Example sentences of "his [adj] [noun] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was using his soft , reasonable tone now , his professional lecturer tone he 'd always switched to when he wanted to wield authority . |
| 2 | In his rear view mirror he saw the solid yellow wall blocking the whole road . |
| 3 | By then , Bedford will be left fighting for survival in four crunching closing fixtures and when Patterson makes his likely league debut it will be in Bath , of all places . |
| 4 | His hard body fell on hers , his hands pinning her wrists to the bed , his hard thigh parting hers and trapping her kicking legs . |
| 5 | The thought of that hard mouth moving over another woman 's lips , his hands on her body , his hard thighs parting hers … no , no , no ! her mind screamed . |
| 6 | Travis followed her down , his hard body half-covering her , one of his legs thrown over hers to keep her still . |
| 7 | From the ground up to his revolving papier-mache head he is 5ft 7 1/2 in tall , wears a full uniform , and despite being armed — with a radar gun — bears no resemblance to Robocop . |
| 8 | Beneath his white linen suit he wears a turquoise woollen rollneck . |
| 9 | But his mother says that without the compensation her son had hoped for , it 's his long term future she 's worried about . |
| 10 | Along with his evil twin brother he was born of Ataensic , the earth goddess . |
| 11 | After his first phone call he turned up at Lynsey 's north London home only hours later . |
| 12 | After his first court appearance he received dozens of letters of support from the public . |
| 13 | As a kid , Rush 's first love was Everton — yet when he paid to watch his first League game it was , fittingly , Spurs v Liverpool at White Hart Lane . |
| 14 | Over the years Fred Workman and I had kept in touch and in a note with his 1973 Christmas card he had mentioned Edna 's rise to fame and fortune , and gave me her address . |
| 15 | From his own vantage point he moved forward , leaning on the parapet of Blackfriars Bridge , peering down into the murky blackness of the river . |
| 16 | While on his own home ground he knows how to do things , or how to get them done , beyond the boundaries of his home ground he knows , at best , only that he should comply with the rules without necessarily understanding why or precisely what all of the relevant rules are : he may simply go through the motions . |
| 17 | At the time no one denounced it more fiercely than Ayatollah Khomeini , whom the Shah had exiled in 1964 for his fierce opposition tot he Pahlavi regime . |
| 18 | In his blue Guernsey sweater he looked every bit an old sea dog . |
| 19 | But even with his new London base it was impossible to gather enough talent from both his schools for the coming Christmas , so he advertised for dancers in the trade papers and took a chance that he could knock them into shape . |
| 20 | ‘ His only shirt , blue and white check , was always spotless and though friends offered him clothes to replace his worn velvet suit he would not accept them . ’ |
| 21 | Tom thought that once Willie had finished his final Reading Book he would n't want him to read to him any more , but Willie loved to sit back and listen to his voice and so the stories continued . |
| 22 | He did n't recognise Aspel until the red book was produced from the wide sleeves of his costume and in his best mandarin accent he said , ‘ Paul Daniels — This Is Your Rife . ’ |
| 23 | When Patrick Forbes proffered such divisions in his excellent work Champagne it had no bearing on the regulations . |