Example sentences of "[prep] his [noun] [adv] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of his sons still works in the packing department at the mill — now owned by . |
| 2 | He used some of his text already published in his Sixty Etchings of 1814 and began early in 1816 to compile the Guide . |
| 3 | Now was the time to say no , to deny him while the pressured timbre of his voice still echoed in her mind , threatening whatever barriers had withstood his onslaught to date . |
| 4 | The publication of his work generally provoked in Eliot a sense of release — he had evacuated something , to use one of his favourite expressions , and was left with an agreeable sensation of vacancy — and after the appearance of " Little Gidding " in the autumn , he did not expect to do any serious intellectual work during the winter . |
| 5 | The inspiration of his reports always moves in the narrow circle of subjects dear to the ecclesiastically minded Englishman of the eleventh century . |
| 6 | Perhaps the sight of his body visibly aging in front of her . |
| 7 | Rory straightened his tie , and with his whisky still burning in his throat , and now his stomach too , he moved along to the gap in the curtains and slid through , back into the ballroom , where people sat drinking at long wooden tables and groups of dancers went whirling round in complicated , ever-changing patterns , all flowing dresses and clasping hands and big red sweaty faces and white shirts and ties and narrow trousers or — even worse — kilts . |
| 8 | With his hands still covered in paint he lay down on the chilly sheets and waited for sleep to take his confusions away . |
| 9 | She left him in front of a café and as she drove away to follow the complex instructions back to the raccordo she saw him in her mirror , standing with his hand still raised in the sort of military salute with which he 'd taken his leave of her . |
| 10 | He acknowledged in his affidavit now filed in support of the application and repeated in his oral evidence taken on Friday , that ‘ Miss T. 's conscious level was somewhat clouded although she was fully orientated and appropriate in her verbal responses did not make any inappropriate comments and showed no signs of hallucination . |
| 11 | He watched the globules of sweat as they oozed from his pores then ran in countless little rivers down his brown skin . |