Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] his [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Alderley gazed stupefied at his rigid back . |
| 2 | But for the moment , the prospect of marriage to a woman he loved , and of life together in a place of exquisite beauty , seemed to offer the stability and direction he never ceased to crave in his personal life . |
| 3 | Mr Rumback either read to them from books , which no-one heard because the words got caught in his big moustache , or slept . |
| 4 | Frantically she tried to escape from his tightening grip , but he merely laughed and trapped her against the hatch with his body . |
| 5 | Or it may have been the sweet tyranny of his mother 's childhood rules , never quite outgrown , which he tried to recreate in his rigid adult life . |
| 6 | On an early visit there , my father stopped to call on his old friend and he left my younger brother Roy and me in the trap . |
| 7 | This real doctor was a much younger man than the Doctor Bailey I created to live in his old house . |
| 8 | He wished he could be alone , he tried to say with his own look . |
| 9 | When I shouted to enquire about his successful bait all he said was : Anything I put on . |
| 10 | It was n't fit for a young girl , he 'd explained in his thick brogue , and her half-brother had grinned and mocked her behind his back . |
| 11 | He screwed up his face so it seemed to hide behind his huge nose . |
| 12 | He had got Sir Geoffrey 's note when he 'd looked into his own office at lunchtime . |
| 13 | The warmth and perfection of his enunciation were marred only by his faint Irish accent and the artificiality which it seemed to impose on his genial tone . |
| 14 | Little as he wanted to do anything about it , the boy 's babyishness , his Fauntleroy air , embarrassed and distantly annoyed him : it seemed to reflect on his own manhood . |
| 15 | He rubbed it between his fingers , staring with admiration , then sank , cross-legged , near my chair , the way he 'd done on his first night . |
| 16 | He was unconscious ; his pallor was frightening and he 'd bitten through his lower lip . |
| 17 | He summoned a girl , who seemed mesmerised by his virile look , and ordered lager for them both . |
| 18 | The only person he 'd told about his odd vision had been Jenny , and she had laughed delightedly and understood . |
| 19 | His address book ; the clothes he 'd bought with his own money as opposed to hers ; his spare spectacles ; his cigarettes . |
| 20 | It was advertising mail , like most of that which he 'd opened on his first visit and later burned in the forest . |
| 21 | As the old pensioner listened to the song , which was now accompanied by the ringing of bells , Fleury saw an expression of tender devotion come over his lined face , and he , too , thought , as the Collector had thought some weeks earlier in the tiger house , what a lot of Indian life was unavailable to the Englishman who came equipped with his own religion and habits . |
| 22 | Roman came into the room and it seemed to shrink before his powerful personality . |
| 23 | And if Mrs Williams — and how very grateful Morse was that she 'd agreed to his earlier telephone request to be present ! — if Mrs Williams could possibly think of some diversion … some talk , some walk . |
| 24 | Landmarks he had completely forgotten seemed to materialise before his mesmerised gaze — like the moat of Hugh de Lacy 's twelfth-century castle , now overgrown and weed-filled , the castle itself a ruin , and in front of it at the end of Granard 's gently curving single street the already greying walls of St Mary 's Church that his labouring father had helped to build . |
| 25 | And the more he succumbed to the allure of his own Führer cult and came to believe in his own myth , the more his judgement became impaired by faith in his own infallibility , losing his grip on what could and could not be achieved solely through the strength of his ‘ will ’ . |
| 26 | How low he 'd sunk through his own choosing . |
| 27 | There 's no need to worry , ’ she insisted , once he 'd finished with his hideous needle and thread . |
| 28 | A flow of love and light and warmth seemed to move from his hard nearness into her own body . |
| 29 | He 'd choked on his own vomit after a session of sniffing aerosols . |
| 30 | No , Crawford , that was the name of the host ; she could distinctly remember Justin mentioning it before they 'd arrived here ; it was his wife who had invited them all — well , not all of them exactly , just Justin — ‘ Because she likes them young , ’ Justin had informed them , as they 'd piled into his old banger of a car . |