Example sentences of "his [noun] [vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My attention had been so far away and the dog had timed his jump to a split second so that his bark came at the highest point , his teeth only inches from my face . |
| 2 | The Prince acknowledged their greetings as he and his favourite sat in the two great throne-like chairs at the high table . |
| 3 | He flicked his own eyes towards the rear seat , and his heart leapt as the black man 's eyes narrowed slightly then glanced at the figure in the back . |
| 4 | ‘ I thought you were going to undress me very slowly ? ’ she murmured , as his fingers went to the satin-covered buttons on her blouse . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | His support came from a small group of household knights who were to be well rewarded for their work , but he was not indebted to any great noble for his position . |
| 8 | Some of Cade 's allies in the city were men of position , although the bulk of his support came from the poorer classes ( 128 , pp.111 , 115 ) . |
| 9 | Suddenly his foot turned on a sharp stone and he almost fell . |
| 10 | His foot slipped on the wet grass and he fell . |
| 11 | He was about four feet away when his foot caught in the electric flex he was dragging and he stumbled forward off balance . |
| 12 | In real life he would have been sued for millions and his story turned into a mini-series , but it 's nice to dream . |
| 13 | A canoeist died when his canoe overturned in the swollen River Ogwen in north Wales . |
| 14 | When his breathing returned to a steady pace , he said coolly , ‘ We 'd better pack after breakfast . ’ |
| 15 | When William Joyce ( ‘ Lord Haw-Haw ’ ) began his revulsion felt by the British public , if the reaction was not mirthful , was due to the fact that he was , in a sense , a stranger to them by reason of his apostasy and unnatural situation and therefore he carried far less conviction than a less articulate but sincere German would have done . |
| 16 | Both his coups began with a ruthless pre-emptive strike from a position of strength . |
| 17 | Both his coups began with a ruthless pre-emptive strike from a position of strength . |
| 18 | Paatelainen had only been introduced as a substitute but he certainly made his presence felt in no uncertain manner with his 56th minute strike . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | His words came as the parliamentary chairman , Ruslan Khasbulatov , Mr Yeltsin 's arch-rival , appeared to retract his demands that the president be removed . |
| 21 | His words rang in the clear air and she could feel her head swimming from the enormity of what he had just said . |
| 22 | His bulk bulged over the invisible box he perched on . |
| 23 | Turning to deal with the next , his glance went to the intercommunicating doorway . |
| 24 | Delaney had already got one leg over the door frame that led below , and would have stopped for no one , except that his glance took in the obvious truth . |
| 25 | The river washed down on its run through Dublin into the sea , and a solitary man with a low-slung dog at his heels walked along the opposite bank . |
| 26 | His shoulders sloped at an alarming angle so that he looked like a pyramid wearing a hat . |
| 27 | As he hit the water , his legs flailed in the mid-air running motion like a character in a Tom and Jerry cartoon and he quickly struck out for a convenient ladder as I hastily brought Venturous to a standstill some feet off the pier . |
| 28 | His damp back plucked at his shirt , and his legs prickled in the heavy trousers . |
| 29 | The anguished force of the stroke drove the Corsican to his knees and , paralysed with shock , he remained in this posture , groping ineffectually for the bone-handled knife as his blood spurted onto the red dust around him . |
| 30 | CHELSEA 's new manager , Dave Webb , yesterday discovered the magnitude of his task as his side crashed to a 2-0 defeat against Blackburn Rovers in the English Premier League to make it 13 games without a win . |