Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] his [noun pl] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want his mates to hear the gospel and besides that Billy would not want a sad funeral , so I think you should preach , Dad . ’ |
| 2 | I bought his Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile for ten shillings when I was a Lower boy at Eton ; engrossed , I read through all five volumes . |
| 3 | Her eyes were on his mouth and , as though spellbound , she watched his lips forming the erotic words while heat suffused her body and her heart bounced about like a bumble-puppy . |
| 4 | Kate smiled sweetly as she saw his eyes probing the possibilities of her figure . |
| 5 | After a moment we heard his footsteps descending the stairs again . |
| 6 | He clapped his hands to emphasize the decision . |
| 7 | As he racks his brains to discover the purpose of some otherwise unintelligible artefact , the prehistorian turns hopefully to ‘ ethnographic parallels ’ from living cultures . |
| 8 | As he said it he let his hands caress the silk chair-arms , the movement seeming to echo the drift of his dark eyes as , unhurriedly , and with appreciation , they surveyed her . |
| 9 | He let his eyes slip the other way , towards the little group of waiting people , hunting along the front line until he picked out Harriet Shakespeare . |
| 10 | Muddiman continued to report the doings of both Monck and the Rumpers until they quarrelled , whereupon he used his papers to support the former . |
| 11 | And you saw the marks only for a couple of seconds when he lifted his palms to receive the Host . |
| 12 | Ken had mortgaged himself to the hilt with the flat in Brunswick Gardens , Kensington and after one interminable row following another , he told his parents to leave the flat . |
| 13 | The implication that the constabulary were fomenting disorder angered the sergeant , but he commanded his men to assist the bailiff and agents in evicting the tenants . |
| 14 | He allowed his eyes to review the column of chrysanthemum seedlings in the pots arranged beside the small greenhouse . |
| 15 | One of his forebears was James Murray , compiler of the ‘ Oxford English Dictionary ’ , and when Les Murray went to Sydney University in the 1950s he spent his days ingesting the contents of the famous Fisher Library , which was ‘ full of the cultural wonders that bushies like me were despised for not having . ’ |
| 16 | When he did n't like the bedroom furniture in his penthouse suite at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami he ordered his bodyguards to throw the offending furniture out , according to his former bodyguard Andy Celentano , who said , ‘ One time he took a dislike to the piano . |
| 17 | He flexed his fingers to get the feeling back , and fumbled in his pocket for his keys . |
| 18 | He had a photograph of himself on his postcards and he signed his letters following the original tailpiece ‘ everbest ’ . |
| 19 | As he raised his boots to hit the labour master , the latter , in self defence , slapped him with the flat of his hand and closed with him , whereupon both fell to the ground . |
| 20 | As he raised his binoculars to scan the coast , the wind struck him in the face . |
| 21 | He calls his followers to do the same in their relationships with others . |
| 22 | Every time he removed his glasses to wipe the rain off them he could see that everyone was taking advantage of his short-sightedness to stare at him and grin and point . |
| 23 | Shadrach — can he be this pleased to see me ? — smiles as he cups his hands to indicate the tiny creature I was previously . |
| 24 | His main expense is photocopying thousands of legal documents and he spends his days preparing the next part of his case . |
| 25 | On the day of its creation he had his armourers fuse the suit directly to his body . |
| 26 | By threatening to cut off the bank 's loans , he forced his cousins to turn the company 's management over to professionals . |
| 27 | Instead , he wanted his wingers to beat the defender on the inside and go for goal themselves . |
| 28 | At the same time he set his troops to ravage the surrounding fields and vineyards . |
| 29 | It also was perhaps a trifle ironic that when Charles Manson wanted to have his life story told on film , he instructed his lawyers to get the Easy Rider team . |