Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her entire role in life is to get pregnant by Fred , her lord and master ; to lie down between the legs of his wife Serena , who 's sterile and desperate ; to shut up and spread them . |
| 2 | ‘ Now I come to think of it , ’ he said , easing himself down into the depths of his very easy chair , ‘ that Mrs Entwhistle from the corner said there was something about your dad in one of the Sunday papers , I do n't remember which . ’ |
| 3 | Atkinson ( the manager ) says his bottom-of-the-table team were so bad in one of the five defeats they have suffered in eight First Division games that he found himself joining in with the cries for his dismissal . |
| 4 | There was a prolonged crash of shutters and an intensification of the heat as the professionals fixed this moment for transmission and then eventual filing , along with the others in his life . |
| 5 | He took her hand again , guiding it down within the folds of his pau , then heard her gasp as her hand closed on him ; saw her eyes go down and look . |
| 6 | Edmund Mortimer , with blood running down inside the plates of his armour , heaved his mount out of the mire and up to firm ground , and wheeled to take his first brief survey of the field , and locate the main body of the Welsh cavalry , for only in hand-to-hand combat with them was there any respite from the steady and murderous attentions of the bowmen above . |
| 7 | Lightly I brought the .38 down on the knuckles of his hand as it rested on a table . |
| 8 | The tough rugby player at first put the pain of his acute appendicitis down to the after-effects of his stag night . |
| 9 | The gold of summer faded off Gabriel 's skin , grew down to the tips of his hair , and on days when the wind blew , he shivered at the top of his ladder like a flag at a mast-head , his long shirt billowing full of cold air . |
| 10 | In a fast sweep her eyes ran from the top of his dark head down to the tips of his elegant feet , and she bit back a groan as she realised that that tempting glimpse of his body had done nothing to prepare her for Luke Calder in the magnificent flesh . |
| 11 | Since Stevenson 's now owned Sir George right down to the buttons on his shirt , she thought that most generous . |
| 12 | He glanced uncomfortably at Andy , who had blond ringlets down to the shoulders of his fringed buckskin jacket . |
| 13 | TV chef Raymond Blanc lets us in on the secrets of his kitchen |
| 14 | Werner was in his late forties with a short , stocky physique , thinning brown hair and a neatly trimmed russet moustache that tapered down over the corners of his mouth . |
| 15 | The newcomer was ostentatiously dressed in robes slashed with yellow taffeta and bound by a gold cord very similar to one used by Benstede , although the latter had a row of knots in his to prevent it slipping down over the loops on his gown . |
| 16 | Alexei was looking down at the skirts of his coat . |
| 17 | When they were long enough , he intended to curl them and allow them to extend down at the sides of his mouth . |
| 18 | There had been no unexplained nights away and no displays of petulance , and when he set off through the gates of his house he drove slowly and with care . |
| 19 | They ducked and flinched , the throne tipped , and Artai fell off into the arms of his officers . |
| 20 | Eventually he sighed again , picked up his bag and went on up the steps into his house . |
| 21 | Erm , but I think he tended to leave the bringing up of the girls to his sister-in-law . |
| 22 | In terms of Greater York and its th the York greenbelt I think it 's true to say that er some time ago when David Kaiserman of Manchester did research on greenbelts he came to the view , or he came up with the conclusions from his questionnaires that he sent round , and that study was done , must be ten , fifteen years ago or more , that greenbelts should endure unchanged for at least twenty years , and probably in excess of thirty , and those were the responses of county planning and other major planning authorities at that time , that view if anything has hardened , the public view would be way beyond thirty years . |
| 23 | During the third phase of his enterprise Diaghilev realised the need to keep up with the tastes of his wealthy audiences always anxious to be in fashion and commissioned works from members of the group known as Les Six . |
| 24 | Stoically he put up with the complaints of his wife , Elsie . |
| 25 | The gag was across the trooper 's mouth , and the pressure of Colt 's knee was into the small of his back , and the sheer strength of Colt 's arm took the trooper 's wrists up into the blades of his shoulders . |
| 26 | Fred was thundering on with the speech as though the corpse had n't fled , and at the same time bobbing up onto the balls of his feet with relief from the lost burden . |
| 27 | He surrounded her and wrapped her up in the folds of his silence , his mystery . |
| 28 | When Lenny McLean is brought up from the cells in his cardigan to strand trial for the murder of Gary Humphreys , there are no spare seats in the gallery of Court 13 . |
| 29 | A pyjama-clad Vice-Admiral Hawkins , propped up on the pillows of his bunk , glowered at the message in his hand and passed it across to Denholm . |
| 30 | It was a lot of work for one man , he told me , which is why the name Hugh Cruttwell always turns up on the credits of his movies . |