Example sentences of "[adv prt] his [noun sg] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the curtain opened there hobbled from the wings what appeared to be an old Chinese mandarin with flowing blue robes , black silk jacket and red-buttoned Mandarin cap over hair that fell down his back in a long pigtail . |
| 2 | He nodded , putting down his drink on a black marble table and coming over to take hers from her numb fingers . |
| 3 | Markby put down his tumbler on a small table , laden with copies of The Field . |
| 4 | The tie tumbled down his shirt-front like a little cascade of ink . |
| 5 | The man opposite her threw down his Reveille at the same moment , and their eyes met . |
| 6 | He chewed his way through a large and over-greasy midday meal , drank more beer than he ought to have done , took some laudanum with his brandy and water to give him sleep and felt his brain ripped open by a nightmare which wolfed down his mind in the open bleeding mouths of women . |
| 7 | So excited had Mr Wolski become — though he kept quiet about it at the Zoo — that he had taken down his atlas of the British Isles so he could mark off the various places the eagle was seen . |
| 8 | — When Manjiku comes , she shuts her eyes and lets herself fall down his throat past the barbed teeth and come down to land in the foul bilgewater in his gut . |
| 9 | Pinkie sucked in his drink in a curious manner , very curious considering how many gins lie must have in the course of the week , as though his glass was a blowhole in Arctic ice and to drink was his only hope of survival . |
| 10 | Feeling like a traitor , Charlie scribbled his signature on the bottom of the second page before handing in his report to the orderly officer . |
| 11 | She had a bald , stark way of speaking , never looking Gabriel in the eye but staring over his shoulder with a slight frown creasing her curd-yellow forehead . |
| 12 | Glancing over his shoulder with a huge wink , Oz banged the door after him and went whooping across the yard . |
| 13 | I peered over his shoulder at the spidery script . |
| 14 | He gestured over his shoulder at the other members of the golfing Press . |
| 15 | Richie glanced over his shoulder at the young PC pacing behind them . |
| 16 | He looked so much younger with a mountain peak all covered in snow peering over his shoulder through the little window . |
| 17 | He never saw the rope that would hang him for the noose was concealed in the hem of the white hood that the hangman drew over his head with the usual gentle suggestion that AIbert Pierrepoint reserved for these occasions . |
| 18 | For his part , Norman handed over his yacht to the Royal Navy . |
| 19 | His hair fell over his forehead in a damp straight lock and his blue eyes were screwed up as if in concern or alarm . |
| 20 | Manville checked over his copy of the coded telex transmission before shredding it , unable to repress a bitter smile . |
| 21 | She uses the example of a shepherd who works off his malevolence towards the human race by ill-treating his dogs . |
| 22 | The guiding light in Lewis 's life then went with her son to speak to the pupils of Bellahouston Academy and visit a retail development on the outskirts of Glasgow before he rounded off his day in the male only setting of the St Andrew 's Sporting club by watching Scotland 's Kris McAdam fight . |
| 23 | And , that being the case , she supposed she just had to hope that , having been insulted so thoroughly , Count Romano de Sciorto would renege on his promise to Mother , and strike her off his guest-list for the whole duration of her stay in Malta … |
| 24 | He is shown taking off his armour for the pathetic reason that he is not ‘ master of his heart ’ . |
| 25 | He did n't pause to admire the car ( the car seemed like new : great ! ) but hurried inside , flinging off his coat with a hot gasp and making a lunge for the phone . |
| 26 | The circumstances in which wrote off his car on a Belgian motorway , during an overnight journey from Holland to the Potteries Marathon in Stoke , were more worrying . |
| 27 | Professional Russell Adams rounded off his season with a splendid during his side 's innings of for seven against Lurgan at Shane Park on Saturday . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , he struggles to shake off his image as an emotional amputee in search of sympathy . |
| 29 | Charles switched off his torch with a dull click and moved towards the half-open door . |
| 30 | He puffed up his chest like an exotic bird engaged in a courtship dance . |