Example sentences of "his [noun] [was/were] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stared meaningfully at the place where his fingers were circling her upper arm , and he made a wry face and released her . |
| 2 | His fingers were spanning her tiny waist , smoothing inexorably up the fabric of her bodice , shaping over the curves where her breasts swelled out like ripe melons ready for him to taste . |
| 3 | His response was to renew his ministerial team . |
| 4 | ‘ Once , we made a recording of John and hid it behind the radio while his mum was making us some tea , ’ he chuckled . |
| 5 | Although Cézanne 's painting was profoundly original , his ambition was to use his own intensive study of nature to revivify classical or traditional painting ; the means he used , although they were highly personal , were founded on the optical discoveries of the Impressionists . |
| 6 | He told me his plan was to murder his hated guest that night , with the weapon he had shown me . |
| 7 | His plan was to pre-empt my own and it is true that he was first to publish some of his proposals . |
| 8 | The duration of his restoration was deemed his 49th regnal year — in other words , the reign of Edward was ignored . |
| 9 | No one like himself , a partial cripple , with a badly scarred body — his limp was paining him this week — and with a ruined face into the bargain could hope to aspire to such a Bird of Paradise ; he could only imagine what she looked like in the clothes she normally wore . |
| 10 | His instinct was to draw her closer to him . |
| 11 | With the emerging pattern of village colleges , his LEA was providing its own programmes of liberal adult education and at the April 1939 meeting of the RAC he was successful in adding a clause to the constitution of the Committee to enable other ‘ approved associations ’ to provide courses of the Chapter III variety in addition to the WEA . |
| 12 | Pride that demanded she ask Naylor Massingham for a better reason for sacking her than the fact that his cousin was making himself ill over her . |
| 13 | While his friends were earning their few pennies for a week 's work as paper-boys and butcher 's assistants , Dave was caddying for a round at Hollinwell , the championship course near his home . |
| 14 | These companies all had able and high-calibre people who knew their respective businesses very well , but his objective was to inject his own ideas into the decision-making process in the hope that this would produce an added beneficial dimension . |
| 15 | A similar position was adopted by Bill Vander Zalm , the Premier of British Columbia , who had suggested on June 22 that his province was reconsidering its initial support for the Accord . |
| 16 | His father 's arm was round his shoulders and his mother was ruffling his black hair . |
| 17 | He guessed his mother was making it all up just to frighten him and to stop him ever going out of the house alone . |
| 18 | She blinked up at him , horribly aware that his nearness was having its usual unsettling effect on her blood pressure . |
| 19 | Not nearly as much as his nearness was upsetting her nervous system now , she thought . |
| 20 | His nearness was making her uneasy , then suddenly his hand came down on hers , halting its movements , sending her gaze flying up to meet his . |