Example sentences of "[adv] his [noun] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly his voice came over the headphones . |
| 2 | Like how his lashes spiked and held the raindrops , and how a small river ran tantalisingly down his throat to disappear into the V of his shirt . |
| 3 | His pants were halfway up his bum and he could feel the sweat dripping from his armpits and trickling down his arm to emerge in the crisp , fresh air . |
| 4 | ‘ You can not be so innocent , ’ he said tightly , but even so his teeth nibbled at the lobe of her ear as his breath quickened . |
| 5 | The man became calmer , sank to his knees and allowed the executioner to bend him so his neck fitted over the block . |
| 6 | The smith stands at the side but only his arm survives on the edge of the sherd ( fig. 14.23 ) . |
| 7 | Only his eyes burned in the flawless face . |
| 8 | Unconsciously his hand reached for the pocket of the greatcoat he was not wearing , where he kept his silver flask . |
| 9 | So when he maintains that because we are , Truth or God is , or that God is the sum total of life , it could be argued that he is not presenting us with some kind of cosmological argument for the existence of God and that it is not his purpose to argue from the world to God . |
| 10 | Already his stomach heaved at the prospect of swallowing and digesting the hateful thing . |
| 11 | From time to time he broke off his labours to return to the great court to look out for Tutilo returning . |
| 12 | At one point , instead of offering orders or advice , he jumped off his bench to hollow from the sidelines : ‘ What the ***** going on out there ? ’ |
| 13 | Sean Connery grows lustier as he grows crustier , and his acting grows the more his hair stays on the pillow . |
| 14 | At once his assistant appeared in the doorway . |
| 15 | The idea of a sequel seemed odd , ‘ Harvest ’ was an LP he 'd badmouthed over the years , and it was hardly his style to go into the Mike Oldfield school of repackaging old product . |
| 16 | A second later his body lay across the dead doctor . |
| 17 | In April 1861 even the head of the Third Department thought that the regime would be forced to grant a constitution , but he added that " not only would the emperor not make up his mind to assent to the gradual introduction of constitutional forms , but he had even spoken out firmly against it very recently and had evidently not changed his mind on the question " . |
| 18 | ‘ When David Guy Chester made up his mind to come into the world there was no stopping him . ’ |
| 19 | It was during the course of his acrimonious exchanges with the Constituent Assembly on New Year 's Day 1946 that de Gaulle evidently made up his mind to resign from the presidency . |
| 20 | The Prince shook an admonishing finger at the Rifleman then took out his telescope to stare at the battery of French guns . |
| 21 | Dene Stallard says three years ago his boat flipped on the water and he woke up in hospital … |
| 22 | Even his pawns get in the way . |
| 23 | But today his lawyers applied for the company to be compulsorily wound-up . |
| 24 | Up here his lungs rasp with the altitude . |
| 25 | And with close season signing from Limerick , Barry Ryan , also sidelined with a hamstring injury , Derry boss Roy Coyle has n't his sorrows to seek at the moment . |
| 26 | Nervously his eyes flicked over the screen . |
| 27 | Even then his interests lay with the disadvantaged groups . |
| 28 | Then his wife died on the trek and he and his daughter walked into India and asked people everywhere — Did they know where Padre Appleton was ? until at last he tracked us down to Poona . |
| 29 | If Mr. Tully has good grounds for exercising the privilege against self-incrimination , then his refusal to comply with the orders for disclosure and discovery made by Buckley J. may have the effect of assisting Mr. Tully to escape prosecution and punishment for a crime and also the effect of assisting Mr. Tully and others to keep money which belongs to Abbey . |
| 30 | There 's a hole ! " then his hand appeared through the wall a couple of yards down and waved about to attract her attention . |