Example sentences of "his [noun sg] and [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Curtius Kenn was a bloody nuisance , and sooner or later someone would put a ScumStopper under his heart and get himself free drinks on the house for a month . |
| 2 | He could not understand Modigliani 's disregard for both his health and his money and found it shocking . |
| 3 | I got my hand on his jaw and forced it open . |
| 4 | His hands stroked her body in sensual caresses , arousing her unfairly , and she desperately wanted to lean into his vital , masculine strength and inhale the fresh scent of his skin and feel its smooth perfection . |
| 5 | ‘ Perhaps I shall watch while she drinks her fill of his manhood and sucks him dry of his accursed wolfseed . |
| 6 | But when they arrived at the meeting it was Oldfield who was wearing Branson 's horn-rimmed spectacles , riffling papers in his briefcase and doing his best to look brisk and businesslike , while Branson gesticulated in a parody of artistic eccentricity . |
| 7 | The implications of this observation were very far-reaching and , as the months passed , Alexander slowly began to notice that , when he pulled his head back , he also had a tendency to lift his chest and shorten his whole stature . |
| 8 | She levered herself away from him with a hand on his chest and looked him dead in the eye . |
| 9 | Caroline slammed her hands against his chest and thrust herself free of his embrace . |
| 10 | Beat that fear and victor was certain , and victory brought glory and fame and medals and money and , best of all , sweetest of all , most glorious and wondrous of all , the modest teasing grin of a short black-haired Emperor who would pat the Dragoon General as though he was a faithful dog , and the thought of that Imperial favour made the General quicken his horse and raise his battered sword . |
| 11 | Sharpe slowed his horse and dragged his big unwieldy sword out of its scabbard . |
| 12 | A fit and healthy 10 year old , he was playing in the lounge with his brother when he fell on a knitting needle , which pierced his neck and punctured his spinal cord . |
| 13 | The petite blonde star refused to go in his car and drove her own vehicle to his central London offices . |
| 14 | Tom , when he woke later had insisted that they should absorb some culture , had chivvied them both into his car and driven them first to the Villa Lante . |
| 15 | He slapped both hands palms down on the table , slopping his tea and making them all jump , totally unselfconscious in his misery . |
| 16 | Best believes Brady 's return to the fold would enhance the prospects of Irish success in Italy , but the most gifted Irish footballer of his generation insisted last night that there was no question of him changing his mind and resuming his international career . |
| 17 | I am quite pleased that Auckland fly-half Grant Fox has changed his mind and made himself available for international action . |
| 18 | Italian giants Inter Milan are understood to be watching the situation closely , with Pearce hoping Clough changes his mind and puts him more in line with the kind of wages being picked up by some of his England team-mates . |
| 19 | Are we to kill his scholarship and make him unhappy ? |
| 20 | To get the best of a player like Back you have to develop the back row around him , to make the most of his speed and to cover his natural deficiency at the line-out . |
| 21 | After all those years in Paris he found the bright sunshine and the sparkling translucence of the air disturbed his concentration and made it difficult for him to work . |
| 22 | Motionless , unmindful of the cold or the swirling fog , he watched the man below , waiting for boredom to slacken his concentration and make him careless . |
| 23 | Tudor moved uncomfortably in his seat and sipped his half pint self-consciously . |
| 24 | He pointed to his seat and urged anyone interested to contact him then and there . |
| 25 | Corbett dug into his purse and handed her some coins . |
| 26 | The second set unfolded in much the same way , with the Herts player — who recently scored another major success when he beat the nationally-ranked Neil Dyson in a county friendly — rally from 4–5 down to hold his serve and make it all-square , before breaking Ainley 's service in the following set to go 6–5 ahead . |
| 27 | When a boy arrived at Eton he was allocated to a " classical tutor " who oversaw his work and gave him special tuition . |
| 28 | In so far as Freud thought he had done psychology as a natural science , he has been vulnerable to critics within psychology who have applied natural scientific criteria to his work and found it wanting . |
| 29 | He swallowed the last of his lager and contemplated his empty glass . |
| 30 | He clenched his fist and exhibited his bulging biceps . |