Example sentences of "his [adj] [noun] [vb past] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His contemptuous gaze swept her from head to foot , in swift appraisal . |
| 2 | ‘ His usual spin took him to a private beach at the Dragonara Hotel in St Julien with Denis and Frankie 's sister Betty . |
| 3 | His wrathful imagination led him to grotesque ideas … |
| 4 | His rebellious nature manifested itself in his collecting speciality , the Cubist masterpieces of Picasso , Léger , Braque and Gris . |
| 5 | His political inclinations got him into trouble again in 1940 , however . |
| 6 | Just as his political commitments exiled him from his own class , so my politics involve an awkward relationship with my own class . |
| 7 | Ceauşescu 's distancing himself from his fellow countrymen , whether for reasons of security or hygiene , meant that his daily life involved him in regular contact with relatively few people . |
| 8 | So much of his daily duty took him to the general neighbourhood of these places it was n't easy , but mercifully no bumping into the angry Charity occurred . |
| 9 | Enchanted , she too watched the sweet-faced boy who was chattering excitedly while his fond father plied him with Carnival cakes . |
| 10 | The work was interesting and the pay was excellent , but an offer from one of his old lecturers tempted him to Bristol . |
| 11 | That enabled Senna to qualify in fifth place and on race day his tactical mastery helped him to victory for a record sixth time , Alain Prost had been penalised for jumping the start . |
| 12 | Possessed by the movie camera with which his sadistic father tortured him in childhood ‘ Tome ’ skewers his girlfriend with a stiletto tripod leg while he films the grim business . |
| 13 | No , he was n't — one glance at his chilling expression convinced her of that . |
| 14 | His dark eyes met hers as if he felt her surreptitious appraisal , and she found herself at the receiving end of that long , sardonic smile . |
| 15 | His personal troubles sent him in search of analysts for both himself and his wife , sometimes with disastrous consequences . |
| 16 | His medium stature condemned him to character parts — unless a choreographer created something especially for him , as John Cranko did in Prince of the Pagodas and Bonne-Bouche and Kenneth MacMillan in Noctambules . |
| 17 | His previous experience stood him in good stead . |
| 18 | THE father of an alleged rape victim told a jury yesterday of the shock he experienced when his 22-year-old daughter roused him in the middle of the night . |
| 19 | And his hard mouth claimed hers in a burning kiss that sent her pulses racing , a muffled gasp of pleasure coming from her as her mouth opened hungrily beneath his . |
| 20 | His natural caution kept him on the political sidelines , although he was well placed to know what was going on at the highest level , as the ‘ Historia Roffensis ’ , written by a clerk in his entourage , demonstrates . |
| 21 | His sudden smile transformed him to an astonishing degree , revealing the man behind the remote consultant . |
| 22 | Seb let himself out through the gate and Carrie was half-way back to the house when his soft call brought her to a halt . |
| 23 | His dazzling skills lifted them to a four-goal victory as he scored one and set up two of his striking partner Kevin Campbell 's three goals . |
| 24 | His homeward journey took him via Mainz , where he gave a concert before the elector ; Mannheim , where Figaro was being performed ; Augsburg , Munich and Linz . |
| 25 | THE SON of a British Army officer yesterday described to the Aldington libel jury in the High Court how his late father told him of his ‘ horror ’ when he received the order to repatriate Cossacks at the end of the second world war . |
| 26 | His voice was indolent , but his brilliant eyes watched her with an intensity that belied that lazy unconcern . |
| 27 | His great horse earned it with apparent ease — but lost 29lb in the process and came home to Ballydoyle more exhausted than after any of his previous races . |
| 28 | His long fingers held her in a grip that Isabel knew she could not escape without hurting herself — and probably not even then . |
| 29 | Hoccleve ‘ s interest for us is accidental : the pressures of his mental illness pushed him into vivid personal confession in an age in which autobiography was almost always purely conventional . |
| 30 | Persistent allegations of ill-treatment of suspects and discontent with his old-style discipline left him in the cold . |