Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the following day the president-elect met with congressional leaders from both parties and reiterated his hope to work closely with the new Congress . |
| 2 | They could hear the younger dog in the distance , his bark muffled now by the rapidly descending cloud . |
| 3 | He stood back in the street , the rain stinging his eyes , wetting him to the skin , getting in his mouth and eyes ; warm rain , huge hard drops , slicking and sticking the clothes to his body ; erotic , making his heart beat faster in a sudden , squally sexual fantasy ; she would invite him in … no , better yet , she would turn up in the street , having been out , also wet to the skin , she would look at him … they would go in … |
| 4 | She could feel his heart beating steadily under the palm of her hand , and looked into his eyes , gazing down at her . |
| 5 | I remember saying that there were dangerous days ahead which would call for faithfulness and courage , quoting the text from the Psalms : ‘ He will not be afraid of any evil tidings , for his heart standeth fast in the Lord . ’ |
| 6 | Brother Cadfael waited his opportunity to draw close to the abbot 's shoulder as he left the choir . |
| 7 | The memory of the heroism and sterling qualities of Rodrigo del Bivar have thus been enshrined for all time ; his statue stands today in the main square of Burgos , staring out forever across the lands he fought so long to transform . |
| 8 | Anaesthetist Dr Gouri Shankar said the fracture would not have affected his decision to go ahead with the surgery . |
| 9 | Anaesthetist Dr Gouri Shankar said the fracture would not have affected his decision to go ahead with the surgery . |
| 10 | He and Liena conversed for a while before he announced his decision to wait there for the return of Tony and Ferdy ( the Germans ) , and Dave the American , asking me to take care of Liena on the way down . |
| 11 | In terms of legal status the clerk had first of all the right to have his case tried only before a church court — the " privilege of the forum " . |
| 12 | JINXED Prince Edward was left high and dry yesterday when his yacht ran aground on the rocks . |
| 13 | In the end it was Edwards who arrived at Metropole corner first on the last lap , and held his advantage to finish ahead of the maestro . |
| 14 | He stroked the horse gently ; then letting his cloak fall softly to the ground , with one leap securely mounted him . |
| 15 | He had a large head with his hair cut right into the wood , piggy eyes and a broad flat nose that looked like it had been well punched in its day . |
| 16 | Next morning , as Wemmick and I walked back to London , I noticed his face becoming dryer and harder , and his mouth becoming more like a post-box again . |
| 17 | But his attempt to sail solo across the Atlantic in the 25ft yacht Howlin' Gael will be his first single-handed voyage . |
| 18 | His horse reached the trees where he was hit by a thick , low-hanging branch , knocked out of the saddle and , as his horse careered deeper into the wood , dragged through the brambles and undergrowth , his poor body smashing against each tree . |
| 19 | She walked with him to his carriage , the reckless high-perch phaeton she had seen often enough outside the Fleece , his horse held now by a wizened little urchin quite blue with cold , to whom he tossed a coin . |
| 20 | Jinkwa let his mid-plastron sink feebly to the ground in the manner of the aged and infertile . |
| 21 | Realising she meant it , Luke released her at once , his glance straying briefly to the proud lift of her breasts before he stepped back . |
| 22 | The Frenchman , before turning to her sons , let his glance fall pointedly for a moment to the swell of her breasts tightly bodiced beneath a new Fifth Avenue day dress of sheer white silk chiffon ; then he smiled secretly at her again and this undisguised expression of passionate interest brought a faint flush to her face . |
| 23 | He had had his rest , his metabolism responded well to an occasional crisis , he had long known there was one looming here , and he may have sensed that there were advantages , both public and private , in bringing it to a head before the end of his premiership . |
| 24 | His action reads more like a page from Austerlitz or Borodino than from the grey annals of the First World War . |
| 25 | So , Jess was chauffeur driven to The Belfry while his girlfriend went home with the very nice man from the AA in the recovery truck . |
| 26 | His weight increased rapidly from an early age — the result of a natural physical disorder , not over-indulgence — and at the age of 23 he weighed 32 stone . |
| 27 | Souness said that the Zimbabwean had not approached him to discuss his future despite public grumblings from him that his future lay away from the club . |
| 28 | When his trophy fell ungratefully to the floor it almost certainly woke up comics like Chaplin and Keaton and Morecambe while they were turning in their graves . |
| 29 | He pushed that from his mind , and his mind filled instead with the face of a lad on a bicycle who 'd once been friendly , and the face of another who did n't mind playing Find the Penny in the hut on the golf-course . |
| 30 | As his mind wanders guiltily over the past and longingly towards a future which even he now realises can never be , the Passacaglia motif anchors him more and more inescapably in the present , with the posse of Borough vigilantes coming nearer and nearer . |