Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard Dreyfuss was booked one week and on the night of the show a confusion over dates and times led his film company to arrange a business call that linked up Los Angeles , London , Australia and New York and he just had to be there . |
| 2 | You may need to keep repeating the names of foods and objects to reinforce his awareness , or to recite the order in which a task like cooking or washing up is achieved . |
| 3 | In the introduction , Blake skims over various stylistic approaches and attempts to justify his own . |
| 4 | McCowen 's middle class Brit worries about his mum and attempts to keep his stiff upper lip from trembling by reliving tennis star Virginia Wade 's Wimbledon triumph . |
| 5 | Very sensibly , Benny stands perfectly still while the psychopath reaches up on tiptoe and attempts to screw his earhole . |
| 6 | For instance , she helped by letter a Lancashire mill lad seeking advice on the use of his few square feet of soil ( it seems to have been an attic window box in Rochdale ) and followed this up with a postal package of plants , bulbs , and pebbles to complete his project . |
| 7 | The laibon goes off for a moment and returns wearing his cloak as the old lady produces some stools . |
| 8 | If the Cubans and Nicaraguans become his primary support groups , it will be a very bad situation , ’ Mr Andy Messing , a former US Special Forces officer who trained in Panama , said yesterday . |
| 9 | The big white creaks upright and stands flexing his hands . |
| 10 | Already he has called an extraordinary meeting of directors and supporters to discuss his radical new proposals . |
| 11 | ‘ Music that 's right for the time , ’ butts in drummer John ( yes , the drummer — you can tell a band is going places when even the stick-head looks good and demands to have his say ) . |
| 12 | Crosby needs further good results and performances to stiffen his hold on the job but said yesterday : ‘ The Sunderland board does n't go looking to sack people . |
| 13 | He made easy copy and journalists loved his accessibility . |
| 14 | Horses , gun-dogs and books filled his day , and many a regicide glanced wrathfully at the nonchalant figure of the tall Englishman strolling unconcernedly in the highways and byways of Belgrade . |
| 15 | The thief , having got past ninety per cent of the gates and gadgets blocking his way , would break into one of the flats in the building . |
| 16 | But it might be useful for an expert trainer who lacks time and opportunities to produce his or her own materials . |
| 17 | He was to commence night shifts and he was not looking forward to that , not with the strange thoughts and worries crowding his mind . |
| 18 | In 1155 he became abbot of St Victor : several letters and charters attest his financial vigilance and the practical support that he received from the English pope , Hadrian IV [ q.v . ] . |
| 19 | At last month 's meeting of the Congress he showed again how he can play on the mutual fears of reformers and conservatives to get his own way . |
| 20 | Recurring words and phrases caught his eye : extirpation , sacrifice , light anaesthesia . |
| 21 | His head was bandaged and wires linked his body with machines . |
| 22 | What seemed to impress Audrey most , however , was not a dance at all , but a wonderfully rhythmical performance by a Nepalese drummer using his hands and feet to beat his nine drums . |
| 23 | All the field sketches and water-colours illustrating his geological work were his own . |
| 24 | He 's unpatronising towards the individuals whose lives and circumstances illustrate his subject , but he continually questions his own attitudes and motivation . |
| 25 | Alfonzo ( inset ) reaches new heights of ursine designer chic : he wears a Cossack tunic and trousers to emphasise his Russian heredity , and his bright-red mohair fur is distressed to look as if generations of Grand Dukes have hugged him . |
| 26 | Perhaps the enormity of the facts and figures reaching his desk enabled him to overcome , for the first time , the old Marxists who were already resisting his attempts to change the way things were done . |
| 27 | Pictures and prints adorned his walls . |
| 28 | A retired van driver , he was a popular man and many friends and relatives attended his funeral at Caversham in Berkshire today . |
| 29 | Their plans and details resemble his known output . |
| 30 | Now that was true until the late sixties early seventies and of course er you find there the election to the o to the White House of one Richard Milhous Nixon , conservative Republican er a man who was not above hiring gangsters and burglars to do his work for him , and this produced a reaction and if you read the , the presidential literature of the nineteen seventies you will find the opposite , you will find er political scientists , all American , er demanding reforms of the American system , not to make the president more powerful but to make the president less powerful . |