Example sentences of "his [noun] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stared at his sister whose pale face was made even paler by the sun-block ointment she had liberally smeared on her skin . |
| 2 | He produced from his briefcase his own alternative , Thirkell-designed sample pages , beautifully printed on glistening white bromide paper . |
| 3 | Was that another of Sandra 's productions , and did she want her husband B. lost and gone forever , and was his existence her Current Liability ? |
| 4 | As he raised her hand towards his mouth his grey eyes widened , then gleamed with laughter as he saw the state it was in . |
| 5 | The Hutchinsons were involved in the great Antinomian controversy by which the infant colony was riven in 1636–8 , Richard 's sister-in-law being the feminist leader Anne Hutchinson ( née Marbury , q.v. ) , and his brother-in-law her closest ally , the Revd John Wheelwright . |
| 6 | To his disappointment his old guv'nor took no notice at all , but , when the war was over , he was seen and overheard to draw Addison aside in the saleroom , saying : ‘ By the way , Addison , when you are in the army and you see an officer approaching on his horse , the correct thing is to stand to attention and salute , not jump about shouting ‘ aye , aye , sir ! ’ |
| 7 | mm , who was telling me that somebody 's four year old son has got a video and television in his bedroom his own video |
| 8 | Another skitter of light behind his eye broke the hold of sensation , and he was once again entire — his prick its modest length — and she not darkness but a body through which waves of iridescence seemed to pass . |
| 9 | So he went back to Emminster to tell his parents his new plan . |
| 10 | Father was invalided out before the end of the war with a poisoned hand , and a year after his return my youngest brother was born , there being over seventeen years difference in our ages . |
| 11 | they were , they were doing a play or something and it , it mentioned about er , erm , what did it mention ? , it was a bit rude any way this play and it oh it was on about an erection or something and Geoffrey said his trousers his new trousers were sticking out a bit peculiar |
| 12 | Contact with the man Wagner now kindled an interest in Wagner the theorist and within a few weeks Nietzsche was writing again to Rohde to impress on his friend his high opinion of Wagner 's Opera and Drama , a treatise written nearly twenty years before , but apparently now providing Nietzsche 's first direct acquaintance with any of Wagner 's theoretical works . |
| 13 | Chin set in a parody of male stubbornness , Bill was attempting to convey to his wife his urgent need to get away from this madness aid return to the house where they were staying . |
| 14 | His eye had regained its clarity , and his head its proud poise , as in the days when Norbury had accompanied him in his Prussian crusade with the Teutonic knights , long ago . |
| 15 | As he shook his head his long hair parted and Rachel saw the gleam of an earring . |
| 16 | He was almost in tears when he took her to the station , and when he said his farewells his reedy voice was quite unsteady . |
| 17 | This week parliament gave his policy its strong support , and most Australians are with Mr Hawke too . |
| 18 | At the height of his career his whole estate , including his patrimony , was probably worth rather more than £1,300 a year . |
| 19 | For his pains my first bedmate could have had the benefits of a protracted rest in one of our quaint medieval prisons . |
| 20 | well I 'm trying to think what he was called in it but his father his own father is in fact Doug Willis in the series who 's the father of the that girl Cody |
| 21 | ‘ He 's proved that he is capable of scoring goals and although he can improve on the defensive side of his game his passing skills are a tremendous asset . ’ |
| 22 | He then travelled on an expedition to the Holy Land , and in his absence his various enemies , including the Emperor himself , began to encroach upon his territories . |
| 23 | Ah , ca n't you get him his toothbrush you rotten thing ? |
| 24 | He wonders whether anyone now has sympathy for the Shah or whether his vanity , his vainglory , his hectoring , his insensitivity his military obsessions , have not lost him all goodwill , at home and abroad . |
| 25 | Instead , he told him he must live his life his own way , and advised John , when he spoke of having fallen in love with a ‘ straight ’ boy at school , to try to save his love for someone who could return it . |
| 26 | He did not make any attempt to eliminate from his voice his complete disbelief in what he was saying . |
| 27 | The series gave Chapman and his players their first experience of air travel , a venture which in the early days of flying took some courage . |
| 28 | Taniguchi was adopted at eight and although his conscious mind has no memory of his past his unconscious mind keeps regurgitating unfortunate images of cruelty . |
| 29 | It was said that nature had endowed him with a penis some thirteen inches long and an insatiable sexual appetite — so much so that even in his teens his physical attributes were the delight of many local girls . |
| 30 | What suck his , well if he meant suck his bollocks what fucking bollocks ? |