Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [verb] [pron] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lay there dead , his blood soaking my shoulder for half an hour . |
| 2 | Jezrael leaped at the man in a balletic kick , somersaulting as the back of his neck snagged her foot for a second . |
| 3 | When Dr A B Granville published his famous and best-selling guidebook , The Spas of England in 1841 , he made very clear in the opening chapters of his mammoth work his distaste for what he regarded as ‘ the lower orders of society ’ . |
| 4 | In the event , the most important repercussion of the appointment was to deprive Kent of the championship , for it proved such a traumatic time for Cowdrey that his team lost their way for a few weeks , and missed the title by just one agonizing point . |
| 5 | Sitting back and taking it all in is another former hip hop dancer , Moet Lo , who lost his Wall Street messenger job when his firm discovered his penchant for the five-finger discount at Polo stores . |
| 6 | They were sure only of one thing : that somehow his life explained his stand for an independent Scotland . |
| 7 | His resolution to punish his wife for letting a stranger in at such a time would have to wait . |
| 8 | He wished the quality of his care expressed his love for her more obviously — less abrasively . |
| 9 | Perhaps , he concluded , in his letter terminating their correspondence for months to come , it was all just a terrible nightmare which would only be understood later ? |