Example sentences of "his [noun pl] and [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He combed through his hair with his fingers and headed back to his clothes . |
| 2 | Droplets of blood ran over his fingers and dripped on to the floor . |
| 3 | Luke Calder was n't the kind of man to let anyone thwart his plans and get away with it ! |
| 4 | While initially suspicious of Benjamin Disraeli , he recognized his talents and served loyally under him from 1849 . |
| 5 | The instance here is of Stavrogin pretending to the provincial governor that he has a secret to communicate to him , and , when the unsuspecting old man ‘ hastily and trustfully ’ inclines his head , seizing his ear in his teeth and holding on to it , biting hard . |
| 6 | Quiss interrupted , baring his teeth and leaning closer towards the small attendant , who shrunk back so much further Ajayi felt sure it was about to overbalance and fall backwards — " Just do whatever you have to do and let's see if we can get out of this filthy place . " |
| 7 | My daughter , he told himself as he brushed his teeth and stared down at number 47 's red Mitsubishi , is like me , fat and untalented . |
| 8 | The bed was too narrow and Oliver muttered in his sleep and ground his teeth and thrashed about with his fists . |
| 9 | During the war he sold his interest in his galleries and went off to war ; following this six-year closure he reopened the Hans Road gallery but decided not to reopen the American galleries ; it was hard enough to get the good material for one shop . |
| 10 | When he had finished , Dr Jaffery rose to his feet , brushed the dust off his pyjamas and came over to Olivia and me . |
| 11 | His face was very close to hers and he suddenly took off his spectacles and looked deeply into her eyes . |
| 12 | As the stray bullets whistled across no-man's-land , Charlie fell on his knees and crawled back to the reserve trenches , to brief his section on what they might expect once they were pushed forward another hundred yards . |
| 13 | The priest rested his elbows on his knees and looked down at the floor . |
| 14 | Rostov lowered himself on to his knees and sat back on his heels . |
| 15 | Gritting his teeth against the stab of pain from his wounded leg , he dropped to his knees and grabbed frantically for the weapon with his left hand , expecting every moment that the enemy would burst in to finish him off . |
| 16 | ‘ Aye darlin' , ’ her husband clasped his knees and leaned closer to the flickering grey screen . |
| 17 | Maastricht was a package and Major kept the bits in he wanted for his supporters and opted out of the things that he did n't want , first and foremost being the Social Chapter . |
| 18 | Suddenly the grey horse was lame no more , but picked up his heels and leaped ahead with stretched neck and lunging shoulders , the prince lying forward over his neck and thrusting with him , as though he and his beast were one flesh . |
| 19 | Sharpe slammed back his heels and took off down the road as if the demons of hell were at his heels . |
| 20 | But he found the American rocking on his heels and smiling back at him engagingly , and the slow drawl of his address continued without pause . |
| 21 | He clicked his heels and bowed briefly towards a beautiful Eurasian girl . |
| 22 | And I could see I was going to get warmer still because the bullock was beginning to enjoy the game , kicking up his heels and frisking around after each attempt . |
| 23 | The fascination of this book is in its clear-sighted debunking of the myths which many have fondly mistaken for historical truth : that Columbus was really aiming for Asia , that he and his sailors thought the world was flat , that Queen Isabella pawned her jewels to finance his trips and came down with her husband to wave him off from the docks , or even ( a fondly-cherished delusion ) that these were journeys of discovery rather than intentional acquisition and expansion of the Spanish empire . |
| 24 | He shrugged his shoulders and looked dumbly at the grain on the wooden table . |
| 25 | Birkett shrugged his shoulders and went on with the fish cakes . |
| 26 | Nikos shrugged his shoulders and went on with his writing . |
| 27 | He waited another second , then shrugged his shoulders and went in through the double doors . |
| 28 | He looked at himself in his mind 's eye , squared his shoulders and carried on down the stairs . |
| 29 | He shrugged his shoulders and clambered out of the hole with his retinue following on behind . |
| 30 | To distract him she put an arm around his shoulders and moved away from the rail . |