Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [verb] [prep] the [noun] " 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 | She could still hear the faint murmurs of Tom Russell and his sister talking on the veranda , and it distracted her from the real purpose of this time alone , which was not to go on reliving that moment when his hand had covered her own , but to obediently follow his suggestion of giving herself time to fully think this through . |
| 3 | Our first Secretary of State for National Heritage had spent his Easter hols at the Lucerne festival , where the London Symphony Orchestra ( last year 's Arts Council grants : over £1 million ) proved its world-class rank with a ‘ peerless ’ Mahler One . |
| 4 | His enthusiasm led to the formation of a club at his school , Stokesley Primary , and this encouraged other youngsters to learn the game . |
| 5 | One evening Rosslyn 's horse came up from the paddock as usual for his dinner , but instead of practically knocking her over like he normally did in his enthusiasm to get at the food , he stopped quietly at her side and put his head in her hands , saying non-verbally : ‘ I hurt ! ’ |
| 6 | He will stay on in a consultancy role for a few months until his successor settles into the job . |
| 7 | Alex gives us some extra variety , he is a genuine spinner of the ball and he is keen to get his career moving forward after finding his progress blocked by the presence of Phil Tufnell at Middlesex . |
| 8 | He was well pleased with the fruits that his Technique bore at the school . |
| 9 | Paul felt his heart sink at the sight of them . |
| 10 | The greater part dealt with the Greek colonies but his heart lay with the Scyths and their affinities , a topic which he addressed in his 1942 British Academy lecture , The Art of the Northern Nomads ( 1944 ) . |
| 11 | The thundering of his heart merged with the beat of her own blood , deafening her to everything around them . |
| 12 | The look in his eye , when it met Gabriel 's , frightened the boy more than ever — made his heart cower in the back of its cage . |
| 13 | Charley Hoskins had been trained as a blacksmith but , like so many Saltash boys , had his heart set on the sea and it was when he had joined the Royal Navy that he met Ben Bellaser . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | With term approaching fast , it was quite likely that Andrew was coming to London on department business , and had seen his opportunity to call in the debt . |
| 16 | The 32-year-old Irishman said his struggle to return to the form which won him the world title and Tours of France and Italy in 1987 his 1987 level , when he won a world title and the Tours of France and Italy , had placed strains on his family . |
| 17 | His rhetoric acknowledged the end of the Cold War , but his actions or lack of them spoke volumes about his inability to throw off the attitudes and beliefs that have shaped his entire political life . |
| 18 | He forced his wife to put up with having his mistress living in the house with them . |
| 19 | So , in Danger Rock , the practical knowledge of small ships and heavy seas belonging to the sailor known as Shelty is available to the apprentice of eighteen , Jim Naylor , who for his part rises to the challenge of danger ( when he and his fellow apprentices land on an uninhabited island off the Newfoundland coast after their ship has been holed by ice ) because he has been trained with command in mind . |
| 20 | She saw Charlton Heston standing up in a jeep , dressed as a desert general , his shirt open to the waist , binoculars hanging against his hairy chest . |
| 21 | He was sweating slightly , overheated from the bath , his shirt open at the neck . |
| 22 | He was strolling down the steep narrow street towards the sea , his hands deep in his pockets and his shirt open at the throat , very pale and Londonish , looking about him with the fond , proprietorial air of an Englishman returning to a favourite spot abroad . |
| 23 | If he committed the crime under an insane delusion , his liability depends on the question whether he would have been liable had the facts been as he imagined them to be . |
| 24 | He turned about , the silken skirts of his robe hissing across the floor 's surface . |
| 25 | I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his kind remarks about the work of the Select Committee on European legislation made during the debate on 21 November . |
| 26 | His foot went through the ice as if it had been paper . |
| 27 | The sound of his foot tapping on the floor . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | His foot twitched under the table and he began to play with his spoon again . |
| 30 | His foot caught in the grass , and he sprawled headlong . |