long career at Bonn is the vast growth in the number of students , in all subjects including his own , physics . |