Example sentences of "his [noun] [was/were] [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 His shirt — once white — was open to the waist , and his beard was long and straggly .
2 His shirt was crisp and newly ironed .
3 I last saw Sandy in Sydney shortly before his death in 1990 , and his pride in his sons was higher than ever .
4 Jessamy knew he was perfectly relaxed , and his breathing was quiet and even .
5 His hair was dark and long enough to fall over his eyebrows when it dropped forward .
6 He was wearing a white T-shirt , which showed off his perfect torso and rippling arm muscles , and his hair was loose and fashionably untidy round his handsome face , that face that was always in shadow .
7 He was twenty-nine but he looked younger because his hair was fine and very dark and his skin a fresh white and red .
8 His chest was broad and hard behind her head .
9 His mouth was firm and hard .
10 His mouth was wide and well cut , with a deeply indented upper lip , and a decidedly grim set to it , and there was something about him which kept her rigid with tension beneath the covers .
11 His handsomeness was a little battered now , but he still had the wolfish look she remembered from years ago — long face , strong jaw , broad brow ; his mouth was full and slightly lopsided , which gave him a crooked grin .
12 His shoulders were wide and even though he was sitting , Kate saw he was a large boy .
13 I said that his action was indefensible and even ‘ unconstitutional ’ .
14 His legs were supple and strongly muscled , and Grainne half closed her eyes , and let her mind race forward , and anticipated the feel of his thighs against her …
15 He peered under his ancient hat at Jill , who noticed that his eyes were blue and very bright , although his face was old and seamed and wrinkled .
16 They were nice lips , beautifully curved , and his eyes were brown and very round .
17 His eyes were deep-set and almost feverish , shining out from under craggy brows .
18 His eyes were narrower than ever , almost slits .
19 His stands alienated the richer members so that his ministries were short and ill paid .
20 He understood the various causes of colic , but his practice was dilatory and generally out of date ’ .
21 Forbes was thus a contemporary of Darwin and Huxley ; but because he died at the height of his powers just five years before the Origin of Species was published , and because despite his time in Paris he remained an outdoor natural historian having little temptation towards laboratory-based physiology , his work was incomplete and soon seemed obsolete .
22 The ache in his bones was worse than before .
23 His body was warm and hard against her own shivering flesh , his arms binding her to him as her reason spun helplessly beneath the sudden sensual onslaught .
24 His body was hard and fearfully aroused and her skin , cooled by the water , raced with pleasure .
25 Although he broke his collar bone and fractured his skull , he was saved from fatal injuries because his body was limp and simply bounced when it hit the tarmac .
26 He argued that Ohrmazd , because his nature was good and just , could not destroy Ahriman until the latter had , by his evil deeds , provided just cause for his destruction .
27 In the dim light from the gallery Isabel saw that all traces of mockery had vanished ; his profile was grim and hard , the look of danger very pronounced .
28 The darker skin of his thin muscled slightly furry thigh lay hard and firm on the pearly white sheen of the round of her hip , and his desire was stronger than before , but his cock was nowhere .
29 His nose was large and slightly crooked , mouth wide and beautifully cut , chin firm and slightly indented .
30 TOWA WAS BORN IN JAPAN , and though his parents were also born there , his grandparents were Korean and so is his passport .
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