Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And what would his heart tell him about the gods , who had singled him out for this fate ? |
| 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 | But Mr Browning had told police his route took him via the M4 , over the Severn Bridge , and not by the more direct route of the M50 . |
| 4 | His route took him past the City of Dreams . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | That evening , Philip , an ex-Merchant Taylors boy who has known Iain since prep school , is at home in his room when his mum calls him to the phone . |
| 8 | His Mum took him by the shoulders and turned him to face her . |
| 9 | His mouth feathered hers with the softness of thistledown and then , incredibly , as her lips would have clung , he moved away from her , and it was like the sting of rejection , the icy dash of water cascading over her heated flesh . |
| 10 | He smiled encouragingly , and Juliet was gratified by his attempt to include her in the conversation . |
| 11 | Even though he had a job to go to with Birmingham Repertory Company , his agent sent him to the Rank interview for the experience . |
| 12 | ‘ His indifference pushed her to the edge whereas he could have romanced her to the end of the world . |
| 13 | She saw his glance rake her from the top of her shining chestnut hair over her make-up-free face , and down over her pretty cotton wrap to the tips of her toes . |
| 14 | He said he needed me to pretend to be his girlfriend to protect him from the bimbos . ’ |
| 15 | Then he lay down on her , his weight sinking her in the bed as if in sand . |
| 16 | His weight toppled her to the air-bed that shushed and bounced beneath them . |
| 17 | His Majesty congratulated them on the solution of this difficult problem , and pointed out that while France and other countries existed for weeks without a Government , in this country our constitution is so generous that leaders of Parties . |
| 18 | His unflappability deserted him in the face of by-election reverses . |
| 19 | He picked the largest , his spear taking it through the gut . |
| 20 | Jenny , now happily married , cried when she heard her torturer was dead and said : ‘ I 'm relieved I will never again feel my stomach churn when a man with his silhouette passes me in the street ’ . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Taking her arm , he drew her to her feet , his body shielding her from the rest of the room . |
| 23 | Dathan and Abiram challenge Moses on the grounds of high-handedness and his failure to bring them into the promised land ( 13–14 ) . |
| 24 | More shaming had been his reluctance to put it to the test . |
| 25 | His friend kicked him in the ribs and asked him what he was doing down there . |
| 26 | One was a middle-aged man , rather corpulent , who sent a message into the depths behind his recess which finally produced an abashed female servant : and one was a spare man in young middle age who had his wife helping him in the shop . |
| 27 | A TIPSY husband ended up in hospital when his wife hit him over the head with their Christmas tree . |
| 28 | Now suffering is a vast and many-sided fact of Crime and Punishment , as of all mature Dostoevsky — larger than the ‘ loose end ’ idea of The Drunks which produced Marmeladov the marmeladey wallower in abasement and humiliation , the man who seeks suffering and finds it ( and so finds satisfaction too ) at the bottom of his vodka jug , who screams ‘ I 'm loving this ! ’ when his wife pulls him across the room by his hair ; and larger than the ‘ out of the practical swim ’ idea of ‘ A Confession ’ from which emerges the murderer , the man with something to confess , who does n't seek suffering but learns , though only in the Epilogue , to accept it . |
| 29 | His departure left us on the not very charismatic score of 69 for 6 . |
| 30 | He 'd come straight to her after leaving the theatre , and his impatience thrilled her to the core . |