Example sentences of "his [noun sg] and [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Snail tracks of peach juice ran from the heel of his hand , over his chest and down to the hollow of his belly . |
| 2 | The hands Maria had raised to Luke 's shoulders strayed eagerly to the back of his neck and up into the thickness of his dark hair , her fingers pressing themselves to the perfect shaping of his skull as she sought and claimed a deeper kiss , drawing him far into the warm moist depths of her mouth . |
| 3 | Creggan grew nervous and glanced over his shoulder and up towards the trees above . |
| 4 | Well , the city was n't a nice place to live because of all the silly laws the merchant had passed , and people started to leave it and go to other towns and other countries , and the merchant was spending so much time passing new laws and trying to make people obey the ones he 'd already passed that his own business started to fail , and eventually the city was almost deserted , and the merchant found that he owed people much more money than he had in the bank , and even though he sold his house and everything he owned he was still broke ; he was thrown out of his house and out of the city too , because he had become a beggar , and beggars were n't allowed in the city . |
| 5 | He took the letter and the envelope out of his office and down to the abandoned area at the end of the corridor . |