Example sentences of "[adv] his [noun] [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly his face suffuses with panic as his chest heaves and his coughs become violent , edging into retching . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The smith stands at the side but only his arm survives on the edge of the sherd ( fig. 14.23 ) . |
| 5 | Tonight his band consists of James Delany ( piano ) , Liam Bradley ( drums ) , Percy Robinson ( pedal steel ) and Ro Butcher ( bass ) . |
| 6 | Sean Connery grows lustier as he grows crustier , and his acting grows the more his hair stays on the pillow . |
| 7 | He set up his soap works in 1855 and produced his first bar of mottled soap in 1857 . |
| 8 | Now his back recedes from me . |
| 9 | ‘ McCartney has here pulled off something both viable and memorable … often his music works on a genuinely big scale . ’ |
| 10 | Today his interest veers to Rugby League . |
| 11 | And then he has a study that has a similar wall of reference set of shelves and then I guess that maybe his bedroom has of this , but it 's erm and such a nice guy , a pleasant kind of man . |
| 12 | Although concerned to embed his ideas in practices Bourdieu is not himself especially concerned with defining the role of the artefact , but it is clear how his work contributes to such a task . |
| 13 | I have no idea how his mind operates in those matters . |
| 14 | In a recent paper , Krashen , the sole begetter and main publicist of the Monitor theory , seeks to show how his theory leads to the postulation of ‘ The ‘ Fundamental Pedagogical Principle ’ in second language teaching ’ ( Krashen 1982 , Krashen and Terrell 1983 ) . |
| 15 | Comte does not ignore the arts ; indeed his work ends with a call to ‘ aesthetic action ’ : |
| 16 | How do I know where his money comes from ? |
| 17 | The now well-honed Mould character traits are everywhere : his underlying cynicism , the ongoing mistrust of people and the bits where his head sounds like it 's about to explode . |
| 18 | Certain conduct may , rather than effect a variation of the agreement generally , have the effect of creating an estoppel in a particular case , not infrequently in connection with the possible expulsion of a partner on the ground of his breach of provisions in the agreement where his behaviour has in fact been tolerated over a considerable time . |
| 19 | The first thing he did on arriving in Manchester at the weekend was pop over unannounced to Billy Boston 's pub in Wigan , where his likeness jostles for space with the owner 's on the tap room wall . |