Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [noun sg] and [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tiny shreds of tobacco scattered across his shirt front and he brushed them away . |
| 2 | He took his blood pressure and he said well this is astronomically high . |
| 3 | Bruno , while coy about the details of the offer , said : ‘ Rock gave me his telephone number and I gave him mine . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He got a big pellet in his leg Doctor and he went for X-rays , up to Monklands , was n't it ? |
| 11 | Ranulf scooped his dice into his leather wallet and they went down the spiral wooden staircase and into the hall . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |