Example sentences of "[vb past] his [noun pl] [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 trained his dogs to return to the kennels after they were sold . |
| 4 | But all the time he found his eyes fixed to the rear mirror , looking for a sign of pursuit . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Then , for a fraction of a second he let his eyes drop to the level of the hall table . |
| 8 | He let his eyes roam round the kitchen , seeing it as that pleasant policeman must have seen it , in all its sad decrepitude . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She noticed his fingers drumming on the table as his fiancée — ex-fiancée — chatted on and on . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Erich Duchinsky , a Youth Allyah worker at Pakefield and Dovercourt , encouraged his youngsters to keep on the move . |
| 13 | Sitting with her legs spread wide she allowed his toes to skid through the oily mat of her saturated crotch . |
| 14 | The Friar frowned , checked his ho-hoings and allowed his eyes to flicker from the enemies in front . |
| 15 | Then , taking a gulp of air , she leaned into the car and pressed his eyelids shut with the forefinger and thumb of her right hand , shuddering as the icy coldness of his flesh communicated itself to her . |
| 16 | The rebel leader Lt.-Col. Hugo Chávez Frías , 38 , ordered his men to surrender after the Defence Minister , Gen. Fernando Ochoa Antich , convinced him that the insurgency could not succeed . |
| 17 | They said that he awarded his decisions according to the spontaneity of an appeal . |
| 18 | He spent his days wandering around the rugby pitches doing nothing and refused to return to his cottage . |
| 19 | After they got back , he heard his parents quarrelling in the kitchen . |
| 20 | Then the door was closed and she heard his footsteps coming down the path . |
| 21 | Tabitha heard his bootheels tap up the steps behind her . |
| 22 | The critical promoter of the work of Seurat and his friends was Félix Fénéon , a subtle stylist who varied his methods according to the work he was describing ; he used expository language for Degas , but he dropped logical connection in language , even verbs when discussing Monet 's spontaneous art . |
| 23 | On 24 September , in the Daily Mirror , ‘ Cassandra ’ urged his readers to listen to the comic capers of the Nazi propagandist . |
| 24 | Initial returns indicated the re-election of President Joaquín Balaguer , 83 , of the Social Christian Reformist Party ( PRSC ) , but on May 18 his long-time rival , Juan Bosch , 81 , of the Dominican Liberation Party ( PLD ) , accused the government of " colossal fraud " and urged his supporters to take to the streets in protest . |
| 25 | He urged his men to aim at the cannon themselves ; but this was difficult to do with such clumsy pieces , with considerable trial and error involved . |
| 26 | She watched his fingers gouging into the smooth , stinking mud , the bottom . |
| 27 | He watched his tears drip onto the floor and wondered from a great distance why he could not feel them running down his face . |
| 28 | I saw his feet go past the chair and he went into the house . |
| 29 | She turned to face him and saw his glasses flash in the gloom . |
| 30 | I knew I was n't the only victim because I had heard complaints from others ; the fruiterer who saw his apples disappear from the box in front of the shop , the grocer who unwillingly supplied him with free biscuits . |