Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But with his defence protecting him from any direct shots , Prudhoe steadily recovered , and he excelled himself after 69 minutes when Noel Blake powered a header goalwards from only six yards , but the indisputable player of the season somehow threw himself along his line to scramble the ball away . |
| 2 | Weakly she willed him not to , but if he sensed her resistance he ignored it , his mouth tantalising her with its warm desirability . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Then he lay down on her , his weight sinking her in the bed as if in sand . |
| 5 | He picked the largest , his spear taking it through the gut . |
| 6 | Mr Harper is dedicated to his work earning nothing but love and respect for it . |
| 7 | His Anglican faith was visible rather than assiduous ; he apologises in his diaries for his work keeping him from church on Sundays . |
| 8 | He flushed with anger when he remembered how the legal aid he had levied to furnish her to her wedding had brought in only miserable trickles of money on the date appointed , and how he had been forced to send out letters to all and sundry requesting loans to help to pay for her clothes and dowry , and even to borrow abjectly from the City of London and some of its richest citizens , with all the members of his council pledging themselves for repayment , so low was his own credit fallen . |
| 9 | Meredith trembled , overwhelmed by the sheer proximity of him , the heat and vitality of his body filling her with an unholy excitement . |
| 10 | Taking her arm , he drew her to her feet , his body shielding her from the rest of the room . |
| 11 | Once champion , he relinquished his name believing it to be a relic of slavery and announced his allegiance to the Nation of Islam , the segregationist sect popularly known as the ‘ Black Muslims ’ ( see Lincoln , 1961 ; Essien-Udom , 1962 ) . |
| 12 | One was a middle-aged man , rather corpulent , who sent a message into the depths behind his recess which finally produced an abashed female servant : and one was a spare man in young middle age who had his wife helping him in the shop . |
| 13 | A mix of ‘ live ’ performances , the ubiquitous rent-a-crowd dancers and this week Norman Cook explains how police recently raided his bar-b-q believing it to be an illegal rave . |
| 14 | A mix of ‘ live ’ performances , the ubiquitous rent-a-crowd dancers and this week Norman Cook explains how police recently raided his bar-b-q believing it to be an illegal rave . |
| 15 | Just a few simple , subtle moves and he 'd be lying on his back wondering what on earth had hit him . |
| 16 | Mr Morgan and his organ releasing them into hysterical laughter had anaesthetized the horror of the past . |
| 17 | As he sat there breakfasting with his younger brother , he watched his father busying himself in an unusual way . |
| 18 | ‘ I was just wondering how much I 'm really going to enjoy being a sex slave , ’ she told him bitterly , panting slightly as his hand moved lower , his palm flattening itself against her stomach . |
| 19 | His tongue teased at her lips until she opened them helplessly , allowing him to deepen the kiss , his tongue stroking hers in an act of burning sexuality that had her sagging against him . |
| 20 | He parted her thighs fiercely , and she moaned as his head sank , his tongue driving her to a frenzy . |
| 21 | Even when you avert your eyes from his daily economic blunders , you 'll always find another sad aspect of his premiership slapping you in the face . |
| 22 | Fritzy , bleerk with Ministry , breaks his hand hitting someone in the same brawl . |
| 23 | no oh yes I should think he 's learnt his lesson putting it on the |
| 24 | I had heard his host showing him to a bedroom near mine , on the second floor . |
| 25 | Bob was wondering whether you got his letter thanking you for the book . |
| 26 | When he struggled out he espied a happy couple engaged in skinny-dipping in the shelter of an overhanging sycamore and went on his way muttering something like ‘ without the benefit of suitable drawers ’ . |
| 27 | She could feel the hard muscles of his body pressing against her side , his arm sheltering her in a way that made her trust him . |
| 28 | He remembered his mother telling him about Sid Watkins ' request for another salmon . |
| 29 | The milky-eyed man was back on his feet , the zeal of his speech fetching him off the ground in little hops and leaps . |
| 30 | From them and from a local solicitor , Thomas Watson Brown , he learned much about trade union administration and the drafting of trade union rules ; they also , he claimed , fed his ambition to lead a national seamen 's union , initially at the cost of some domestic disharmony , his wife and his mother-in-law accusing him of neglecting his own restaurant business and resenting the time he spent with his own visitors , particularly " old long-faced Brown " the lawyer . |