Example sentences of "his [noun] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Then his gaze moved down to the painting . |
| 32 | ‘ If there is a connection , I 'm dealing with — ’ Then he broke off and his gaze slipped down to the car ferry brochure . |
| 33 | He turned a corner deep in thought and saw Dobson and his mob spread out across the pavement . |
| 34 | Dexter watched as his boss stared out into the night , no more than a black profile : her full lips , rounded nose and firm chin silhouetted against the wall behind . |
| 35 | His fist crashed on to the table . |
| 36 | his feet came down to the knees on it |
| 37 | By pitching the ball up and bowling in the channel he makes his opponent hit back along the line of the approaching delivery and play the ball into the ‘ V ’ — the arc of the field which lies between extra cover on the off side and a straightish mid-wicket on the leg side . |
| 38 | ‘ Well met , Lord , ’ he gasped as his group trooped out along the ramparts . |
| 39 | His left arm went round behind her neck , his right snaked up inside the clinging fabric of her dress . |
| 40 | FURIOUS Ards boss Paul Malone fined himself a week 's wages after an angry clash with the Linfield bench as his team crashed out of the TNT Gold Cup yesterday . |
| 41 | BRITAIN 'S showjumping chief Ronnie Massarella was furious last night after his team missed out on the medals . |
| 42 | One other common law defence is preserved by the Act : the defendant is not liable under this form of liability if his livestock strayed on to the plaintiff 's property from the highway and its presence there was a lawful use of the highway . |
| 43 | Fernando Serra , as seriously good-looking as ever , watched from the deck as his crew tied up at the jetty . |
| 44 | He and his co-pilot settled down in the darkness for the long flight in the cramped cockpit . |
| 45 | He realized the boy had grown in the two months since he had last seen him and looked at him carefully , noticing the way his wrists poked out of the shirt and the slight roughness of the clear skin . |
| 46 | Now , when the farmer had left the house , his wife went out to the stable and saddled the pony. then she put on her husband 's best clothes , tied the turban high so as to look as tall as possible , jumped astride the pony , and set off to the field where the tiger was waiting . |
| 47 | Jonadab confirmed that the shepherd was not one for strong drink and was beginning to think that George had possibly made a good choice , when the old farmer and his wife came back along the line . |
| 48 | His wife chattered on to the party at the other end of the line . |
| 49 | Last week , however , his wife dashed back into the house to report an orfe average length 12–17 inches dead on the pool bottom . |
| 50 | His head came up from the bin , and his eyes looked like little flames of candle . |
| 51 | She spotted Nahum Morey in his rented pew , his legs outstretched and his head tipped back against the wood as if he were concentrating on the sermon 's message , but she was suddenly aware that their eyes were meeting . |
| 52 | He was sitting in the deckchair Candy had vacated by the time she returned , and for a second she thought he had fallen asleep , his head tilted back against the wooden spar of the chair , his eyes closed , their long black lashes casting shadows on his cheeks . |
| 53 | And then Rufus was asleep , his head turned on to the muscle of his upper arm , the fingers that had been on Adam 's shoulder retracting as they relaxed . |
| 54 | His skull cracked down on the steering wheel . |
| 55 | A fortnight after he arrived at Cuddesdon his father set out in the car from Cambridge to Stamford . |
| 56 | Eventually his father moved on to the pitch and , seizing his son by the right ear , dragged him back into a fielding position . |
| 57 | His assistant took over behind the counter and proceeded to inflict the continuing stories of her friends and enemies in the buildings on the dockers and carmen . |
| 58 | His lordship looked up from the book and passed a weary hand across his forehead . |
| 59 | ‘ Looks like his mate went off with the car . |
| 60 | His breast rose up from the pyjama top like the prow of a boat cresting a wave . |