Example sentences of "[vb past] his [noun] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He strained his eyes peering into the gloom . |
| 2 | He invited his clients to pay for the privilege of cutting his locks and raised £1,000 for the Chest Heart and Stroke Association . |
| 3 | He maintained his refusal to comment on the polls , and remained adamant he would never do deals on proportional representation . |
| 4 | Lifting further , he bent his head to look under the broad limb , once so thrilling with power . |
| 5 | He trained his dogs to return to the kennels after they were sold . |
| 6 | Lancaster moved towards the Loire in August , but he found his advance blocked by the French , who destroyed the bridge at Angers . |
| 7 | Upon entering the kitchen , he found his mother-in-law dozing by the fire . |
| 8 | A relative found his body slumped on the floor of his home in Polsham , Somerset . |
| 9 | But all the time he found his eyes fixed to the rear mirror , looking for a sign of pursuit . |
| 10 | A.C. Ladd sank his tee shot on the 330-yard 17th — a record held until 1928 when a 340-yard tee shot was holed at Stoneham , Hants . |
| 11 | He let his fingers drift across the paper like a dowser ; as if , somehow , among the fractured patterns on the page , he might suddenly feel the heat of Ross 's madness . |
| 12 | He let his head roll against the window and she could have believed he was doing something with his eyes to the countryside , the way he had done with his eyebrows to the men . |
| 13 | He let his gaze rest upon the awed and silent faces that fringed his passage , but without seeing them . |
| 14 | An amused smile touched Guido 's eyes as he let his gaze flicker over the rumpled high-necked cotton pyjamas she was wearing . |
| 15 | Idly , he let his gaze drift across the horizon . |
| 16 | George let his mind wander over the House . |
| 17 | In the last resort his conduct is in accord with ‘ Be aware ’ , because he would be acting the same if he were capable of full awareness both of the goal of saving life and of the temporary anguish he is inflicting , but being merely human he would lose sight of the goal if he let his mind dwell on the pain . |
| 18 | He let his mind play over the man as he had felt him at their meeting , as he now knew him from his books : vain , opinionated , hearty , joky . |
| 19 | Dexter let his eyes wander over the crates on the floor , brimming with files and books , and on to a dusty azalea on the window-sill for which he sensed a twinge of sadness . |
| 20 | Then , for a fraction of a second he let his eyes drop to the level of the hall table . |
| 21 | He let his eyes roam round the kitchen , seeing it as that pleasant policeman must have seen it , in all its sad decrepitude . |
| 22 | Dexter let his eyes play over the clutter designed to bless the pub with a friendly air : two post horns slung like bombs from the ceiling , mock Tudor beams , lines of plates balanced on every available ledge , and a grubby portrait of the Queen hung in dusty splendour above the bar . |
| 23 | Today , however , he used his privilege to check on the background of the child his wife idolized , more out of curiosity than any inclination to relax his stand against trying to procure the child for her . |
| 24 | Robinson was forced off during last Saturday 's 3–0 home defeat by leaders Blackburn and Clarkson suffered his injury playing in the reserves in midweek . |
| 25 | John Angus Macrae , a fireman at Stornoway Airport , told his wife to telephone for the fire brigade and he went to offer assistance . |
| 26 | One of his most famous illusions was his ‘ Levitation ’ , which he first performed in 1867 , when he caused his wife to rise from the stage . |
| 27 | But the ball cannoned into a tree , back on to the course and he salvaged his par to get into the play-off . |
| 28 | He spoke of ‘ a new age , in which people can come together ’ , directed his administration to deal with the reorganization of pensions , housing , the improvements to maternity homes and the reorganization of the poor law . |
| 29 | She noticed his fingers drumming on the table as his fiancée — ex-fiancée — chatted on and on . |
| 30 | Which the authorities could not understand , because everyone knew that at lunchtime Mr Wolski always went down to the benches by the Cages and ate his sandwiches looking at the eagles . |