Example sentences of "his [adj] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a tall man , heavy in build , his hollow voice making him sound empty , like an old wooden drum . |
| 2 | But his finest years found him in some competition with another actor who , like Brando , refused to conform . |
| 3 | He went upstairs to his shattered bedroom to fetch it for Harry . |
| 4 | His regional committee found him work : |
| 5 | Two years ago , when playing for NSW Country Origin against Sydney Origin , Roebuck badly damaged his right ankle sidelining him for over four months and ruining any immediate aspiration to claim a Test team berth . |
| 6 | He raised his right hand to silence her and continued to stare at the tabletop before him , head cocked to one side . |
| 7 | ‘ Strum Guard ’ is a term used solely by Joe Strummer to describe the bandana taped around his right hand to protect it from his own vigorous guitar-flailing . |
| 8 | Dr Neil was so shocked — both by Blaine 's manner and the cavalier fashion in which he spoke to them both , that his normal composure left him , and he could think of no more to say than , ‘ You know Miss McAllister ? ’ and his voice was incredulous , so incredulous that Havvie 's eyebrows shot up in gleeful , unholy delight at the prospect of yet another opportunity to humiliate the girl who had jilted him . |
| 9 | The vicious personal attack on him by Ernets Bevin and his humiliating defeat made it impossible for him to remain as leader . |
| 10 | His contemptuous gaze swept her from head to foot , in swift appraisal . |
| 11 | His foster parents say they 're giving him a break from events back home . |
| 12 | His foster parents say they 're giving him a break from events back home . |
| 13 | He recognized , with a familiar confusion of self-disgust and hopelessness , that he was telling more than he ought in his usual attempt to propitiate her , to get her on his side . |
| 14 | ‘ His usual spin took him to a private beach at the Dragonara Hotel in St Julien with Denis and Frankie 's sister Betty . |
| 15 | For the length of a heartbeat his tall figure remained stiff and unyielding , and then she heard him swear harshly under his breath , and felt his strong arms enfolding her trembling figure . |
| 16 | His strong arms rocked her , his hands stroked and soothed , till she felt comforted . |
| 17 | That the feel of his strong arms made her feel small and vulnerable ? |
| 18 | Only his strong arms holding her tight against him saved her from falling , her bones turning to liquid within her as his lips nuzzled relentlessly towards her ear . |
| 19 | She did n't hear Travis come over to her , only felt his strong arms raising her up . |
| 20 | Even his strong hands holding hers captive were n't hurting ; on the contrary , even that manacle was exciting because his thumbs were slowly stroking the insides of her wrists , sending shafts of awareness along her arms to her body , which was growing warm , soft , as though inviting his to sink further against her , into her … |
| 21 | For one glad moment , Clare wanted to rush to him , put her head against his big chest , feel his strong hands stroking her back , and let Sam do all the worrying for her . |
| 22 | ‘ I always catch a lady when she falls , ’ he said softly , his strong hands steadying her . |
| 23 | Despite herself , she found his concentrated attention put her off balance , but she was not going to hurt Jenny by responding in any way to his compliments and flattery . |
| 24 | With all his good looks , his concentrated effort to win her , Paul had never affected her like this , never made her feel a fraction of what she felt now . |
| 25 | His adoptive father lent him his old Kershaw 450 bellows camera and six weeks into the job Clayton admits he fluked his first page one picture . |
| 26 | Of the thousand-plus programmes I must have taken part in during those years I remember very little , and those mostly trivial things : Thor Heyerdahl the Norwegian explorer arriving half an hour late from Broadcasting House because the taxi driver sent to fetch him understood he had been told to pick up four airedales ( a reasonable enough request , he reckoned , from the BBC ) ; the maverick film director Ken Russell whacking Alexander Walker , the Evening Standard film critic , over the head with a copy of his own paper ; Norman St John Stevas , MP ( now Lord St John of Fawsley ) winking at a cameraman who had had the stars and stripes sewn on to the bottom of his jeans ; Enoch Powell 's eyes filling with tears when I asked if he was an emotional man ; A. J. P. Taylor on his seventy-fifth birthday admitting he had never been offered an honour and when I asked him which he would like if given the choice , his replying , ‘ A baronetcy , because it would make my elder son so dreadfully annoyed . ’ |
| 27 | She tried to look annoyed , but the teasing warmth in his hazel eyes disarmed her , and she found herself laughing along with him . |
| 28 | His tousled hair gave him an appealingly boyish appearance , and Robbie found herself aching to smooth it for him , to run her fingers over the dark stubble on his cheeks . |
| 29 | His wrathful imagination led him to grotesque ideas … |
| 30 | Once he had decided to write the Guide Book he realised he would have to do a considerable amount of writing and although he never felt he was a good writer , his unwavering intent carried him through . |