Example sentences of "his [noun pl] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | RUSSIA teetered on the brink of anarchy last night as President Boris Yeltsin virtually declared war on a conservative legislature that had bluntly rejected his attempts to arrive at a power-sharing agreement . |
| 2 | He was not an intellectual ; he made constant use of anecdotal evidence and some of his views bordered on the banal , but one of his great strengths has always been his resolute attachment to a few simple conservative themes . |
| 3 | With Osbern of Eu and a group of his own leaders and their following , Thorfinn had visited the Lothians and made his views known to the offending bands with frightening precision . |
| 4 | Ludens , steadying Marcus 's head with one hand , his fingers plunged into the short hair , and slowly and firmly moving the very sharp instrument , felt like an acolyte performing a dangerous task , perhaps intended as a test . |
| 5 | ‘ You thought ? ’ he prompted gently , his fingers moving in a gentle caressing movement on the soft fabric of her sweater . |
| 6 | She watched his fingers gouging into the smooth , stinking mud , the bottom . |
| 7 | His fingers tightened with a menacing precision that kept her absolutely motionless . |
| 8 | His eyes flashed and his fingers tightened in a vicious grip . |
| 9 | She flinched as Stephen laid his hands on her naked shoulders and planted a hungry kiss on the side of her neck his fingers fumbling in the thick folds of the towel , seeking her breasts . |
| 10 | Robyn watched as his hands moulded and caressed each silken mound , heard the gasp of delight escape from her own lips as his fingers played with the darkened peaks . |
| 11 | ‘ I thought you were going to undress me very slowly ? ’ she murmured , as his fingers went to the satin-covered buttons on her blouse . |
| 12 | His fingers closed on the soggy bundle . |
| 13 | His fingers closed around the soft flesh of her upper arms , as if he intended to shake her , then his face changed , the anger was leashed , and he said , ‘ You 're shivering . ’ |
| 14 | His fingers tangled in the smooth swath of her hair . |
| 15 | He reached out and let his hand trail up her bare arm , watching her face as his fingers slid over the smooth silk of her skin . |
| 16 | His hand had slid to her thigh , and she felt the lurch of dismay as his fingers slid over the silky fabric of her dress . |
| 17 | Despite protracted negotiations , the Spaniard will stick to his plans to play in a conflicting event in Japan instead of the World Cup in Spain in November . |
| 18 | He showed some nepotistic , or rather patrimonial skill in getting his sons placed in the public service ; his failure to have amassed even a modest competence of wealth may be taken to argue either extreme probity or reckless extravagance , but more likely arose from having over-extended his credit in trying to send supplies to Ireland back in 1642 . |
| 19 | Both his coups began with a ruthless pre-emptive strike from a position of strength . |
| 20 | Both his coups began with a ruthless pre-emptive strike from a position of strength . |
| 21 | Now the army is back in control and has marked its victory by boosting up new pictures of Saddam , always with the same smile , the white of his teeth emphasized by the dark moustache . |
| 22 | ‘ That is not how one addresses me , ’ he said , his teeth showing in a humourless smile . |
| 23 | and does n't smile like other people — his teeth pose in the nude |
| 24 | His creditors met on the 28th and they read a letter from their debtor telling them the law was an enemy he could not conquer . |
| 25 | Although he never weighed more than 175 pounds , he had the build of a heavyweight from the waist up , and he fought the world 's leading heavyweights , with few of his fights lasting beyond the first few rounds . |
| 26 | He had begun by characterizing the struggle for an energy policy as the ‘ moral equivalent of war ’ , but then , for long periods , his enthusiasm for this cause appeared to wane while his proposals floundered in the legislative maze . |
| 27 | Despite a spirited correspondence in both the London and Tyneside newspapers about the need for ventilation and the defects of Davy 's lamp , Holmes was unable to get his proposals considered by the rigid and uncompromising owners . |
| 28 | The great aristocratic houses were real absentees at court and a visit of a grandee to his estates ranked as a great event in local history . |
| 29 | His words came as the parliamentary chairman , Ruslan Khasbulatov , Mr Yeltsin 's arch-rival , appeared to retract his demands that the president be removed . |
| 30 | His words rang in the clear air and she could feel her head swimming from the enormity of what he had just said . |