Example sentences of "his [noun pl] [v-ing] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could feel his fingers moving over the slenderness of her neck like gentle questions , gauging her reaction , lingering against the racing pulse , assessing her feelings . |
| 2 | Jake sat back in his chair , his fingers toying with the glass paperweight , yet looking totally composed again , back to his old self . |
| 3 | His hand went out , reached for the submachine gun , his fingers tightening on the stock . |
| 4 | He held her close , one hand at her waist , the other supporting her back , his fingers stroking at the base of her neck , sending delightful shivers , signals of desire , up and down her spine . |
| 5 | His lips were hard , fierce , they explored and probed as he held her head with both his hands , his fingers stroking through the curls distractedly , almost wildly . |
| 6 | She noticed his fingers drumming on the table as his fiancée — ex-fiancée — chatted on and on . |
| 7 | Cameron spent a lot of time sitting at his piano with the lid down , his fingers resting on the wood , whistling unconsciously . |
| 8 | She felt his fingers digging into the side of her breast . |
| 9 | She had a swift unwanted memory of Lowell on the concert platform in Rome , his fingers rushing over the keys like wild creatures . |
| 10 | He reached up with his right hand and grasped the tightly-furled queue at the back of his head , his fingers closing about the coil of fine white hair . |
| 11 | On the contrary , he is carefully , deliberately , often methodically and painstakingly modelling his career and his activities according to the statements of the prophets . |
| 12 | It took all his willpower to keep his teeth biting into the rubber . |
| 13 | Patrick dressed quickly , his teeth chattering in the chill air , and then hurried down to the kitchen . |
| 14 | A royal smashed past a few feet to my left , then another took a dive down by sheltering bank , his hooves carving into the ground just a yard from my toes and spraying my legs with black peat . |
| 15 | The critical promoter of the work of Seurat and his friends was Félix Fénéon , a subtle stylist who varied his methods according to the work he was describing ; he used expository language for Degas , but he dropped logical connection in language , even verbs when discussing Monet 's spontaneous art . |
| 16 | And I should n't wonder if Potter has n't been on his knees peering through the railings . ’ |
| 17 | Warm scents rose from a honeysuckle hedge at Monboddo , the much-changed home of a man who , according to Sir Walter Scott , went out at night with a candle to inspect his turnips growing in the fields ; who , hating to sit behind a horse 's backside , would not travel in a carriage and therefore — he was in his eighties — rode to London on horseback ; who took a cold bath every day and damaged his children 's health by insisting they did the same ; and who , when in residence at Edinburgh , gave dinner parties at which his wine-flagons were wreathed in garlands of roses . |
| 18 | He paced about the room , his heels echoing on the marble . |
| 19 | Ace inched along the lip of metal beside the stanchion and found the Dalek Killer sitting at the end of the girder , his legs dangling over the drop . |
| 20 | Dorcas lowered himself gingerly on to the brink and sat with his legs dangling over the drop . |
| 21 | Their limbs entwined , he slowly and gently at first and then with a mounting fierceness made love to her again , his eyes gleaming with the triumph of possession as her pliant body instantly surrendered , both to his sensual touch and the low , husky murmur of his voice . |
| 22 | Bill Lawrence , his eyes gleaming with the hunting passion , pounced on the fragments of encrusted ceramic and bone that were left behind in the police sieves , and Gus industriously entered their location in his graph , and sketched in each layer of masonry as it emerged . |
| 23 | He pushed past them frantically , his eyes smarting from the dust . |
| 24 | Oliver ate eagerly , his eyes wandering to the corner of the room where there was a large , square object covered with a piece of sacking . |
| 25 | Delaney nodded , his eyes taking in the rest of the diagram . |
| 26 | He smiled and began to climb the slope again , slowly , looking about him all the while , his eyes taking in the ruins , the distant , cloud-wreathed mountains , the two horses grazing just below them . |
| 27 | Tsu Ma looked about him , suddenly angry , his eyes taking in the waste of it all . |
| 28 | ‘ About time , ’ he said , his eyes taking in the picture she made . |
| 29 | And Lulach and Bishop Malduin , sitting side by side , might have belonged to different worlds : the Bishop grave and faintly uneasy , his eyes flickering across the table to the men of York and Durham and Bamburgh whom he must know so well . |
| 30 | He strained his eyes peering into the gloom . |