Example sentences of "his [noun] [vb past] [pron] in the " in BNC.

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1 His fingers laced themselves in the loose strands of her wet hair , pulling her head back so that her body was arched against him , forcing her to face the feverish gleam in the heavy-lidded grey eyes staring down at her so intently .
2 Inevitably , his steps led him in the end to the Corso , where the evening promenade was in progress .
3 Spurs coach Doug Livermore said : ‘ Andy 's young but in every pre-season game , he was so good , his performances hit us in the eye . ’
4 She heard the sharp intake of his breath , and then his lips found hers in the darkness and the fire was lit .
5 That many of his clients saw him in the former category is suggested by the fact that they frequently passed to him details of their restless and unsuitable executives in the hope that he would redeploy them .
6 What was Jesus doing when his parents found him in the Temple at the end of their search for him ?
7 His friend kicked him in the ribs and asked him what he was doing down there .
8 A man and his wife positioned themselves in the middle of one of the tree-lined avenues and sang ballads to a harmonica .
9 How right this intuitive decision proved to be and how well his intuition served him in the years ahead .
10 The farm 's now seven times bigger than it was when his grandfather ran it in the 1920's .
11 In those days he came in with a His coachman brought him in the trap and they got the twenty minutes past seven express train to Glasgow .
12 Mbanefo was a splendid man of total integrity and his colleagues impressed me in the same way .
13 His family visited him in the cells before leving the court .
14 An eighteen year old 's been convicted of violent disorder after his victim identified him in the street .
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