Example sentences of "his [noun] [vb past] [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | His glance met hers for a brief , breathtaking moment , before he started forward , his stride slow , and rangy . |
| 2 | His eyes surveyed her for a moment . |
| 3 | Suddenly he looked tired , and there were deep furrows in his brow as his eyes scanned her for an instant . |
| 4 | His gaze held hers for a moment , then , turning abruptly , he went out . |
| 5 | His team won it for sure in the second half , with tries from full-back , Martin Roberts and flanker , Pete Glanville . |
| 6 | He says they stopped selling replica handguns because he suspected that some of his customers wanted them for possible criminal reasons . |
| 7 | His father intended him for an army career , but that and a project for farming in the colonies came to nothing ; and by 1885 he was living hand to mouth in Chelsea as an illustrator and journalist . |
| 8 | His firm sent him for a month to another part of the country , and at first he telephoned home every night ; but three weeks later she got a letter saying that he had met another woman and was planning to marry her as soon as possible . |
| 9 | The teenager tapped into data systems across the world , including targets at the Financial Times and universities , using a £200 home computer his mother bought him for Christmas when he was 14 . |
| 10 | The delicate poetry of the atmosphere William seeks to establish is disrupted not only by that noisily symbolic iguana but by such clumping speeches as Shannon 's explanation that his problems began when his mother punished him for masturbating . |
| 11 | A nine year old child bought petrol from the defendants after falsely stating that his mother needed it for her car . |