Example sentences of "[adv] his [noun] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly his foot turned on a sharp stone and he almost fell . |
| 2 | The enormous bulk of the blue Rolls illuminated by his torch , then suddenly his feet going from under him , slipping in a pool of petrol , landing on a spanner and a piece of tubing . |
| 3 | Suddenly his voice came over the headphones . |
| 4 | Suddenly his anger turned to pleading . |
| 5 | Suddenly his face suffuses with panic as his chest heaves and his coughs become violent , edging into retching . |
| 6 | Suddenly his face flooded with recognition but it was too late : the seat with Gazzer and his mate in had swept past him . |
| 7 | Suddenly his eye fell on one stubble-shaved neck and back of head . |
| 8 | To make his tributes to earlier cities complete , before returning to Cambridge and Boston in 1932 he wrote to a correspondent in St Louis in 1930 , telling him how much his poetry owed to his childhood there . |
| 9 | Kaunda invited him ; and Sir Roy has been telling his friends how much his reception meant to him , from the man who was his bitter political foe . |
| 10 | As Mr Grovey searched the room for a suitable candidate to partner Brian this week , unhappily his eye fell on me ( not literally of course , it 's just a way of saying ‘ he looked at me ’ ! ) . |
| 11 | Like how his lashes spiked and held the raindrops , and how a small river ran tantalisingly down his throat to disappear into the V of his shirt . |
| 12 | On the cold air as he made his way down his breath blew like smoke . |
| 13 | The pretty girl behind him let down his trousers inch by inch . |
| 14 | His pants were halfway up his bum and he could feel the sweat dripping from his armpits and trickling down his arm to emerge in the crisp , fresh air . |
| 15 | Well , the procedure that followed in this case was that the er captain obviously made clear from er H M S erm Battleaxe that was originally involved , that the embargo would be enforced , er and obviously his message got across , and then it was arranged for marines to go aboard , er which they did to take charge of , of the vessel while the search took place . |
| 16 | The story continues with an account of how the next day when he started to get upset Little Turtle remembered what the tortoise had told him so he closed his eyes , pulled in his arms close to his body , put his head down so his chin rested against his chest , and rested for a while , until he knew what to do . |
| 17 | So his Contras behave like homicidal lager-louts , and his Sandinistas like palely scrupulous members of the SDP . |
| 18 | ‘ You can not be so innocent , ’ he said tightly , but even so his teeth nibbled at the lobe of her ear as his breath quickened . |
| 19 | And he was , he had an unfortunate death , because he he he his body was buried in the little churchyard near to the village where he had been brought up , and he 'd no sooner been buried , than they decided to run a road through , or , erm , something , so his body had to be unearthed and moved somewhere else , and it was n't until nineteen sixteen , that the body erm , was taken out and was taken to Paris , and restored in the er , where so many other famous people erm , do have their tombs and their remembrances . |
| 20 | Anyway Ronny scored a couple of goals in this match and was given 6 out of 6 point in Dagbladet and 9 out of 10 in VG so his form has to be excellent at the moment — i guess he will impress Ardiles and/or Wilko . |
| 21 | The man became calmer , sank to his knees and allowed the executioner to bend him so his neck fitted over the block . |
| 22 | Thus , on the facts of the Dodds case , where a landlord gave notice of termination of a tenancy of business premises under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 on the 30 September 1978 , the ‘ four month ’ period during which the tenant had a right to apply for a new tenancy expired at midnight on 30 January , and so his application made on 31 January 1979 was invalid as being out of time . |
| 23 | Only his secretary knew of this place . |
| 24 | Twiceover Micky will be there , for I know he likes it , leaving it until tomorrow night to preside over the first night of The Hamburg Ballet , one of the great ballet companies of the world , which he has sold his soul and what else only his God knows to cajole to Belfast , its first-ever visit to these islands . |
| 25 | Only his shoes seemed to be a little too pointed — not quite what men one knew would wear . |
| 26 | Not that he would have felt nearly so hard done by had only his wallet suffered by it . |
| 27 | Only his tears spoke of brotherly love . |
| 28 | The smith stands at the side but only his arm survives on the edge of the sherd ( fig. 14.23 ) . |
| 29 | Only his eyes burned in the flawless face . |
| 30 | He felt his skin tingle , he felt the fine hair all along his spine react as if a low current had been run through him . |