Example sentences of "his [noun] [vb past] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says he can remember he was burnt in the fire and that his sister died in the fire . |
| 2 | Campbell was little concerned with the lives of ordinary seamen ; nor did he reflect the alarm which many of his contemporaries felt about the sea and the behaviour of those who sailed on it . |
| 3 | His enthusiasm led to the formation of a club at his school , Stokesley Primary , and this encouraged other youngsters to learn the game . |
| 4 | He was well pleased with the fruits that his Technique bore at the school . |
| 5 | In addition to its constitutional implications , the dispute also raised the possibility that charges against Noriega would have to be dismissed because the taping of his calls went beyond the routine monitoring applied to other federal inmates and , therefore , represented a violation of his rights . |
| 6 | His coming displayed no jot of his inner feelings , though his heart sank at the array of knee breeches and crinolines , and at last it occurred to him that the lunatics he had met upstairs were in Dickensian dress . |
| 7 | His fingers clawed at the air , his eyes bulged , spittle sprayed from his lips . |
| 8 | Dong , sensing his brother 's fear , reached quietly behind him in the darkness with his free hand until his fingers brushed against the face of the malaria victim ; the clammy flesh , already growing cold , was slippery with rain and the sweat of the fatal climatic fever , and in the moment that his hand recoiled from the contact Dong knew that they would not be able to avoid the horror of a burial this time . |
| 9 | He looked up , even paler if that were possible , and his fingers trembled on the ruler . |
| 10 | His fingers drummed on the door-frame . |
| 11 | So real was the sensation that his fingers slipped on the handle of the tea cup and when the tea spilt into the saucer he exclaimed , ‘ Oh ! |
| 12 | His fingers slid through the wetness on the swell of her cheekbone . |
| 13 | ‘ Look at me , ’ Rourke demanded softly , and when she did n't obey his fingers slid around the curve of her throat , his thumb tracing the line of her jaw . |
| 14 | His fingers groped for the junction of the pipes . |
| 15 | I expect his notes went into the university archives , and the rest of his belongings would have been sold off . |
| 16 | His foot went through the ice as if it had been paper . |
| 17 | She observed the way his foot twitched under the table with strange flicks , as though he was trying to shake off something stuck to the sole of his shoe . |
| 18 | His foot twitched under the table and he began to play with his spoon again . |
| 19 | As he turned , his foot slipped off the joist . |
| 20 | Horowitz , more stoical , was already at the counter while his case passed through the type of machine used at airports . |
| 21 | He made a clean take-off , skidded down the face , and tracked the wave into the hazardous zone known as the ‘ Bermuda triangle ’ , somersaulting as his board stalled on the sandbank . |
| 22 | The conflict between Chilperic and his half-brothers began on the death of their father Chlothar I. More interestingly , Merovech 's bid for power followed his uncle 's murder ; similarly Gundovald , who had been more or less ignored when he first returned to Gaul in 582 , became a plausible candidate for the throne when Chilperic was killed . |
| 23 | His measure consisted of the risk premium divided by the funds ’ standard deviation of returns . |
| 24 | But to conclude from this that the quality of his faith lay in the fact that he trusted God for no reason whatever is quite illegitimate . |
| 25 | Then the Holy Spirit , the Spirit of life , makes his presence felt by the way of love and gives life to all . |
| 26 | His Mum went to the drawer in his Dad 's bureau and took out some papers , leafing through them . |
| 27 | Just in time before his Mum turned from the cooker , he jumped off the roof . |
| 28 | I know what time you went to sleep because Rob 's dad came in , or his mum hammered on the door and said cut it out lads , go to sleep . |
| 29 | ‘ You can not be so innocent , ’ he said tightly , but even so his teeth nibbled at the lobe of her ear as his breath quickened . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm all right , love , ’ he said , his teeth gritted against the pain . |