Example sentences of "[subord] his [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took Ranulf 's hand , led him over to the gibbet and pushed his hand between the iron bars until the tips of his fingers touched the decaying flesh of the hanged man , just above where his heart had been . |
| 2 | Her eyes were on a level with his chest , where his tie hung crookedly from a casually loosened knot . |
| 3 | He had spent the week driving back and forth between Blackburn and Southampton where his wife gave birth last Monday to their first child . |
| 4 | But because of his deteriorating health , he is unable to keep any of these jobs long , and throughout much of the novel he is confined to his shack where his wife cares for him . |
| 5 | He stood just within the room , looking steadily at the Princess , and went headlong where his genius pointed him . |
| 6 | Shortly thereafter , however , the Haldane party struck back , by securing the return of Morris to the Inverkeithing station and the transfer of Sharp to distant Ayr , where his ability to participate in burgh politics would be somewhat restricted . |
| 7 | It was also planned to rationalise operations in the UK , but Mr Heneaghan gave an assurance that Edinburgh , where his company employs five people , would remain as headquarters for the combined operation . |
| 8 | Two months after the Herling piece was published Levi committed suicide , throwing himself down the staircase of the house in Turin where he was born and grew up , where he wrote about his life in the camp at a desk which stood where his cradle had stood , a house he shared with his wife and mother . |
| 9 | He 's back home where his mum does all his cooking , washing and ironing for him . |
| 10 | In Nottinghamshire , where his legend lives on , you can today follow in his footsteps and enjoy the real Robin Hood Country . |
| 11 | Even where his name had appeared , however , the percentage of the vote which he had managed to achieve was smaller than had been widely anticipated . |
| 12 | ‘ Is n't that where his name comes from — kee-wee — kee-wee ? ’ |
| 13 | And Dooley 's massive presence is bound to add interest for City spectators , even though it could create problems for their players , especially at the line-outs , where his dominance has been a vital factor in England 's recent success . |
| 14 | He knew nearly every one , and where his memory faltered , his sennachie behind him knew them and could prompt him . |
| 15 | ‘ There was a scene where his unit came across a camp of German soldiers who were doing press-ups . |
| 16 | Nor does it resemble the bravura footing of Kitri in the Don Quixote pas de deux or the passages in Ashton 's Ondine where his ballerina appears to be floating through water . |
| 17 | Barry Glenn said he can not stop thinking about his ordeal , has problems sleeping and is scared to return home where his nightmare began . |
| 18 | A window and a section of wall had to be removed to take out the body and twenty men were needed to lower the coffin into his grave in St. Martin 's Churchyard , where his tombstone states ‘ in personal greatness [ he ] had no competitor ’ . |
| 19 | Murrell , 26 , a former undertaker , is a regular visitor at the flat in Sutton , Surrey , where his sister lives with her common-law husband and their three children . |
| 20 | He thought that a priest should if possible go where his bishop sent him . |
| 21 | There was never any doubt where his future lay . |
| 22 | His hands were on her breasts where his mouth had been . |
| 23 | Still , it 's a bold attempt to put his art where his mouth has always been and you ca n't help willing him to succeed . |
| 24 | His eyes were wide and peering from within a blank shell of shock and his face , where his hand had not soiled it , was very pale . |
| 25 | She mumbled beneath his mouth when his fingers pressed hard into her firm buttocks , and she felt a hot flame burn where his hand had rested , her mouth , her body , her mind all whirling with the incredible sensation that his unprovoked assault was arousing . |
| 26 | Like a moon , too , his cheeks were cratered where his helmet had been riven during some fierce engagement , and those craters were scarred by subsequent duelling nicks . |
| 27 | On 27 September of the same year he published his first book , Galfredus Petrus , Opus sane de deorum dearumque gentilium genealogia ( STC 19816.5 ) , from his new premises near the conduit in Fleet Street , where his printing-house remained for the rest of his life . |
| 28 | In addition to boosting Miyazawa 's reputation by enabling him to succeed where his predecessor had tried but failed , the success of the PKO bill had damaged the main opposition party , the Social Democratic Party of Japan ( SDPJ ) , which had tried to prevent the bill 's approval through an unpopular filibuster in the Diet [ see pp. 38962-63 ] . |
| 29 | As he was driving away I noticed a bottle jutting from the sand near where his van had been . |
| 30 | He recently published a book on the labour camp where his weight fell from 13 stone to just five . |