Example sentences of "his [adj] [noun] [adv] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keith throws his right shoulder backwards and forwards , hoping the pads will somehow slide into place . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | She had his complete attention now and nothing about him was sceptical . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The fact that his poetic energy here and thre threatens to burst free of the mstic sticgridloc only enhances the point . |
| 7 | He shoved his would-be assassin away and , as he did so , the hood fell back and Corbett stood transfixed in fear . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | From a forward fighting stance , the student swings his rear leg forward and upward until the knee comes to shoulder height . |
| 11 | Malekith became his personal ambassador here and thus were sown the seeds of tragedy . |
| 12 | However , they chose not to use their power to interfere too obviously with the policy decisions of the Labour Party and left Ramsay MacDonald to lead his parliamentary colleagues more or less as he wished . |
| 13 | He looked with appreciation at her deep cream pleated skirt and cream and jade blouse , while in her turn Claudia thought how well the tan trousers and matching shirt suited him , moulding his large frame lovingly and making his amber eyes appear gold . |
| 14 | Even now , as she smiled at her son 's antics — he was laughing and clapping his little hands together and making mischievous faces at Cissie , who adored him — memories of Tyler besieged her heart . |
| 15 | Belly flat in the water , he inched his bound hands forward and drew his face clear of the undergrowth so that he could look upriver while remaining camouflaged by the overhang of a wild coffee bush . |
| 16 | She settled her head on his left biceps again and closed her eyes . |
| 17 | When Willis came out , England were 197 ahead with 151 minutes and twenty overs left and there can not have been many who doubted West Indies would win , but with Willis lunging his left leg forward and Willey protecting him from the strike as much as possible , they began to put together a remarkable stand . |
| 18 | In trying to go home he simply pressed the wrong buttons — and kept on pressing the wrong buttons , taking his human passengers backwards and forwards , and in and out of time and space . |
| 19 | It expected that Scott would produce a building to vie with his great designs abroad and concluded with the hope that ‘ the recent discussions in which so much misapprehension has been exhibited will not shake your determination to carry out the selected design ’ . |
| 20 | She was probably delighted that someone else had to submit to his unsavoury needs now and then . |
| 21 | He shook his grey head again and started walking . |
| 22 | The president of the Assassins ' Guild spun his short blowgun dexterously and slotted it into its holster in one smooth movement . |
| 23 | Before he finally lay down to rest and sleep he hesitated over whether to cross his small room again and close the window on the chilly night . |
| 24 | But he stuck to his orthodox grip yesterday and it paid off . |
| 25 | If , on the other hand , a pragmatist judge almost invariably applies his new rules retrospectively and encourages other judges to do the same , this will achieve a further , very great benefit for their community . |
| 26 | His red-rimmed eyes peered from his grimy face anxiously and Anne said swiftly , ‘ It 's all right , Tony . |
| 27 | If an officer does not need to sample to fill his quota he may prefer to rely on his experienced eye instead and run the risk that an invisible pollutant like zinc is present . |
| 28 | He now has his Christian name well and truly on the cover of his thriller ( Ken complained ) . |