Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could feel her heart thudding against his chest . |
| 2 | Peter was aware of his heart thudding in his chest . |
| 3 | There stood Balboa , his shield on his arm , his cuirass gleaming on his chest , the brilliant new banner in one hand and his naked sword in the other , his plumed helmet giving him a stature far more considerable than offered by his height alone . |
| 4 | A NURSE who had to learn to walk again after his neck was broken has hit out at the prison sentence given to his attacker . |
| 5 | I have chosen Vaughan because there has already been some analysis of deixis in his poetry — notably by Roger Sell in his article " The unstable discourse of Henry Vaughan " ( 1987 ) . |
| 6 | The role of the project leader takes a number of forms depending on his level of authority . |
| 7 | He felt his heart thumping inside his chest . |
| 8 | He could feel his heart thumping against his chest as the Bookman leapt gracefully through the air from shelf to shelf , across the library . |
| 9 | He sat down on the bed , his hands in his lap , his heart thumping in his chest . |
| 10 | Twice former winner Tony Allcock cruised through his opening match when he beat Jersey 's David Le Marquand 7-3 , 7-2 , 7-1 in the concluding first-round match . |
| 11 | His cries became screams of pain when the branch whipped against his face , causing blood to spurt from his nose , staining his shirt with crimson raindrops . |
| 12 | ‘ There were loose flaps of skin hanging from his face and I could see the bone around his eye socket . ’ |
| 13 | Had General Francis not had his two sticks propped against his chair as a tangible reminder of his condition , and had he not , as had now been explained to me , been making this social call to thank me for nursing his son after paying a second professional visit himself to Bernard Remington-Hart , his appearance and that Rolls outside would have frozen Margaret into a prissy caricature of her normal self . |
| 14 | Instead of throwing a ball for him — a game he loved — or giving him a stick to carry in his mouth — the next best thing — Angela shrank back , as she did n't understand him and wanted to be rid of him . |
| 15 | There was frost on his hair , on the fur of his hood , but soon , as he hacked at the tree , his skin began to glow and a fine , warm moisture gleamed on his face . |
| 16 | As for the poll I think Gav is just a little bit biased in his choice of Cuntona , as im sure anyone who has seen him will confirm Gavs evening job is actually as a Cuntona look a like you know posing for pictures for the Sun with an easel and tweeds . |
| 17 | Harvey lived with his wife and two children a few miles outside town on the road to Laredo and the Mexican border . |
| 18 | It is necessary first to consider an argument which has throughout been presented by the Attorney-General as decisive ; namely , that the answer to this question must inevitably be negative because the district judge had no power , or no power that he could properly exercise , to do anything other than proceed with the cases assigned to his court , without any regard at all to the pendency of the B.M.F.L. prosecution , destined for committal to the High Court . |
| 19 | All our sympathy goes to his wife , and family . |
| 20 | One of them , with a yard of snot hanging from his nose , insisted on showing him some manuscripts he kept under his well-peed mattress . |
| 21 | I also associate myself with his kind remarks about his predecessor , my good friend and colleague George Buckley . |
| 22 | Maggie was a bit shaken at his silence and knew she was once again blushing . |
| 23 | Farmer Colin points out that this selfless operation is always carried out with a complete lack of regard for personal safety and reminds the committee that Josh has several times fallen off his load just outside the King 's Head . |
| 24 | Battler pawed at his chin . |
| 25 | Sometimes they demonstrably were not ; for example , portraits of the Emperor Augustus struck at the end of his reign , when he was seventy-six , do not depict a man of that age and do not correspond with the unflattering description given by his biographer , Suetonius. portraits such as this are intended to be the embodiment of a political ideal rather than a realistic likeness ( though in some cases , such as that of Nero , they might be both ) . |
| 26 | At the same time he gave alms with his own hand to the poor from a basket of coins placed by his side . |
| 27 | The PC got in his car and drove off . |
| 28 | A YOUNG bungee jumper plunged to his death — after forgetting to attach the rope . |
| 29 | He caught a glimpse of Sheldukher who , with his usual instinct for self preservation , was scurrying off with the Cell case tucked under his arm . |
| 30 | ‘ Hi , ’ William says , tossing back some blond hair fallen over his forehead . |