Example sentences of "with his [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Probing with his narrow hands he located the organs he sought , and , using another slender knife , dislodged and withdrew them , handing them to his assistant , who placed them in bronze trays and took them to another table where he covered them with natron salt , to dry and preserve them ready for the four jars which would stand in a chest at the head of the coffin . |
| 2 | My Japanese friends wonder at my passion , because he is not very well known and not very successful , though when he visited Paris with his fellow sumotori he was at once called ‘ the Japanese Alain Delon ’ — to my mind , an insult to my hero , but for a while that kind of adulation seemed to give him a little of the confidence he needed , and on his return to Japan he delighted me by winning an unusually high number of contests . |
| 3 | With his bare feet he strained against the side of the container , and heard a few cracks . |
| 4 | With his bare hands he forced the lift doors apart , freeing the duo in an instant . |
| 5 | With his cumbersome chains he does not move very quickly , though , so a quick sprint will save a potential victim from Jack 's clutches . |
| 6 | But I have not the least doubt that , if confronted by a practical demand , with his great gifts he will work in other fields with complete success . " |
| 7 | With his sharp claws he separated the two beings and swiftly carved nostrils , eyes , ears and genitals , thus creating the first man and woman . |
| 8 | With his junior-school pupils he surveyed 100 square kilometres of north Cambridgeshire for the Nature Conservancy 's Botanical Atlas of the British Isles . |
| 9 | It was a wonder that with his huge fingers he managed to avoid striking two keys at once . |
| 10 | With his own hands he cut off the beards of leading courtiers and ordered all noblemen to abandon this ancient symbol of Orthodox manhood . |
| 11 | Otherwise the trainer 's satisfied with his own men he do he gallops Wednesdays and Saturdays . |
| 12 | With his few belongings it was home to him wherever he went . |
| 13 | It was a mark of the esteem in which John Burridge was held at Selhurst Park , both as a goalkeeper and as a showman , that whenever he has subsequently returned here with his later clubs he has invariably been accorded a warm welcome , both from Palace fans and from his former playing colleagues . |