Example sentences of "with his [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | After the war he set Hollywood alight with his invented language , Vout , and played with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie . |
2 | In the rear seat of the limousine Galvone was fiddling with his listening apparatus . |
3 | Are there any naked nuns in the film ? ’ — with cool , defiant charm , while George Harrison , who 'd been doing this sort of thing since his Beatle days , kept the whole thing on an even keel with his Liverpudlian wit and wisdom . |
4 | The Swiss chargé d'affaires was on March 23 , 1989 , ordered to leave Iran within seven days for activities incompatible with his diplomatic status . |
5 | With the rest of the household she also had to contend with his uncertain temper and even wilder moments during occasional drinking bouts . |
6 | Richard Garnett shows how to draw a set amount of chemical out of the spray container with his closed transfer system . |
7 | The villain fingered Rex 's lapels with his gun-free hand . |
8 | The Potter whose grandmother employed the second and third kitchenmaids in question was , M. André Simon tells me , Major Matthew Connolly ( father of Mr Cyril Connolly ) ; and with his felicitous evocation of a mid-Victorian country breakfast table and those second and third kitchenmaids pounding away at the ham and tongue for potting he makes a number of points , most relevant of which concerns the kitchenmaids . |
9 | On this occasion … the police saw their legal-democratic duty quite clearly : in their terms , it was to maintain the rights of all parties to the dispute — those of Grunwick 's boss to continue production with his remaining labour force , of pedestrians and road-users to ‘ perambulate freely ’ , of the pickets to peacefully make their protest , and of the community as a whole to be protected from scenes of public disorder . |
10 | Marius smashed the Italian in the face with his gloved fist and stood on his chest . |
11 | On his way up the paved path between walls of rose bushes he picked up a piece of old iron pipe with his gloved hand . |
12 | He patted Dissard 's desk with his gloved hand . |
13 | ‘ No , ’ he denied with his quirky smile . |
14 | He was aware of one thing about Ken on these trips : his concern about a lack of education which he made up for with his voracious reading . |
15 | Damian Flint blocked her path with his powerful chest . |
16 | Saddam Hussein disagrees with what the Kurds would like and has been trying to eradicate them from Iraq by killing them with his powerful army . |
17 | There was one condition he had n't mentioned — he wanted a seat on the Board as a non-executive director , in line with his standard policy when putting a significant amount into a company . |
18 | I refer to Julia Kristeva 's somewhat obscure remarks about ‘ the role that the pervert , with his invincible belief in the maternal phallus and his obstinate refusal to recognise the existence of the other sex , has been able to play in anti-semitism and the totalitarian movements that embrace it , . |
19 | Along with his female counterpart , Mamn Brigitte , Ghede will guard the local cemetery . |
20 | The days of the pin-striped yuppie with his ubiquitous phone in hand are long gone . |
21 | In 1967 Chapman , who had cultivated a conventional image with his ubiquitous tweed jacket and pipe , by his own later admission stunned a party attended by his friends and future Python colleagues by coming out as a homosexual . |
22 | To cheers in the room , Auberon Waugh punches the air with his right fist . |
23 | ‘ Why ? ’ said Albert , knocking over a toothglass of Kirsch with his other boot as he tried to scrape the gelantine off the left heel with his right toe . |
24 | One of his eyes squinted outwards , he looked massively strong , he always edged in sideways , moving the heavy door with his right shoulder . |
25 | No , no he scraped along with his right ball . |
26 | 3 The defender steps up with his left leg , lifting the attacker 's leg even higher , and sweeps the attacker 's supporting leg away from him with his right leg . |
27 | 6 Pulling the attacker 's arm towards him , the defender sweeps the attacker 's left leg with his right leg . |
28 | With her free hand , Rosie dexterously rolled the seat knob and fell slowly backwards with Rory spreading over her , repositioning himself with his right leg . |
29 | Derek had the life-line handle in his hand — his seatbelt was restraining him — he had his other hand on the door frame and he was trying to reach the dinghy with his right foot . |
30 | But the England B international dragged a glorious chance wide with his right foot in the second minute , and repeated the sin in injury time with his left . |