Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if , like us , you 've never heard of her , we should tell you that she plays his 14-year-old daughter in a romantic piece of ooh-la-la entitled My Father The Hero . |
| 2 | Jeremy settles Kate on a rattan sofa with a whisky , flicks on the stereo and then sits down himself at the other end of the sofa , making sure that she notices his careful maintenance of physical space between them . |
| 3 | She sees his narrow back move up and down , there is a vague irritation in her vagina , she watches his mouth move across her shoulders and face . |
| 4 | She disdains his odious advances , and makes an inspiring speech on the glorious revolutionary future . |
| 5 | Her husband dies in a car accident alongside another woman and driven by grief and jealousy , she investigates his secret life and becomes entangled with a rather nasty mystic group , some of whom are 400 years old and tend to drop rotting flesh and eyeballs on the carpet . |
| 6 | She returns his toothless smile and waves as graciously as the Queen . |
| 7 | She meets him immediately when she hits his new Jag with her battered old Beetle . |
| 8 | He turns his old head wearily , as if to indicate to his family the kind of people he has to deal with these days . |
| 9 | But when he gets to his destination he swaps his turbocharged Navajo for a motorised skateboard . |
| 10 | He goes his own way . ’ |
| 11 | Meanwhile he reassesses his immediate targets . |
| 12 | Each time he attempts to show they are ignorant he displays his own ignorance . |
| 13 | As another example of his skill at miniaturisation , he displays his portable 15-cm ( 6-inch ) reflecting telescope , which weighs a mere two-thirds of a kilogram and can fold flat to go in his jacket pocket or between his clothes in a suitcase . |
| 14 | He offers his own experiences to support Tommy Dewar 's maxim that ‘ The Scotch whisky distiller is only at home when he is abroad ’ . |
| 15 | It 's not only the patient , who lies there paralysed and unable to talk , and unable to move , it involves his whole family . |
| 16 | He understands his past mistakes and means to amend them . |
| 17 | ‘ But yet he diverts his sexual energies into fighting . ’ |
| 18 | Ask him to write down in a few words what he thinks his present image is , and what he wants his image to be , and he will most likely fail to do it . |
| 19 | ‘ So Billy Tuckett gets badly scared and starts running for where he thinks his old friend Lucy Scarrott lives . ’ |
| 20 | Morrissey is ‘ half a person ’ , his very being constituted around lack , maladjustment — this is the vantage point from which he launches his impossible demands on life , his denial of the reality principle . |
| 21 | A terse and gritty thriller in which an investigation into a mysterious death leads cop Joe Mantegna through both the mean streets of the present and the horrors of the past as he confronts his own identity . |
| 22 | Wattana , who moved into third place , could overtake Hendry and Davis at the top if he wins his two matches in hand . |
| 23 | He tears his past life to pieces with the ferocity of the convert . |
| 24 | The way he proffers his open hand before this difficult feat of balance draws attention to the vital part to be played by all heroes in classical ballet . |
| 25 | ‘ Your father is his own man , he lives his own life . |
| 26 | FATHER 'S PRIDE : Linda captures naked Paul 's gentle joy as he holds his new baby Mary close |
| 27 | Casually he holds his small pistol towards me , butt first , for inspection . |
| 28 | Man is unique among the apes in that he grows a long beard , and it is to this that he owes his superior intelligence |
| 29 | He has little knowledge of a shepherd 's life since he writes his idyllic poem from the town , as a wealthy poet , and can not possibly see the reality as one would have it from experienced eyes . |
| 30 | You see what a creature of air and light he is , and yet he has his dark side , just like the moon . |