Example sentences of "his [noun] [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My attention had been so far away and the dog had timed his jump to a split second so that his bark came at the highest point , his teeth only inches from my face . |
| 2 | The Prince acknowledged their greetings as he and his favourite sat in the two great throne-like chairs at the high table . |
| 3 | He flicked his own eyes towards the rear seat , and his heart leapt as the black man 's eyes narrowed slightly then glanced at the figure in the back . |
| 4 | ‘ I thought you were going to undress me very slowly ? ’ she murmured , as his fingers went to the satin-covered buttons on her blouse . |
| 5 | He reached out and let his hand trail up her bare arm , watching her face as his fingers slid over the smooth silk of her skin . |
| 6 | His hand had slid to her thigh , and she felt the lurch of dismay as his fingers slid over the silky fabric of her dress . |
| 7 | Some of Cade 's allies in the city were men of position , although the bulk of his support came from the poorer classes ( 128 , pp.111 , 115 ) . |
| 8 | His foot slipped on the wet grass and he fell . |
| 9 | He was about four feet away when his foot caught in the electric flex he was dragging and he stumbled forward off balance . |
| 10 | A canoeist died when his canoe overturned in the swollen River Ogwen in north Wales . |
| 11 | When William Joyce ( ‘ Lord Haw-Haw ’ ) began his revulsion felt by the British public , if the reaction was not mirthful , was due to the fact that he was , in a sense , a stranger to them by reason of his apostasy and unnatural situation and therefore he carried far less conviction than a less articulate but sincere German would have done . |
| 12 | He had begun by characterizing the struggle for an energy policy as the ‘ moral equivalent of war ’ , but then , for long periods , his enthusiasm for this cause appeared to wane while his proposals floundered in the legislative maze . |
| 13 | His words came as the parliamentary chairman , Ruslan Khasbulatov , Mr Yeltsin 's arch-rival , appeared to retract his demands that the president be removed . |
| 14 | His words rang in the clear air and she could feel her head swimming from the enormity of what he had just said . |
| 15 | His bulk bulged over the invisible box he perched on . |
| 16 | Turning to deal with the next , his glance went to the intercommunicating doorway . |
| 17 | Delaney had already got one leg over the door frame that led below , and would have stopped for no one , except that his glance took in the obvious truth . |
| 18 | The river washed down on its run through Dublin into the sea , and a solitary man with a low-slung dog at his heels walked along the opposite bank . |
| 19 | As he hit the water , his legs flailed in the mid-air running motion like a character in a Tom and Jerry cartoon and he quickly struck out for a convenient ladder as I hastily brought Venturous to a standstill some feet off the pier . |
| 20 | His damp back plucked at his shirt , and his legs prickled in the heavy trousers . |
| 21 | The anguished force of the stroke drove the Corsican to his knees and , paralysed with shock , he remained in this posture , groping ineffectually for the bone-handled knife as his blood spurted onto the red dust around him . |
| 22 | ‘ And you , ’ his eyes took in the other four , ‘ to your tasks , if you please . ’ |
| 23 | His eyes strayed to the rosy-cheeked children who were chattering happily and , to Meredith 's delight , he began to talk as if questioning his own feelings . |
| 24 | ‘ They 're under the hedge and — ’ His eyes fell on the snoring bulk of the human . |
| 25 | His eyes flickered over the bulging hold-all . |
| 26 | His eyes flickered to the small heaving breasts in the decadent lacy brassière as she resisted . |
| 27 | His eyes glinted through the black lashes and for a moment he seemed to be offering some sort of olive branch . |
| 28 | A bitter smile crossed his face as his eyes ranged over the top men in the giant corporation . |
| 29 | His eyes roamed over the small type indifferently . |
| 30 | Rebecca lured him to her side , and he went willingly , his mind fogged by the cloudy veil that Neptune had thrown over him . |