Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [verb] [pron] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may well find it significant that there is no evidence during this period of any attempt on his part to acquaint himself with Wagner 's own voluminous theoretical prose . |
| 2 | ‘ I used to worry about Darth Vader , ’ Prentice confessed , putting his arm round Rory 's waist and lifting his foot to massage it with one hand . |
| 3 | He more than filled the gap left by Alex ; his presence animated her with a mysterious excitement . |
| 4 | As his passion grew , to be answered in kind by her own almost overwhelming desire , his arms tightened their hold and his mouth sought hers with greater urgency . |
| 5 | His hand moved more purposefully across her thigh , his mouth sought hers with a more impatient and insistent desire . |
| 6 | Weakly she willed him not to , but if he sensed her resistance he ignored it , his mouth tantalising her with its warm desirability . |
| 7 | He buried his face against her throat , his mouth tormenting her with its lazy progress down towards the swell of her breasts , and she arched up , silently begging for his caress . |
| 8 | He took her mouth again , but this time his mouth punished her with sudden erotic savagery and she felt the treacherous swift ache of desire , the longing for more , for all of him , deep in the pit of her stomach . |
| 9 | His mouth feathered hers with the softness of thistledown and then , incredibly , as her lips would have clung , he moved away from her , and it was like the sting of rejection , the icy dash of water cascading over her heated flesh . |
| 10 | His mouth met hers with bruising force , and the clamour inside her head rose to a deafening crescendo , the world twisted and turned , tossing her adrift with the turbulence of a whirlwind . |
| 11 | He fell about laughing when his agent phoned him with this news . |
| 12 | The bizarre absurdity of his action filled her with amazement and wonder , for it seemed to disprove so many meannesses and preconceptions . |
| 13 | I decided to follow him to his bedroom to confront him with this unacceptable behaviour . |
| 14 | His mind busied itself with images of what this news could do to his investigation if it ever became public ; the newspaper headlines ; the half-amused speculation of the cynics ; the crowds of sightseers , the superstitious , the credulous , the genuine believers , thronging the church in search of … what ? |
| 15 | Jake leaned forward in his seat to fix her with a look . |
| 16 | They had warned Aristide in recent weeks to drop his plan to replace them with another motorized unit , which was Swiss trained and more loyal to him . |
| 17 | Meredith trembled , overwhelmed by the sheer proximity of him , the heat and vitality of his body filling her with an unholy excitement . |
| 18 | How dared he treat her as if it was his right to inspect her with that insolent expression on his face ? |
| 19 | She understood his need for sport , because she too enjoyed exercise ; what she did not understand was his need to punish himself with such dangerous activities . |
| 20 | His cheek brushed hers with a cathartic effect on her senses . |
| 21 | Last but not least , we ventured into another area completely in October , when Mark and his team joined us with their Compliance Testing Service . |
| 22 | While Muhammed Shah and his circle busied themselves with amusement , Safdarjung consolidated his position . |
| 23 | When the cat is found hanged in the closet ( the first act of violence after nearly an hour 's build-up ) , his wife reproaches him with being a coward because he will not confront the men she thinks have killed the animal . |
| 24 | ‘ His aunt cooks it with honey and garlic , and it 's not so bad . ’ |
| 25 | His tongue tattooed them with circles of heat . |
| 26 | It was in the midst of these preliminary discussions that his lordship entrusted me with a mission sufficiently unusual for it to have remained in my memory to this day , alongside those other more obviously unforgettable occurrences that were to take place during that remarkable week . |
| 27 | But he remained so convinced of a static universe that he added an element to his theory to reconcile it with Newton 's theory and balance gravity . |
| 28 | More generally , his theory provides us with a remarkable insight into the nature of the British constitution ; the entire thrust of Oakeshott 's work can be interpreted as laying down a view of the world in which the British constitution with its conventions , understandings , and practices which have evolved through a slow historical process actually makes sense . |
| 29 | His crooked smile was very much in evidence and Matey could have told her that since her arrival Dr Neil had been happier than she had seen him for a long time — there had been fewer backslidings towards the ‘ nasty whisky ’ since McAllister had appeared in his life to provide him with such rich amusement . |
| 30 | His voice filled her with confusion and relief . |