Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he actually took her arm , quite simply and confidently , and rushed her on the wings of his enthusiasm down through the green complexities of the bowl , between the crisp , serrated walls , across the fragments of tiled pavement , past the forum pillars , down to where the emerald turf sloped off under a token wire barrier to the riverside path and the waters of the Comer . |
| 2 | For statistics alone are unlikely to stop a 17-year-old putting his foot down in a lethal weapon . |
| 3 | Instead his lips compressed , as if he were physically stemming a tide of words , and he slung his briefcase on to the bare chart table . |
| 4 | ‘ If he blows his mouth off before the Wee GP , ’ he said , ‘ I 'm for castration . |
| 5 | Some of the sepoys were shot or cut down as they struggled to get over the possessions ' which stuck out jaggedly here and there ; a sowar pitched headless from his horse on to a silted-up velvet chaise longue ; a warrior from Oudh dived head first in a glittering shower through a case of tropical birds while a comrade at his elbow died spreadeagled on the mud-frozen wheels of the gorse bruiser . |
| 6 | Roland drew his breath in minor shock : Maud said , ‘ Oh , the dolls ’ — and Sir George brought his light back from a blank mirror entwined with gilded roses and focused it on the three rigid figures , semi-recumbent under a dusty counterpane , in a substantial if miniature four-poster bed . |
| 7 | He pulled his cowl up against the hot midday sun. ‘ shall we collect our horses ? ’ |
| 8 | MILLWALL player-manager Mick McCarthy blundered his side out of the Anglo-Italian Cup last night . |
| 9 | Henry cast his mind back to the small talk of a small town . |
| 10 | Henry Tyler cast his mind back to the fatal evening . |
| 11 | Before Wednesday 's Coca-Cola defeat at Nottingham Forest , Thorsvedt had gone five games without conceding a goal , and he puts his run down to a new carefree approach to the job which Chelsea will experience today . |
| 12 | He had mistaken it for an ashtray and I watched from the back seat as he painstakingly flicked his ash on to the small pile of dead matches and cigarette ends that he 'd accumulated in the bowl of the vent . |
| 13 | Bull O'Malley threw his overcoat on to a nearby couch and sat down heavily . |
| 14 | He pulls his foreskin back from the great bruised rose . |
| 15 | Relentlessly , the amazing force of the tide rolled and twisted his body along like a dead sheep . |
| 16 | SACKED Coleraine surgeon dramatically resigned today shortly after being given his job back by the Northern Health Board . |
| 17 | BILLY Hardy got his comeback off to a winning start at the McEwans Centre , Houghton-le-Spring , last night with a five round demolition of plucky Yorkshireman Chris Clarkson . |
| 18 | Thus it was that , as a grinning Lio ! rt swung back and brought his sword around in a lazy arc , time ran into treacle . |
| 19 | He flicked the garment around his left arm and brought his sword up in a sweeping arc . |
| 20 | Rostov grinned , brought his sword back in a fancy two-handed reverse , bowed , then somersaulted exuberantly . |
| 21 | Boon was their hero … he cruised to his century and set his team up for a big score … |
| 22 | With the Sky Blues set to overtake the Canaries if they win at Highfield Road , Gould took his team down to the local for pint of two of Guinness ! |
| 23 | Luke had turned his attention back to the other women , and none of them had attention to spare for anyone but him . |
| 24 | Even before Juron ordered the targeting of the Titan that had been touched by the vortex implosion , Lexandro wrenched his attention back to the immediate peril . |
| 25 | The crowd faded , and he turned his attention back to the unconscious man at his feet . |
| 26 | To that end he now turned his attention back to the military progress of the war . |
| 27 | Out of this , forms emerge , solidify , and then disintegrate again as the spectator turns his attention back from the individual forms to the painting as a whole . |
| 28 | Gabriel followed the even pattern of pawmarks as far as possible : they carried his eye up to a distant knoll crowned with trees and wounded with great white scars of bare chalk . |
| 29 | Karelius nodded and took his drink over to a small table by the window . |
| 30 | He climbed on one side of the desks , stood on tiptoe , and , forcing up the skylight , eased his head through into the icy December wind . |