Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he actually took her arm , quite simply and confidently , and rushed her on the wings of his enthusiasm down through the green complexities of the bowl , between the crisp , serrated walls , across the fragments of tiled pavement , past the forum pillars , down to where the emerald turf sloped off under a token wire barrier to the riverside path and the waters of the Comer . |
| 2 | For statistics alone are unlikely to stop a 17-year-old putting his foot down in a lethal weapon . |
| 3 | Instead his lips compressed , as if he were physically stemming a tide of words , and he slung his briefcase on to the bare chart table . |
| 4 | Jazz tossed his hair back for the first time to take in what was going on . |
| 5 | ‘ If he blows his mouth off before the Wee GP , ’ he said , ‘ I 'm for castration . |
| 6 | Some of the sepoys were shot or cut down as they struggled to get over the possessions ' which stuck out jaggedly here and there ; a sowar pitched headless from his horse on to a silted-up velvet chaise longue ; a warrior from Oudh dived head first in a glittering shower through a case of tropical birds while a comrade at his elbow died spreadeagled on the mud-frozen wheels of the gorse bruiser . |
| 7 | DEAN Bullock was the hero for Three Rivers after a sudden death victory pushed his club through to the third round of the Thornton Cup . |
| 8 | Roland drew his breath in minor shock : Maud said , ‘ Oh , the dolls ’ — and Sir George brought his light back from a blank mirror entwined with gilded roses and focused it on the three rigid figures , semi-recumbent under a dusty counterpane , in a substantial if miniature four-poster bed . |
| 9 | He pulled his cowl up against the hot midday sun. ‘ shall we collect our horses ? ’ |
| 10 | The world 's No. 1 batsman , according to the ratings , was two days into his 40th year , and had once again set his side up for a further victory to help blot out the misery of 1987–89 . |
| 11 | ‘ Once you start saving yourselves for big games and ducking out of tackles , you get into the wrong frame of mind and that is very dangerous , ’ warned Howard , who is hoping to steer his side through to the second round of the FA Cup for the first time for 17 years . |
| 12 | ‘ Once you start saving yourselves for big games and ducking out of tackles , you get into the wrong frame of mind and that is very dangerous , ’ warned Howard , who is hoping to steer his side through to the second round of the FA Cup for the first time for 17 years . |
| 13 | MILLWALL player-manager Mick McCarthy blundered his side out of the Anglo-Italian Cup last night . |
| 14 | Lord Redcliffe-Maud considered that Senior was the only one of the eleven commissioners who had made his mind up before the first meeting of the Royal Commission ( Wood 1976:8 ) . |
| 15 | Henry cast his mind back to the small talk of a small town . |
| 16 | Henry Tyler cast his mind back to the fatal evening . |
| 17 | The Detective Sergeant unzipped his coveralls , collected his labelled brown paper bags and put his equipment back in the two cases . |
| 18 | Before Wednesday 's Coca-Cola defeat at Nottingham Forest , Thorsvedt had gone five games without conceding a goal , and he puts his run down to a new carefree approach to the job which Chelsea will experience today . |
| 19 | He snatched his gaze back to the latter . |
| 20 | He had mistaken it for an ashtray and I watched from the back seat as he painstakingly flicked his ash on to the small pile of dead matches and cigarette ends that he 'd accumulated in the bowl of the vent . |
| 21 | Bull O'Malley threw his overcoat on to a nearby couch and sat down heavily . |
| 22 | He pulls his foreskin back from the great bruised rose . |
| 23 | Relentlessly , the amazing force of the tide rolled and twisted his body along like a dead sheep . |
| 24 | Ampofo was being outboxed , but then amazingly put his opponent down in the third and fifth rounds . |
| 25 | SACKED Coleraine surgeon dramatically resigned today shortly after being given his job back by the Northern Health Board . |
| 26 | BILLY Hardy got his comeback off to a winning start at the McEwans Centre , Houghton-le-Spring , last night with a five round demolition of plucky Yorkshireman Chris Clarkson . |
| 27 | Thus it was that , as a grinning Lio ! rt swung back and brought his sword around in a lazy arc , time ran into treacle . |
| 28 | He flicked the garment around his left arm and brought his sword up in a sweeping arc . |
| 29 | Rostov grinned , brought his sword back in a fancy two-handed reverse , bowed , then somersaulted exuberantly . |
| 30 | Boon was their hero … he cruised to his century and set his team up for a big score … |