Example sentences of "his [noun pl] [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His fingers groped for the junction of the pipes . |
| 2 | His ginger beard came round and his teeth gleamed for a second . |
| 3 | John Hurst , the managing director of Deon who make a Ferrari Dino replica , has often had his cars mistaken for the real thing by owners of the genuine article . |
| 4 | So saying he set off with Rob and Tess at his heels to head for the high moor . |
| 5 | The assassin 's blow threw him back against the wall , hitting it so hard he brought books tumbling from the shelves , but before the assassin 's fingers found his throat he delivered a punch to the man 's belly that must have touched some tender place , because the assault ceased , and the attacker let him go , his eyes fixed for the first time on Gentle 's face . |
| 6 | He glanced sideways at her , and as his eyes lingered for a moment on her form , she realised with horror that she was n't wearing a bra . |
| 7 | His eyes flickered for a second to the rear view mirror . |
| 8 | His lips hovered for a moment above hers and then he was kissing her , his mouth hot against hers . |
| 9 | Softly , gently , cruelly , he teased her , his lips alighting for a moment , then moving away again , arousing her hunger , making her blood cry out for him . |
| 10 | Probably an amalgam of two mass-circulation papers The New York Herald and The Morning Courier and New-York Enquirer ( edited by James Gordon Bennett and Colonel Watson Webb respectively ) : both papers attacked CD in the most scurrilous fashion after his speeches calling for an International Copyright Agreement . |
| 11 | He invited his clients to pay for the privilege of cutting his locks and raised £1,000 for the Chest Heart and Stroke Association . |
| 12 | Mark co-wrote a book Skulduggery about his experiences searching for the Orang-hutan tribes , but it is his most recent adventure — travelling through India on the back of an elephant — which has really captured the public 's imagination . |
| 13 | The commentators seemed to be saying that Deane did n't seem able to lift his feet to jump for a ball , again any comments ? |
| 14 | Grant got the impression that Larsen must have been waiting for his signal , like a sprinter crouched in his blocks waiting for the starter 's gun to launch him into motion . |
| 15 | Tim White casts doubts on Kalb 's ability to discharge his undertakings to care for the material he had collected . |
| 16 | Bob Sawyer is one of her lodgers ; he owes her rent , which this ‘ little fierce woman ’ bounces in to demand just before his guests arrive for a bachelor party . |
| 17 | Marlene had stolen his jacket when he went to the loo , he had just enough money in his trousers to pay for the meal . |
| 18 | Both could do worse than go back to Tony Crosland and update his ideas to allow for the issues of gender , race , environment , low growth and others of which he was ignorant . |
| 19 | By the Eighties Holroyd tells us , there were no less than 50 Study Guides and Notes to his plays issued for the benefit of students . |
| 20 | competition , for remember , at that stage he will be hitting you not only with his carefully laid plan for the first phase of his attack , but also , without any doubt whatsoever , he will have his reinforcements grouping for a second and third attack . |
| 21 | Unaccountably his features softened for a fleeting second . |
| 22 | But today his lawyers applied for the company to be compulsorily wound-up . |
| 23 | His hands lingered for a moment , his fingers hinting at a strength that made her throat tighten . |
| 24 | By day the grey alpaca coat , left behind by Twomey , covered him like a night-shirt ; the turned-back sleeves often fell over his hands to hang for a moment with a pierrot 's sadness . |
| 25 | But the Wimpey Homes Southampton regional director was happy to get his hands wet for a good cause . |
| 26 | They poured in to watch Will Carling and his men preparing for the big match … in Cardiff its England against Wales … at Gloucester they were only warming up … |
| 27 | Colin Stephens , the current Wales fly-half , took his points tally for the season into three figures with two penalties in the 11–11 draw at Pontypridd . |
| 28 | His eyelids fluttered for a second and stayed shut until they reached the ground floor . |
| 29 | His eyelids rose for a moment . |
| 30 | The man even mumbled something , and his eyelids flickered for a moment without opening . |