Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He serrated the air with his sword and used his shield as a wall and a battering-ram . |
| 2 | You ca n't aspire to that degree of quality , but Peter Kirsten , who was my schoolboy hero , … well I think I can get to his level as a fieldsman and , perhaps , batsman . ’ |
| 3 | Her mouth parting ardently beneath his , she began to unbutton his shirt with unsteady fingers , then slithered lower to kiss his bare brown chest , exulting in the thunder of his heart for a moment before she found herself flat on the sofa as Penry slid her jersey over her head , then dispensed with the scrap of satin beneath . |
| 4 | I expected him to answer her back — there was such a passion in his music , he did n't sound like himself at all , any more than he had looked like himself yesterday — but he just struck the wires of his guitar into a discord and after that there was a beaten silence , and Doris stamped off downstairs again , talking all the way about her poor legs and her poor head . |
| 5 | Believers then follow the practice of the person who stubs his foot on a stone and looks upwards with the cry , ‘ Oh God ! ’ as if hoping for some sympathetic supernatural spectator to be looking down on what is happening . |
| 6 | Running in some ritual or phase of a game — for they did n't spend every minute of each day crawling and peering and prodding the ground — he had caught his foot in a root and fallen headlong . |
| 7 | Otherwise , his fidelity to a city and its cultural flagship has shining precedents . |
| 8 | And though there was something immeasurably sad about this hopeless daily wait , yet sometimes , just briefly , Creggan would catch her looking in his direction in a way that spoke of support and encouragement . |
| 9 | Moreover his style is pleasantly direct and his inclusion of occasional personal allusions will encourage the lay reader to trust his judgement as a person and not only as a philosopher of science . |
| 10 | The Duke held up his branch like a banner and began to lead the way along to the east gate , but a large part of the crowd stayed in a half-circle round the group at the table , as though waiting for the victor 's crow in the cockfight . |
| 11 | And paint-splattered , wild-eyed Vincent , toting his easel like a crucifix and scarlet with the sun ? |
| 12 | Ramses slept curled on the bow deck with his turban as a pillow and the youngest boy slept beside his brother at the tiller in the stern . |
| 13 | The fourth boy , however , slipped and fell to his knees and was only beginning to scramble upright again when the fender caught his chest with a thud that shook the vehicle . |
| 14 | This movement , as Rufus had no doubt intended , sent Mary toppling forward into Adam 's arms , her breasts lightly slapping into his chest in a way that would have been blissful if it had been allowed to continue but Mary , drunk as she was , had sprung aside , actually sprung to her feet , and rather late in the day hugged her arms across her chest . |
| 15 | He had reined his horse to a stop and was searching Menzies ' eyes for complete agreement — for more , for energy to carry it out . |
| 16 | He kicked his horse into a trot and the hooves kicked up sparks from the cobbles . |
| 17 | Even when he was small , out hunting , and broke his arm , could n't wait until he got back on the horse , used his stock for a sling and rode home . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ A charming guest , ’ returned Marco Corner , lifting his bulk from a settle and signing a servant to light the small brazier . |
| 19 | When they were younger , Doctor Jekyll talked to Doctor Lanyon and explained his ideas and his search for a drug that could separate the two sides of a person 's character . |
| 20 | Finch turned on his side with an upheaval that he hoped to look final . |
| 21 | In this case if our 50-year-old reduced his weight by a stone or so and maintained it indefinitely it may well be enough to control the diabetes . |
| 22 | Morrissey , of course , prefers arch playfulness and that is his prerogative as a person and a songwriter . |
| 23 | I mean he 's a rank Labour , he 's got everything up there cos he was telling Mike , I mean he 's got his neck in a collar and he 's been waiting |
| 24 | AN ESSEX motorist turned his car into a fireball when he lit a cigarette as he drove home with a gallon can of petrol on the seat beside him . |
| 25 | She did get out of his car without a word when he stopped it outside her address — but so did he . |
| 26 | A person who has parked his car on a road and left it unattended ca n't be said to be the driver of this offence . |
| 27 | He has since repositioned his Karabiner in a pocket and removed as many loops as possible from his equipment . |
| 28 | As a pay-off to his review of a production that relied ‘ too much on spectacular effects ’ , he wrote : ‘ Kenneth Williams makes a most malicious Ugly Sister ; a nice professional performance this . |
| 29 | He made his living as a lithographer and by painting pictures of ships for naval officers , and had an arrangement with Griffin 's Bookshop in Portsmouth to take orders for his work , and the firm printed two volumes of The Royal Navy in a Series of Illustrations . |
| 30 | On his return to London he made his living as a novelist and freelance journalist ; between 1886 and 1889 he published ten novels . |