Example sentences of "[prep] his [adj] [noun] [conj] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Emissary gave me another view of his new teeth as I glanced round . |
| 2 | I grab the front of his loose blouson and I heave at it . |
| 3 | He is the main financial support of his widowed mother and I have very strait-laced parents . |
| 4 | I sensed the warmth screaming out of the atmosphere to be replaced with the absolute zero of his clinical persona but I could n't stop myself . |
| 5 | This made me lose track of his subsequent drift as I struggled to imagine how chess-playing came to have such a pejorative connotation for him . |
| 6 | He became lost in one of his dour moods so I let him be and went to the window to stare out at a dairy maid carrying pitchers of milk between the barns and the kitchen . |
| 7 | ‘ Arazi has been working like his old self and I hope he can go back to America for the Breeders Cup and win like he did last year . ’ |
| 8 | Whatever it was , he 'd served me with his final invoice and I 'd paid it in full . |
| 9 | In fact , the Captain , miffed that there was no hotel taxi waiting , was preparing to return to Abu Dhabi with his leaking plane when I left . |
| 10 | I was debating whether to try to stop the bleeding first or to leave him in his uncertain state while I found a way out , trusting he would n't totally pass out , when I heard the main door creak open directly above our heads ; the way Harry and I had come in . |
| 11 | It rang in his private office and I took it there . |
| 12 | Just because he came here in his working clothes and I knew he drove a lorry … |
| 13 | I lean back in his comfortable armchair and I sigh . |
| 14 | as if by telepathy , Sally referred to his strange behaviour while I opened a bottle of Sancerre in the kitchen . |
| 15 | She would have liked them to go to his regimental museum and I still feel that would be one of the best homes for them . |
| 16 | My tears fell on his tiny cheeks and I thought , ‘ He looks just like Park ’ . |
| 17 | I later leaned on his sartorial knowledge when I started in television . |
| 18 | He seemed unconcerned at letting me loose on his half-share investment and I tried telling myself that ahead lay merely a quick pop over three undemanding obstacles , not the first searching test of my chances of racing . |
| 19 | ‘ My father was due to leave the islands next week for his two-yearly visit but I do n't think he 'll come now . |
| 20 | So Wilson and I were quite chummy together , and he looked at me approvingly through his thick-lensed glasses as I sat talking with his wife about , for instance , winter tasks . |
| 21 | I am touched by his childlike affection and I half expect him to call Perry ‘ Uncle ’ . |