Example sentences of "[adv prt] his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's a writer and a historian , and he 's growing his hair half-way down his back for his next one-man show . |
| 2 | As the curtain opened there hobbled from the wings what appeared to be an old Chinese mandarin with flowing blue robes , black silk jacket and red-buttoned Mandarin cap over hair that fell down his back in a long pigtail . |
| 3 | Hank went cold right down his back and into his feet . |
| 4 | He was tall and skinny , with a high bald forehead and a mantle of long hair halfway down his back . |
| 5 | He tied two broomsticks to Da Silva 's arms and stuck one down his back , making him march up and down the corridor again and again , repeating ‘ I am a cripple ’ . |
| 6 | She spoke to him soothingly , Dragging out the vowel sounds , " Robby , my little Robby , " The tip of her little finger Tracing down his back As she lovingly stroked Her fickle friend . |
| 7 | He felt a small shiver ripple down his back . |
| 8 | His hand hurt , his mouth ached with the expression of tense anguish he knew he wore , water ran from his hair , over his face , down his back . |
| 9 | She moaned softly , returning his kisses , sliding her hands up and down his back , glorying in his unrestrained response as he shuddered at her exploratory touch . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , and is it you with all the hoof-prints up and down his back , master lawyer ? |
| 11 | Jessica stood , jerked his black shirt further down his back and off his arms , stepped back again , looked at him . |
| 12 | A small beard grew around the mouth and a pony tail weaved down his back . |
| 13 | I know I see it all down his back ! |
| 14 | Gerald Flood , co-starring as astronaut pilot Conway Henderson , remembers clearly a panic in the studio control room when it was realised that another character , dressed in full space suit , was inaudible to the microphones once he had latched down his space helmet . |
| 15 | Mrs Fermor-Hesketh told The Spectator : ‘ Quite possibly Lord Hesketh tones down his behaviour when in the company of those cleverer than himself . ’ |
| 16 | In the corner Jesus abseiled down his cliff face and at the makeshift counter two barmen worked furiously . |
| 17 | Then Finlayson put down his bottle and cup , rolled over , and was sick into a fire bucket . |
| 18 | The Profitboss screws down his inventory before he screws up his profits . |
| 19 | According to the Legend — the propaganda of a papacy that by this time was endeavouring to assert its independence of the emperor — on the eighth day after his conversion , the Emperor Constantine divested himself of the imperial symbols , prostrated himself before Pope Sylvester and laid down his crown . |
| 20 | Darwin 's discoveries on the Beagle voyage had the effect of gradually breaking down his faith in the fixity of species and converting him to a dynamic view of the relationship between living things and their environment . |
| 21 | A DISTRESSED father appealed for help yesterday in finding the ‘ animals ’ who had gunned down his daughter and her husband . |
| 22 | Bernard put down his scone . |
| 23 | Smiling , he put down his luggage , placed both hands on her shoulders . |
| 24 | To Tom Poole that day , Coleridge wrote a farewell letter , setting down his sense of all that Poole had been to him since the beginning of their friendship more than four years earlier : |
| 25 | He brushed down his hair and straightened his clothing and made his way down the narrow stairs towards the street . |
| 26 | He allowed Jane to sit him by the table and then damp down his hair with water — ice cold and brackish ! — from the ewer . |
| 27 | Adjusting his tie and smoothing down his hair , he tottered into the auditorium , greeted Dolly and Gertrude , and proceeded slowly towards his office . |
| 28 | Cornelius held down his hair and shook his head . |
| 29 | ‘ Ah , ’ said Cornelius , fighting down his hair , hauling in the portmanteau and forcing shut the door . |
| 30 | Shadows have lengthened stealthily in the course of The Bellarosa Connection , gathering for what Martin Amis described in later Bellow as ‘ last things , leave-taking , and final lucidities ’ , and at the close there is a quietly affecting image of the narrator setting down his story , alone . |