Example sentences of "his [adj] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One might speculate , as I did myself several years ago ( Widdowson 1979 : Paper 15 ) , that it is because the learner draws variably on his interim competence according to the situational demands made upon it ; that his interlanguage , in other words , contains variable rules as well as invariant categorial ones and in this respect resembles fully fledged languages ( see Ellis 1985 , Chapter 4 ) . |
| 2 | He had been there at least a week , a stain of blood spreading out from his face across the bottom mattress , his shattered body preserved by the freezing February weather . |
| 3 | Jimmy and Cardiff recoiled , but Rohmer remained calmly where he was , as the impact flung Frye 's sundered head forward , his shattered face smacking into the wall … and rapidly becoming absorbed there . |
| 4 | His right fist went into the fat stomach hallway to the elbow . |
| 5 | There , at Kemp 's home again I 'm guessing — a quarrel took place in which Kemp was struck over the head and sent stumbling in his own living room , where his right temple crashed against the kerb of the fire-place — and where he died . |
| 6 | He reduced speed considerably , dipped his headlights , began to crawl round the bends , his right foot poised over the accelerator . |
| 7 | He had a punk haircut and used his right knee to drive down the middle of the road . |
| 8 | Mr Popple peered over the side of the toilet , his right hand leaning on the toilet-seat . |
| 9 | Cardiac the patient blindfolded with a towel , his right hand placed in the mouth to stifle his own whimpers , the needle eased in to the dramatic furrow of the fifth rib space . |
| 10 | He paused as he always did at the foot of the stairs , his left hand holding the lamp , his right hand resting on the banisters . |
| 11 | Then , coming to the point where he said ‘ But , my fliends , all that has changed … ’ , he suddenly straightened up , his left hand swung up to remove the moustache , the mandarin cap and the pigtail , while his right hand peeled off the Chinese jacket and gown . |
| 12 | His eyes never left Lamarr Dean , but his right hand closed on the Spencer and it was down at his side as he walked over the few steps to the bar . |
| 13 | He uses his right arm to reach across the chrome and glass coffee table in front of us . |
| 14 | Alexandra had come to see that , perhaps two years after the disastrous birthday party , finding her father in the midst of the flock at lambing time , naked to the waist like the other shepherds , his right arm streaked with the birth slime of the lambs whose arrival had been difficult . |
| 15 | He had fallen and lain with his right cheek pressed into the wet leaves . |
| 16 | He stopped , it was n't his normal behaviour to speak to the staff in so familiar a way , after all he had his dignity . |
| 17 | Perhaps the most important consequence of a limited partner 's role is that in return for his limited liability he must give up his normal right to participate in the management of the partnership . |
| 18 | First his Y-reg Yugo crunched into the back of a trailer behind a broken-down Austin Ambassador . |
| 19 | The Friar broke off a young oak bough and waved it about his sweating forehead to keep off the flies that followed him in wavering clouds , a floating band of skirmishers that his ceaseless counter-attacks could not drive away . |
| 20 | During 1781 and 1782 therefore , Watt made the engine double-acting and produced rotary motion using his sun-and-planet gear shown in the drawing of Watts rotative beam engine of 1788 . |
| 21 | He still works with great enthusiasm , his voice is still used to brilliant effect as he tells one of his marvellous stories , and his caustic wit cuts through the humbug and pretence of much of the art world . |
| 22 | But he 'd been in his prime then , a match for any King Lud who 'd taken it into his weak head to break into the Dallam weaving sheds , in the dead of night , and start smashing his machines to bits . |
| 23 | He was wise enough in his broadcasts to refrain from one tactic , the inspiration of that chill fear which some of his political ranting achieved in the 193()s . |
| 24 | John Major … his political survival hangs in the balance after yesterday 's Commons onslaught by ex-Chancellor Lamont |
| 25 | There was a second clattering of footsteps and Ian appeared , his tall figure framed in the sliding door . |
| 26 | Struggling with a painful emotion which she preferred not to analyse , but which felt uncomfortably like jealousy , Luce watched his tall figure disappear into the café . |
| 27 | Remembering how responsive Faye 's blood glucose level was to stress , she was about to monitor its level , but , as she got out the kit , Tom arrived , his tall figure catapulting into the room and only a slight untidiness to his dark hair betraying the fact that he had so recently been locked in Marise 's arms in the garden . |
| 28 | Then , staring across the moonlit yard , she saw his tall figure standing at the top of the slope leading down to the river . |
| 29 | When his telling cross arrived in the danger area , Stainrod stole in on the blind side of the Perth defence to power the ball home first time from 12 yards . |
| 30 | He then expends so much of his emotional energy wallowing in the aura that when the gun goes for the start there 's nothing left of the real thing . |