Example sentences of "his [noun] [noun sg] and [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tiny shreds of tobacco scattered across his shirt front and he brushed them away . |
| 2 | He 's had all his hair cut and he 's shaved his tash off |
| 3 | He took his blood pressure and he said well this is astronomically high . |
| 4 | Mowbray said : ‘ Every player wants to play for his home club and I have great memories of my Boro days . |
| 5 | Bruno , while coy about the details of the offer , said : ‘ Rock gave me his telephone number and I gave him mine . |
| 6 | I 'm sure there are people who do n't sort of bother with them at all , you know just saw er a man he dropped he 's erm , he dropped his till receipt and he looked as if he had a tremendous amount you know in his basket so I reckon it would of been over , but there was no erm cos you get it stamped yes so we have er , yes I 'd forgotten about those little erm chickens of course , so we can have that roast |
| 7 | Several cats were feeding on it so Mike cleared them away with a kick from his combat boot and we started eating , dipping the wet crusts in the ravioli . |
| 8 | Today 's event is his tuning-up race and he has not got an easy task . |
| 9 | Nicola had made me go and see if he was okay and I said yes he was , because I 'd seen his eye move and I left him there . |
| 10 | If the sergeant got there before you and did n't find you , he would tap with his signalling stick and it goes for miles in the middle of the night — give him a little tinkle , and you walk towards one another . |
| 11 | We 'd booked him just as his catchphrases were being quoted by the entire nation , and all because Julie 's mortgage broker knew someone who knew his phone number and he had agreed to appear . |
| 12 | He shouted and swore when Lennie carried a dead mouse in his pocket pet and he gave Lennie a very hard time when Lennie said that he like ketchup on his beans . |
| 13 | Ralph , as a male , has had to delve into his fantasy life to come up with his role model and he has , I think , more freedom and more choice in doing so . |
| 14 | It is the type of attitude you would expect from a man who cites Buck Shelford as his role model and who learned his trade in the best of all academies . |
| 15 | He got a big pellet in his leg Doctor and he went for X-rays , up to Monklands , was n't it ? |
| 16 | Ranulf scooped his dice into his leather wallet and they went down the spiral wooden staircase and into the hall . |
| 17 | yes and everybody not too happy as you can probably imagine erm Peter erm while we were talking to Paul Simpson , in fact Brian Horton was holding his press conference and I think he said the same as everybody else ; ‘ Bolder the opposition goalkeeper had an inspired game , but really United had the chances and the possession , and really everything to kill Charlton off long before half time and really put no pressure on themselves in the second half . ’ |
| 18 | Eric came back from his school cruise and I started to talk a little after he arrived ; just nonsense at first , then later disjointed hints at what had happened , always followed by screaming and catatonia . |
| 19 | He went down to his car and down to his company stock and he says now what the money 's due to me you 'll get them in the post . |
| 20 | Sometimes he walking round with his marking book and he holds it at an angle you know so you can see all the answers . |
| 21 | He 's the only person I know who looks like his passport photograph and he breaks people 's hands . |
| 22 | I always knew how much he earned , because he used to give me his pay note and I 'd to go down and collect it . |
| 23 | I am sure de Macon had his hand on his dagger hilt and I realised for all they knew I could be a member of the Luciferi . |
| 24 | In truth there was no connection , for my original family name was Sillitoe , but , long before I was born , my father had adopted Breakspear as his stage name and I had really known no other . |
| 25 | And who , who has seen certain films where someone just walks into it , shows his driving licence and he buys a gun , yeah ? |