Example sentences of "[art] [adj] and [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sanchez cocked his head — a parody of listening ; he drew on the joint and held his breath . |
| 2 | When someone died , the administrator collected all assets of the deceased and paid his outstanding debts . |
| 3 | We had a group photograph with a long time-exposure and a friend of mine , a dear friend , ran from one end of the back line to the other and had his picture twice on the same photograph . |
| 4 | Without being asked , he strode over to the door and waited , moving his weight from one foot to the other and tugging his shirt cuffs out of his jacket sleeves . |
| 5 | ‘ Because he arrived out of the blue and did his Sir Galahad act by getting me away from the men . |
| 6 | According to his contemporary biographer , Richard Sibbes [ q.v. ] , the dominant influence on his early years was his uncle , Sir Henry Yelverton [ q.v. ] , who persuaded him to set aside his early inclination to become a divine and pursue his studies in the law . |
| 7 | In general , de Gaulle was acutely aware of the danger of being boxed in by his own institutions and losing the capacity to act as an individual and to exert his personal will . |