Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [vb pp] with [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His breathing quickened with raw urgency , but he held himself rigid above the provocation of her softly rounded femininity . |
| 2 | Involuntarily she pulled it more securely around her in a jerky movement , her flush deepening as his mouth curved with mocking laughter . |
| 3 | His mouth tightened with remembered pain and anger . |
| 4 | And this firm he thinks because he 's gon na have his roof done with these roof tiles , these new type they 're gon na give him them ! |
| 5 | His mind filled with primitive lore and with a sense of awkwardness at the numerous exhausting social roles he had to play in addition to that of the London banker , Eliot wrote to Mary Hutchinson in 1920 worrying about his inherited characteristics and suggesting that he might be a savage himself . |
| 6 | He does n't take loads of drugs and sleep around and get his picture taken with other stars , but then again he does n't make a point of not doing those things either — he 's just a regular guy . |
| 7 | Next day the merchant , his lorry loaded with 200 bags of coal , sets out to make deliveries . |
| 8 | His smile broadened with growing satisfaction . |
| 9 | His forehead furrowed with fierce concentration . |
| 10 | His strategy changed with bewildering suddenness , but everything he did was devoted to the same end , that was certain . |
| 11 | ‘ Twelfth century , ’ he said , his voice tinged with quiet pride . |
| 12 | Nahum got up at once and went to her side , his concern tinged with ever-present hope . |
| 13 | His hand moved with agonising slowness over the silken skin of her thigh and the breath caught in her throat , everything within her willing his hand to move closer and closer still to the very centre of her need for him . |
| 14 | The green N. nigricans male and his female spawned with little interference from the Malawis . |
| 15 | A chicken farmer in Norfolk had the front of his house sprayed with liquid manure and a pharmaceutical laboratory was broken into in South Wales and about fifty white mice released . ’ |
| 16 | The security guard hurried up to him , his face stamped with official displeasure . |
| 17 | His face twisted with such hate that she almost stepped back . |
| 18 | His face filled with sly mockery , he allowed his eyes to slide insultingly over her , and a sneer pulled at his mouth as he said softly , ‘ Maybe I was wrong to ditch you after all . |