Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [verb] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His mouth hardened to an implacable line . |
| 2 | His mouth curved into an ironic smile . |
| 3 | His mouth twisted into an angry line as he snarled , ‘ Women are the last commodity I need in my life . ’ |
| 4 | Realisation dawned and his mouth stretched into an unpleasant smile . |
| 5 | Rostov took a breath , and decided to wait until good manners forced his aide to behave in an approachable fashion . |
| 6 | MALCOLM ALLISON watched his side lose to an injury-time goal and was told by Derby boss Arthur Cox : ‘ You deserved to win . ’ |
| 7 | Robb said that he , too , was running as a Republican in elections for the state legislature in Little Rock , but the Republican Party was resisting his plan to run as an official candidate . |
| 8 | He paused by the windowsill on the way to his desk to peer at an African violet in a pot . |
| 9 | He becomes perfectly ‘ lissom ’ in body ; all strains and tensions disappear , and his body works like an oiled machine . |
| 10 | Each of them exercised his right to vote as an individual , but as Whips they were all expected to avoid any open expression of preference . |
| 11 | He looked down on her , his brow drawn into an angry frown . |
| 12 | Because his article appeared in an official magazine , it could be legally photocopied and circulated , and this , with foreign radio broadcasts , has made his critique even more widely known . |
| 13 | Other metaphors are associated with the observer 's eye : unlike the observer himself his eye behaves like an independent agent : it " reaches " ( 1 ) , it seeks " rest " from the " vain task of exploring " ( 4 ) , and it " follows " the cloud of smoke of the tug ( 6 ) . |
| 14 | On a tour of India , Diana turned her face away as Charles forced himself into a stilted show of affection and his kiss turned into an ugly grimace . |
| 15 | The apparent salvation of his movement came from an unexpected quarter . |
| 16 | His firm heard of an impending two-day Joint Monitoring Unit visit just three weeks after audit regulation was implemented last October , but it was later delayed until February . |
| 17 | Antoine 's failure to analyse his actions in anything other than a purely technical sense is explained primarily by the tempo of his life dictated by an excessive work load that leaves no time for leisure , for reflection , for self-scrutiny : |
| 18 | His secretary calls on an internal phone . |
| 19 | DRUNK driver Gary McKitten had his collar felt by an angry pet shop boss . |
| 20 | This development in his thought coincided with an ever-increasing interest in detailed , experimental , physical matters . |
| 21 | A man on horseback was circling the water , the reins slack in his hands to let his mount go at an idle walk . |
| 22 | He unlocked the relevant locker and removed the pale-blue Adidas holdall ; but when he turned away he found his path blocked by an attractive teenager in scruffy jeans and a baggy floral T-shirt . |
| 23 | Much of his downfall came from an over-zealous and extravagant interpretation of his role and duties as a landowner and grandee . |
| 24 | The sculpture is the ‘ Hope Dionysus ’ , a first-century BC Roman replica of a monumental Greek statue of a standing Dionysus with his arm resting on an archaistic female goddess , thought to be Aphrodite-Spes . |
| 25 | His mother came from an aristocratic background in Transylvania and had quit Hungary in 1956 for the United States . |
| 26 | Francis , as chief mourner , stood next to the vicar ; his paunchiness exaggerated by an old , dark suit that was too small for him . |
| 27 | He stopped , staring up at the old man , his face filled with an intent curiosity . |
| 28 | Adam stared at Fincara , but his face seemed like an old garment that would n't fit any more . |
| 29 | When Aby realized what had happened , his face looked like an old man 's . |
| 30 | God knows I 'm a failure , an insignificant speck of human nothingness trampled on indifferently by every casual passer-by , thought Dyson as he followed his wife out of the kitchen into the living-room , with his fists clenched in his trouser pockets and his face set in an unyielding frown , but there is one thing in this world that I 'm not going to stand for , and that 's being nagged by my wife . |