Example sentences of "his [adj] [noun] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keith throws his right shoulder backwards and forwards , hoping the pads will somehow slide into place . |
| 2 | ‘ He too jumped and raised his right elbow so that it projected outwards . |
| 3 | Kaas stretched his right foot out and prodded Adam 's thigh with it , grinning as he did so . |
| 4 | He felt them tauten against his palms and suddenly she slid her body over his right knee so that she was lying against him , between his legs . |
| 5 | Instantly , it seemed , he could n't breathe and as his hands flew to his throat , Duvall swung up his right arm so that the point of his elbow hit Jimmy squarely in the face . |
| 6 | She helps the patient transfer his weight onto his hemiplegic leg , and then release his normal leg so that it can move freely sideways . |
| 7 | Sometimes a partner will be recruited on the strength of his professional expertise alone and yet receive a share in the firm 's capital : where such arrangement can properly be regarded as commercial ( and this will usually be the case ) there will be no adverse tax consequences ( see Chapter 10 ) . |
| 8 | Unfortunately the darker side of human genetics is also Galton 's responsibility , although his ideas for ‘ improving the human stock ’ through selective breeding were the product of his undeniable eccentricity rather than malevolence . |
| 9 | She had his complete attention now and nothing about him was sceptical . |
| 10 | ‘ A man who feels his civic responsibilities more than some . |
| 11 | Ken smiled at Molly , retracting his top lip so that his teeth seemed to be aimed directly at her . |
| 12 | His owner , Jack McKillen , 62 , was told he could have his top racer back if he were prepared to pay £500 . |
| 13 | Joe and Pip 's relationship suffers dramatically because as Pip becomes more accustomed to his new lifestyle he puts Joe and his old life further and further behind him . |
| 14 | And all ironed and , I 'm glad I do n't have to do that , he has his old jumper on and a T-shirt smashing |
| 15 | The Elsworth stable had good news regarding Barnbrook Again , who worked with all his old zest yesterday and will run in the North Street Chase at Newbury on Saturday . |
| 16 | She tried reading him Wordsworth and Tennyson and Browning but he would sigh and interrupt her when she did , so she went back to the lighter Kipling poems and he would lie and grin happily to himself and make her read his favourite passages over and over again . |
| 17 | She watched him nervously and then he casually stretched up and removed his damp shirt so that it took all her powers , her resolutions , to appear composed in sight of his taut , powerful torso . |
| 18 | The notorious Dr Crippen , he pointed out , in fact murdered his assertive wife only because he was too vain simply to run away from her and make himself a target for scorn . |
| 19 | Balliol appears to have had his eye on his English lands rather than his Scottish inheritance , but his claim to the Scottish crown was encouraged by the disinherited lords who now paid court to him . |
| 20 | Trapped beneath the twisted fingers , Matthew wriggled uncomfortably , his brown eyes round and bulbous with fear . |
| 21 | Bloom must accept a particular life so that Joyce need not , and Stephen must be shown in his byronic self-deception so that Joyce need not . |
| 22 | Beefy wo n't be able to put his blistered feet up until he arrives in Margate on October 16 . |
| 23 | The fact that his poetic energy here and thre threatens to burst free of the mstic sticgridloc only enhances the point . |
| 24 | That the miller 's knives substitute for his sexual potency rather than reflect it is indicated by the superiority of the clerk 's performance in bed with his wife to anything he has managed for a long time : He has fathered two children , but , like Bayard , his sexual energy is now exhausted . |
| 25 | He shoved his would-be assassin away and , as he did so , the hood fell back and Corbett stood transfixed in fear . |
| 26 | In addition their captain Brian Smith persisted with his wayward goal-kicking long after it became apparent that he should pass the task to someone else . |
| 27 | He looked his offending offspring up and down with angry eyes . |
| 28 | He had left his outer clothes downstairs and he wore his cheap Latvian suit with its wide trouser bottoms as though it was from Savile Row . |
| 29 | It was this vision of order that held his vast empire together and on his death the entire vision collapsed , and the realm rapidly fell into decay and disunity . |
| 30 | He is therefore prepared to countenance a reduction in his real wage so as to stave off the threat of dismissal . |