Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] his [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He hangs up his camelhair coat in the anteroom that connects his office with Shirley 's and passes into the former . |
| 2 | It contrasts the blood-thirsty dynasty of Michael Corleone as he builds up his gambling empire from a base in Nevada in the '50s with the story of how his father Vito ( Robert De Niro , playing Brando 's original role ) left Sicily to become the protector of poor Italians in a New York neighbourhood at the start of the century . |
| 3 | I look at the false leg for a bit while he pulls up his trouser leg . |
| 4 | The same thing happens when he picks up his tenor sax , licks the end of the mouthpiece and proceeds to honk and howl like a man possessed … |
| 5 | He picks up his pocket calculator . |
| 6 | New FAD Andy puts down his Guardian crossword , sinks his whiskey and suggests relocating to a Real Ale put he knows on the city centre 's crumbling outskirts . |
| 7 | For reasons best known to the fuel companies , the Gulf crisis never turned into an oil crisis , although petrol prices generally leap up and down quicker than a Tory backbencher during a Neil Kinnock speech if a dealer on the Amsterdam spot market so much as sneezes over his computer screen . |
| 8 | When he returned after the weekend he brought with him a tool that sums up his management style — a wedge , to keep his door open . |
| 9 | ( ROS puts up his head listening . ) |
| 10 | But does n't his bonus system ( a profit share reported to be ‘ 1% of any increase above 12% in the capital value of Direct Line ’ ) encourage him to take on business come what may ? |
| 11 | He switches on his desk lamp , casting a pool of light on the documents . |
| 12 | When he switches on his TV set , the show is going out live . |
| 13 | Vic sighs , hits the Off button on the clock , switches on his bedside lamp ( its dimmer control turned low for Marjorie 's sake ) , gets out of bed and paddles through the deep pile of the bedroom carpet to the en suite bathroom , making sure the connecting door is closed before he turns on the light inside . |
| 14 | The risen Christ carries on his teaching work through the Spirit whom he has given to the Church . |
| 15 | Noel Edmonds brings back his quiz show for square-eyed goggle-box fans on Tuesday . |