Example sentences of "[adv prt] the [noun sg] in his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather : thin muslin sheets of brown and red were being pulled past his eyes , patterned like the blankets woven by the women , patterned like the rug that hung on the wall in his daughter 's room . |
| 2 | Now he put down the paper in his hand and looked up . |
| 3 | Dyson walked up and down the bedroom in his overcoat , making large gestures , and trailing in his wake the cosy smell of digested alcohol . |
| 4 | Delaney tried to play down the fear in his voice — fear for her . |
| 5 | He tots up the maths in his head — five units for last year 's domestic season and the World Cup , a unit each for 1992 's five domestic tests , two more for the venture to South Africa and four for the major tour of Ireland and Wales . |
| 6 | He stopped in front of the taller man and held up the parcel in his hand . |
| 7 | She picked up the suspicion in his voice , said nothing , but left him to open the door . |
| 8 | Albert cut it out , snipping around the paragraph that said that her husband was the buyer in the men 's sports-clothes department of the same store , and pinned up the clipping in his room . |
| 9 | Richie had picked up the urgency in his voice and had stopped chewing . |
| 10 | As though , ridiculously , he could blot out the misery in his mind by destroying a picture . |
| 11 | Tony Lewis , the chairman , set out the rationale in his newspaper column . |
| 12 | I had neither the patience nor the German to point out the contradiction in his argument . |
| 13 | He swallowed back the bile in his throat . |
| 14 | Whitlock swallowed back the bile in his throat and crossed to where the gunman lay , his shirt soaked in blood . |
| 15 | While he was enthusing about future advancements in the industry there was perhaps a hint of sadness in leaving it behind — but thoughts of the ‘ challenges of my new career ’ soon put back the sparkle in his eye . |