Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] his [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been remarkably restrained until then , but when she felt him ease her jeans down over her hips she suddenly caught his sense of urgency as , with a low groan , he roughly pulled her even closer , burying his head against the soft skin of her thighs . |
| 2 | Richard only estimated his age in relationship to his duties . |
| 3 | For example , the extensive list of qualifications and caveats which Marshall appended to his exposition of the quantity theory of money had threatened to cast such a long shadow over its validity that Marshall appeared to take freight and retarait behind the ceteris paribus stipulation which so typified his approach to economics . |
| 4 | Baron von Munchausen was an eighteenth-century Hanoverian soldier who greatly exaggerated his prowess in war — and his battle-scars . |
| 5 | Until 1 January 1977 , if for any reason — including accident , redundancy or retirement — the farm worker 's employment ceased , so did his security of tenure . |
| 6 | A flicker of something crossed his face but he said nothing , merely inclined his head in return . |
| 7 | Wilson , unlike Carter , sufficiently over-came his lack of sympathy with the system to compile an impressive record of legislative achievement early in his first term . |
| 8 | WILLIAMS ) came in at a run from the " Coriolanus " matin e e , still in his toga , and just made his position in time . ] |
| 9 | Howard finally got his gun into position and fired one barrel at their original assailant , causing him to dive headlong back behind the palm tree . |
| 10 | If Eliot largely renounced his interest in childhood and in anthropology during the few years that followed , he gave up neither entirely . |
| 11 | Billy did n't bother to answer , he just raised his thumb in agreement and snuggled even deeper into his coat . |
| 12 | Stewart meanwhile belied his dislike of opening and played his most assured ( and highest ) innings yet for his country . |
| 13 | First he sketched an arabesque design on the dress in white to make it appear décolleté , then he covered her dress with magnificent , multi-coloured flowers and finally sprayed his design with fixative . |
| 14 | Greatrakes , however , found he could cure advanced scrofula , and soon extended his treatment to dropsy , ague , rheumatism and many other ailments . |
| 15 | These " Whiggish Jacobites " , as they referred to themselves , produced a number of pamphlets in which they argued that William , through various acts of despotism , had broken the contract he had made with the nation in 1689 , and thus forfeited his right to obedience . |
| 16 | The Admiral did n't say what he believed , he just sipped his scotch in silence . |
| 17 | DONAL LENIHAN , second only to Willie John McBride as Ireland 's most capped lock , yesterday announced his retirement from rugby because of a recurring neck injury . |
| 18 | PAKISTAN Test star Imran Khan yesterday announced his retirement from cricket . |
| 19 | Liam Brady yesterday pinned his faith in winger Joe Miller to help extricate Celtic from the hole they dug for themselves in Switzerland two weeks ago . |
| 20 | Washing up was just one of the many benefits that usually came his way on party nights . |
| 21 | To Marshall 's great chagrin his competitors quickly adopted his method of lens-grinding , as he had no patent for his invention . |
| 22 | Only his two brothers surreptitiously welcomed his way of life . |
| 23 | BRAVE Liam Hamer yesterday lost his battle for life just five days after receiving a new liver . |
| 24 | Blissett cynically and deliberately brought his elbow into con-tact with the other man . ’ |
| 25 | In the Warners studio , he spat on the portraits of Bogart , Cagney and Muni , and he further proved his contempt for convention by throwing his steak out of the window at an important Hollywood dinner party . |
| 26 | ‘ Last thing at night he always had his tot of rum , and it used to smell the room out . |
| 27 | CHANCELLOR Norman Lamont openly admitted his unpopularity on television last night when he defended the ‘ difficult decisions ’ he was forced to take in the Budget . |
| 28 | He also concentrated his work on nutrition and health and gained prominence by advocating that health could be improved if people increased the amount of fibre in their diet . |
| 29 | The latter provided him with the income needed to purchase a house beside the bowling green at Whitehall , and York also secured his election as MP for New Romney in 1661 . |
| 30 | Gorbachev also reiterated his proposal for inspection access to foreign military bases . |