Example sentences of "his [noun sg] and [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With several leading opposition figures clamouring for his resignation and calling for a national conference , President Mobutu Sese Seko on March 15 named a new Prime Minister , Mulumba Lukeji , replacing Lunda Bululu who had resigned the day before . |
| 2 | A thin splinter of moonlight caught the blond stubble of his beard and sliced like a glistening needle across the snout of a .45 revolver . |
| 3 | And after being taken off in County 's 2-1 defeat by Watford on Tuesday , Agana ripped off his shirt and headed for the players ' tunnel . |
| 4 | On no account should the patient be allowed or encouraged to get himself around by dragging his foot and leaning on the furniture . |
| 5 | ( He leaps up again , stamps his foot and shouts into the wing . ) |
| 6 | Drained by his ranting and lulled by the way he could float in the starsuit , just touching the padded interior , he drifted into and out of sleep like a man wandering through the rooms of an empty house . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh , all right , spoilsports , ’ he said , feeling disgruntled , and he sat down , missed his cushion and landed with a painful thump on the floor . |
| 8 | Our Lord left this earthly scene to occupy his throne and to sit at the Father 's table . |
| 9 | This damage has been powerfully illustrated in a famous study that depended on deception : John Howard Griffin , a white man , darkened his skin and trudged through the American South . |
| 10 | He picked up his case and walked towards the door . |
| 11 | By dusk , though , each day of dignity , Clary would return to his base and sit by the cathedral , with his inseparable friend for comfort — the ‘ funny stuff ’ . |
| 12 | Her husband was knocked of his bike and killed by a drunken driver , who was later sentenced to twenty one months in prison . |
| 13 | George stared at her and suddenly ached to get away , to take his coat and his briefcase and get into the car and escape to the haven of the Unit and work and the baby and … which brought him back to the reason for his starting to probe her feelings about the project . |
| 14 | Parking in front of the clubhouse , our pilot grabbed his briefcase and splashed through the downpour to his colleague 's waiting car . |
| 15 | Cranston unclasped his cloak and basked in the sweet odours and warmth of the tavern . |
| 16 | The vicar looked at his watch and walked towards the wireless . |
| 17 | Vic compares the kitchen clock with his watch and rises from the table . |
| 18 | He sat back in his pew and looked around the church which the indefatigable ladies of the WI had transformed with flowers and holly sprays . |
| 19 | He suddenly had an idea , and taking the megaphone from the chairman , and wincing at the soggy mouthpiece , he summoned the last of his voice from his diaphragm and sang to the sea of caps and hats , a Harry Lauder music hall song : |
| 20 | Andy sits in an ancient bulging armchair , its fake brown leather rubbed through to the fabric net underneath in places and burnished to a deep black shine on the arms ; he nurses his whisky and looks into the fire most of the time . |
| 21 | They watched him pull himself out beside a flowering clump of figwort , gripping one of the tough stems in his teeth , shake a shower of drops out of his fur and scutter into the alder bushes . |
| 22 | When he moved back there was blood running down his chest and soaking into the waistband of his trousers . |
| 23 | Death held the receiver against his chest and leaned around the kitchen door . |
| 24 | But when he woke at quarter past six , his mind was full of ugly images , of Alex trembling , of the gun , and , most of all , of the expression of bewilderment and betrayal on Michael Banks 's face as he clutched at his chest and sank to the ground . |
| 25 | And on the hour Gill picked up a Hitchcock through ball , controlled it on his chest and fired in a memorable goal . |
| 26 | Hearing of the arrest of Martin Luther King in Georgia , he telephoned King 's wife to express his sympathy and called for the release of the highly respected civil rights leader . |
| 27 | Pascoe felt the cold beer fill his mouth and listened to the landlord 's radio distantly above playing ‘ White Christmas ’ . |
| 28 | Despite the lines of exhaustion bracketing his mouth and etched at the outer corners of his eyes , his gaze gleamed dangerously . |
| 29 | Gary stared at her for a moment , pins spewing from his mouth and catching on the front of his black jersey . |
| 30 | He took the cigarette out of his mouth and blew on the glowing tip . |