Example sentences of "his [noun pl] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Reza Shah 's introduction of new civil , commercial and penal codes , which diminished the power of the ulama , his expansion of the secular school system , and many more is his attempts to create a modern , centralized state , weakened and therefore infuriated them . |
| 2 | A FRENCH citizen living in Glasgow claims he has been ‘ given the runaround ’ by the Scottish legal system in his attempts to right a legal error which has resulted in a serious slur on his character . |
| 3 | The sense of his living in a closed world , stylistically speaking , is beautifully conveyed when Falstaff , frustrated in his attempts to get a simple answer to a simple question , wanting to know his ‘ happy news ’ , is forced to move up to Pistol 's manner : — an effect not unlike that if W. C. Fields had turned up in a performance of Mourning Becomes Electra ! |
| 4 | With hindsight it seems that the prevailing structures of police practice will remain as powerful as ever , for at a conference on policing at Bristol University ( 1988 ) , the newly retired Sir Kenneth admitted that police culture had defeated many of his attempts to bring a new ethic to the managerial style during his reign as commissioner of the metropolis . |
| 5 | Indeed , he regretted bitterly that his attempts to establish a sixth form in the school had been so abortive . |
| 6 | His attempts to subject the traditional rulers of the provinces to his authority had resulted in constant warfare , and the extortions of his army , forever in the field , caused much discontent . |
| 7 | Sviridenko 's colleagues claim that his death was the result of his attempts to investigate a lucrative clandestine operation involving works of art from the so-called Zagorsk Archive , a collection of art treasures held as war booty stored in the Pivnaya Bashnya ( Brewer 's Tower ) of the Holy Trinity Monastery in Sergiyevyy Posad ( formerly Zagorsk ) . |
| 8 | And his views had the full backing of Alan Smith , chief executive of the Test and County Cricket Board . |
| 9 | His fingers probed the matted blood-stained hair which obscured the injury . |
| 10 | His hand was between her thighs , and his fingers played a sexy tune on her rapacious twat ; when the tips of his fingers began to dance on her sensitive clitoris , she could have screamed with delight . |
| 11 | Yanto was using his fingers to gather the fine silky material . |
| 12 | His fingers met the soft , masking texture of cloth , but beneath them he could feel her warmth , the firm softness of her sex . |
| 13 | This — ’ his fingers brushed the flimsy fabric where it stretched over her breasts and lingered ‘ — this was a great success . ’ |
| 14 | His fingers brushed the soft , inner flesh of her thighs , then traced the lace trim on her panties and slid beneath them . |
| 15 | He felt in his pocket for his lighter and his fingers touched the hard squareness of an envelope . |
| 16 | He took Ranulf 's hand , led him over to the gibbet and pushed his hand between the iron bars until the tips of his fingers touched the decaying flesh of the hanged man , just above where his heart had been . |
| 17 | Hendrique snapped his fingers to wake the dozing steward . |
| 18 | God — sniff — he dashed down and burnt his fingers yanking the smoking toast from under the grill . |
| 19 | Frankie groped around on the shelves until his fingers encountered a deep plate . |
| 20 | Without taking his eyes from the young pilot 's , he slid his hand across his desk until his fingers encountered a brown , official-looking envelope . |
| 21 | ‘ Give me a chance to put it right , ’ he murmured , and at the same time his fingers traced a delicate pattern over the inner skin of her wrists as he lightly caught hold of her and drew her closer . |
| 22 | His fingers traced the warm smoothness of her thighs and belly , then found the hot wetness at the core of her . |
| 23 | His initial anxiety about the technique had postponed his astonishment at being able suddenly to touch Marcus , to hold him , feeling the shape and warmth of his head with one hand , while with the razor he caressed the cheek and throat , allowing his fingers to feel the smoothed flesh . |
| 24 | When the bandages began to make his fingers claw the local hospital made special gloves for him which reach up to his shoulders . |
| 25 | ‘ Ross … ’ she gasped as he lowered her dress , his fingers tracing the pale blue veins in her full breasts , quivering as she glanced down to see his tanned hands moving slowly over her pale , alabaster skin . |
| 26 | She was aware of his fingers parting the swollen lips of her engorged fig , and fondling the whole length of her dewy slit until he came upon her cute little clit . |
| 27 | It was familiar as he rolled and thrashed , his hands at last finding what he sought , his fingers pressing the soft flesh of Ho 's throat . |
| 28 | Slowly he dealt with the buttons of her shirt , and she gasped as his fingers caressed the soft swell of her breasts . |
| 29 | Twice the Devil has been decisively defeated by God , but his strategies remain the same . |
| 30 | Historians who bring as much enjoyment and illumination to their readers as Trevor-Roper can still conjure up in his essays deserve the historical profession 's thanks as well as its envy . |