Example sentences of "his [noun] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blindly he moved his fingers to touch her between the thighs . |
| 2 | I love the passage ( Numbers 14:15-17 ) where Moses craftily dissuades God from killing his own people by suggesting other people will think he did it to cover up his inability to get them to the promised land . |
| 3 | It was first spotted by Gary Walker at Wiiija Records — currently championing Huggy Bear and Cornershop and one of the ‘ 90s ’ most underestimated talent scouts — who flew to Belfast with the last of his money to sign them in the early days . |
| 4 | His decision to use it as the basis for a grand narrative painting can be aligned with the revival of interest in Victoriana which the Festival of Britain had stimulated and which was especially noticeable in the graphic section of the Design School at the Royal College . |
| 5 | He smiled encouragingly , and Juliet was gratified by his attempt to include her in the conversation . |
| 6 | He had a thin cardigan over his shoulders to protect him from the breeze . |
| 7 | ‘ He came round the desks and I kicked him in the back of his legs to get him to the floor and I used my shirt to put out the flames and Hazel gave him first aid . ’ |
| 8 | He said he needed me to pretend to be his girlfriend to protect him from the bimbos . ’ |
| 9 | On May 8 Bush reiterated his faith in Quayle , criticizing the press for " pounding on him when he 's doing a first class job " , and repeating his determination to retain him as the Republican Party 's 1992 nominee for Vice-President . |
| 10 | Dathan and Abiram challenge Moses on the grounds of high-handedness and his failure to bring them into the promised land ( 13–14 ) . |
| 11 | More shaming had been his reluctance to put it to the test . |
| 12 | This shows that when Churchill first asked his officials to brief him on the subject , R. G. Hawtrey replied that public works would indeed increase employment , provided they were linked to an expansion of credit . |
| 13 | General Elio offered the support of his troops to maintain him in the fullness of his rights ; at the same time the Manifesto of the Persians , signed by 96 ‘ servile ’ deputies , reached the king at Valencia . |
| 14 | He has always been fanatically into body culture , punishing his muscles to keep them at the peak of definition and tone . |
| 15 | The King of this country ( which was called Lilliput ) had ordered his people to carry me to the capital city , about a kilometre away . |
| 16 | He had smoked one cigarette after the other , holding them cupped in his palm to protect them from the rain . |
| 17 | In the second case , that where the wife agrees to become surety at the instance of her husband though she does not understand the effect of the document or the nature of the transaction , her failure to do so may be the result of the husband 's actually misleading her , but in any case it could hardly ever occur without some impropriety on his part even if that impropriety consisted only in his neglect to inform her of the exact nature of that to which she is willing blindly , ignorantly or mistakenly to assent . |
| 18 | Yet God still speaks by his Spirit to throw fresh light on his word so that we might see its relevance to the contemporary world , and he speaks to his servants to guide them through the perplexities of life . |
| 19 | If a plaintiff abandons the excess of his claim to bring it within the jurisdiction of the county court , the abandonment must be stated at the end of the particulars ( Ord 6 , r 1(3) ) . |
| 20 | The Empress was in great beauty … the Emperor also looked very impressive , and when after the ceremony he held up the child in his arms to present him to the multitude , the enthusiasm was genuine and great . |
| 21 | But Nithard invited his audience to invest it with the quality of a near-miracle . |
| 22 | In a negligence suit brought against him Mr Hill wanted to sue his employer to indemnify him for the damages he had to pay out to Mr Gregory . |
| 23 | If only Craig was at her side it would be so different , she needed his strength to see her through the ordeal , not only of the funeral but of the days and weeks that were to come . |
| 24 | Not so Jack , who appeared to have forgotten that it was his idea to invite them in the first place . |