Example sentences of "[noun] his [noun] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not qualified to judge whether the grief his mother felt on the death of his elder brother had an adverse effect on Mr Barrie 's emotional development , nor do I care one way or the other . |
| 2 | It was arranged that Bill would do the initial flight in early February and that he would give Dick Hansen his ground schooling for the aircraft . |
| 3 | She flinched as Stephen laid his hands on her naked shoulders and planted a hungry kiss on the side of her neck his fingers fumbling in the thick folds of the towel , seeking her breasts . |
| 4 | From the roof his voice echoed over the sleeping plain like that of the muezzin . |
| 5 | Sadly , Jack Alcock never lived to seen what effect his feat had on the world of aviation . |
| 6 | Movement 3 depicts Arion 's ability to command Nature through his singing , and movement 7 portrays the effect his swansong has on the elements . |
| 7 | In the feeble light his hand searched for the bolt , found it and shot it home . |
| 8 | Tesfaye Gebre Kidan continued to appeal for a ceasefire and to impress on foreign ambassadors his willingness to negotiate with the rebels . |
| 9 | At that moment his secretary came into the room with two cups of coffee , which she distributed in a pregnant silence , shooting curious , covert glances at each of them . |
| 10 | I sat in front of him watching as he ate , my eyes following his hand from the moment his fingers plunged into the bowl until it rose into the air , and carried the food into his mouth . |
| 11 | Francis also plucked Penrice and Martyn from non-League football and is getting almost blase by the attention his players attract from the bigger clubs . |
| 12 | At Cambridge his research centred around the embryology , anatomy , and taxonomy of Polyzoa and Cephalodiscus , for which he was the first of the Cambridge zoologists to use the binocular microscope . |
| 13 | On the very day his paper went to the General Committee the polytechnic directors were meeting in conference at Coombe Lodge , together with Toby Weaver and others from the DES . |
| 14 | A mist of liquid desire clung to the perfumed skin between her breasts and he lowered his tongue and lips to the tiny oasis of moisture , and as he drew erotically on her flesh his hands moved to the clasp and released her , burying his face against her satin skin as he tore the lace away . |
| 15 | So , as Harriet Ryley reports , he never knew of , and was never honoured for the vital role his plane played in the Second World War . |
| 16 | As he conducted Divine Service in the old Seagoe Parish Church his dogs scampered around the churchyard . |
| 17 | He was not certain which cottage his aunt rented during the winter . |
| 18 | In this case his studies lead to the making of a creation but this creation murdered members of Frankenstein 's family and caused the deterioration of Victor 's health . |
| 19 | Individualizing traits are the girl 's witty use of " " fayllard " " , meaning both " unsuccessful " ( with her ) and " good-for-nothing " ( generally ) and her vulgar but effective way of telling the clerk his place lies on the other side of the door to her . |
| 20 | Sheldukher whispered in the Doctor 's ear His fingers tightened around the trigger of his laser pistol . |
| 21 | She climbed down after him , her gaze drawn to the way his back tapered beneath the stretchy material of his T-shirt from heavily muscled shoulders to the narrow waist and lean hips of a man in peak physical condition . |
| 22 | She observed the way his foot twitched under the table with strange flicks , as though he was trying to shake off something stuck to the sole of his shoe . |
| 23 | The way his bullets plucked at the fat bag was slightly obscene . |
| 24 | Ronni followed behind him , her eyes on his back , watching the way his muscles rippled beneath the T-shirt . |
| 25 | Robyn could smell the freshness of his cologne , see the way his eyes crinkled at the corners , notice for the first time the thickness of his lashes , the way his ebony hair would curl if allowed to grow long . |
| 26 | I could see that from the way his knuckles whitened around the telephone . |
| 27 | Blanche wanted to be clever and memorise the way his finger moved across the numbers but she could not maintain the concentration after the first four . |
| 28 | Lucien secretly disapproved of the way his colleagues fawned over the lady of the house . |
| 29 | The veteran foreign minister , Hans-Dietrich Genscher , has done nothing to allay this idea , bluntly denying the debt his country owes to the west by declaring , ‘ There is not a capitalist Germany and a communist Germany , there is only one German nation ’ . |
| 30 | An unfinished coffin on black tressels , which stood in the middle of the shop , looked so gloomy and death-like that a cold tremble came over him , every time his eyes wandered in the direction of the dismal object : from which he almost expected to see some frightful form slowly rear its head , to drive him mad with terror . |